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AI Adventures in Azure: Accessing the VM via terminal or remote desktop

Posted on January 10, 2019April 28, 2020 by jmcook in Science/Tech

Accessing the Data Science Virtual Machine Once the virtual machine is set up and started (by clicking “start” on the appropriate VM in the Azure portal) there are several ways to interface with it. The first is via the terminal (I am running Ubuntu 16.04 on both my local machine and the virtual machine). To … Continue reading AI Adventures in Azure: Accessing the VM via terminal or remote desktop →

AI Adventures in Azure

Posted on December 17, 2018April 28, 2020 by jmcook in Science/Tech

A lot of my work at the moment requires quite computationally heavy geospatial analysis that stretches the processing capabilities of my laptop. I invested in a pretty powerful machine – i7-7700GHz processor, 32GB RAM – and sped things up by spreading the load across cores and threads, but it can still be locked up for … Continue reading AI Adventures in Azure →

ASD spectra processing with Linux & Python

Posted on April 25, 2018April 28, 2020 by jmcook in Science/Tech

I’m sharing my workflow for processing and analysing spectra obtained using the ASD Field Spec Pro, partly as a resource and partly to see whether others have refinements or suggestions for improving the protocols. I'm specifically using Python rather than any proprietary software to keep it all open source, transparent and to keep control over … Continue reading ASD spectra processing with Linux & Python →