snackematician

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by snackematician 7y ago
Tidyverse offers a programming style based around piping dataframes through a chain of endomorphisms ("verbs"). Closest things that come to mind are SQL and d3. Pandas feels clumsy by comparison.
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by snackematician 7y ago
Tidyverse is not just some "<package name>" -- it's an entire workflow, centered around functional programming and tidy data ( https://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.pdf ), and nothing in Python com
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by snackematician 8y ago
pandas gives base R a run for its money, but I find the multi-indexing really confusing, and R tidyverse is just way way nicer than pandas. The sentiment that R is easier than python to install/manage is common among some R users but I
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by snackematician 8y ago
Most of what I've heard about CWL is that it's unwieldy to use directly; it's main value is as a backend or as an interchange format between different workflow systems. However, I haven't tried it myself and would be int
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by snackematician 8y ago
Is it possible for emacs-exwm to run within another window manager, so that I use i3 as my main WM, but can also open X windows inside emacs? Love emacs, but I hang/tweak/break it enough that I would be scared to use it as my main
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by snackematician 8y ago
I should have been more precise. The vast majority of unpublished samples are controlled by a few. Of course, once they are published they are open. To gain access to unpublished samples, you need to form collaborations with the gatekeepers
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by snackematician 8y ago
I've worked in the ancient DNA field but left (at least for now). I haven't worked with David but have with competing labs. I have mixed feelings about the NYT piece -- on the one hand it has a lot of valid criticisms and brings s
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by snackematician 8y ago
Maybe more of an email list than an RSS feed then? You can control who is a member of the list to receive content. It would be cool if social media could be done through email, sort of like Usenet.
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by snackematician 8y ago
To avoid a climate disaster we need to make major changes to our economic system, and soon. Passing this ambitious political program will also require populist support, and needs to reverse the rise of inequality rather than exacerbate it (
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by snackematician 8y ago
Very cool! I love autograd, it had tape-based autodiff way before pytorch, and the way it wraps numpy is much more convenient than tensorflow/pytorch. Been wanting GPU support in autograd for years now, so am very happy to see this. I
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by snackematician 8y ago
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by snackematician 8y ago
Don't forget David Donoho. His paper "50 years of data science" provides a great historical context of data science and a vision of what "Greater Data Science" should be. https://courses.csail.mit.edu&#x2
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by snackematician 8y ago
This is true. I'm a Ph.d. statistician with a "data scientist" job position in San Francisco.
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by snackematician 9y ago
80s are so in right now, first neural networks, now genetic algorithms :P
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by snackematician 9y ago
Hey now, Hadley does really great work, IMO he's the main reason R is still worth using. I started using R about 10 years ago, but after learning Python I came to really dislike R for how ugly it is. But I still kept using it for plott
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by snackematician 10y ago
Killing civilians has absolutely nothing to do with whether a country is an enemy or ally of the USA. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Israel are recent counterexamples to your theory.