Execution time measurements Python's timeit and repeat I sometimes want to time my code to see which version of a function I wrote runs faster. I know that you should always profile before you optimize and that micro-benchmarking has lots of caveats (some of which I have myself fallen victim to), but still, sometimes, curiosity gets the best of me and I just have to know. When I am writing in Python, I use the timeit module
Continue Reading »Hugo In a previous entry, I described how I got to using GitHub Pages. That was one of the (if not the) first question I had to figure out when I decided to write my notes in an Internet format (ok, blog, but I don't see myself as a blogger). The second thing I had to figure out was what to use as a writing tool. I could simply write static HTML by hand and leave it
Continue Reading »GitHub Pages This is one of my first posts. I have been toying with the idea of this blog for quite some time now. A flaw of mine: too much searching for the best solution, not enough implementing. I end up doing things too late. Anyhow, I digress. One of the relevant questions when thinking of writing a blog is of course where to publish and what tool(s) to use. At some point, I was thinking of hosting on an
Continue Reading »Hi. I'm Ghys, a French Canadian living in the province of Québec, Canada. I make a living as a medical physicist. I like trying to get computers to do the actual data crunching for me. I am a hobbyist programmer and this blog is mostly a way for me to write down notes and lessons about my code attempts. I also write about random stuff. Feel free to read or skip whatever you want!
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