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Installing Jira with MySQL
Jira is an extremely well-known issue tracking system and is used widely for project management in a wide array of fields. It has quite a detailed documentation but it’s in the form of a wiki and as we...
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Helpful Tips for Newbie System Admins
Before you start reading this tutorial, let me remind you once again who the intended audience of this post is — newbie system administrators. If you’re an experienced admin and are going to laugh at...
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A Basic Naive Bayes classifier in Matlab
This is the second in my series of implementing low-level machine learning algorithms in Matlab. We first did linear regression with gradient descent and now we’re working with the more popular naive...
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Google Has Messed Up Social Once Again
I know I might be in the minority right now but that’s how I feel. It seems Google has learned little from Wave and Buzz. Here’s what I think has gone wrong this time. First, Google engineers have...
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Site Re-design
New Site Design Last time I did a custom re-design for my site was way back during my blogspot time. That was in 2006 — five years have passed but I still like the design. When I moved to...
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LaTeX Screencasts
I’ve started putting together a couple of screencasts for those who want to start working with LaTeX. These are aimed at the extreme newbie who wants to learn the basics and get up to speed with the...
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Creating UML Sequence Diagrams with TikZ in LaTeX
I’ve been working on my LaTeX skills for some time. The goal is to move towards an all-latex solution for writing research papers, slide sets and other documents. I’m almost there. An important goal...
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AVL Tree in Python
I’ve been teaching “Applied Algorithms and Programming Techniques” and we just reached the topic of AVL Trees. Having taught half of the AVL tree concept, I decided to code it in python — my newest...
View ArticleGeting started with Hadoop 2.2.0 — Building
I wrote a tutorial on getting started with Hadoop back in the day (around mid 2010). Turns out that the distro has moved on quite a bit with the latest versions. The tutorial is unlikely to work. I...
View ArticleBackup Using rsync
Here’s a mini howto on backing up files on a remote machine using rsync. It shows the progress while it does its thing and updates any remote files while keeping files on the remote end that were...
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