Maia-Helper

Tools

• Connecting to the server
  • The server is running Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS, which is very popular so searching for help hsould be possible
  • Most of the time you'll connect via SSH ssh USERNAME@dev.maiachess.com
  • Then it's a standard bash/Linux enviroment
  • VS code has a very nice system for opening remote directories over ssh
    • https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview
• Python 3
  • pandas
  • numpy
  • sqlalchemy
    • with psycopg2-binary
  • matplotlib
    • seaborn
  • Jupyter notbooks
  • pip install numpy psycopg2-binary pandas SQLAlchemy matplotlib seaborn jupyter
  • Using a local Anaconda install with a virtual env is a bit of work but makes things easier in the long run
    • https://conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/install/linux.html
• Jupyter
  • These lines in the config will allow remote connections, if you assign an open port
  • jupyter notebook --generate-config will make the config file
  • jupyter notebook list will tell you the connection token

c.NotebookApp.open_browser = False
c.NotebookApp.port = OPEN_PORT
c.NotebookApp.ip = '*'

• Postgres
  • The postgres SQL database is running you can connect to it directly with psql
  • Opening a table with pandas is df = pandas.read_sql_table('summary_per_game_predictions','postgresql:///lichess')
• Git
  • Please commit you code regularly and push to a repo on Github
• Meeting notes
  • Before meetins having some bullet points in a shared google doc will be helpful.
  • Using the same doc every week means we can easily keep track of things
  • Please also take notes during the meeting