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Cool, can't wait for anti-bot protection to start rejecting me because I use firefox.

What I mean about macros is that there just aren't a lot of problems that are really well suited to solution via meta-programming. People should be free to program however they wan…

I'm programming in Lisp (Chez Scheme) now. I've been a serious Lisp programmer (recreationally and sometimes professionally) for around 10 years and I have programmed in Common Lis…

God please anything to liberate me from pandas, which has one of the wildest API's I've ever had to routinely work with.

Crazy, I just recommended this exact approach to a student in my data science class.

Whenever I see this stuff I wonder how much fraud is being perpetrated by people with enough statistical know how to make it hard to detect.

The epistemological relevance of statistics at the level of daily news is almost non-existent. Heck, professional scientists routinely fail (for various reasons) to apply statistic…

Seems interesting. I used to live with an abysmally slow rural broadband connection and so this kind of thing was impossible to imagine. What is my escape hatch for my workflows an…

I'd be shocked if this weren't the case.

As an old Lisp/Scheme guy all I can think whenever I try to figure out what is going on with Rebol/Red is "What a mess."

Gotta ask: is this gravity example real? You really have friends who have some sort of mystical commitment to the idea that gravity is somehow entirely epistemologically self-groun…

The usual story is that neuron were initially characterized experimentally using current injections to which their firing times are (in a certain sense) maximally disordered and th…

This is what (mediocre) my PhD thesis was about.

I'm not sure that I buy you're assertion that kindness is either necessarily or sufficiently described by a lack of aggression per se. Kindness is maybe better described by keeping…

Are you using Hackernews' built in anti-procrastination features?

I really liked the initial version of Duo Lingo but I've found it increasingly less fun to use as all the engagement hacking has crept into the site. I expect that will accelerate …

This really strikes me as a "not even wrong" post. I'm not sure there is anything wrong with programming and if there is something wrong with it, the problem sure isn't "there are …

Honestly, I'd be fine with 99% of the internet going away.

I'm really looking forward to not engaging with any of this stuff at all!

Not really the point I am trying to make: if you love History, getting the PhD might be worth it. Money isn't everything.

Counterpoint: I've got a Phd (Physics). I did not pursue physics as a career but I think about and read physics research papers and textbooks _almost every day_ and derive enormous…

The most literal possible interpretation of "move fast and break stuff."

"Everything looks like a graph" is more damning of the idea of a graph as storage than it is praise. The whole point of a database is to impose _additional_ constraints on the data…

I'd rather experience more stress than believe dumb shit. Editing lest I seem glib: I have tried spirituality. The amount of work I feel I must do to maintain anything but a relaxe…

The Economist certainly doesn't break down easily on the American political spectrum, but in the more coherent language of higher level policy, the Economist is almost 100% liberal…