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by aposteriori 17y ago
Regarding who submitted it, PNAS works differently from other journals. Weissman is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and as such he gets to contribute a paper X times a year. It still gets peer reviewed. The question of how wel
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by aposteriori 18y ago
Fink/ports work enough, but like I said it doesn't integrate with the OS like on Debian/Ubuntu. I've already mentioned the issue of clashing versions (gcc from Fink vs from Apple, etc.) But OS X is nice, if only Ubuntu and Linux in general
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by aposteriori 18y ago
Thanks, wasn't aware of this name.
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by aposteriori 18y ago
Let's not forget that it's only the expected return, i.e., the return as the number of trials goes to infinity. But, you don't have infinite money to spend, so there's a good chance you'll go broke before you win (depending on the varianc
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by aposteriori 18y ago
I've been a long time Linux user and recently got a macbook, partly because it just works and I don't have to read 1001 web forums trying to decide whether the specific NVidia chipset is compatible with the latest Xorg driver. So it's reall
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by aposteriori 18y ago
I think that's true of all technical books. Before I part with my hard earned money on some technical tome, I ask myself whether it's a classic (Knuth springs to mind, K&R C), or at least I'll get some value out of it for the next few y
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by aposteriori 18y ago
Some people say double-blind reviews make things better since reviewers aren't (theoretically) influenced by the identity of the authors, and authors can't tailor their paper to suit the reviewers (or try to get back at them later for negat
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by aposteriori 18y ago
As earl said, it's free! But that's not the most important aspect (although nice for a student). It's an actual programming language. Like Python, you can use both non-OOP and OOP styles. You can define your own packages and namespaces (unl
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by aposteriori 18y ago
Well, I don't how NumPy can be significantly faster than R, as R basically passes most linear algebra down to BLAS and LAPACK. NumPy does the same, no?
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by aposteriori 18y ago
R is not at all like Excel, in form or function. R is actually a complete programming language, much more similar to Python in that respect. It supports two types of OOP (S3 and S4), has hundreds (if not more) of contributed packages that d