2019
After Tamás K. Papp’s CL libraries, I discovered this new library for numerical
computing in the Lisp world: MAGICL. #lisp
📖 Christine Angot, Une semaine de vacances (Flammarion, 2012)
Just doing my little technical care and weekly backup. Homebrew 2 is out.
~ brew --version
Homebrew 2.0.0
Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision 175af; last commit 2019-02-02)
Homebrew/homebrew-cask (git revision 05a81; last commit 2019-02-02)
Tropical geometry of statistical models. At least, the conclusion is very understandable:
The algebraic representation for graphical models with hidden variables leads naturally to an interpretation of a parameterized model as a point on an algebraic variety. Marginal probabilities are coordinates of points on the variety. Varieties can be tropicalized, and the statistical meaning is that the MAP prob- abilities (calculated with logarithms of the parameters) can be interpreted as coordinates of points on the positive part of the tropical variety.
Cleaning up some old stuff on my HD and just found this nice Beamer template: My
preferred one is the “fi” variant. #latex
📖 Jane Birkin, Munkey Diaries (Fayard, 2018)
Faut-il partir ? Rester ? Si tu peux rester, reste ; Pars, s’il le faut.
– Baudelaire, Les fleurs du mal
Great! Guess who just almost flooded his new keyboard with beer… Remember this? I guess it’s time to watch a TV show and let the Macbook rest.
You can say what you want, but in the end you should admit that my current workspace is all about minimalism. (Full size version)
Puzzles, Games & Algorithms. It reminds me that games and UI design are very good examples to learn a programming language.
The Emacs C API. #emacs
I am looking for solid libraries to perform numerical computation (other than
the Science Collection which has been partly integrated already), and more
generally scientific computing, using Racket. I got a few hits from my search
engines but this is mostly old and unmaintained stuff (e.g., racket-ml,
data-science). This SE thread is worth a read although the replies mainly point
to Julia. BTW, note that Tamas K. Papp stopped using CL for scientific
computation (and also switched to Julia) for specific reasons. #scheme
It looks like Elfeed is way more handy than it was, thanks to elfeed-org to handle OPML files.
As far as I know, outside of Elfeed there does not exist an extensible, text-file configured, power-user web feed client that can handle a reasonable number of feeds. The existing clients I’ve tried are missing some important capability that limits its usefulness to me.
Note that Spacemacs uses the key combination g r to update the live feed, not G
as mentioned in Chris’ tutorial. #emacs
Please take note! I’m trying out iTunes Radio but the next two TV shows will be Occupied and The Expanse for sure.
I’ve been hanging around in this apartment for two years without going out or seeing anyone, except a few friends. I guess that’s one way to look at Getting Things Done, without regard to the details and without really having to accomplish anything.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Interactive Version. Together
with Composing Programs I think this is one of the most beautiful interactive
textbook I found on the internet in years. #scheme #python
Well, nobody seems to care about xlispstat support anymore. Just got a weird
error when trying to load some old code from UCLA, notwithstanding the fact that
Spacemacs/ESS actually autoload Julia mode. #emacs
File mode specification error: ... ess-20190126.1259/ess-site.elc
failed to define function XLS-mode)
I find it interesting that these days we can still find introductory courses on
both C and Scheme. #scheme
Easy Moving From Vscode To Emacs. In which we learn that even a few
functionalities out of Emacs can make a developper happy. #emacs
How to clean merged branches from all your Git repos? (Assuming they all live in the same master directory.):
for d in */; do cd $d; echo WORKING ON $d; git branch --merged master \
| grep -v "\* master" | xargs -n 1 git branch -d; cd ..; done
Some thoughful ideas there: Benefits of a daily diary and topic journals. (via Jack Baty)
While were are talking about Emacs, why not reading some feeds from Twitter
directly there? #emacs
I’m finally done with configuring mu4e for Emacs with icloud and the server that
runs this site. If only I haven’t forgot to update my .authinfo credentials…
#emacs
Is it worth the time to investigate into this new app (2018 Apple Design Award Winner) that I bookmarked back in December? Or should I just stand by Org mode?
I was just reading mu4e 0.9.18: E-Mailing with Emacs now even better, and I
thought that I was a heavy user of mu4e too, but that was before they introduce
“contexts” and threaded views. I should really update my Emacs config. #emacs
Got rid of Telegram, Mendeley, Zotero, Bitly, Tumblr, Last.fm, and lastly, Amazon (member since 2002!). What’s next?
I don’t have very strong requests from a photo manager other than allowing me to browse them, and maybe tag or annotate them from time to time. Hence Apple Photos meets my expectations. However, I understand that others may have more refined requirements and many apps are available on the market. Jack Baty probably tested them all. In a recent post, he suggested Mylio which looks like a nice way to manage digital content without any cloud backend. I may try it at some point.
Whenever I am looking for something about Emacs I am pretty sure I will end up
reading one of Irreal blog posts. This time, I was wondering what’s the better
way to sync an iCloud account using mu4e. Not that I am not happy with Apple
Mail, but I like having the possibility to work exclusively with Emacs, or to
process a bunch of emails using my preferred text-based workflow. The solution
that seems to be working involves mbsync, and this looks perfectly fine to me
since I gave up on OfflineIMAP and switched to mbsync last year. #emacs
Hard time for the kids! While it has been shown that digital technologies may not be so much associated with well-being, teenagers also need more sleep.
I’m talking in a vacuum among millions of users. That’s what’s extraordinary with the internet.
A nice playlist of alternative music, from the Factory Records.
Next to my Twitter account, I also updated my Github nickname, btw.
Statistical Rethinking is still on my reading list (I know the second edition is ready to be sold but I bought the hard copy of the first edition two years ago), but I was reminded of Richard’s nice blog posts like Markov Chains: Why Walk When You Can Flow?, thanks to @kaz_yos.
I know nothing about Coq but I am happy that courses like Discrete Mathematics and Functional Programming are still available for free. (via @Jose_A_Alonso)