AstroData Hack Week - day 1

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Fernando Perez is giving the lecture about ipython notebook this morning.

These are some notes of the interesting ideas:

  • import all the dependencies when you try to export some cell content into a function you can use %celltofunc but it is still work in progress
  • jinja template files for conversion ...
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Bayesian Logical Data Analysis in the Physical Sciences

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Bayesian Logical Data Analysis in the Physical Sciences

This is my new favorite book about Bayesian stat that I learned about from the Penn. State Astrostat summer school.

Note that it's written by an astronomer and provides Mathematica code (can't get more astro/ physics than that!!! i think only physicists / astrophysicists have such a love for ...

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