Welcome!
This is a place for errata broadly related to personal and professional interests.
Check out some specific pages like quotes and map of active tropical cyclones.
If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth. ⇨
“Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor never the tormented." ⇨
“I am so tired of waiting. Aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife and cut the world in two-- and see what worms are eating at the rind." ⇨
Recent Posts
17 Mar 2018
Installing NetCDF Python Packages
I was trying to remember how I have installed netCDF4 and related libraries for Python, and what I need to do differently for Windows systems vs. the Linux systems I usually use.
On Linux, sometimes I use the system netCDF C libaries, but often I compile and install specific versions of HDF5 and netCDF4 from scratch. Here is how I have built netCDF for various Docker container images.
# Build HDF5
cd hdf5-x.y.x
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared --enable-hl
make
make install
cd ..
# Built NetCDF4
cd netcdf-x.y.z
LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib
CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include
./configure --enable-netcdf-4 --enable-dap --enable-shared --prefix=/usr/local --disable-doxygen
make
make install
cd ..
# NetCDF4 Fortran
cd netcdf-fortran-x.y.z
./configure --enable-shared --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install
cd ..
netcdf4-python #
I typically try to use Use pip to install Python libraries if I can.pip if you need to, but I am using conda and conda-forge as much as possible now, in fact by using conda, the above compilation steps are usually not necessary as far as I know. See below.
10 Mar 2018
Using the Blockchain for Open-access Journals?
One thing that excites me about the current buzz around blockchain technology is its use for open science. I can’t speak to the feasibility, but it seems to me that a distributed ledger could be an ideal place to publish and provide open-access to scientific research papers and articles.
If including a way to store, deliver and update supporting data, a blockchain could deliver research products that link directly to the data and analysis–providing an unparalleled level of provenance and context for research and results. Citations and work building on similar pieces of data could be connected allowing for straighforward literature searches and discovery.