matsen

#!/bin/sh

# Convert all arguments (assumed SVG) to a TIFF acceptable to PLOS
# Requires Inkscape and ImageMagick 6.8 (doesn't work with 6.6.9)

for i in $@; do
  BN=$(basename $i .svg)
  inkscape --without-gui --export-png="$BN.png" --export-dpi 300 $i
  convert -compress LZW -alpha remove $BN.png $BN.tiff
  mogrify -alpha off $BN.tiff

arvearve

Mathematics: What do grad students in math do all day?

by Yasha Berchenko-Kogan

A lot of math grad school is reading books and papers and trying to understand what's going on. The difficulty is that reading math is not like reading a mystery thriller, and it's not even like reading a history book or a New York Times article.

The main issue is that, by the time you get to the frontiers of math, the words to describe the concepts don't really exist yet. Communicating these ideas is a bit like trying to explain a vacuum cleaner to someone who has never seen one, except you're only allowed to use words that are four letters long or shorter.

What can you say?

shhong

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
nsb_entropy.py

June, 2011 written by Sungho Hong, Computational Neuroscience Unit, Okinawa Institute of
Science and Technology
May, 2019 updated to Python 3 by Charlie Strauss, Los Alamos National Lab

This script is a python version of Mathematica functions by Christian Mendl