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Jan
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tip: latex

a number of useful listings settings for inline code snippets http://bit.ly/Ai4fnu

tips  latex 
Jan
29th
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‘Most of my life I went to parties and heard a little groan when people heard what I did,’ says Robert Tibshirani, a statistics professor at Stanford University. ‘Now they’re all excited to meet me.’
— What Are the Odds That Stats Would Be This Popular? - NYTimes.com
Jan
25th
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No one likes schleps, but hackers especially dislike them.
— Paul Graham, Schlep Blindness
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All classical inference statements … are probability statements about x given θ, phrased so as to appear to be probability statements about θ.
— Anthony O’Hagan, Bayesian Inference (via The Endeavour)
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littlebigdetails: IMDb - The rating for ‘This is Spinal Tap’ goes up to 11 /via treitmaier

littlebigdetails:

IMDb - The rating for ‘This is Spinal Tap’ goes up to 11

/via treitmaier

Jan
21st
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Pure intellectual heft is like someone who can bench-press a thousand pounds. But so what, if you don’t know what to do with it?
— Paul Zeitz, Broad Institute Director Finds Power in Numbers - NYTimes.com
Jan
19th
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tip: rstats

use geom_line(aes(group=1)) to connect x-axis factors via a line with ggplot2 (h/t @hadleywickham)

tips  rstats 
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(via [Updated] The rise and fall of personal computing | asymco)

(via [Updated] The rise and fall of personal computing | asymco)

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(via Beautiful Pictures Of Penn Station Before It Was Demolished To Make Room For Madison Square Garden)

(via Beautiful Pictures Of Penn Station Before It Was Demolished To Make Room For Madison Square Garden)

Jan
18th
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tip: rstats

a handy syntax reference for specifying statistical models in R: http://bit.ly/yza8SK

tips  rstats