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Jabbermonkey

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    Comment #42777044

    Could be Clearfactr [1] which was a really interesting twist on spreadsheets, developed and built by a single person. Clearfactr was acquired by Goldman Sachs in 2018. It's been us…

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    Comment #36421919

    If you're looking for some Bayesian Stats books that require very little math/stats, I'd recommend starting with these two: Think Bayes by Allen Downey: https://allendowney.github.…

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    Comment #26466146

    "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." - Cardinal Richelieu (disputed)

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    Comment #21769501

    If you're genuinely eager to learn probabilistic programming then by far the best resource I've found is a book called Statistical Rethinking by Richard McElreath. His (almost fini…

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    Comment #19685557

    While Kalman and Bayesian Filters in Python is a superb resource, probably the best out there, my recommendation for anyone new to the field would be to do Sebastian Thrun's free A…

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    Comment #19674217

    Take a look at the Z-machine wikipedia page. It has some good background. There's also a link to "Learning ZIL" in the external links section. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machi…

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    Comment #19437736

    That's a fair assessment.

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    Comment #19437565

    Looks like the current target for feature parity with FF56 may be around 2020 or later, based on projected fixes of critical bugs. Toolbar: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cg…

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    Comment #19436496

    If Firefox had treated TabMixPlus (TMP) and other extensions as first-class citizens when they introduced quantum, I can guarantee I'd be using Firefox today (along with all the le…

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    Comment #19436471

    If Firefox had treated TabMixPlus (TMP) and other extensions as first-class citizens when they introduced quantum, I can guarantee I'd be using Firefox today (along with all the le…

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    Comment #18155821

    https://support.office.com/en-us/article/introduction-to-mon... https://support.office.com/en-us/article/introduction-to-wha...

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    Comment #18123355

    How about the Instant Answers list on DuckDuckGo Community? https://duck.co/ia It has a filter for the goodies along with other good stuff.

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    Comment #17388320

    I hit a roadblock with trying to read Stata files into Pandas a few months ago. I discovered that not all versions of Stata file formats are supported by Pandas in Python. R has mu…

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    Comment #14157214

    Also from that thread: Moby = open source development Docker CE = free product release based on Moby Docker EE = commercial product release based on Docker CE. Nothing is dead; and…

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    Comment #6501066

    Judging by the comments below the article the friendliness index for Macedonia needs to be adjusted down a bit for Greeks. The contrast between results and discussion gave me a goo…