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I really like all plotting systems in R. First, I used base graphics for a few years—and loved it. You learn your way around par(), commit esoteric argument names to memory (oma, m…

You're treating this sample-is-the-population issue as if it's resolved in the statistics literature. It is not. Gelman has written on this [1][2], as the issue comes up in politic…

This isn't the most useful statistical figure. The heart feature is novel — the increase could be due entirely to folks trying it out. A more meaningful figure would be to look at …

I shared this in light of the recent article by Matt Ridley, "On the Myth of Basic Science"[1] which I find less honest and filled with anecdotal examples that fit his particular n…

Completely agree. I can't understand how professional developers are able to give up their text editors for iPython. Don't get me wrong, I love iPython/jupyter, but the slick inter…

See Noodler's "Ben Bernanke" inks[1] which are fast drying and meant for lefties. The name is a play on the fast drying inks Bernanke is using to print more money. [1]: http://www.…

I love fountain pens and highly encourage everyone to try them (with a good notebook helps). First, ballpoint pens are wasteful — 1.6 billion pens a year are thrown away[1]. Founta…

Well done. Though shouldn't the sidenotes use HTML5's ? How does the vertical alignment of sidenote callout and sidenote work?

Science isn't about taking obvious relationships as fact, it's about using evidence and induction to show support for certain hypotheses over others. The geocentric model of the un…

I find this deeply depressing: "the most heavily studied problem in computer science: how to get people to buy more things".

Really awesome stuff! I think there's a very minor bug in which missing pixels are treated as black, which is what adds a black border around the output image in the second example…