def read(*parts):
    """
    Build an absolute path from *parts* and and return the contents of the
    resulting file.  Assume UTF-8 encoding.
    """
    with codecs.open(os.path.join(HERE, *parts), "rb", "utf-8") as f:
        return f.read()
def compute_rbf_kernel_matrix(X):
    """Compute the RBF kernel matrix with sigma2 as the median pairwise
    distance.
    """
    sigma2 = np.median(pairwise_distances(X, metric='euclidean'))**2
    K = pairwise_kernels(X, X, metric='rbf', gamma=1.0/sigma2, n_jobs=-1)
    return K