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I wish I didn't agree with you. I'm still a Haskell novice, and I've enjoyed the time I've spent learning it, but this post was just terrifying. All I could t
by rauljara 14y ago
I wish I didn't agree with you. I'm still a Haskell novice, and I've enjoyed the time I've spent learning it, but this post was just terrifying. All I could think was how simple all that would be in R (or any statistical package), or even Ruby (or any popular scripting language).
Of course, one can write overly complicate code in any language. I think the purpose of the post was more to show off conceptually advanced techniques rather than to actually analyze the dataset in a straightforward manner.
- jackpirate 14y agoI think the purpose of the post was more to show off conceptually advanced techniques rather than to actually analyze the dataset in a straightforward manner. Correct. I admit it turned out to be a bit too much for one post, but i wanted to use some real world data (the nukes) to demonstrate the techniques. Edit: I could be wrong, but I don't think R (or any other stats package) supports "group subtraction" of distributions, which is how we calculate the survivable nuclear weapons.
- rauljara 14y agoAnd actually, I want to amend that on second read through it was considerably easier to follow than the first. It's just an article for Haskellers at least a little more advanced than me. I probably should have read it twice before labeling it "terrifying".
- lambdasquirrel 14y agoyou mean the whole nukes thing didn't scare you one nilly bit?