anonymouslee

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Patagonia's Philosopher King (2016)(newyorker.com)
154 points by anonymouslee 7y ago|57 comments
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by anonymouslee 8y ago
Great article. Perhaps his trials and tribulations were essential to his compositions of melancholy genius also filled with joy & beauty & rage. One of his last works, his Op. 60 Barcarolle is incredible if you haven't heard it
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by anonymouslee 8y ago
Hadley Wickham's tidy data is also an excellent read: http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.html I work closely with social scientists and it's common in those disciplines to embed narrative and presentation
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by anonymouslee 8y ago
I've been enjoying the struggle through Statistical Inference by George Casella as a foundational text. This was the introductory text for stats graduate students at Arizona State University a few years back. The Mathematical Methods o
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Running Government as a Business(strongtowns.org)
1 points by anonymouslee 8y ago|0 comments
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by anonymouslee 8y ago
Almost entirely not the same: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114733/
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Citizen science and the “insect armageddon”(nytimes.com)
2 points by anonymouslee 8y ago|0 comments
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The Philip Cross Affair(craigmurray.org.uk)
70 points by anonymouslee 8y ago|17 comments
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by anonymouslee 8y ago
I've been using https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net since 2007 and haven't had any complaints thus far. No-frills but cheap & reliable.
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by anonymouslee 9y ago
Anathem by Neal Stephenson explores this idea towards the very end. Doesn't give it much time but obviously it's hard to interpret from our end.
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EIA.gov effort to inform kids about energy and the environment rewritten(propublica.org)
7 points by anonymouslee 10y ago|0 comments
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by anonymouslee 10y ago
This really resonated with me to the point where I had to stop lurking. James Gee (who was also at Wisconsin-Madison for a time) has written a fair bit, mostly positive, on learning and games. Here's one of his positive early pieces [1
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Genetic analysis of idiocracy(pnas.org)
1 points by anonymouslee 10y ago|0 comments
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Pol.is in Taiwan(blog.pol.is)
1 points by anonymouslee 10y ago|0 comments
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by anonymouslee 10y ago
There's a Vagrantfile that you can just vagrant up: https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox/blob/master/Vagr... I poked a bit and it appears that the setup script is interactive which complicate
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by anonymouslee 10y ago
Seems to me that's because functional programming continues to evolve (which is great!) and newfangled properties and semantics get folded in. To me the core is "no side effects" though (for pure FP). It's interesting to
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by anonymouslee 10y ago
I'm part of an NSF funded research coordination network focused on supporting good practices for computational modeling (www.comses.net). We've been curating a comprehensive list of computational modeling platforms at https:&#x2F
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by anonymouslee 10y ago
If you're into this sort of thing you might enjoy a more rigorous treatment from an actual neuroscientist, David Eagleman. http://www.pbs.org/the-brain-with-david-eagleman/episodes/wh...
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by anonymouslee 10y ago
You might be interested in reading about the precautionary principle [1]. [1] - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1240435/
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A Bright Side To Facebook User Experiments(nytimes.com)
1 points by anonymouslee 12y ago|0 comments
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by anonymouslee 12y ago
I certainly appreciate the syntactic sugar of Groovy as a clear improvement over vanilla Java. But with time as a scarce resource I've opted to learn Scala and Clojure instead. It would be great if somehow we could smush Gradle and sbt