FlyMeet-Techniques Opening Slide (beta)

The D Bug

Fly brain was probably written in PERL.
Gal4>UAS:{ChR2/TntG} is python.

Lift off

Just reached Mars. The pole.

The XORTex

Screen

When you get your camcorder along flies refuse to show phenotype. Flies are camera shy

UT

And UT is UT.

Shuttle

Singles badminton and doubles badminton are two different games.

Blurrrr

Motion_detect() == Edge_detect() in time.

Stinky

Do you remember the smell when we fell in love?
Do you remember the smell?
Now baby
Do you, Do you
...

Free Will

Free will is only as free as the neurons allow.

Developmental Determinacy

How much breathing space does the fly genome allow it's neural system?

Fly-Will

Is a fly's free will all about the indeterminacy emerging from the complexity of its neural connectome?

Fly-Walk

A wingless fly. Starved. Food odor. Watch fly-path.

Would this fly have taken a different trajectory in a parallel universe?
How many parallel universes to account for entire trajectory space?

SimpleXMLRPCServer

Just wrote* a command-line based ping, mssg, picture send/recv system which:

• is Multi-threaded
• uses XML based messaging
• uses RPC

Using Python's SimpleXMLRPCServer (shipped with the standard distribution) in under an hour's time. Python simply kicks ass when it comes to speed of development. Also its so much easy to think in python.

Plan to add voice messaging ability and encryption support to it. Tomorrow. Day after.

Anybody else want some!


*I use Vim. Vim is sweet.

Wanda the Phish

The close resemblance of the recent posts to Wanda the Fish Fortune teller is purely coincidental.

JLT

Wanted to write something profound. But forgot what.

Conversation in a fly lab

Guy A: Do you have CS?
Guy B: You mean Canton S or Counter Strike?
Guy A: Photoshop CS.

Catalase

Catalogues received at conferences shall be properly utilized. As RNAse free paper.

P value

Its been happening a lot to me recently. Everytime I look at my watch it shows some interesting time. 22:22:44 or 5:55:55 or you know of the sorts. Always (almost) some pattern in it every time I check.

Saw, what I think, is a shooting star yesterday night on the way back home from the lab. Pretty fat white blazing mass with a bluish hint in its tail. Bigger than I have ever witnessed before.

And today. Read some book by the pond side. Book reading at its best. Life of Pi, amidst a garden, on a metal bench by the pond side. That was some experience.

Saw pre-sunset sun stuck behind tall green vegetation. Orange disc interrupted by spinach green tree tops. Either the time is good and I am lucky or my current environs are so much abound with beauty that wherever and whenever one looks one gets hold of some pleasing sight.

Fink before you leap - PIL Installation howto for a Mac

PIL (Python Imaging Library) habit is difficult to let go. And well a Mac is a Mac. Follow these steps to get PIL up and running on your Mac.

1. Install fink. fink = an apt-get like (ditto?) package manager for your Mac. apt-get also gets installed along with it. Just google for fink and you will find its dmg image on sourceforge. Installation is simple point and click.
   
   
2. Configure fink by issuing the command
   

   fink configure

   It will ask you couple of easy questions. Bear with the thing. If you use a proxy to connect to the internet its necessary to specify it during this configuration procedure. *IMPORTANT*: Write fully qualified name of the proxy (with the protocol). For e.g.

   http://proxy.ncbs.res.in

   I had dropped the protocol during my initial configuration and fink failed to connect to internet. I wish fink architects had arranged so that the proxy config defaults to http protocol. Newayz. Now you know!
   
   
   
3. Then issue this command
   

   apt-get install pil-py23

   This command will install all the necessary dependencies along with PIL. May take a while depending on your net connection speed.
   
   
4. Test your installation by
   

   python2.3
   import Image
   

   
   P.S.: Looks like PIL is currently available only for python2.3. You might wanna consider symlinking python2.3==>python in your /usr/bin. I am undecided for my Mac mini shipped with a python2.5. And I hate putting that extra "2.3" to launch the interpreter. What life !
   
   P.P.S: Thank me. And then thank Raj who egged me on to blog this.