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Plotnine 30 days ago

Sorry for the confusion. Though, it is a mango tree in a mango garden! The continued development and maintenance of plotnine is supported by Posit, PBC, the same company behind the Tidyverse.

Disclaimer: I am the author.

Plotnine 30 days ago

If you already use plotnine, or if this has piqued your interest, the next release (v0.16.0) will bring nice capabilities.

You can get a sneak peek by installing the pre-release:

pip install --pre plotnine

Details here: https://github.com/has2k1/plotnine/issues/1031

Disclaimer: I'm the author.

May be strange at a first glance but binary/boolean logic/reasoning/quantification is just a special case of probability theory. This is covered exhaustively in Probability Theory: The Logic Science, by E.T Jaynes.

And so "tend" and "iron law" are interpreted as assertions of different levels of certainty, where "tend" implies a certainty greater than 50% and "iron law" a certainty closer to 100%.

"One of history’s fews iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations." Sapiens, By Yuval Noah Harari

This quote stood out for me when I read Sapiens.

Benford's Law 6 years ago

It is not straight forward but look into the Second-Digit Benford's Law (2BL-test).

Pandas 1.0 6 years ago

I have been through this path of trying to figure out why pandas Groupby is slow. It is a big bottleneck when building packages on top of pandas.

Water is a good insulator, but not a perfect insulator. If the temperature difference between the bottom and top changes so does the heat transfer and given time the effects will spread. But most important is, warm water/moisture is less dense than cooler water, that means large heat transfer by convection currents in addition to the low conduction (inverse of insulation).

It seems unethical if you do it by gene drive. But what if you add some natural randomness to the process and other desirable objectives. Imagine a dating service with a DNA database and you can match up people whose offspring could potentially be very subservient.

What if the full effect is expected after matching 5 generations of people?

What if the real goal is to create a fraction of people more attentive to minding about the environment and total blissful subservience is just a bi-product? For the good of the human race!

if you're calculations don't fit, then your mathematics is not suitable, so change the math before you change the physical description

Physics is littered with mathematical formulations predicting new phenomenon (forces and particles).

What is the relationship between dark matter and dark energy

There is no known relationship between dark matter and dark energy. They could have been called unknown matter and unknown energy! The absence of a good account for each does not infer a relationship between the two.

The graphs are independent and you can easily read each. What kind of comparisons do you want amongst them? Other than the 2 of them, the y axes of the graphs have different units.

We live in a large N-Dimensional world of knowledge. Everyone at some point is guaranteed to have missed something "they should know", both according to themselves and according to others.

Many times you encounter such knowledge when you are not ready for it, so you forget having encountered it. A good way to convince yourself of this is to start opening up some of your old college text books and look at the chapter introductions and conclusions. You will find some insights that you simply missed regardless of how you performed in the classes.