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Maybe "aletheiacline?"

> 2. John Tukey (1977). Exploratory Data Analysis. > This book has been hugely influential and is a fun read that can be digested in one sitting. Wow. The PDF is over 700 pages. Th…

Yes. Read X , by Y (943 pages, $84 on Amazon) for why it is necessary.

Frankly this is a pastime of mine. Whenever anything even vaguely mysterious comes up in the news I make up conspiracy theories to tell my wife and laugh about, always leaving it s…

The Wikipedia entry on First Normal Form also uses this kind of construction, which I suspect means it was written by the same person. I have never seen terms like domain and attri…

Yes, yes, but what does the fox SAY?

I once wrote in a comment in an Emacs Lisp todo list program that "Of all forms of time-wasting, writing time-management software is most sublime." I would say that of all forms of…

I really like pkgsrc. I'm not really qualified to give a technical justification for it. It just had the right simple, clean feel to it, which NetBSD in general has. I would even g…

Yeah, where do I go to get my tomato seeds irradiated? Is there something on Amazon I can buy for that?

I guess you'd call this "de-factoring?"

FWIW there is some commentary on this today on the Columbia "statsmodeling" blog: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/05/08/blast-from...

I think many people don't know that there is a national level Goodwill organization, and I don't know a lot of detail, but they essentially seem to franchise out the name Goodwill …

By an odd coincidence I was just today looking around to see if I could find any data or graphs or anything from Lysenko's original work. I didn't turn up anything. Does anyone hav…

Yeah, the main thing that I find occasionally useful with a second monitor, really, is when I need to go back and forth quickly, for instance when copying and pasting from one data…

Hey, I've finally found an art I'm good at! Of course my wife and I used to just call it being irresponsible about how much we spend on books. We don't have time to read them all. …

I believe Lynx does have a vi mode you can enable, though I might be thinking of w3m... But the killer app for me with web browsers is link hints, like in several browser extension…

As someone too dumb to learn Haskell or Category theory, it blows my mind that someone who says he is four years from being a teenager wrote this.