Archive of entries posted on May 2014

Setting up a Python Scientific Environment (NumPy, SciPy, pandas, StatsModels, etc.) in OS X 10.9 Mavericks

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It is better than a nightmare from which you cannot wake up ... Install Homebrew: $ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)" Find problems and fix them (typically resulting from Homebrew becoming very stroppy if it does not have exclusive access to "/usr/local"): $ brew doctor VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: Make ABSOLUTELY sure that the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environmental variable is NOT set. Having this set will cause all sorts of problems Read more [...]

Taking it to a 11: Dramatically Speeding Up Keyboard/Typing Responsiveness in OSX

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If you use a Mac/OSX, then enter the following commands in your shell and reboot: $ defaults write -g KeyRepeat -int 0 $ defaults write -g InitialKeyRepeat -int 15 If you live in a text editor or the shell, or otherwise spend most of your typing hammering away at the keyboard like I do, then this makes an absolutely wonderful difference in the responsiveness of any typing activity. It will make your previous typing feel like you were pecking away in slow motion at the Read more [...]

Dynamic On-Demand LaTeX Compilation

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Most of the existing approaches to integrating LaTeX compilation into a LaTeX writing workflow centered around a text editor (as opposed to a fancy-schmancy IDE) are horrendously bloated creatures, aggressively and voraciously hijacking so many key-mappings and normal functionality that it makes your Vim feel like it is diseased and is experiencing a pathological personality disorder of some kind. Yes, LaTeX-Suite, I am looking at mainly at you. I did not want a platoon of obnoxiously cheery elves Read more [...]

Setting up the Text Editor in My Computing Ecosystem

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Image from WikiMedia Commons Basic Setup of Shell to Support My Text Editor Preferences By "text editor", I mean Vim, of course. There are pseudo-operating systems that include rudimentary text-editing capabilities (e.g. Emacs), and integrated development environments that allow for editing of text, but there really is only one text editor that deserves the title of "text editor": Vim, that magical mind-reading mustang that carries out textual mogrifications with surgical precision Read more [...]