Hacks for a CS Research Geek 🤓

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Table of Contents

1. 📺 How to maintain bash aliases with guide to connecting to remote.
2. 🌐 How2 operate in ADA, as well as connect Jupyter Notebook and VSCode to ADA.
3. 🎮 Graphical visualization (GUI) of deep remote folders (bypassing the intermediate remote machines) e.g., to get to /ssd_scratch or /scratch via ada.
4. 🔐 ssh password bypassing when logging into remote system or server that requires password authentication.
5. 🐍 Create new Python environment using virtualenv by inheriting the packages from a master/base python env. Also how to build Python from sratch (which is light-weight enough) in your $HOME directory.
6. 📂 How2 parallely compress and decompress files/folders using pigz built on gzip. Also some basic functionalities on tar archive manager and its flags.
7. 🔽 How2 efficiently download shared gdrive data via wget.
8. 🔱 How2 build Byobu, a terminal multiplexer, in remote server (e.g., $HOME of each user). Helpful for accomodating multiple terminals with one login.
9. 🎥 How2 build OpenCV from scratch enabling developer mode of interaction.