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by wdkrnls 2y ago
R and S are also very linear algebra focused. R developers just try to make C++ behave like R as much as possible when they need more speed. Hence, Rcpp. Otherwise, we prefer our LISPy paradise.
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
Has someone ported this to Emacs?
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
R has the best syntax of any language I have used. What I hate about R is not the syntax, its all the functionality inside it that was written in hairy C and FORTRAN style. Unfortunately, any system gets written on top of by programmers of
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by wdkrnls 2y ago
This is so wrong and all FUD. At my company R users write modular packages and deploy them to internal CRANs while python users write scripts and email them because it is way easier to write modular code in R because R favors easy on ramps
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by wdkrnls 3y ago
This 4 stage model is insightful.
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by wdkrnls 3y ago
No, they need to learn the importance of transparency. Chemists need to learn that too but I am not holding my breathe. They are too busy trying not to blow themselves up to care. Significant digits, like prediction intervals and confidence
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by wdkrnls 3y ago
I have asked about Julia's reproducibility story on the Guix mailing list in the past, and at the time Simon Tournier didn't think it was promising. I seem to recall Julia itself didnt have a reproducible build. All I know now is
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by wdkrnls 3y ago
But Julia and Python tools aren't enough. The whole environment has to be reproducible. So many python libraries themselves take shortcuts which work on the current Ubuntu or current state of the web, but will fail to build later by th
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by wdkrnls 3y ago
Being chronically exposed to meaningless interaction can be much worse than having no interaction.
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by wdkrnls 3y ago
That was just a dispute about taxation. January 10, 1776 was when the clarion call sounded.
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by wdkrnls 3y ago
Lagrange makes Gemini pages look quite attractive in my opinion. https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/
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by wdkrnls 3y ago
Found it: https://github.com/google/walk
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by wdkrnls 3y ago
I had never heard of "walk". Is there some link to read more about it?
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by wdkrnls 4y ago
Google Professor Philip Stark and read some of the papers he publishes about the dangers of electronic voting machines.
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by wdkrnls 4y ago
I share the author's excitement for gemtext. It is a minimal format with a great accessibility story and I can expect it to still make sense in 10 years. Meanwhile org files quickly become dated as the format evolves and Emacs library
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by wdkrnls 4y ago
Don't underestimate the value of a self contained binary. I used to use Borg and Attic. Then I needed to recover my backup only to find that all the python dependencies had gone out of sync on Arch Linux. After that I switched to Resti
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by wdkrnls 4y ago
He is looking for TeXmacs. Sadly it seems the porting of the GNU extensible editor to use the GNU extension language (guile) ship has sailed.
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by wdkrnls 4y ago
What is `area(x)` here? Some kind of numerical integration like the trapezoid rule? Can someone please provide example code which can actually be tested?
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by wdkrnls 4y ago
I don't understand why people keep talking about multiple dispatch like Julia invented it. You can do that in many other languages, even languages designed for numeric computation. What's cool about Julia is that it has brought 90
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by wdkrnls 4y ago
mgcv also provides many more varieties of splines than base R.
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by wdkrnls 4y ago
Not all as far as I know. For ridge regression you will want to install glmnet, for example. mgcv which is usually shipped with R provides access to a few common fast kernels which seem to be the ones python programmers are familiar with.
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by wdkrnls 4y ago
Sometimes that is true, sometimes not. However, I will say my recent experience has been that I have craved a lot more sugar from external sources (e.g. honey) when cutting out full fat yogurt from my diet even though I tried to supplement
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by wdkrnls 4y ago
Don't forget S was developed at Bell Labs, the mother of R.
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by wdkrnls 4y ago
I have not experienced that for what it's worth... atleast not after I rebuilt the whole profile.
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by wdkrnls 4y ago
Despite R being the most commonly packaged software on Guix and it being a GNU project and a "common lisp for dummies" lispy language which is used by millions of students, researchers and data scientists, the developers seem to h
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by wdkrnls 4y ago
I wish that instead of focusing on this API view of git that everyone seems to have run with that something akin to a plan9/fuse file server was the main interface everyone learned. I would imagine it would work like a souped up versio
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by wdkrnls 4y ago
Has anyone written a tool to actually does this? I want to add that to my post-rewrite hook immediately so that I can gain peace of mind I will always be able to switch to a branch where I can study the previous reality after rebasing a new
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by wdkrnls 4y ago
It does exist. It's called GNU Guix.
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by wdkrnls 4y ago
Because with original thinking there is more than one way to do it. Pythonic conformity might make long term maintenance easier, but it's rigidity exacts a cost on expressing new thoughts. R is basically the epitome of Greenspun's
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by wdkrnls 4y ago
Location: Earth Remote: Yes Willing: Yes Technologies: Insanity Resume: 10 years in an R&D lab thinking about crazy ways of doing things Email: kyle@posteo.net I'm a statistician I guess, but I get bored so I know a lot of other th

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