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jrsmith3 / wtf.txt
Created March 17, 2013 15:12
Idea for a command that tells you what specified flags for an arbitrary bash command are.
wtf -- list specified command options of a bash command
EXAMPLE
-------
$ wtf rsync -rvcl src/ dest/
-r, --recursive recurse into directories
-v, --verbose increase verbosity
-c, --checksum skip based on checksum, not mod-time & size
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jrsmith3 / physics_words
Created April 25, 2013 23:39
A list of physics words that appear as variable, class, or method names in my programs. It would be great to be able to abbreviate these names without ambiguity due to overlap (e.g. "pos" could be "positive" or "position"). They are in no particular order.
position
positive
negative
temperature
potential
calculate
point
permittivity
boltzmann
mass
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jrsmith3 / doi2bib.py
Last active May 17, 2024 17:43
Python method to access crossref.org DOI bibtex metadata resolver
import requests
def doi2bib(doi):
"""
Return a bibTeX string of metadata for a given DOI.
"""
url = "http://dx.doi.org/" + doi
headers = {"accept": "application/x-bibtex"}
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jrsmith3 / getcites.py
Created May 5, 2013 04:13
Get a list of bibTeX keys from a LaTeX document using plasTeX.
from plasTeX.TeX import TeX
# The following can be a problem if you are using revtex.
doc = TeX(file="filename.tex").parse()
refs = doc.getElementByTagName("cite")
cites = []
for ref in refs:
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jrsmith3 / get_cites.py
Created May 5, 2013 22:11
Combining ideas from [getcites.py](https://gist.github.com/jrsmith3/5519665) and [doi2bib.py](https://gist.github.com/jrsmith3/5513926), generate a bibtex file of papers referenced by DOIs in the body of a LaTeX document.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import pycurl
import StringIO
from pybtex import auxfile
from pybtex.database.input import bibtex as bibtexin
from pybtex.database.output import bibtex as bibtexout
import pybtex.database
def doi2bib(doi):
"""
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jrsmith3 / round_exponential.py
Created May 6, 2013 22:06
Round a value to an integer [1-9] times a power of 10. How would you write a test for this method?
import numpy as np
def round_exponential(val):
"""
Round a value to an integer [1-9] times a power of 10.
Example
>>> val1 = 7.83126342297e-07
>>> print round_exponential(val1)
>>> 8e-07
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jrsmith3 / jrsmith3.gitignore
Last active December 19, 2015 22:59
my generic gitignore
# jrsmith3.gitignore
# ==================
#
# This file can be found at the following URL:
# https://gist.github.com/jrsmith3/6031841
# This file was created by merging some of the
# gitignores found in https://github.com/github/gitignore
#
# License
# -------
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jrsmith3 / splitrepos.py
Last active August 29, 2015 13:56
Split a monolithic git repo into several small ones
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
I used the following script to convert each subdirectory of work.git into its own git repo. The one exception was paper-2013.01.16_nea_collector which I did by hand using essentially the same method as below, except I skipped the part where I removed the tags. I used the procedure found at [1] and slightly modified it. I also used the solution in [2] to convert non-bare repos to bare. Note also that I first cloned work from its bare git repo on the SD card, removed the remote, and tarred the result to work.tar.
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/359424/detach-subdirectory-into-separate-git-repository
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1784506/when-creating-a-git-repository-that-will-be-on-the-server-can-i-convert-it-to-a
"""
import os
import subprocess
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jrsmith3 / sla2pdf.py
Created March 12, 2014 01:31
Converts every scribus document to a PDF in a specified directory.
"""
Convert every .sla to a pdf in a specified directory.
This script can only be run from within [scribus](http://http://scribus.net).
"""
import os
work_dir = #you have to explicitly tell scribus where your working directory is.
filenames = os.listdir(work_dir)
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jrsmith3 / pdfmod.py
Created April 3, 2014 03:31
Convert specified pages from a PDF to png
"""
This script was used to create the figures for http://jrsmith3.github.io/sample-logs-the-secret-to-managing-multi-person-projects.html from a PDF file containing some old CMU sample logs.
"""
import PyPDF2
from wand.image import Image
import io
import os