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Dropbox stuck in 'Syncing' on Ubuntu: How to solve

Got a new machine and put Ubuntu on. Installed Dropbox, which started syncing, eventually it stopped and just showed status Syncing both in the daemon $ dropbox status as well as in the toolbar status icon. Nothing got synced, even syncing-icons on folders were not shown. Running $ dropbox filestatus in the dropbox root directory yielded a list of directories that all showed status unwatched.

Problem: Dropbox has a default maximum number of files that can be 'watched'. This number is, at the time of writing 100,000, which is incredibly low. You have to update this setting to a higher number. I followed this thread.

dropbox stop

How to enable interactive matplotlib widgets in jupyter notebooks

This is the minimal summary of this article for my archives.

Install jupyter notebooks locally (with --user flag to make the jupyter directory writable) and the ipympl lib, as well.

pip install jupyter --user 
pip install ipympl --user

Install Geopandas/Fiona on mac OS Big Sur

I just tried to set up geopandas on mac OS Big Sur and ran into several problems, specifically this one appeared constantly:

/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.8.6_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/importlib/__init__.py:127: in import_module
  1 #!/bin/bash
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  1 #!/bin/bash
<frozen importlib._bootstrap>:1014: in _gcd_import

Let's do some Tisean

Generate data

... by integrating the Rössler equations for the following parameters. Then let's say you save the data in a file like.

0.123
0.435

Compile TISEAN on OS X High Sierra

Install relevant compilers

Follow the installation instructions on http://hpc.sourceforge.net/ to install the latest binaries of gcc and gfortran for Mac OS X.

The important part is, download the gcc-8.1 binary, then do, quote

cd to the download folder. Then gunzip gcc-8.1-bin.tar.gz (if your browser didn't do so already) and then sudo tar -xvf gcc-8.1-bin.tar -C /"

	class IntLabel():

	def __init__(self):
	self.ints = {}
	self.keys = []
	super().__init__()

	def __getitem__(self, key):
	try:
	return self.ints[key]

	import networkx as nx
	import numpy as np
	import scipy.sparse as sprs
	from scipy.stats import rankdata
	from scipy.spatial import KDTree

	import matplotlib.pyplot as pl
	from matplotlib.collections import CircleCollection, LineCollection

	def get_RGG(N, k):

	import sys
	from ete3 import Tree
	import random

	def get_json(node):
	# Read ETE tag for duplication or speciation events
	if not hasattr(node, 'evoltype'):
	dup = random.sample(['N','Y'], 1)[0]
	elif node.evoltype == "S":
	dup = "N"

	import numpy as np
	from matplotlib import pyplot as pl

	def add_curve_label(ax,
	curve_x,
	curve_y,
	label,
	label_pos_abs=None,
	label_pos_rel=None,
	bbox_pad=1.0,

	# Copyright (c) 2017, Battelle Memorial Institute
	#
	# 1. Battelle Memorial Institute (hereinafter Battelle) hereby grants
	# permission to any person or entity lawfully obtaining a copy of this software
	# and associated documentation files (hereinafter “the Software”) to
	# redistribute and use the Software in source and binary forms, with or without
	# modification. Such person or entity may use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
	# distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and may permit
	# others to do so, subject to the following conditions:
	#