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Mid-August flotsam
Reached mid-semester point, with quite a few new lectures to prepare. Nothing extremely complicated but, as always, the tricky part is finding a way to make it meaningful and memorable. Sometimes, and...
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This is one of those times of the year: struggling to keep the head above the water, roughly one month before the last lecture of the semester. On top trying to squeeze trips, meetings and...
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Before I forget: a few links about starting up in Python for scientific projects: Basic Data Analysis and More—A Guided Tour Using python. PDF in the arxiv. Python Scientific Lecture Notes. Quick...
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Flotsam 11: mostly on books
‘No estaba muerto, andaba the parranda’† as the song says. Although rather than partying it mostly has been reading, taking pictures and trying to learn how to record sounds. Here there are some...
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A list of interesting R/Stats quickies to keep the mind distracted: A long draft Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View by Cosma Shalizi, in which he uses R to drive home the message....
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Man flu kept me at home today, so I decided to do something ‘useful’ and go for a linkathon: Ed Yong discusses the effect of subject expectations in psychology experiments Nice Results, But What Did...
View ArticleFlotsam 14: dev links
Back doing some coding, playing with R packages and collaborating with someone else. This is an unusual situation for me, as I write my own code, and never bothered learning to use git (or other code...
View ArticleFlotsam 15: inference
Before I lose the link—as I’m deleting toots & tweets two weeks after I post the—I should save the address for “Introduction to Modern Causal Inference” by Alejandro Schuler and Mark van der Laan....
View ArticleFlotsam 16: new laptop
In my job I get a new laptop every 3 years or so; at least that is how it works with Apple laptops. You get a new one, together with Apple care, and it is depreciated during three years. Keeping...
View ArticleFlotsam 17: music playlist for writing
I have a four-hour long or so jazz for writing playlist in Spotify. No lyrics, which is less distracting for me.
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