Questions tagged [numpy]
NumPy is the fundamental package for scientific computing with the programming language Python.
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Plot timings for a range of inputs
When writing Code Review answers, it becomes often necessary to measure how long the modified code takes vs how long the OP's code takes. I needed a nice way to visualize this as a function of the ...
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Faster computation of barycentric coordinates for many points
I'm just starting to understand the Python syntax and I created a module that does what I wanted, but really slow.
Here are the stats of cProfile, top 10 ordered by ...
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Racetrack plotter
My Racetrack is just that. A Racetrack. You can't race it (yet) because I had trouble with collision detection, but I wanted to share it anyway.
It creates a base polygon by using ...
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Game of Life with NumPy
I started this exercise with NumPy with a goal to find neighbors and return the new matrix. I want to get your feedback. Here's an example from this website. It looks like it's \$O(N^2)\$, and I'm ...
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Python / Numpy running 15x slower than MATLAB - am I using Numpy effeciently?
Here is some code I wrote in Python / Numpy that I pretty much directly translated from MATLAB code. When I run the code in MATLAB on my machine, it takes roughly 17 seconds. When I run the code in ...
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Back to Basics - Tic Tac Toe
I've seen a few TTT related posts recently, and thought I might learn something or be reminded of certain techniques from attempting my own rendition. Here is that attempt! Hopefully any new coders ...
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Finding the closest point to a list of points
I'm trying to find the closest point (Euclidean distance) from a user-inputted point to a list of 50,000 points that I have. Note that the list of points changes all the time. and the closest distance ...
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Generating a 3D Point Cloud
I'm trying to produce a 3D point cloud from a depth image and some camera intrinsics. The image is 640x480, and is a NumPy array of bytes. The output is a (rows * columns) x 3 array of points.
I've ...
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Warhammer: How many of my attacks will succeed?
Me and a couple of mates sometimes play a game called Warhammer.
When playing the game you have options of what each model attacks.
This can lead to situations where you know if you shoot with 100% of ...
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Plotting polynomials roots
NOTE: See follow up to this question here
I created a simple python script to plot quadratic, cubic and quartic polynomials with integer coefficients between -4 and 4. It uses numpy to find the roots ...
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Remove pixel patch in image which is stored as array
I have an array I which stores N images of size P (number of pixels). Every image is of size ...
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Improving the speed of creation for three Perlin Noise Maps in Python?
I am interested in learning how I can improve the speed of the code in this pygame file. I iterate over 6400 * 1800 * 3 or 34,560,000 elements of various numpy arrays here to apply noise values to ...
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A big "Game of Life"
Our quest: Create a big simulation for Conway's Game of Life, and record the entire simulation history.
Current Approach: Cython is used for an iterate method. The ...
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Python, numpy, optimize module to handle big file
With the help of some people here and there, I wrote the module below which works very well if the file targets.csv is not too big.
As soon as this file exceeds ...
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Hints to make Sudoku solver more Pythonic
As you will see, I am not very familiar with Python and NumPy but want to learn it.
The following code is a very basic Sudoku solver which works fine for simple examples. Although it runs, I still ...
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Simulation of 2D elastic balls
Following this SO post and this Wikipedia article, I wrote a Python script to simulate physics of 2D elastic balls.
I define the physical behaviour of each ball in the ...
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Population dynamic simulation on biological information maintenance 2
This question is the follow-up to this previous question.
Background
Using this simulation I investigate a system in which enzymes proliferate in cells. During the replications of enzymes, ...
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Python program that draws the Mandelbrot set fractal
I wrote a Python program that draws the Mandelbrot set fractal. However, the program is very slow. I would appreciate any feedback on the program, but I would especially appreciate feedback on how to ...
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Efficient numpy cosine distance calculation
I want to calculate the nearest cosine neighbors of a vector using the rows of a matrix, and have been testing the performance of a few Python functions for doing this.
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Population dynamic simulation on biological information maintenance
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Using this simulation I investigate a system in which enzymes proliferate in cells. During the replications of enzymes, parasites can come to be due to mutation. They can drive the system ...
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Python differential analysis of heat loss across a pipe
I made a differential equation solver to forecast heat loss through a pipe with heat loss coefficient contours. It does what I want it to do but I had to use global variables to change the outputs of ...
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Multithreaded HD Image Processing + Logistic reg. Classifier + Visualization
[I'm awaiting suggestions for improvement/optimization/more speed/general feedback ...]
This code takes a label and a folder path of subfolders as input that have certain labels ex: trees, cats with ...
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"Histogram of Oriented Gradients" (HOG) feature detector for computer vision
Here is a function that I've only slightly modified from its original context, found here.
Before mentioning anything else, it should be noted that I'm desperately trying to optimize this code for ...
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process numerical input arguments of mixed ints, floats, and "array-like" things of same length>1
I'm trying to process numerical input arguments for a function. Users can mix ints, floats, and "array-like" things of ints and float, as long as they are all length=1 or the same length>1.
Now I ...
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Calculating if a point is within a polygon, or outside of it
Here is the function (along with its support functions):
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Estimating the number of tanks based on a sample of serial numbers 2.0
There was some confusion with the code I had posted in my previous version of this question and there was some good advice from @Oscar Smith.
The explanation is the same; please give improvements for ...
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Finding where column slices of elements in multi-dimensional array are equal
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I have a dataset that corresponds to an observed time-series. The dataset is organized into a dictionary - which contains an array of years, an array of months, an array of days, an ...
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Temporal kernel filtering on video frames coming in a loop
I have a video which I read in a loop frame by frame. For every frame, I want to do temporal kernel filtering, the coefficients of which come from the input variable model (a dictionary). The temporal ...
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Deep Reinforcement Learning training on gym data
Related question: Extract the last row in a dataframe with a timestamp before some given time
This is part of the code for Deep Reinforcement Learning training on a standards-based gym env.
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Weighted phase Laplacian formula
We have the following equation (weighted phase Laplacian):
\$c_{i,j} = U(i,j)\Delta^{^x}_{i,j} - U(i-l, j)\Delta^{x}_{i-1,j} + V(i,j)\Delta^{y}_{i,j} - V(i,j-1)\Delta^{y}_{i,j-1}\$
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Schelling's model of Segregation Python implementation with Geopandas
If you don't know what is Schelling's model of segregation, you can read it here.
The Schelling model of segregation is an agent-based model that illustrates how individual tendencies regarding ...
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Koch snowflake in Python with numpy and pygame
I've drawn a Koch snowflake with Python 3. I'm new to the Python world and would appreciate all feedback on how to make the code more Pythonic as I'm not used to these idioms, styles and modules. All ...
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Python! (Snake)
This is now an Iterative Review.
Next Iteration
Nowhere near a full game yet. Just a basic overview and initialisation of a Snake() class.
Thoughts?
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Reading a binary file containing periodic samples
I have the following code for reading HTK feature files. The code below is working completely correct (verified it with unit tests and the output of the original HTK toolkit).
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Simple one-hot encoder
Because neither sklearn nor Pandas provide a straightforward and complete one-hot encoder, I decided to write one myself. Both Pandas and sklearn do have an encoder with no option to decode, and the <...
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Creating nxm index list of array a
Here is the problem:
Given a numpy array 'a' that contains n elements, denote by b the set
of its unique values in ascending order, denote by m the size of
array b. You need to create a numpy array ...
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Getting angle between all points in array
I have got some code that calculates the angle between all of the points in an array. It works, but it is quite slow. This is because it has complexity O(n^2). It has to loop through the array and ...
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Rolling loop with an array of data points
I have a NumPy array of about 2500 data points. This function is called on a rolling basis where 363 data points is passed at a time.
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Calculating a function over a large array
I have written some code to determine an interpolation matrix over a grid of points. I originally wrote the code in matlab, where under the specified parameters it took just over 2 minutes. The ...
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Simple utility/convenience module - am I doing it right?
I have a large library (four packages) of data processing code that I have written over the last 12 months. I am quite new to python and would like to see if I am doing things correctly.
This utility/...
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Multiple GeoJSON Feature Collections to a Pandas MultiIndex DataFrame
Edit: The end objective is to monitor the movement of severe weather, determine its vector and make a prediction.
I'm working with a GeoJSON ...
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using pandas and numpy to parse dirty .csv
I'm relatively new to Python have been writing for a few months now. I've started a Pandas Numpy project that starts with parsing large and somewhat sloppy formatted textfile, its not exactly csv but ...
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Improving code for image manipulation
I'm fairly new to coding and am developing a set of functions to allow mammologists to progrmatically collect data from photos of specimens. The special issue with mammals is that their coats are ...
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Data cleaning - am I using classes correctly here?
I have a data processing application that does some data cleaning as the first step. This is the module I import for that purpose.
The only 'public' part of the api is the 'clean' function which ...
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