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by hardboiled 7y ago
Tidyverse code is not write-only; it is designed to be mostly read-only where the level of abstraction is at the level of the domain, which in this case is data frames and data pipelines akin to the same constructs in relational algebra&#x2
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by hardboiled 7y ago
I concur with your sentiments having cultivated data science teams from the ground up with diverse educational backgrounds. Programming in base R is more akin to assembly language and has accreted a babel of inconsistencies that make it dif
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by hardboiled 7y ago
The Chinese government has prevented plenty of US companies from doing business in China including Google, but more importantly is the rejection of patents and intellectual property and espionage conducted by Chinese government, which has c
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by hardboiled 7y ago
This is the best justification for R: Its statistical lineage and adoption by researchers. There's plenty of great thinking manifested in these libraries and its community. This can't be understated.
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by hardboiled 7y ago
R is quite good at developing DSLs (quite Lispy), but Julia is even Lispy-er with a more flexible syntax and unicode identifiers. R, definitely, has a great statistical lineage, but that is also unfortunately what limits it from being as ex
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by hardboiled 7y ago
Speed is not the only computational constraint - the tremendous memory required for very large data sets is often a severe limitation especially within R (and I actually enjoy R). This is Julia's native, in-language approach (no delega
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by hardboiled 7y ago
https://www.queryverse.org/ fin.
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by hardboiled 8y ago
The irony is that if you use Patreon's search functionality to search for slurs and other hate speech you will find plenty more blatant and obvious instances on their own platform.
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by hardboiled 9y ago
Agreed. The `raw` data collection should be transparent and in a format that is not locked into Excel spreadsheets.
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by hardboiled 9y ago
Reals are not equivalently as unrealizable or dubious as infinitesimals. Infintesimals can be constructively specified as nilpotent/nilsquare entities, numerical entities which when squared equal 0 but where those entities themselves a
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by hardboiled 10y ago
Some context: this was published before the Wikileaks Vault 7 release.
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by hardboiled 10y ago
I'm unsure about what danger is being exposed here outside of what other agents have or are currently employing. Can someone give some more perspective regarding the significance of this?
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by hardboiled 11y ago
White privilege
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by hardboiled 13y ago
CSS Regions considered harmful: http://alistapart.com/blog/post/css-regions-considered-harmf... By Håkon Wium Lie,the father of CSS, the CTO of Opera, and a pioneer advocate for web standards
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by hardboiled 13y ago
Disagree about the idea that those who are unfamiliar with type theory prefer dynamic typing. Typing preferences are usually due to trends in language usage having little to do with knowledge. Plenty of java programmers use static typing wi
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by hardboiled 14y ago
Not sure the example of fitting a square peg into a round hole is a good one to demonstrate the adapter pattern. Also, would a Java programmer really reach for that pattern first for this example?
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by hardboiled 14y ago
To moms. To women. Thanks Raganwald.
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by hardboiled 15y ago
Fuck no.
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by hardboiled 15y ago
Agreed. Early returns should function as guards.
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by hardboiled 15y ago
As a former academic I find this kind of behavior antithetical to the principle's of science. The scientific publishing industry is archaic and a burden on the progress of science. These journals are gatekeepers for both consumers and produ
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by hardboiled 15y ago
Regardless of whether this reviewer is real, the laughs were worth it.
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by hardboiled 15y ago
Rails is opinionated (and there is some entrenched baggage from the way PHP did things). It actually requires considerable effort to be able to structure your code with OO best principles with decoupled dependencies. Klabnik doesn't go too
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by hardboiled 15y ago
Genius! (~_^)
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by hardboiled 15y ago
Steve Ballmer.
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by hardboiled 15y ago
There is nothing wrong in not liking OO. But OO is an ambiguously defined paradigm and unlike functional programming doesn't really have a definitive calculus. However, Peter Landin did show that untyped OO could be reduced to lambda calcul
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by hardboiled 15y ago
SICP is more for college level students with some high level mathematics background (basic calculus) and tackles computer science ideas directly. HTDP (at least the first edition http://www.htdp.org/ ) was intended for beginners without a
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by hardboiled 15y ago
R has always been a niche language/platform for dataists/statisticians and because of that it really hasn't had the contributions of programming language developers and modern techniques. It'd be cool to see R evolve more quickly as a langu
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by hardboiled 15y ago
The only really good way to walk confidently is to feel confidence. In order to feel confident you have to be less self-conscious. The best way to do this is to focus your attention outside of yourself on your surroundings, other people, et
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by hardboiled 15y ago
Word. Agree completely with your comments georgie. Although there are high level abstract programming ideas that are beyond any particular language, the only true way to learn about them in any practical/actionable sense is to program in a
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by hardboiled 15y ago
Actually it's a really good regimen. Not so sure about the curls. Depends on where you want to target I suppose. But to gain muscle you're going to have to lift heavy and to muscle failure with lots of rest, specifically squats and deadlift

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