2018
After upgrading all my packages via AppStore and Homebrew, I realize that Git is now talking to me in French. This is not the result of my switch to v2.19.0 but rather it looks like I got a different $LANG setting lately. How come?
It’s always a pleasure to download 3.76 Go of app just for updating Xcode, plus several additional Mo for Pages, Numbers and Keynote mostly to support Mojave dark mode–which I don’t have of course. #apple
Latest mix of rice noddles, chicken, tofu & zucchini (+ ginger, curcuma, green chilli).
What on earth makes people want to take Lisp and remove the one feature that makes it so special ? #lisp
Reading The Concrete Tetrahedron. “In most stages of our discourse, the book by Graham, Knuth, and Patashnik can be used as a reference to many additional techniques, applications, stories, etc. However, the present book is not meant to be merely a summary of “Concrete Mathematics.” We have a new twist to add to the matter, and this is computer algebra.” (See John D Cook’s review on MAA.)
Oldie but goodie: Prison Break.
Game of Thrones, Season 7: Done.
Game of Thrones, Season 6: Done.
Game of Thrones, Season 5: Done.
Vim for humans (via John D Cook). #vim
Great list of useful ressources for Racket. #scheme
I finally got rid of the lovely doom themes (one and nord) and got used to spacemacs light theme. As Nikita Prokopov once said (see his alabaster theme), comments are important: “Most themes try to dim comments by using low-contrast greys. I think if code was complex enough that it deserved an explanation then it’s that explanation we should see and read first. It would be a crime to hide it.” They are pretty nicely highlighted in the light theme. Also the font lock for Org code blocks is so great that I use it for Markdown mode as well. #emacs
Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette & Keith Jarrett, My Foolish Heart.
Game of Thrones, Season 4: Done.
TIL “Rather than showing a continuous probability distribution, Hypothetical Outcome Plots (or HOPs) visualize a set of draws from a distribution, where each draw is shown as a new plot in either a small multiples or animated form.” I didn’t know this technique had a name. #dataviz
Why Racket? Why Lisp?. By the author of Beautiful Racket. #scheme #lisp
Literate Programming using Scribble (or maybe literify?) would be a very nice alternative to Org babel if only other PLs were supported, IMHO. #org #scheme
I just spent 3 hours with Getting Clojure: Build Your Functional Skills One Idea at a Time. Very enlightening book. Expect a quick review in a few days. #clojure
Teach Yourself Racket (a flânerie by Prabhakar Ragde). Very nice tutorial (and I really love the CSS design for Scribble documentation on desktop and mobile displays). #scheme
Time to take a few days off.
Game of Thrones, Season 3: Done. Lot of unexpected deaths.
Thinking about the future Macbook Pro while reading hypothetical release date and future specs from various sources. I like some of the rumours. #apple
Game of Thrones, Season 2: Done.
Good tips & tricks on BASHing data using awk, sed and other GNU core utils.
Found this while browsing GitHub for numerical methods implemented in Racket Scheme: Herbie aims to make floating point problems easier to find and fix. #maths #scheme
The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be. Sure. Sadly, no MS OSs ever came close to the polished macOS UIs. Maybe we should just let it go, install Arch Linux with some kind of i3 and let Emacs takes care of the rest of our journey. #apple
Bouncing back on my post about automated ML interpretation: iml: An R package for Interpretable Machine Learning. #rstats
Although I no longer use RStudio, I must admit that I keep looking at RMarkdown and derived products on a more or less regular basis. Just found this little gem: radix (via nj_tierney). #rstats
Game of Thrones, Season 1: Done.
Timber Timbre, Cedar Shakes. Cat got your tongue? Special signing.
Second day with the new setup at home. The keyboard is great, the external monitor has somewhat blurry font, probably because of the lack of display port on the Macbook 12″. I will probably buy a 13″ Macbook Pro soon. #apple
We’re done with 24 and The Walking Dead. Now it’s time to start watching the full series of Game of Thrones.
The built-in keyboard on my MB 12″ is dead. It seems it doesn’t like coffee as much as I do! From now on, I will probably be working with this: #apple
