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Coming from writing OOP-style code in Python and C++, I initially disliked R quite a lot. My code is becoming more functional-style by the year and I'm now finding myself enjoying …

Finally, an uplifting story about software.

This was a fun read, thank you! Makes me appreciate how much is constantly reinvented as years go by...

I'm curious about whether the author tried to optimize Elo's K factor. It's often left at 32, which is not reasonable for all contests. It's essentially related to the standard dev…

This is a _fantastic_ book. If anyone's worried it's too technical, I'd say that it's not as dry as it might look at first glance. There's lots of practical advice and there's actu…

Some things that help me: 1) Echoing what someone has already said, a big key is to do a little each day. Before doing that, I would try to read whole chapters of books at a time a…

Agree. I was confused by this at first but if the slope on lines without dividing by population is: (log y2 - log y1) / (x2 - x1) Then if we scale y2 and y1 both by c, which is 1 /…

I don't think anyone has mentioned yet that wine doesn't work yet on Catalina. Until that's fixed I'm staying with Mojave.

I misread the title to be the Rime of the Ancient Maintainer and still think that would make a good title