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C++ Seeding Surprises (2015)(pcg-random.org)
36 points by vsbuffalo 1y ago|25 comments
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A Genealogical Look at Shared Ancestry on the X Chromosome(vincebuffalo.org)
2 points by vsbuffalo 10y ago|0 comments
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UC Davis chancellor received $420,000 on book publisher's board(sacbee.com)
1 points by vsbuffalo 11y ago|0 comments
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Just Landed Is Shutting Down(medium.com)
215 points by vsbuffalo 11y ago|133 comments
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by vsbuffalo 11y ago
I really like all plotting systems in R. First, I used base graphics for a few years—and loved it. You learn your way around par(), commit esoteric argument names to memory (oma, mar, mgp, mfrow, etc). It feels powerful — you're just
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by vsbuffalo 11y ago
You're treating this sample-is-the-population issue as if it's resolved in the statistics literature. It is not. Gelman has written on this [1][2], as the issue comes up in political science data frequently. As Gelman points out,
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The Space Doctor's Big Idea(newyorker.com)
1 points by vsbuffalo 11y ago|0 comments
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by vsbuffalo 11y ago
This isn't the most useful statistical figure. The heart feature is novel — the increase could be due entirely to folks trying it out. A more meaningful figure would be to look at the folks who have constant favoriting habits (with sta
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by vsbuffalo 11y ago
I shared this in light of the recent article by Matt Ridley, "On the Myth of Basic Science"[1] which I find less honest and filled with anecdotal examples that fit his particular narrative. [1] www.wsj.com/articles/the-m
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Ben Franklin and Open Heart Surgery (1974) [pdf](circres.ahajournals.org)
24 points by vsbuffalo 11y ago|4 comments
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Ben Franklin and Open Heart Surgery (1974) [pdf](circres.ahajournals.org)
5 points by vsbuffalo 11y ago|0 comments
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by vsbuffalo 11y ago
Completely agree. I can't understand how professional developers are able to give up their text editors for iPython. Don't get me wrong, I love iPython/jupyter, but the slick interface comes with huge productivity drops due t
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Linus on Understanding Pointers (2013)(grisha.org)
2 points by vsbuffalo 11y ago|0 comments
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Making things with maths [video](youtube.com)
1 points by vsbuffalo 11y ago|0 comments
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SDSL – Succinct Data Structure Library for C++(github.com)
79 points by vsbuffalo 11y ago|38 comments
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by vsbuffalo 11y ago
See Noodler's "Ben Bernanke" inks[1] which are fast drying and meant for lefties. The name is a play on the fast drying inks Bernanke is using to print more money. [1]: http://www.gouletpens.com/noodlers-berna
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by vsbuffalo 11y ago
I love fountain pens and highly encourage everyone to try them (with a good notebook helps). First, ballpoint pens are wasteful — 1.6 billion pens a year are thrown away[1]. Fountain pens are reusable, ink is comparatively cheap and lasts f
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by vsbuffalo 11y ago
Well done. Though shouldn't the sidenotes use HTML5's <aside></aside>? How does the vertical alignment of sidenote callout and sidenote work?
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The Mighty Named Pipe(vincebuffalo.com)
385 points by vsbuffalo 12y ago|96 comments
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by vsbuffalo 12y ago
Science isn't about taking obvious relationships as fact, it's about using evidence and induction to show support for certain hypotheses over others. The geocentric model of the universe was once "obvious".
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by vsbuffalo 12y ago
I find this deeply depressing: "the most heavily studied problem in computer science: how to get people to buy more things".
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by vsbuffalo 12y ago
Really awesome stuff! I think there's a very minor bug in which missing pixels are treated as black, which is what adds a black border around the output image in the second example.
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by vsbuffalo 12y ago
Here's the thread if anyone is interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7539143
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by vsbuffalo 12y ago
I hate the best editor debate because I think it's distracting from what's more important — what both editors can learn from each other and what both need to do to improve. I used Emacs for years, switched to Vim because of RSI, t
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by vsbuffalo 12y ago
This looks great! I can use Emacs again!! Thanks!
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by vsbuffalo 12y ago
I thought this was the case too, but YouCompleteMe is really terrific for Vim! I wish emacs had something similar.
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by vsbuffalo 12y ago
> If you're using a large genomic dataset, you shouldn't be sorting your results in text format anyway... it would take way too much time and temporary disk space. What you'd probably want is a row filter to extract out th
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by vsbuffalo 12y ago
> Hate to sound like Steve-Jobs here, but: "You're using it wrong." I don't quite agree — say this individual needs to sort a file by two columns. Should they really load everything into memory to call Python's s
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by vsbuffalo 12y ago
> Beyond functions there is nothing good. There are three object-oriented programming systems, none of which are simple or straightforward. I don't think this is quite fair. R was greatly inspired from Scheme and stole a lot of good
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“A Communications Primer” by Charles and Ray Eames (1953) [video](archive.org)
36 points by vsbuffalo 12y ago|0 comments

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