Author Archives: dougaj4

Some new old songs

Posted on 14/11/2021 by dougaj4

Every so often I check YouTube to see what new old music has been posted, and today I found: Haitian Fight Song, here played by Danny Thompson in Norway in 1968 and Bert Jansch and Danny Thompson playing Thames Lighterman … Continue reading →

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Using Matplotlib from Excel with pyxll

Posted on 04/11/2021 by dougaj4

The pyxll documentation has many examples of plotting in Excel using Matplotlib and other packages, but I find the multiple options confusing and hard to follow, so this post works through the examples in the Matplotlib Users Guide tutorial. The … Continue reading →

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… is so meta, even this acronym …

Posted on 29/10/2021 by dougaj4

Today it was announced that Facebook, the meta company that owns Facebook, was going to be renamed “Meta”, which reminded me of an xkcd episode from 10 years ago:

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Installing PyPardiso

Posted on 24/10/2021 by dougaj4

Update 5th June 2022: The PyPardiso package may now be installed simply with pip (see Installing PyPardiso and speed of Scipy spsolve): Install the MKL library: pip install mkl Install PyPardiso: pip install pypardiso The PyPardiso package provides an interface to … Continue reading →

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The Chieftains and Paddy Moloney

Posted on 21/10/2021 by dougaj4

The Chieftains are a traditional Irish folk band who have been performing for nearly 60 years. Paddy Moloney was one of their founding members, and died in hospital on 12th October. He has received widespread tributes, including from the President … Continue reading →

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