Peekaboo

More than once I came across the problem of rearranging a nested list. I had a nested list of the form X = [['a', 'b', 'c'], ['d', 'e', 'f']] And I want Y = [['a', 'd'], ['b', 'e'], ['c', 'f']] without having to resort to an ugly list comprehension over 3 lines. A friend told me to use Y = zip(*X) So easy! Kind of obvious but I didn't find it on the web. So I thought I'd write it down. Enjoy!

My colleague Hannes works in deep learning and started on a new feature extraction method this week. As with all feature extraction algorithms, it was obviously of utmost importance to be able to learn Gabor filters . Inspired by his work and Natural Image Statistics , a great book on the topic of feature extraction from images, I wanted to see how hard it is to learn Gabor filters with my beloved scikit-learn . I chose independent component analysis , since this is discusses to some depth in the book. Luckily mldata had some image patches that I could use for the task. Here goes: import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from sklearn.datasets import fetch_mldata from sklearn.decomposition import FastICA # fetch natural image patches image_patches = fetch_mldata("natural scenes data") X = image_patches.data # 1000 patches a 32x32 # not so much data, reshape to 16000 patches a 8x8 X = X.reshape(1000, 4, 8, 4, 8) X = np.rollaxis(X, 3, 2).reshape(-1, 8 *