Start iPython notebook with inline plotting

I recently found iPython notebook which is a tool that allows you to use python interactively to make plots and perform analysis on data. To start a iPython notebook session with inline plots run ipython notebook --pylab inline

Mount filesystem using ssh

It is very easy to mount a filesystem that lives on a remote computer using sshfs. Simply run, mkdir mountpoint
sshfs -o follow_symlinks hostname: mountpoint/ where hostname is what you use to ssh into the remote computer (e.g. name@computer.gov)