I just moved my MySQL database to some OpenVZ VPS, which doesn’t support snapshot backups. Therefore I had to set up some backup mechanism myself. The solution I came up with is to use BitTorrent Sync to sync my backups to the other server. It turns out to be much faster than transfering backups using scp and much easier (and perhaps more secure) than using FTP. I highly recommend BitTorrent Sync. ...
Here are some useful functions when performing statistical analysis: Confidence Interval from scipy import stats from numpy import mean, var from math import sqrt sample = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] #95% confidence interval R = stats.t.interval(0.95, len(sample)-1, loc=mean(sample), scale=sqrt(var(sample)/len(sample))) >>> R (1.2440219338298311, 4.7559780661701687) SciPy documentation Correlation Coefficient from numpy import corrcoef x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 100] y = [6, 7, 8, 9, 10] r = corrcoef(x, y) >>> r array([[ 1., 0.72499943], [ 0.72499943, 1.]]) SciPy documentation Linear Regression from scipy import stats x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] y = [6, 7, 8, 9, 10] slope, intercept, r_value, p_value, std_err = stats.linregress(x,y) >>> slope, intercept (1.0, 5.0) SciPy documentation
Every newbie for python should have already heard of or read PEP-8 a.k.a. THE style guide for python code, which hopefully I can cover in one of the next few posts. However, there’s one more important ground for you to cover before you can become a professional. It’s The Zen of Python. You can read it right inside the python interpreter: import this The Zen of Python Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts. Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity. Errors should never pass silently. Unless explicitly silenced. In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess. There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it. Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you’re Dutch. Now is better than never. Although never is often better than right now. If the implementation is hard to explain, it’s a bad idea. If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea. Namespaces are one honking great idea – let’s do more of those! Interpretations and Confusions The Zen of Python describes the philosophy the creators of Python hold when designing Python. However, official interpretations for these 19 aphorisms do not exist except PEP-8. This somewhat creates confusions for Python learners to understand them and to apply them, I myself included. ...