Alex McFarlane

Useful Stuff

Recent Posts

Functions with Timeouts and Multiprocessing in Python August 10, 2020
Introduction to Neural Nets in Python with XOR April 13, 2020
Extracting Covid19 Data for NHS with Python March 5, 2020
11: Classes and Modules December 9, 2019
10: Dictionaries and Sets November 25, 2019

Crypto Currencies

Getting Started with Bitcoin August 24, 2017

Debugging

Minimal Page November 7, 2016

Deep Learning

Launch EC2 GPU Cloud Instances from CLI October 30, 2016
Theano on Amazon Web Services (EC2) for Deep Learning October 25, 2016
Set Up Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) October 25, 2016
Set up Microsoft Azure for CUDA Cloud October 25, 2016

Jobs

A LaTeX Template for a Technical CV September 20, 2016

OSX Maintenance

Set Up MySQL in OSX with Homebrew November 7, 2016
Removing Broken OSX Launch Daemons November 7, 2016

Python

How To Link C++ to Python with boost-python October 27, 2016
Periodic Boundary Conditions for Lattices in Python September 20, 2016

Python Tutorial

Introduction to Neural Nets in Python with XOR April 13, 2020
Extracting Covid19 Data for NHS with Python March 5, 2020
11: Classes and Modules December 9, 2019
10: Dictionaries and Sets November 25, 2019
09: Lists and Tuples November 6, 2019
08: Functions and Editors October 30, 2019
07: Flow Control October 30, 2019
05: Basic Mathematical Operations & Debugging October 23, 2019
04: Installing Python Packages October 23, 2019
06: Libraries October 15, 2019
03: The Python Interpreter October 15, 2019
02: Installing Python for Mac OS X / Windows October 15, 2019
01: Basic Terminal Skills October 15, 2019

Quant Dev

Functions with Timeouts and Multiprocessing in Python August 10, 2020

Website

Unable to load Disqus on Google Chrome November 7, 2016
Automatic Table of Contents for Jekyll Blogs October 30, 2016
Adding a Video to a GitHub Readme (and Jekyll Blogs) October 24, 2016
Adding a Jekyll Blog Entry October 23, 2016
Google Analytics & AdSense for Jekyll Blogs October 22, 2016
Optimising a Jekyll Blog for Google September 23, 2016