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astrofrog

  1. So I've just realized I'm flying to Greece (for a conference) the day of the elections. Should be interesting... about 9 hours ago via Twitter for Mac
  2. I don't get it: if the #SKA produces 10Pb of data every hour, how are they going to correlate that much data from thousands of miles apart? 5:52 AM May 25th via Twitter for Mac
  3. A question for extra-galactic astronomers: how much dust (in mass) is in spiral arms vs not in spiral galaxies? 8:16 AM May 24th via Twitter for Mac
  4. @davidwhogg - can I send you a trivial question on model fitting by email? (want to check first in case you are too busy!) 3:07 AM May 15th via web
  5. And another: "If 80 columns were good enough for Jesus, then 78 columns are good enough for me!" #python 1:19 PM May 10th via Twitter for Mac
  6. Example comments: "Arghghh!. Apparently it works fine as coded..." 1:18 PM May 10th via Twitter for Mac
  7. Never thought I'd have to look at the python distutils source code. Ugh. 1:15 PM May 10th via Twitter for Mac
  8. @astrodrian Specifically, global_ax=fig.add_axes([0.1, 0.9,0.9,0.95]) or something like that? 2:07 PM May 8th via Twitter for Mac in reply to astrodrian
  9. @astrodrian Can't you just define an axes to put it, e.g. global_ax in and pass it as ax=global_ax when creating the colorbar? 2:06 PM May 8th via Twitter for Mac in reply to astrodrian
  10. @powersoffour that doesn't seem to work in this case unfortunately. On other computer, even just CC does the trick, but not here... 7:50 AM May 8th via Twitter for Mac in reply to powersoffour
  11. Any regular Python users know the answer to this question? stackoverflow.com/questions/1048… 6:49 AM May 8th via Twitter for Mac
  12. @astrodrian yes, explaining pyplot vs semi-OO vs OO and plt.rc vs rcparam vs keywords is very confusing to beginners. 3:26 PM May 7th via Twitter for Mac in reply to astrodrian
  13. @astrodrian actually I would argue that axis.set_xscale('log') makes more sense as I don't like attribute-setting with side effects! 3:25 PM May 7th via Twitter for Mac in reply to astrodrian
  14. @astrodrian yeah, I'm totally with you on the lack of a more 'Pythonic' plotting library. I'm not going to volunteer this time though ;-) 3:21 PM May 7th via Twitter for Mac in reply to astrodrian
  15. @astrodrian What about the *true* matplotlib OO API? (from matplotlib.figure import Figure). You can avoid pyplot entirely. 2:25 PM May 7th via Twitter for Mac in reply to astrodrian
  16. @jiffyclub is this to do with the order of operations? (6 not in [1,2,3]) == True works! 12:35 PM May 6th via Twitter for Mac in reply to jiffyclub
  17. Wow, just realized that the pytest-cov plugin can produce beautiful HTML output of test coverage #python 12:38 AM May 2nd via Twitter for Mac
  18. @augustmuench definitely email me your concerns, or add them as a comment on the PR! 7:42 AM Apr 30th via Twitter for Mac in reply to augustmuench
  19. @zemogle - get better soon! 5:33 AM Apr 30th via Twitter for Mac