January 2012
12 posts
“No one likes schleps, but hackers especially dislike them.”
– Paul Graham, Schlep Blindness
“All classical inference statements … are probability statements about x given θ,...”
– Anthony O’Hagan, Bayesian Inference (via The Endeavour)
“Pure intellectual heft is like someone who can bench-press a thousand pounds....”
– Paul Zeitz, Broad Institute Director Finds Power in Numbers - NYTimes.com
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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)
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tip: rstats
a handy syntax reference for specifying statistical models in R: http://bit.ly/yza8SK
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tip: rstats
hide part of a legend in ggplot2 with legend=F in the scale, e.g. scale_size(legend=F)
2 tags
tip: rstats
(ab)use ggplot2 to connect x-axis factors via a line with geom_line(aes(x=as.integer(x), y=…))
The Restart Page - Free unlimited rebooting... →
“Favour explicit and clear over clever.”
– There’s no shame in code that is simply “good enough” - Alex’s Notes
“I’m not saying that being able to use a slide rule is a valuable skill. It’s not...”
– Slide rules — The Endeavour
December 2011
20 posts
“Speaking strictly of the hardware, my overall impression of the Galaxy Nexus is...”
– A Long-Time Apple Nerd’s Review of the Galaxy Nexus and First Experience With Android — Shawn Blanc
50 best photos from The Natural World - The Big... →
“Internet rescue camps in South Korea and China try to save kids addicted to the...”
– The Joy of Quiet - NYTimes.com
Biostatistics Ryan Gosling →
via cshalizi
“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people get excited about...”
– Dmitriy Ryaboy, (12/1) Why the current obsession with “big” data? - Quora
Ending the Infographic Plague - Megan McArdle -... →
“It seems reasonable, but I just can’t find the joy in talking about how I...”
– Neal Stephenson, from Out of Neal Stephenson’s Imagination Came a New Online World - NYTimes.com
“We fear attacks that never come and live blissfully unaware of true dangers...”
– Stefan Savage - Girding for Digital Threats We Haven’t Imagined Yet - NYTimes.com
arXiv vs. snarXiv →
DevOps Borat (devops_borat) on Twitter →
Cultural Learnings of DevOps for Make Benefit Glorious Teams of Devs and Ops.
I, Cheeseburger →
I can haz cheeseburger?
Not without a “highly developed, post-agrarian society” you can’t.
“I draw no distinction between the quality of one’s ideas and the quality of...”
– David Foster Wallace’s syllabus: Is there any better? - Slate Magazine
November 2011
9 posts
“Always give the bastards more credit than they deserve.”
– The ‘Dramatic Picture’ of Richard Feynman by Freeman Dyson | The New York Review of Books
October 2011
11 posts
“The advantages of modern engineering are in many ways over balanced by the...”
– Washington Roebling, The great bridge: the epic story of … - David G. McCullough - Google Books
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tip: macosx
use jot as an alternative to seq for generating sequential and random numbers http://macw.us/pdfadN
“The boards had to be beautiful in Steve’s eyes when you looked at them, even...”
– john-sculley-on-steve-jobs-the-full-interview-transcript
“The technical hub of the system became the social hub.”
– BRAIN SCAN: Unix’s founding fathers | The Economist]
The Fear →
“Every time I see a word cloud presented as insight, I die a little inside.”
– Jacob Harris, Word clouds considered harmful » Nieman Journalism Lab
