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The link certainly reflects my own undergraduate experience, where these skills were not the focus of teaching. It sounds like the sort of thing covered in "Software Carpentry" wor…

So is it vanilla Ubuntu, or will sleep stop working with the next distribution upgrade?

The square roots rule is very handy, and comes from the Poisson distribution.

For when you really need a less purely functional language, when you want your data to mutate, and your code not to. When the possibility any function might be a macro is too frigh…

If you want to get a bit more general: - lm can fit linear models - anova can be used to compare nested linear models -- is the more complex model significantly better? At this lev…

This could be asked of any form of discrimination. That he was grilled on his political views by telephone is sufficiently damning.

:q! if there are changes to discard in vim.

Oxford Nanopore is about to hit in a big way. Expect a lot more DNA sequencing for environmental monitoring.

It also makes experiments to understand gene and regulatory element functions a whole lot easier.

This seems like the form of charity most respectful to the recipient.

So ggplot2 for Python then?

Shouldn't it just start dropping packets?

If I can pick out a somewhat abstract question: Can we believe that something exists without knowing its cause? Yes. We believe in electromagnetism, for example. We've characterize…

A certain air of Charlie Stross to it.

You often want to: * add or remove columns from a frame * perform vector operations on columns in a frame This would be awkward in SQLite. However, maybe a Column Oriented DBMS exi…

I love how people proudly post solutions to FizzBuzz in comments (both on the wiki and the original blog post).

Note there's also a Gimp plugin called Resynthesizer that does this. http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer It's included in Ubuntu(/Debian?) package "gimp-plugin-registry".

and there is no such thing as a fish.

I sometimes find using a phylogenetic network to visualize a distance matrix useful as well (using SplitsTree).

This seems to be the wrangling Bruce Sterling is recently talking about[1]. John Carmack is brilliant, but a lot of what he's doing here is using his reputation and technical skill…

Wow, we're literally fucking our younger generation.