target .Net framework

When adding library dependencies, make sure they dlls are targeting the same .Net framework as the project. took me ~12 hours to figure out that i was using a dll with 4.5.2 in place of 4.5. couldnt figure out wth was going on, why the build was failing

missing dependencis

-rdkit
-improper cudnn (used this for upgrading)

ubuntu login loop while nvidia driver update

got into a login loop, when i updated my nvidia driver. not sure what fixed the issue. But i just uninstalled and reinstalled the driver from the shell and the login loop was gone.

Filtering in excel using a list of values

https://www.extendoffice.com/documents/excel/3186-excel-filter-rows-by-list.html

Adding a character/string at the end of all lines in a file Linux

sed 's/$/<characters>/' filname

Most frequently occuring data in a row

=INDEX(B2:D2,MODE(MATCH(B2:D2,B2:D2,0)))

can be used for example to count votes

Splitting a colum into multiple columns Excel

=INDIRECT("Sheet1!R" & (ROW()-1)*3+1 & "C1", FALSE)


Say you have a long oclumn of data. You want to split it  into 3 columns such that, every third element  goes into each column.  for example youd data is: AAABBBCCCDDDEEEFFFGGGHHH
you want to split into 3 columns : ABCDEFGH, ABCDEFGH, ABCDEFGH. use the above formula

remove spaces in foldernames in linux

find -name "* *" -type d | rename 's/ /_/g' 

Opening a html table in excel

just use open with- and select Excel. As simple as that!

making global open-cv module available in a venv

This post is pefect.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13312139/opencv-and-python-virtualenv/19213369#19213369

the command 'sl'

do you know about the command sl in unix? I ran into it when I typed it  by mistake instead of  'ls'try it out and try not to get run over by the train :)

'cut' - in place file change: can't do

We cannot run a cut command on a file and change it in place For example:
cut -d',' -f -3 abc.txt>abc.txt

the above command leads to an empty abc.txt file

Perceptually different colors

Sometimes, you need a plot which compares about 10 different methods. In that case there is a particular need for each line in the plots to look different, here is a neat function:(big thanks to harsh agrawal for finding this)

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/29702-generate-maximally-perceptually-distinct-colors/content//distinguishable_colors.m

sql stuff

-- Key words case insensitive
-- LIKE arguements case insensitive
-- to be continued..

removing symlink to a dir

rm <dir_name>
# no backslash at the end of the directory name

Script to create in a bash script

Here is a shell script I use to create multiple nohup commands and put them in bash script called scripts1to100.txt. Each nohup command runs a matlab function called  runFunctionWithVariablesAandB which takes a and b as inputs.

for i in {1..100};
 do
let a=(i-1)*100+1;
let b=i*100;
echo nohup matlab -nodisplay -nosplash -r \"runFunctionWithVariablesAandB\($a:$b\)\; exit\;\" \> \/home\/logs\/batch$i.log \& >>scriptsFor1to100.txt;
 done

Once script1to100.txt is ready, you can run it by calling 'bash script1to100.txt'

Note: This particular script launches 100 parallel runs of runFunctionWithVariablesAandB, each with a different set of inputs.

Inserting text in visual mode in vim

Steps:

1) Ctrl+v (takes you to visual mode)
2) up/down/left/right arrows to select location for inserting text.
3) Gto select all lines in the file
4) Actual commands for inserting: 'I' takes to insert mode
5) type the text you want to insert. It gets inserted in the first line
6) hit Esc. the inserting done in all the lines you selected.

Comparing strings

strcmp(var,'<string>')

checking for a field in struct matlab

To check if stuct S has a field called 'fieldName', use:

isfield(S, 'fieldname')

Changes to run BING (objectness)

General changes to run on our servers:
-- In the objectness folder: change line 15:
from
set(OPENMP_FLAG "-fopenmp -std=c++11 -ftree-vectorize")
to
set(OPENMP_FLAG "-fopenmp -std=c++0x -ftree-vectorize")
--Put absolute path to the dataset as opposed to relativepath in Main.cpp


Specific changes to make it compaible with ImageNet:
in Objectness/CmFile.cpp line number: added these lines:
415                                     if (line.find (' ') != string::npos)
416                                     {
417                                       int position = line.find (' ');
418                                       strs.push_back(line.substr(0,position));
419                                     }
420                                       else
421                                       strs.push_back(line);


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The xml annotation file had some inconsistencies for imagenet:
                        ILSVRC2012_val_00029561.xml
                        ILSVRC2012_val_00047711
                        ILSVRC2012_val_00037916
                        ILSVRC2012_val_00027851
                        ILSVRC2012_val_00008272
                           ILSVRC2012_val_00004948
                            ILSVRC2012_val_00000400
                           ILSVRC2012_val_00008009
                          ILSVRC2012_val_00019545
                         ILSVRC2012_val_00032716
                         ILSVRC2012_val_00000922
                         ILSVRC2012_val_00023854
                         ILSVRC2012_val_00035744
  ILSVRC2012_val_00019316
ILSVRC2012_val_00021400
ILSVRC2012_val_00004522
ILSVRC2012_val_00006974
and many more. this cannot be done manually.!
(the coordinates cannot be 0 in matlab!)

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The changes in everything above xml file issues can be ignored