2014 articles

matplotlib Plot Compute Model

I'm not a great fan of matplotlib despite how central it's become in data science. This is because of its API: I find it difficult to learn which suggests to me that it's counterintuitive. As long as I'm working with it I can do a lot but the moment I …

SSH Tunnelling or TCP Forwarding

This has to rank as the most confusing topic in using the Linux command line. It is even confusing using Fugu because there are three user, host and ports that can be used leading to a lot of possibilities to get it wrong. To the best of my understanding, SSH …