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Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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Post by bigiain »

kzrdude wrote: post #167
MereInterest wrote: post #18

Bret Devereaux's https://acoup.blog/ is a fantastic weekly read. I was drawn in by some of the comparisons between Lord of the Rings and historical battle practices [0][1]. Right now, he's in the middle of a series on how Paradox Interactive games portray history, what things are accurate/inaccurate, and how to best connect with students whose interest in history was sparked by Paradox games [2]. [0] https://acoup.bl…

Thanks for linking the paradox post, very interesting! Unfortunately, this writer is seriously overusing parentheses and this disrupts the reading flow.

Disrupts the reading flow for you.

I find his parentheticals, italics, and bolding, make the structure of the thoughts behind his words more clear to me.

I appreciate this style of writing, at least for these sorts of topics.

People are different.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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Post by dtgriscom »

nceqs3 wrote: post #157

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/ - In The Pipeline by Derek Lowe is fantastic

Oh, yeah. He's great at anthropomorphizing molecules and atoms. Check out his "Things I Won't Work With" series for a great sample: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/thin...

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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Post by marttt »

anthk wrote: post #227
marttt wrote: post #177

https://cheapskatesguide.org -- Cheapskate's Guide to Computers and Internet. Low-end and frugal computing in the 21st century. Long, opinionated posts on a pink(!) background. http://ranprieur.com/ -- Ran Prieur. Frugality, societal collapse, "dropping out", and beyond. Has been constantly blogging for ages; it's really interesting to see how his views have changed in time. http://joeyh.name/ -- Joey Hess, former lo…

Add gopher://magical.fish and gopher://i-logout.cz:70/1/bongusta Can´t be more frugal than that. Add irc on top, and maybe some usenet client.

I haven't really taken the time to explore the gopherspace, nor install a client. Did this now; thanks for the links!

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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Post by clircle »

CA0DA wrote: post #148

Tangent: Use an RSS reader to subscribe to these to support RSS! I have been using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedbroreader... recently and enjoying it

I've tried Feedly, Inoreader, Old reader, Newsblur, and Elfeed. Newsblur is my average favorite since 2013.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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Post by clircle »

Where are the statistics blogs?

    Christian Robert https://xianblog.wordpress.com/
    Andrew Gelman https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/
    Deborah Mayo https://errorstatistics.com/
    Frank Harrell https://www.fharrell.com/
    Radford Neal https://radfordneal.wordpress.com/
    Variance Explained http://varianceexplained.org/
    Larry Wasserman (inactive) https://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/
    20% Statistician https://daniellakens.blogspot.com/
    Jim Albert https://baseballwithr.wordpress.com/author/bayesball/
    The R blog https://developer.r-project.org/Blog/public/
    Graphic Detail, by The Economist https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/rss.xml
    The Royal Society Data Science Section https://rssdss.design.blog/blog-feed/
Many good “blogs” can be created by following good users on Cross Validated. StackExchange provides RSS feeds of user activity.

Many statistics journals also offer RSS feeds. These feeds are sometimes hidden, but an RSS reader like NewsBlur can discover them for you. This post[1] is a good starter collection of statistics journal RSS feeds.

[1] https://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/rss-feeds/

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