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I use Emacs' org-mode for data science and for math courses. With Babel you can evaluate code and see the results in-line, with syntax highlighting. I don't use code completion mys…

Another post by the same author on spec: https://juxt.pro/blog/posts/parsing-routes-clojure-spec.html Another brief intro to spec: https://coyotespike.github.io/blog/2016/08/18/cor…

Laphman has reminisced in a few of his essays about growing up in his august family in San Francisco - wonderful memories, windows into bygone eras. The pleasure of reading his ess…

No, an elephant needs a larger brain to run its larger body. Humans have enough brains to run our bodies, plus "extra" with which to think, in a manner of speaking. https://en.wiki…

Fantastic, happy to see this development. I keep a list of people/Patreons to support, and Kalid has been on it for a long time

Thanks for the reviews, that's quite helpful. I'm taking Andrew Ng's course again, and really enjoying it. I understood most of it the first time, but having linear algebra and cal…

Thanks for this article - very clear, well-motivated, and concise. I'm saving this for myself and others.

Here's a good (and fun) column on how Ms. Kondo helps many people overcome cognitive biases. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/an-econo...

No, I (and presumably the other posters) can tell the difference - I just disagree on the morality, partly because I think the legal aspects are related to the moral aspects. The g…

"Biohack" is pretty common - although that term also means, e.g, implanting magnets in your fingers.

I have heard only good things about Schema, and I probably should have invested the time to understand and use it more intensively.

So, the one big atom solved two problems for me. First, in Reagent/FRP, I was updating a view based on the value of an atom. This meant I had different default values in different …

Thanks, good to know.

"if it compiles, then it just seems to work" Man, now that is tempting. Also, how easy are the ports? In ClojureScript you can use JavaScript pretty directly, but I often got a bit…

Yeah, after the app grew a bit, I had state scattered here and there. re-frame solves this with a big atom, and avoids expensive rendering every time the big atom updates with subs…

This looks very cool. In ClojureScript, we have the re-frame pattern/framework, which is built on Reagent, which is a ClojureScript wrapper of React. re-frame is all about subscrip…

Thanks for the advice! That's very helpful to fold into my research/analysis of next steps. :-)

I think that's true. Most biotech companies are filled with PhDs. The cloud lab Transcriptic is an exception, started by a biomedical engineer in undergrad, but generally speaking …

FourSigma and IndianAstronaut, what do you think about doing bioinformatics as research, formulating and testing hypotheses, and then either using a cloud lab or a garage lab for a…

I posted above why I like Org-Mode. Here are a few things it doesn't do well. 1. Because it is text-based, its visual summaries are limited. Like, there's a calendar, and for org-h…

Because a couple people here have expressed curiosity, here's what I like about org-mode. 1. The workflow is key. From any document, if I want to note down a task, I use org-captur…

Hmmm. Where do you get that from this article, or his blog post? Sure, he did get the 23andMe interview from a friend. But Google? and AirBnB? and Yelp? and Uber? and Twitch? Man, …

Can you explain what you mean by "it simply gives the author's a narrative to fake"? At the very least, pre-registration helps guard against the "file-drawer" effect, where a negat…

Thanks for the advice, that all sounds right to me. I particularly like the point about the $TOPIC of the moment. The roll-your-own-company lab approach sounds a little better, ove…