In Mathematical articles, whether on this blog or anywhere on the Internet and literature, a number of mathematical symbols are used as a shorthand for writing mathematical notation. Within this series of articles, we attempt to provide a brief description of the notations used. Anyone is welcomed to leave constructive feedback to help the world … Continue reading Understanding Mathematical Symbols – Introduction
Quick Steps to Enable Powershell Remoting
System Administrators coming from the Linux world are accustomed to using SSH and bash scripts to manage remote machines. The same concept can be used for managing Windows machines through PowerShell by enabling the remoting feature. A number of articles are around explaining each command and how remoting in PowerShell works. Therefore, this article only … Continue reading Quick Steps to Enable Powershell Remoting
Tanimoto Molecular Similarity Experiment
One way to rank and filter molecules from a larger set is to use similarity coefficients. One such way is by using Tanimoto. The experiment below runs similarity tests on a number of molecules using RDKit libraries (http://www.rdkit.org) and Python. Installing RDKit To install RDKit on Ubuntu 14.04 desktop OS, do: sudo apt-get install python-rdkit … Continue reading Tanimoto Molecular Similarity Experiment
Sitecore with MongoDB Authentication
Securing website data is critical for any business and it is no exception for Sitecore websites. One of the main components for Sitecore is MongoDB which is the core storage for the xDB data. Authentication is the primary way to protect data stored in xDB. This ensures that only authorised users get access. So what … Continue reading Sitecore with MongoDB Authentication
R Simulation – Monty Hall Problem
Suppose you’re on a game show, and you’re given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what’s behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, … Continue reading R Simulation – Monty Hall Problem