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If you like Subtree of Life, you're going to love 'Onezoom' ( https://www.onezoom.org/ ) which is a very attractive 'Google Maps of life' sort of site, and TimeTree ( http://www.ti…

This is a risky thing to do when the patient's name is attached to it. Insurance companies, salesmen, etc., could do quite a lot with such information. I whole-heartedly support th…

Very picky, but beware constantly using "set.seed" throughout your R scripts. Always using the same random number is not necessarily helpful for stats, and makes the R code look a …

...not anymore. Thanks!

I get a message saying it's not ready for Hacker News yet, so I can't even see what's going on :-(

I'm an ecologist: if you're really interested in this, his book ( http://www.amazon.com/Maximum-Entropy-Ecology-Distribution-E... ) gives a good background to (macro)ecology and wo…

I can't comment on much of this article, but it doesn't apply to the UK (as is implied), where essentially every student has full funding for their 3-4 years. Sometimes people hang…

I'm a post-doc at a university. I asked around at conferences, and emailed people whose work I liked. I'd be surprised if the process is very HPC-specific; you'd be trying to make …

Points 2 and 3 make no reference to previous years' data, so aren't really talking about trends. Point 1 ignores the (trend that they state) that there are more post-doc positions.…

Some confidence intervals on these graphs would really make this a lot more useful...

I can't even load the page, so... "was bubble sort the wrong way to go?" ...I hate myself a little.

Good points. I also feel people tend to tweet that they are enjoying everything, simply to make themselves look like they are always going to interesting things and thus worth foll…

I'm sorry, but there's no 'unsexy data crunching' here - just a series of ratios compared against one another. There is a whole body of statistical literature about how to do anyth…

Great idea and something that will definitely be highly used (I'm downloading it now!), but I really would be cautious attempting to provide what R provides, 'but better'. R's powe…

I too work in biology, and while this is interesting, that there are differences between people is not that surprising, and attempting to link socio-economic conditions to such wid…