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Geopandas has had spatial indexing available for quite a long time... https://geopandas.org/en/stable/docs/reference/sindex.html I think that the challenge for most is that the Pos…

But, many R tools are already vectorised, so your shift from lapply() to mclapply() is about as fair a comparison as claiming it's "just" a shift from python's builtin map() to poo…

I wonder whether this just creates another "underclass" of scientific laborers... I think we need tool-builders as academics . The only thing that academics recognize intellectuall…

This also sounds a bit like Planetside 2 [1], which had a similar structure. A relatively large open world where small "provinces" were contested by factions in FPS King-of-the-Hil…

No, nulls matter a great deal. If you want to test a claim in Null Hypothesis Statistical Testing, the "significance" of the claim is in direct reference to the null. Changing a nu…

Given the explosion in the number of journals and the impossibility of effective peer review, being published in a journal does not mean what it used to. This is part of the materi…

We use jupyterbook (geographicdata.science/book), and it has seriously simplified our workflow. The project is building useful features very quickly, and is very responsive to feed…

I disagree that it's a "true horror to use." The set of supported built-in classes grows significantly by the day. It's not as good when used for wholly unstructured streams of dat…

> This situation is very annoying, especially for a touch typist as my fingers are always on hjkl and my thumb on the spacebar. This makes my thumb knuckle constantly brush the tra…

I think this is exactly how R's accreted features to make it do things that it was never designed to do. When the "tool you use" becomes the "kind of developer you are ," things ge…

Cosmicomics has long been my single favorite collection of written work. Calvino's amazing.

The efficiency gap is just one measure of partisan bias that can be used to assess the utility/efficacy of any redistricting plan. The game the authors propose is (basically) an al…

I've also seen this happen, where an article was designed in pre-consultation with a journal editor in my field. We submitted (what I felt was) a dubious paper initially. Reviews w…

I think that, once the suggestion of replacing single member elections with anything approximating proportional representation is made, the focus on managing the electoral system w…

I'm a PhD student studying gerrymandering, and I think it's cool this is getting written about in the NYT. But, there are very good models of gerrymandering built off of well-infor…

I've seen quite a bit when porting a statistical library that used Python 2's default floor/int division behavior for quite a few operations. Sometimes, though, the 2 version had b…