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en.wikipedia.org 3d ago

Jeffersonian Transcription

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www.ft.com 3mo ago

Can we make robots that eat other robots?

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Calling Functions Across Languages • Richard Feldman • Goto 2023 [video]

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

James Gosling on Java – Historical Oddities and Persistent Itches [video]

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: Are there any programming languages that are completely extinct?

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www.nature.com 1y ago

The patentability and bioethics of molecular de-extinction

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www.nature.com 2y ago

No installation required: how WebAssembly is changing scientific computing

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www.nature.com 2y ago

The perpetual motion machine of AI-generated data and the distraction of ChatGPT

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www.awk.dev 2y ago

Awk programming language 2nd edition

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www.cs.cmu.edu 4y ago

An Interview with Brian Kernighan (Year 2000)

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medicine.wustl.edu 4y ago

Hookworms have potential to protect soldiers from chemical, biological weapons

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observablehq.com 4y ago

Classic Research in Data Visualization / Toph Tucker / Observable

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

Brian Kernighan (Full Interview)

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www.ft.com 5y ago

‘Demakes’ challenge the idea that bigger and faster is always better

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www.discovermagazine.com 5y ago

Battery Innovations That Will Energize Our Future – Discover Magazine

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www.nextflow.io 5y ago

Nextflow – A DSL for parallel and scalable computational pipelines

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observablehq.com 5y ago

Observable Plot / Observable / Observable

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www.nature.com 5y ago

Reactive, reproducible, collaborative: computational notebooks evolve

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www.nytimes.com 5y ago

Avi Wigderson, László Lovász Win for Work That Bridged Math and Computer Science

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www.sunearthtools.com 5y ago

Sun’s position in the sky for each location on the earth at any time of day

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gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com 5y ago

Google Workspace and a new set of offerings

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twitter.com 5y ago

0.05954861408025609 Isn't a Possible Selection

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screenotate.com 5y ago

Screenotate: Recognize Text in Your Screenshots

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www.theverge.com 6y ago

A robot sheepdog? ‘No one wants this,’ says one shepherd

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en.wikipedia.org 6y ago

Paradox of the Court

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www.deconstructconf.com 7y ago

Programming Languages as Notations by Chelsea Voss – Deconstruct

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www.npr.org 7y ago

Generic Drugs May Not Be As Safe Or Effective As Thought

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www.forbes.com 7y ago

Illumina Will Buy Pacific Biosciences for $1.2B

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en.wikipedia.org 7y ago

Condorcet paradox

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rstudio.github.io 7y ago

Radix for R Markdown

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Plotnine 29 days ago

While it is good to have plotnine for python but ggplot2 in R has this whole ecosystem of packages/extensions that augment the ggplot2 such as ggalluvial, ggrepel. More at this link https://exts.ggplot2.tidyverse.org/gallery/ This would make it really compelling to tip my toes in the Python world. Regardless, I am liking this "ggplotification" of python. All we need is more "tidification" of Python data frame world.

I find Swiss system to be very convenient. My recent visit to the country was smooth thanks to the SBB app. It works not just for rail but also for bus, trams, and ferry. I think even some cable cars are covered. Plus there it can provide discounts or free visits to selected museums.

One of my favorite product, it just works in the background. I do not need any more features than what it has currently. None of the competitors have this ability to just blend in the background. I hope they stay for a long time.

I wonder how Mojo ranks along with Julia. Mojo was discussed yesterday here. Mojo seems to be more python focused while Julia is very much focused on Scientific computation. I may be wrong.

I think I like about Flickr is the add a note feature. Not sure if other platforms has any similar feature but I find it helpful for me to add note on part on the photo for future reference such as place or anything peculiar.

There was also Tiny Firewall which got bought by Computer Associates around 2005. Probably the most complicated or fine grain control for me at that time in Windows XP.

MacBook Neo 5 months ago

Yes. I think Air is a better buy if you are going to have a "laptop". I wish it was lot lighter if I am losing features against MacBook Air.

I agree with this. We are much missing these forums with civil replies and clouded behind "influencer" culture, which is optimized for incentives. Pure discussions as in this example are such a stalwarts of open web.

On the other hand, small websites and forums can disappear but that openness allows platform like archive.org to capture and "fossilize" them.

"Development is the execution of a map toward a goal while research is the pursuit of a goal without a map". If there is something I can take from this post, it will be this quote.

Yes. It might have been errors when using Apache Spark with Apache Zeppelin notebooks. However, I must admit it was long time ago (2015-2016 era).

Have error messages improved? I remember trying it few years back but the error messages made it hard to debug. Is it due to use of JVM? Sorry for my lack of knowledge since I rarely program in JVM based languages.

I use R a lot but I still prefer Javascript libraries for interactivity. Javascript libraries feels lot more smoother than something like webR. Having said that, it is impressive that R is able to transcend in the interactivity with just internet browser.

Classical stats is still bread and butter for lot of smallish dataset in clinical datasets. It is hard to do machine learning or even regression on some very preliminary data. Metadata is tough to collect and harmonize so it becomes hard to integrate specially with human studies with rare diseases.