Archive for February, 2007

PDL Cheat Sheet

February 20, 2007

PDL 2.4.3 cheat sheet v2 by Lino Ramirez, Lino.M.Ramirez (at) gmail.com
NOTE:
Piddles are stored in (column, row) order

STARTING & QUITTING THE SHELL GETTING HELP
perldl exit quit help ‘func’ [...]

Open season for researchers

February 14, 2007

I found a nice article on Open Access that was published in the Guardian.
From the article, we have that:
“Ours is the best of businesses: we get our raw material for free and our customers pay us a year in advance,” joked the publisher of an academic journal to a university researcher.
Perhaps not for much longer. [...]

Getting Started with PDL

February 13, 2007

Early this month, I wrote an introduction to the Perl Data Language (PDL). Here is the Introduction:

Imagine you, Just Another Perl Hacker, were assigned to this new project that involves heavy numerical computation. Most of your peers recommend you to use C or C++. Some others recommend you [...]