georgeg

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by georgeg 1y ago
This tool and ecosystem does not support Julia. I would expect that at this stage a data science polyglot tool is not just R and Python. Not sure why they would not support Julia.
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by georgeg 1y ago
I am an East-African and this article does not provide the key reasons why Swahili is an important part of East-Africa and which often requires understanding of its history. Tanzania only adopted swahili post-colonial, but the language has
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by georgeg 4y ago
Am Kenyan in Tech/science. For the nature and the volume of work, the wages sighted here are grossly low. In addition, it appears that Sama was paid in US dollars and negotiated a great contract with OpenAI only to then exploit Kenyans
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by georgeg 5y ago
Am Kenyan - Born and raised and I lived at the Kenyan Coast. Kiswahili is very widely spoken and loved here. I studied Kiswahili as a language and i very much admire the rich vocabulary and idioms. It is both a national and an official lan
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by georgeg 6y ago
Would be nice to see your take on D-lang https://dlang.org/
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by georgeg 10y ago
I live in Africa and I am pretty envious of this trip. I plan for something close when my son gets 16 if he agree to that is. It would be wonderful! I think you will agree with me that what the western world reports of Africa is largely ske
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by georgeg 11y ago
Nyuzi is a Swahili word for threads.
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by georgeg 11y ago
I feel that this discussion would be incomplete without mentioning D-lang ( http://dlang.org ) and the vibed framework ( http://vibed.org ) as alternatives to the technology platforms that the author mentioned.
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by georgeg 12y ago
I am happy with the Gates foundation and the strengthening of basic scientific research that has come about from their grants particularly in resource poor countries. Respective governments have a role to play in improving the health system
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by georgeg 12y ago
Does Julia community have a typesetting tool(s) like knitr + Latex? a.k.a can i embed Julia code on to a latex document the same way I can do with R code? That is one feature that can convert me very quickly.
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Interactive plots generator for Ruby(sciruby.com)
1 points by georgeg 12y ago|0 comments
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“You’re not allowed bioinformatics anymore”(biomickwatson.wordpress.com)
88 points by georgeg 12y ago|32 comments
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by georgeg 13y ago
lost precious time for thesis writing! evil game!
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by georgeg 13y ago
For some reason i found myself calculating the patterns of blue, red and black and if words like 'the' 'and' always fall on black or red highlights. I guess that slowed me down big time.
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by georgeg 13y ago
This is the kind of functionality that D language is really good at. If I were to go beyond the fun bit of this project, i would have a look at D language.
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by georgeg 13y ago
I am sure you could have taken a better picture! but it has to look like this so as to read not so far from the stereotype.
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by georgeg 13y ago
And I wished the R main website would get a face-lift as well :)
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Bioinformaticians share their own dna in personal genomics textbook(nygenome.org)
1 points by georgeg 13y ago|0 comments
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by georgeg 14y ago
Well said.
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Google’s Eric Schmidt Sees Nairobi as Africa’s Technology Leader(go.bloomberg.com)
6 points by georgeg 14y ago|0 comments
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Ruby Research Team. Any one know more about it?(ruby-research.com)
1 points by georgeg 14y ago|0 comments
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Peter Higgs criticises Richard Dawkins(guardian.co.uk)
4 points by georgeg 14y ago|0 comments
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Exploring Ruby’s Regular Expression Algorithm(patshaughnessy.net)
2 points by georgeg 14y ago|0 comments
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by georgeg 14y ago
Safari is a swahili name(Swahili is spoken by people of the East-coast of Africa). It means a journey or an adventure. It could also mean a great undertaking. Steve must have known this from his many journeys.:)
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by georgeg 14y ago
Is D not doing this sort of thing already or am I wrong?
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Mitt Romney Facebook likes dissappearing in realtime(disappearingromney.com)
1 points by georgeg 14y ago|0 comments
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Fairy-Wren Babies Need Password for Food(sciencedaily.com)
2 points by georgeg 14y ago|0 comments
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Frequentists vs Bayesians(xkcd.com)
9 points by georgeg 14y ago|0 comments
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by georgeg 14y ago
... and why is it not obvious? just curious..
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by georgeg 14y ago
I love it! Was just trying to create a resume and you just bailed me!

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