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• IBM’s Old Playbook

  by snth on 7/2/2021, 7:44 PM with 0 comments

• Worse Is Better

  by snth on 5/16/2021, 2:25 PM with 0 comments

• Flynt: Convert old Python string formatting to f-strings

  by snth on 2/10/2021, 1:30 AM with 39 comments

• Fish vs. Zsh vs. Bash and Why You Should Switch to Fish

  by snth on 9/27/2020, 3:28 AM with 2 comments

• Covid-19 Projections (US)

  by snth on 3/30/2020, 7:37 PM with 0 comments

• From Python to Go to Rust: an opinionated journey (2018)

  by snth on 6/24/2019, 6:27 PM with 70 comments

• Project Euler partially back online

  by snth on 6/20/2014, 9:04 PM with 0 comments

• Lost Pig

  by snth on 6/16/2014, 12:17 AM with 9 comments

• Project Euler is offline

  by snth on 6/15/2014, 10:56 PM with 19 comments

• Bugger - Maybe the real secret is that spies aren't very good at their jobs

  by snth on 11/7/2013, 5:47 PM with 11 comments

• Bjarne Stroustrup: Why the Programming Language C Is Obsolete [video]

  by snth on 10/25/2013, 4:17 PM with 1 comments

• The Curse of Cow Clicker: How a Cheeky Satire Became a Videogame Hit

  by snth on 7/1/2012, 3:21 PM with 0 comments

• How To Adjust Your Mirrors to Avoid Blind Spots

  by snth on 6/8/2012, 11:50 AM with 0 comments

• Things I'll do if I ever become an Evil Overlord

  by snth on 3/5/2012, 9:48 PM with 0 comments

• Kaggle: Making data science a sport

  by snth on 3/2/2012, 6:05 AM with 0 comments

• Albrecht Dürer: Portrait of the artist as an entrepreneur

  by snth on 2/28/2012, 8:04 PM with 0 comments

• Neuroscience vs philosophy: Taking aim at free will

  by snth on 10/24/2011, 10:36 PM with 0 comments

• Processing.org

  by snth on 10/21/2011, 7:09 PM with 0 comments

• Python as a statistics workbench

  by snth on 10/12/2011, 6:58 PM with 5 comments

• David MacKay: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms

  by snth on 10/8/2011, 6:42 AM with 0 comments

• Crypt of the Capuchins

  by snth on 7/23/2011, 7:43 PM with 0 comments

• Probability Theory: The Logic of Science (book)

  by snth on 6/24/2011, 10:10 AM with 2 comments

• Kadane: Principles of Uncertainty (book)

  by snth on 6/12/2011, 7:11 PM with 0 comments

• Edward Tufte: Data Analysis for Politics and Policy (pdfs)

  by snth on 6/12/2011, 7:10 PM with 0 comments

• It’s time to adopt modern Bayesian data analysis as standard procedure

  by snth on 2/28/2011, 7:34 AM with 52 comments

• Why can't we all use standard libraries for commonly needed algorithms?

  by snth on 2/23/2011, 8:36 PM with 46 comments

• The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)

  by snth on 2/5/2011, 9:02 PM with 0 comments

• PyBrain: The Python Machine Learning Library

  by snth on 2/3/2011, 8:22 PM with 5 comments

• Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2005)

  by snth on 2/1/2011, 10:20 PM with 0 comments

• Causality by Judea Pearl

  by snth on 1/7/2011, 9:21 PM with 0 comments

• Code Golf

  by snth on 1/5/2011, 9:59 PM with 0 comments

• Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community (1996) [pdf]

  by snth on 12/19/2010, 6:35 AM with 0 comments

• Worse is Better

  by snth on 12/18/2010, 11:12 AM with 3 comments

• Project Euler

  by snth on 12/17/2010, 7:53 PM with 1 comments

• Rank languages on many axes

  by snth on 12/15/2010, 6:09 AM with 0 comments

• Dijkstra: Why numbering should start at zero [pdf]

  by snth on 12/14/2010, 8:52 PM with 0 comments

• Ray Jardine: Retired aerospace engineer, adventurer

  by snth on 12/14/2010, 7:22 PM with 0 comments

• Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk [pdf]

  by snth on 12/11/2010, 7:08 AM with 0 comments

• Cognitive biases - Eliezer Yudkowsky [pdf]

  by snth on 12/11/2010, 5:16 AM with 0 comments

• SHA-3 Finalists Announced

  by snth on 12/11/2010, 1:39 AM with 4 comments

• Quotes criticizing significance testing

  by snth on 12/10/2010, 5:50 PM with 0 comments

• Ggplot2: a plotting system for R, based on the grammar of graphics

  by snth on 12/10/2010, 2:51 PM with 5 comments

• OneBag: The Art and Science of Travelling Light

  by snth on 4/26/2010, 4:05 PM with 0 comments