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Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves. I may have posted this on Twitter long ago, but it’s never to late to revisit this post.
The analogy in my mind is that Stata is to the iPhone as R is to Android, as far as social science data analysis goes. I guess SAS would be BlackBerry, insofar as it’s dated and propped up by a strong lock-in among government employees. And SPSS is a Nokia phone that has a slick interface for dialing your friends but requires you to push dozens of extra buttons in a non-intuitive sequence if you want to call anyone new. — stata 12!
Emacs Shells on Irreal. After many attempts at using Eshell, I gave up and I’m a happy user of vterm since last year. #emacs
JuliaMono: a monospaced font for scientific and technical computing.
E-mail takes too long to respond to, resulting in continuous inbox overflow for those who receive a lot of it. — three.sentenc.es
The Software Foundations series is a broad introduction to the mathematical underpinnings of reliable software.