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If your data set is biased for the purpose of answering your question, then having more data doesn't make things better. In this case 'big data' just becomes 'big bias'. Go to wiki…

In causal modelling thou shallst not control by consequences of the causal treatment (the causal treatment here is being born black). Read your Rubin&Rosenbaum.

Providing Julia Code for in-memory sorting, i.e. a binary mergesort with parallel branches and parallel merge plus a specialized sort for instable inplace sorting (better Quicksort…

OK, I found out myself: Julia can mutate a single temp buffer across all threads, and implementing Sedgewicks nocopy sort (with ping-pong merge) is faster, particularly when passin…

Maybe I misunderstand, but: In R allocating and copying huge return vectors for small changes on input vectors ruins performance. My understanding of Julia was that one advantage o…