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Great article. Perhaps his trials and tribulations were essential to his compositions of melancholy genius also filled with joy & beauty & rage. One of his last works, his Op. 60 B…

Hadley Wickham's tidy data is also an excellent read: http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.html I work closely with social scientists and it's common in those disciplines to embe…

I've been enjoying the struggle through Statistical Inference by George Casella as a foundational text. This was the introductory text for stats graduate students at Arizona State …

Almost entirely not the same: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114733/

I've been using https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net since 2007 and haven't had any complaints thus far. No-frills but cheap & reliable.

Anathem by Neal Stephenson explores this idea towards the very end. Doesn't give it much time but obviously it's hard to interpret from our end.

This really resonated with me to the point where I had to stop lurking. James Gee (who was also at Wisconsin-Madison for a time) has written a fair bit, mostly positive, on learnin…

There's a Vagrantfile that you can just vagrant up: https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox/blob/master/Vagr... I poked a bit and it appears that the setup script is interactiv…

Seems to me that's because functional programming continues to evolve (which is great!) and newfangled properties and semantics get folded in. To me the core is "no side effects" t…

I'm part of an NSF funded research coordination network focused on supporting good practices for computational modeling (www.comses.net). We've been curating a comprehensive list o…

If you're into this sort of thing you might enjoy a more rigorous treatment from an actual neuroscientist, David Eagleman. http://www.pbs.org/the-brain-with-david-eagleman/episodes…

You might be interested in reading about the precautionary principle [1]. [1] - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1240435/

I certainly appreciate the syntactic sugar of Groovy as a clear improvement over vanilla Java. But with time as a scarce resource I've opted to learn Scala and Clojure instead. It …