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by Cosi1125 4y ago
After yesterday's post about Nix I tried to install it on my Arch+fish machine. I couldn't. Somewhat naively, I assumed that installing it from the official channel would do the job. It didnt't. I then searched the Internet a
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by Cosi1125 4y ago
Polish: odpowiedź : odpowiedzialność
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by Cosi1125 5y ago
Q: A man has one son. How many children does he have? A: He has one son, and a daughter.
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by Cosi1125 5y ago
Use Bayesian statistics [1] :-) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes_factor
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by Cosi1125 5y ago
This musician still uses a 1040 STE for making his music [1]. In the video (in Polish, unfortunately) he describes his setup: extended RAM, SD card reader, etc. [1] https://youtu.be/mlR08iVHiFY?t=68
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by Cosi1125 5y ago
> the Atari was very unpopular in Europe It depends on your definition of "Europe" ;-) The 8/16-bit Atari was (and still is, in some circles) extremely popular in Germany, Poland, and former Czechoslovakia.
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by Cosi1125 5y ago
You're welcome :-)
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by Cosi1125 5y ago
Nice crash course. What I find missing is scalar logical operators (&&, ||) - not that much important if you use R for data analysis, but extremely useful when writing software.
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by Cosi1125 6y ago
I can only recommend one, but very good: How the Immune System Works by Lauren Sompayrac https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/940153.How_the_Immune_Sy...
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by Cosi1125 7y ago
Could you elaborate on that? R is not a pure functional language (like, e.g., Haskell), so it's possible to produce side effects, or even "leak state", but it's hard to do it accidentally.
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by Cosi1125 7y ago
> I don't think R is much better at functional programming than Python. R is a functional programming language. Does Python treat functions as first-class citizens? Pass arguments by value? Store expression trees as data structure
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by Cosi1125 7y ago
Note that `median((x = 10)); x` works fine :-)
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by Cosi1125 7y ago
What are you talking about? Of course it was written in lower-level, compiled languages. Is it any different than Python? Javascript? Perl? As for the "easy iterop with other languages": [1] So, how is R different from Python? Als
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by Cosi1125 7y ago
> Also, the author of R language said the performance of R is sub-optimal. That's from 2010, even before JIT compilation in R became a thing. And since then, much has been done in terms of the computational performance of R.
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by Cosi1125 7y ago
Sure! It'a common misconception that the brain is completely separated from the immune system. If it were, it would take one evolutionarily successful pathogen to threaten the existence of our species. The brain is indeed (usually) imp
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by Cosi1125 7y ago
Or, you know, it might be that Alzheimer's has an autoimmune factor contributing to it... :-)
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by Cosi1125 8y ago
That's true if we're talking about the overall architecture of the project. And, since R permits so many different coding styles (and paradigms: native functional and several OO), the team should have someone (usually the most sen
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by Cosi1125 8y ago
That's right! And I always keep telling my peers that they should think twice before they decide to use tidyverse packages in the production code. What I meant is that in R you always have choice - and even if you feel that the existin
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by Cosi1125 8y ago
I don't argue that R is not insane ;-) As for (a bunch of) functions in the basic library (which, essentially, is a set of packages that you can discard or simply not use), I dare say it has little to do with the language itself. I d
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by Cosi1125 8y ago
Wise words here. In my humble opinion, applying S's syntactic sugar on top of Scheme-forged core did more bad than good to R. Most of R's quirks stem from the authors' desire to keep it as compatible with S as possible. As fo
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by Cosi1125 8y ago
> and python (a sane, real programming language) So... R is an unreal language then?