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Numba: Tell those C++ bullies to get lost

Gilbert Forsyth

Numba: Tell those C++ bullies to get lost by Gil Forsyth This is the title of our SciPy 2016 tutorial, where we take aim at those who claim Python is not for science because its performance stinks. Wake up, world! You've been able to make Python codes fast for a long time, with Cython,... Continue »

Improvement in post secondary education will require converting teaching from a solo sport to a community-based research activity—Herb Simon View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Announcing AeroPython!

Lorena Barba

I haven't lectured in two years. I've of course been teaching, but have stopped using the method known as "the lecture"—delivering a set amount of material (aka, "covering") from the front of the classroom to a group of mostly quiet, note-taking students. Like greater profs before me, I am a converted lecturer.1 It was Spring... Continue »

A new paper by an alumnus of my tsunami-modeling school in Chile thanks the event's impact http://t.co/7dDrnwAxQf & http://t.co/CHrUw8hI5z View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Student guest blog post: pterosaur weight estimation

Lorena Barba

The second in a series of blog posts by the students of "Bio-aerial Locomotion" at GW, and part of a collaborative and interactive study of some controversial issues about giant pterosaurs' ability to fly. The first student guest blog post (by Akash Druv and Alex Golding) addresses the quadrupedal-launch thesis of Prof. Michael Habib (and... Continue »

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Student guest blog post: pterosaur quad launch

Lorena Barba

This is the first of a series of blog posts from students' course work for the "Bio-aerial Locomotion" class at GW's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. The students explore several controversial topics about a giant pterosaur's ability to fly. Some background On Sept. 22, 2013, Prof. Michael Habib (who was a guest speaker in our... Continue »

"The one thing I need is someone to help me make online learning work." (Provost at unknown university) —@gsiemens #OAweek View // Reply // Retweet // Like

A successful student-led (flipped) class on avian wings

Lorena Barba

A sign that I still need to trust students to be able and willing to lead their own learning is that I had 70 slides prepared for this class (most of them pictures, of course). A sign that this was a successful student-led (flipped) class is that I only got to project one slide—a single... Continue »

CFD Python: 12 steps to Navier-Stokes

Lorena Barba

We announce the public release of online educational materials for self-learners of CFD using IPython Notebooks: the CFD Python Class! Update! (Jan.2014) CFD Python has a new home on GitHub Some background This post describes the first practical module of Prof. Barba's Computational Fluid Dynamics class, as taught between 2010 and 2013 at Boston University. The... Continue »