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Passing REMOTE_USER through mod_WSGI

I need to change the way we authenticate a django application. Currently we authenticate by an apache module which sets the REMOTE_USER header and passes it to the python app in the environment of mod_wsgi. The new approach will be to use an app gateway. The gateway works like a reverse proxy and intercept requests […]

computing, Solaris

Installing Jupyter Notebooks on Solaris

pip installing jupyterlab may give you the following error (somewhere in the error output anyway!): The simplest solution I’ve found to this is just to install libzmq. We can pull the latest code from github and install it. I usually install things in /opt but as the pip process will look for libzmq in /usr/local,

computing, Solaris

Install scipy on Solaris

When trying to install scipy via pip on Solaris you may encounter this error: There’s a simple way to resolve this but it’s not immediately obvious. BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) and LAPACK (Linear Algebra Something Something…?) are actually provided by the Solaris math and perf libraries, so installing those and setting a couple of

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One-hot encoding labels

Another little snippet that I sometimes forget 🙂 Suppose you have a dataframe with a column that has data in a string format and you need to transform that into a way that a machine learning algorithm can use. One good way is with one-hot encoding which will take the values in the column and

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