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by wdkrnls 4mo ago
Last I checked China was doing pretty well. Soon they will have double the nuclear power plants of everyone else and already have a monopoly on rare earth mineral processing.
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by wdkrnls 7mo ago
Implement a statistical software suite that ubiquitously uses this framework instead of the usual hierarchical mixed modeling tools whose assumptions often don't match what experiments were actually done.
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by wdkrnls 7mo ago
From what I've read, DS9 was heavily based on the Babylon 5 Bible which was pitched by JMS to Paramount years before. You might charitably say DS9 was the Guix to the Nix of Babylon 5: Same core ideas mapped onto different story univer
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by wdkrnls 7mo ago
I heard the original story with O'Hare was for Babylon 5 to blow up after an alien attack and for the Babylon 4 to be sent forward from the past to replace it. We saw hints for that in two different premonitions in season 1. That&#x27
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by wdkrnls 1y ago
When I was in high school I learned AutoCAD and I remember that back then it was scripted in LISP. I'm not sure if that is still true.
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by wdkrnls 1y ago
Computer scientists had this idea that some things should be public and some things private. Java takes this to the nth degree with it's public and private typing keywords. R just forces you to know the lib:::priv_fun versus lib::pub_f
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by wdkrnls 1y ago
Is there a way to trace an attribute to a function? I couldn't find one, but curious if it exists. I seemed blocked by the fact that trace seemed to expect a name as a character string. Some functions in base R have functions in their
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by wdkrnls 1y ago
R works exactly as you describe. You can type `+`(1, 2) and get 3 because in R everything that happens is a function call even if a few binary functions get special sugar so you can type 1 + 2 for them as well. The user can of course make t
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by wdkrnls 1y ago
You have a very different definition of free than I do. Free to me means that people enter into agreements voluntarily. It's hard to claim a market is free when it's participants have no other choice...
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
Nope. R's advantage is that the language is extremely expressive and makes many things about it's implementation extremely transparent to it's users. The huge package count for a niche language is a direct result of that.
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
Speak for yourself. Programming in R is amazingly expressive for prototyping. Its semantics are extremely lispy, yet it provides excellent support for fast numerics. It keeps me focusing on the problems I want to solve and provides me the t
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
You must hate lisp/scheme then too, which has similar semantics as R. In that case books such as SICP would be lost on you.
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
This is so far from my experience. For me, R codes do tend to skimp on polish so it takes longer to get to the initial figure, but that is made up for by enabling me to see the data from a much richer perspective (to some extent because I h
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
On the contrary, I find base R less arcane than the current de jour python libraries which copied it
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
Tyler is actually using R for exactly what R and it's predecessor S were designed to do since the beginning. You can read more about it's history by googling John Chambers who helped develop S at Bell Labs.
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
Typesetting and typography are very different tasks as far as I can tell. Scheme typesetting of documents is best done with TeXmacs.
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
TeXmacs can execute code too. Honestly, if it had 1/10 the community of Emacs, I would be using it for everything from running my window manager to driving my statistical simulations. It's already what Stallman keeps asking Emacs
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
Sometimes knowing how to do something isn't nearly as important as badly wanting to do something
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
In other words, EM makes more sense. All this imputation stuff seems to me more like an effort to keep using obsolete modeling techniques.
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
Or it could be a problem of seeking statistical detection of any difference whatsoever versus detecting a practically meaningful difference... a type III error (answering the wrong question).
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
This looks quite promising to me. I've loved using TXR in the past for such functionality. However, I would really rather have the TXR pattern language as a library embedded inside the main programming language I am using rather than h
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
I've used this at work. It's very polished. I wish Linux had something this clean and simple to use. Honestly, I would prefer less UI, though. I just want something that works without fuss for the common use case.
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
As someone who is a data analyst, I am constantly reminded of the huge amount of necessary context needed to trust results from any analysis. I know that I lack some of that context, yet I also know that so do my collaborators on mathemati
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
How does this compare with ugrep? I know that does many of these things while sticking with C++.
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
Has anyone looked at writing a script to transform those rules for yacas? Making yacas 94% as good as Mathematica at integration sounds like a worthy goal considering how easy it is to deploy it.
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
As a tiling window manager user, I am really frustrated with mainstream web browsers. They are an ergonomic disaster for me, forcing me to use the mouse and waste so much precious screen real estate with gray space and redundant tabs. I wan
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
Your comment about Git LFS is intriguing. I have been put off from using git lfs because of the perception I needed a separate server to backup the binary files. I had heard of tools like lfs-folderstore (1). That no longer seems maintained
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
Getting git to handle large data sets in regular repositories seems like a great way to go for many reasons. What is preventing the ideas of Xet from landing into git directly?
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
I really like that it tries to be extremely minimal, but was surprised to read it didn't support eval/apply at the lowest level.
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
I'm curious if anyone has a setup for emacs for either of these that supports audio/video calls. Emacs seems to have basic support for text chats on both protocols, but I wish I could use XMPP JMP.chat as my phone from Emacs and i

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