The RESCEU group from the University of Tokyo organized a symposium this year, after a few years of interruption due to the COVID pandemic. It was a great pleasure to see faces that I have not seen for a while.…
The PLATO Stellar Science Meeting
I just came back from the PLATO Stellar Science Meeting. A very dense week of discussions with Stellar science specialists from all over the world! There, we discussed about how we can reach the PLATO instrument specifications, in particular in…
A trick to save complex data structures into Eigen Vectors in C++
At some occasion, codes are designed for specific purposes. But years later, when we want to add functionalities to our code, we may realize that the initial design choices were not flexible enough. Then you must think of how to…
Generate large amount of images without crashes in Python
Python is an excellent programming language to quickly develop small applications. However it has substantial issues in terms of memory management and of speed. One particular inefficiency concerns the creation of a large quantities of images with for example the…
How to make a video from individual frames in Python
Python is nowadays an essential programming language. Due to its simple syntax and its wide library collection, it is easy to use and learn for the beginner. But is also ideal for prototyping and visualisation. These are actually my main…
How to setup an UPS with a Synology NAS
Synology NAS are excellent units to backup large data and can even entirely replace proprietary cloud solutions such as google drive, google photos, etc… They have indeed their own series of applications that do exactly the same, except that you…