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Regarding who submitted it, PNAS works differently from other journals. Weissman is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and as such he gets to contribute a paper X times …

Fink/ports work enough, but like I said it doesn't integrate with the OS like on Debian/Ubuntu. I've already mentioned the issue of clashing versions (gcc from Fink vs from Apple, …

Thanks, wasn't aware of this name.

Let's not forget that it's only the expected return, i.e., the return as the number of trials goes to infinity. But, you don't have infinite money to spend, so there's a good chanc…

I've been a long time Linux user and recently got a macbook, partly because it just works and I don't have to read 1001 web forums trying to decide whether the specific NVidia chip…

I think that's true of all technical books. Before I part with my hard earned money on some technical tome, I ask myself whether it's a classic (Knuth springs to mind, K&R C), or a…

Some people say double-blind reviews make things better since reviewers aren't (theoretically) influenced by the identity of the authors, and authors can't tailor their paper to su…

As earl said, it's free! But that's not the most important aspect (although nice for a student). It's an actual programming language. Like Python, you can use both non-OOP and OOP …

Well, I don't how NumPy can be significantly faster than R, as R basically passes most linear algebra down to BLAS and LAPACK. NumPy does the same, no?

R is not at all like Excel, in form or function. R is actually a complete programming language, much more similar to Python in that respect. It supports two types of OOP (S3 and S4…