Text to speech is a tool available in most operating systems, and helps people with reading and sight difficulties, or can be used as part of a ‘Jarvis‘ helper on your computer. Python has a few options for dealing with text to speech, generally in the form of wrappers for speech engines. This post goes… Read More »
Samba is a protocol that makes file sharing across a network easy (great if you have your own home server). This post has a few samba basics – commands and operations to help you configure and run your samba shared folders. Setting up samba Read about how you can setup and configure Samba for a… Read More »
This post shows you how to set up a simple linux home server, and how you can use it to share files across your home network. This simple process will help get you going with a basic home server system which will be flexible enough for you to extend and develop. 1. Select Your Hardware… Read More »
Machine learning is an essential part of data science – a field which covers a range of activities from data acquisition and cleaning, through to analytics and data visualisation. It can be helpful to think in terms of a machine learning workflow that puts some structure around some of these processes. This post looks at… Read More »
It is often more useful to think of applied field in terms of polar coordinates – with an angle and a magnitude. By default the Zeeman term in OOMMF takes inputs in cartesian coordinates – i.e. x, y and z components. In many situations this is fine, but there are times when polar coordinates make… Read More »