Keyword Arguments in Calculating Distance Matrix

One of the challenges I had when writing up my RREML package in R was how to handle the coordinates as a keyword argument to my rreml function.  Well, I've pretty much abandoned my R package at this point in time, and would eventually like to implement the approach in Python.  I just stumbled across this very brief Reddit discussion:

Euclidian distance calculation with 2 matrices

And I found the scipy documentation referred to in the response to be a great reference for how to setup my new keyword argument.

scipy.spatial.distance.cdist

Convolution History

Back in my grad school days, one of the more useful techniques in deriving distributions was using the Convolution Operation.  I found this article extremely interesting and want to save it for future reference.

A History of the Convolution Operation

Setting anaconda as pyvenv for elpy

Per this discussion:

https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/elpy/issues/285

In order to set the elpy environment, you type:

M-x pyven-activate <path to environment (note not the bin)>

Guest Account on Windows 10

My girlfriend's daughter absolutely loves my Surface Pro 3 (well, almost as much as me), but she recently bjorked up my whole setup.  That's on me, because I should never let someone, especially a child, have the ability to mess around with my work machine.  I just couldn't seem to find a way to create an account for her without setting up an email address.  It took me a while to find it, but I finally found the best way to create a "Guest" account Windows 10:

Create a local user account in Windows 10

symlinks in Windows 10

Once again howtogeek comes to my rescue:

mklink /prefix link_path file/folder_path