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vhhn

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    Me too. Training a neural net of this scale is basically a lossy compression and promting just an interpolation of the data. But explain this to lawyers and courts...

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    Comment #46752142

    Anyone else worries that by contributing to open source software these days one is also digging his/her own grave?

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    Comment #43650785

    There are so many options to emded R in any kind of system. Thanks to the C API, there are connectors for any if the traditional language. There is also RServe and plumber for inte…

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    Comment #43045600

    Latvian? I've always thought OnlyOffice is developed in Russia.

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    Comment #42019537

    Unlike many other languages, R has a native/built-in tabular data structure. So when your data have tabular structure R is by far the best glue for building pipes between external …

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    Comment #40376976

    We use embedded R in production in a way some other companies would use Python and I can say having a better compiler would definitely help. Even if most people use R interactively…

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    Comment #35656568

    Fun story. My first computer too. Got it from my uncle without any manuals, we spend a whole afternoon writing down a code of a game from a magazine letter by letter. We thought we…

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    Comment #34080827

    Exactly my experience. I have never bought another Apple device since then.

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    Comment #33763487

    There are still several areas where R beats Python: tabular data crunching, data analysis (plotting, stats), finance (econometrics etc...) but it's less and less obvious.

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    Comment #32054129

    Mapy.cz even used to have a great Symbian client with navigation and all, very low battery drain. It was awasome.

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    Comment #29876096

    There are several factors that make healthcare a specific type of product that laissez-faire markets fail to efficiently produce by nature: * tight connection to insurance * typica…

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    Comment #29823847

    > that doesn’t randomly crash after 30 minutes that rules out any Adobe product :)

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    Comment #29635778

    This an amazing resource. Thanks!

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    Comment #29447513

    Actually, all of them (kdeconnect, firefox, nextcloud) have pretty good Android clients

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    Comment #29078181

    consider starting a family :-)

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    Comment #28737695

    > OpenBLAS is incompatible with application threads R is single-threaded.

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    Comment #28280368

    I think parent comment was referring to the M-code [0] [0]( https://www.howtoexcel.org/power-query/m-code/ )

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    Comment #25668605

    There are two camps in the R world - tidyverse and base-R (tiniverse). Its not a coincidence that the author gives an example from the tidyverse ecosystem. Authors and users of tid…

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    Comment #23655306

    I see. But I think after demeaning X, beta0 will just have a special meaning... log odds of the average case. Nothing more.

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    Comment #23651239

    You don't want to demean your dependent (response) binary variable. So you almost always want to keep beta0 to control for any imbalance in your dependent var.

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    Comment #21792711

    Hi Wit, you guys do a great job to make R ready for deployment in production. What do you think of the new renv package?

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    Comment #19978405

    I was surprised when VSCode snap told me that I should start using different snap to install new versions if VSCode and that my settings would be kept. And it did. So there is some…