2019
Just in case I need someday: GraalVM installation and setup on macOS (see also A minimal GraalVM Clojure web application).
The more I use or read about Common Lisp, the more I see subtle reincarnations into statistical languages like R (eval and quote, of course) or Stata (foreach and forvalues, close to dolist and dotimes). I barely use Stata or R nowadays, but Lisp dialects still have a bright future ahead, and there are so much to learn. #lisp
I finished The Keeper of Lost Causes yesterday evening. Tonight, I’m going to try The Absent One, I mean staying awake for at least 45’ – beta blockers are a deal, trust me.
Always good to be remembered how to use jq effectively: JSON on the command line with jq.
Does this mean we can now run Mathematica code without Mathematica? WolframScript enables Wolfram Language code to be run from any terminal, whether or not a Wolfram kernel is available on the system.
Programmatically checking for uncommitted changes. I believe this is basically what Magit (when calling list-directories) offers as well.
I just finished reading Loving Common Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer’s Secret Weapon, by Mark Watson. There are things I liked, things I didn’t. Maybe I should write a review at some point. #lisp
Well, I believe we are done with Season 9 of The Walking Dead. It’s probably time to start the last ‘successful’ and so well spoiled season of GoT!
Web-like structures in two dimensions, by @inconvergent. Be sure to check the rest of the blog if you like #lisp, #python and #p5js!
An ode to DEK and TeX: The Lingua Franca of LaTeX (via HN).
github : a module for building, searching, installing, and managing Stata packages from GitHub. #stata
I found the figure “A Flow Chart for Learning Clojure” particularly interesting as a suggested reading list. #clojure
Rosalind is a platform for learning bioinformatics and programming through problem solving. #bioinfo
Oh my, I’m just too tired to do anything interesting tonight. Gonna publish my monthly newsletter and go waste some time on Twitch or my AppleTV. #self
A Primer in Econometric Theory, via someone who forked one of my [deprecated] repo. Apparently, he/she likes Forks ;-)
Anne Queffelec, Satie: Piano Works. (No link, sorry, as it is no longer available in France.)
While I’m no big fan of convutional or bayesian or even simple NNs, Deep Learning and the like, those techniques certainly outperform standard techniques when it comes to image processing. See, e.g., Few-Shot Adversarial Learning of Realistic Neural Talking Head Models for a recent shot. #arxiv
Instrumental Variables: Application and Limitations. (via @MaartenvSmeden)
Although I wrote about my own setup a while ago, it’s still interesting to read others’ setup: Managing bibliography using Emacs Org-Mode and Org-Ref. #emacs
#stupidme fixed his errors on the Fungi website, done. Wrote a little blog post, done. Drinking some beers to be in good company this night, in progress. Shall we take some time to watch The Keeper of Lost Causes, please?
I just spent 2 hours debugging a minor issue (a Flask form not updating two recently added fields correctly), then I realized I forgot to add the usual suspects into the update function. Hopefully, Heroku was on maintenance so I had to delay the upload and we are all done now.
Using Magit from within Spacemacs (via Irreal): I really like this kind of videos, which are usually short (i.e., under 10 min.) and focused on a few key concepts. #emacs
You may happen to find the PDF or EPUB version, but in case you didn’t know, The Scheme Programming Language is available online for free. #scheme
Nice to see some fresh new post on Spacemacs from a statistician R and Vim user. #emacs
Little upgrade this afternoon. I also updated my TeX machinery with TeX Live 2019.
TIL there even is some boilerplate template for Hugo and Netlify. Guess the name!
Picturing Programs: an Introduction to Computer Programming. #scheme
A new version of Clozure CL has been released on the App Store. It essentially fixes a nasty bug on Mojave. I guess I no longer have to use my patched version from now on. #lisp
Hanging out on Programming Praxis (also on SO as user448810), and I just realized that Chez Scheme is open source. #scheme
The Walking Dead S09E05 starting right now.
Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and Machine Learning, by Gilbert Strang (via HN).
Whaouh, I didn’t remember there being so many papers out about it:
- Wasserstein, R.L. and Lazar, N.A., 2016. The ASA’s statement on p-values: context, process, and purpose. The American Statistician, 70(2), pp.129-133.
- Baker, M., 2016. Statisticians issue warning over misuse of p-values. Nature News, 531(7593), p.151.
- Altman, N. and Krzywinski, M., 2016. Points of significance: p-values and the search for significance.
- Benjamin, D.J., Berger, J.O., Johannesson, M., Nosek, B.A., Wagenmakers, E.J., Berk, R., Bollen, K.A., Brembs, B., Brown, L., Camerer, C. and Cesarini, D., 2018. Redefine statistical significance. Nature Human Behaviour, 2(1), p.6.
- McShane, B.B., Gal, D., Gelman, A., Robert, C. and Tackett, J.L., 2019. Abandon statistical significance. The American Statistician, 73(sup1), pp.235-245.
Full links available here, found via O’Reilly Data Newsletter.
Coursera à la Google: Best practices for ML engineering, found via O’Reilly Data Newletter (see the associated matrerial on ML).
Rethinking Twitter. Fair points, although I don’t share his views on the “Like” feature. I’ve used it a lot in the past (and still today) to bookmark links, instead of storing them on yet another social sharing website.
Another nice post by John D. Cook on differential privacy: Comparing Truncation to Differential Privacy.
Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time. Or why you need to worry about leap seconds.