[Solved] Working with Jupyter notebook on Remote server – on Mac and Windows: Connection refused?

Jupyter notebook is a great tool to explore data and test codes. However, the problem with Jupyter notebook on remote server is that it is slow. Extremely slow - at least I thought so. I run using the same command as I used for running on my local machine: jupyter-notebook And wait for minutes until …

Setting up environment to work on Fortran code in Windows

I have been writing Fortran code for more than 3 years, and most of the time I write my code on our laboratory's cluster, which is a Linux computer. I am happy with that, and my recent short web dev journey has taught me that it can be more efficient to work with editors like …

Study Notes: Sequential Model Week 3

Week 3, Sequence Models by deeplearning.ai Assignments: Neural Machine Translation with AttentionTrigger word detection What it is about: Sequence to sequence architecture, particularly machine translation Readings: Sutskever et al. 2014: Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural NetworksCho et al., 2014: Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder–Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation Mao et al., 2014: Deep …

Study Notes: Sequential Model Week 2

Week 2, Sequence Models by deeplearning.ai Assignments: Operations on word vectorsEmojify What it is about: Why word embeddings is used in NLP, and how to apply it. Readings: van der Maaten and Hinton, 2008. Visualizing data using t-SNEMikolov et al., 2013: Linguistic Regularities in Continuous Space Word RepresentationsBengio et al., 2003: A Neural Probabilistic Language …

Study Notes: Sequential Model Week 1

Week 1, Sequence Models by deeplearning.ai Assignments: Building a RNN step by step using numpyDinosaur Island - Character-Level Language Modeling Jazz improvisation with LSTM What it is about: What a RNN is, the usage and different variations of RNN Readings: Cho et al., 2014: On the Properties of Neural Machine Translation: Encoder–Decoder Approaches (About GRU)Chung …

My freeCodeCamp projects for the all six certifications

I have completed the full stack certification and it took me 93 days and a total of about 200-300 hours to accomplish this. Here list my FCC projects and my remarks on them. Noting that in such a short span, the projects are done in a way to passes all the projects, but may not …

Towards my ideal pomodoro clock

Since the beginning of Year 2019, I started using a small gadget to increase my productivity: pomodoro clock. I have been using a website called Productivity Timer, and I did find it useful when I need to focus on some specific tasks, such as reading a paper without being distracted. After I started learning the …

My first JS project: Random Quote Machine

Time spent: 6 hours Skill level: Easy Link to my work As the first project of the Front End Library Certification on freeCodeCamp, the project is, of course, not complicated. But it did help me to wrap up what I learnt in the previous two certification: HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Although I have spent about …

[Solved] “PROJ_LIB” error when installing Basemap on Windows using Anaconda

As an Anaconda user, I love how convenient it is to install packages. So when I tried install Basemap using conda as usual: conda install -c anaconda basemap And import it in Jupyter Notebook: from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap I was shocked that I got an error message: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- KeyError Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-2-702dba317ad4> …