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This was my thought after getting through a few paragraphs as well. At first, I was thinking, this is interesting, maybe worth sharing with colleagues. But then it became too obvio…

How worthwhile is it without being able to run the code examples and do the exercises? Getting Oz working is a real pain at best.

Much like a virtuoso pianist really. Tension is the number one enemy for a pianist. It leads to injuries and more importantly, bad music. This is a nice video of some elite level r…

There is an extension called "bypass paywalls" that I definitely don't advocate using.

The fact that alcohol has been a part of human existence for so long might support my hypothesis, if you believe that humans physiology is at least partly shaped by human dietary h…

What is the advantage of "thinking in vectors" in R versus "thinking in vectors" using numpy in Python (for example)?

This is a common refrain but at the same time it seems to be the one substance commonly used across most of the world since ancient times. None of the other supposedly less harmful…

This kind of supply destruction is going to be very bullish for oil prices and oil company stocks in countries not looking to handicap their own companies.

Bill Gates doesn't seem to think climate change is a problem either https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/bill-and-melinda-...

And this investigation published this year discusses the same https://insightcrime.org/investigations/rise-plata-over-plom...

This organisation makes some convincing claims about direct government involvement in drug trafficking in Venezuela. https://insightcrime.org/investigations/venezuela-mafia-stat...…

Could nuclear power plant operators be incentivised by using "proactive risk detection" metrics or something along those lines? I suppose there will then be incentives to exaggerat…

Shouldn't checking for bugs be of primary importance. How many times have impressive research results turned out to be a mirage built upon a pile of buggy code? I get the sense tha…

Anyone who thinks this is a good thing is a very poor student of history.

Expecting share prices to only go up and not move with broader market cycles would be quite naive. Maybe the fed will succeed in keeping this bubble from popping forever, but I cer…

I ask myself quite genuinely if under the same circumstances I would live like that. It's really very hard to imagine that I or anyone I know would just accept living in trash like…

I find it hard to understand how a business like this stays alive. Really, how?