GrumpySimon

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by GrumpySimon 11y ago
How's this: https://asmeurer.github.io/python3-presentation/slides.html
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by GrumpySimon 11y ago
There's a great talk on this [1] by Raymond Hettinger where he argues that style guides (e.g. PEP8) are no alternative to thinking hard about the code. Blindly following rules (like a bot would do) just gives a false sense of security
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by GrumpySimon 11y ago
"Jesse" not "Jeese"
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by GrumpySimon 11y ago
Tried pandoc with markdown?
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by GrumpySimon 12y ago
Exactly, and it's not like papers are collections of 'facts' that can be extracted anyway. Papers are long arguments based on some data choices, some analysis choices, and followed by interpretations --- none of which are &#x
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The Internet of things will ruin birthdays(medium.com)
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by GrumpySimon 12y ago
Having submitted to that journal before, I suspect the authors just ticked a check box that said something like "Relevant ethics approval was obtained for this paper".
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by GrumpySimon 12y ago
Or flip it around - what if the next time Facebook sees you post 5 negative things in a row, it decides to positively skew what it shows you? i.e. trying to cheer up depressed people and stop suicide. It's creepy, eh?
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by GrumpySimon 12y ago
Seconding the pandoc approach. I've written articles in markdown (+citeproc) and then used pandoc to convert to LaTeX or MS Word. Easy, clean and elegant. I think it provides all the things that these people want, without needing to re
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by GrumpySimon 12y ago
Yes, words change meaning, especially when they're imported across language boundaries. Originally mana DID mean something like spiritual power, and is heavily linked to terms for thunder, lightning etc. Currently it's used in NZ
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by GrumpySimon 12y ago
Absolutely. After messing around with various combinations of rsync/ssh/unison/s3/glacier/etc for a few years, I bit the bullet and paid for Crashplan. It's cheap - the family plan is ~150 USD/year for up
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by GrumpySimon 13y ago
Awesome. I'll keep an eye on this, thanks.
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by GrumpySimon 13y ago
I think this is an artefact of how science is taught: In 1953 Watson and Crick published a paper on the structure of DNA. Everyone smiled and nodded. In my experience it's more like: Most scientists ignored it. Others were interested b
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by GrumpySimon 13y ago
Absolutely. I see peer review as a way of - hopefully - filtering out the most egregious crap, and fixing the worst errors in papers while rounding them off. I feel all these debates are kind of pointless, because no-one I know treats a pub
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by GrumpySimon 13y ago
I agree. Compare what happened in New Zealand when John Key and the National party ousted the long-term Labor government. Despite some major missteps from Key/National, Labor's spent the last term and a half fighting amongst thems
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by GrumpySimon 13y ago
Don't go to Australia. We're mostly locking up asylum-seekers on small off-shore island detention centers. This is not a good thing.
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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
Don't forget Bokeh[1] - a replacement for ggplot2 [1] https://github.com/ContinuumIO/Bokeh
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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
The way things are is not necessarily the way things ought to be.
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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano
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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
I've been doing all my editing in plain text (vim if you must know) for about 6 months. Then I use the wonderful PanDoc [1] to convert it to anything I need (usually PDF, sometimes .docx). Everything's much simpler and much more peaceful. [
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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
From their website: "Fancy Hands can purchase things for you. Yep, if you ask us to buy toner cartridges, lunch, or tickets, we can handle it. First off, security is our number one priority with this feature and it's totally baked in from t
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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
I wasn't aware that Sean Parker was a noted expert on privacy and the implications thereof.
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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
The line graphs are ggplot2 in R ( http://ggplot2.org/ )
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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
Yes, but calling it all "trolling" lumps it together. In the replies to your comment you can see people equating trolling to everything from slight teasing to serious harassment. The problem with calling it all "trolling" is that it normali
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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
Also known as Tall Poppy Syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome
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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
It plays into the "apple-is-dying" schadenfreude that many people seem to like a lot. Apart from that, there's nothing much there beyond a laundry list of computers he's used.
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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
Another important money quote: we trimmed out other personal data as, full names, cell numbers, addresses, zipcodes, etc. not all devices have the same amount of personal data linked. some devices contained lot of in
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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
It's elite (or 1337 if you will). It's supposed to sound cool. All the underground computer groups have talked like that since the early warez/cracking/phreaking scene.
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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
I don't think I'd read a trend into that. Emacs had a short burst of popularity that's reverted to the mean. Vim's had a little uptick in the last few months, but nothing to write home about. Plot it on a different scale and you'll see that
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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
What are you doing that you need to alter your schema so often?!

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