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You might be tempted to use the correlation to reduce the set of predictors, but as Charles Dickens shows us, this requires domain knowledge
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. – Mr Micawber, in David Copperfield
Even though income and expenditure are highly correlated, neither one separately will do anywhere near as well as the pair in predicting who ends up happy and who ends up in debtor’s prison. — Co-linearity
Python behind the scenes #8: how Python integers work. #python
Given what I just said, we Haskellers have a lot of hubris. Each time you say “if it compiles it works,” a thunk dies and collapses into a blackhole. We’ve got plenty of messes in Haskell that don’t sufficiently protect us from ourselves. The compiler can only do as good a job as our coding standards and our libraries allow. — Haskell: The Bad Parts, part 2
POSIX Threads Programming. #unix
flynt – string formatting converter. #python
Even though Usenet has changed it’s face over the last, say ten years, the simple idea of exchanging ideas and having discussions among a large number of people by posting articles on a global message-board has pertained. — Usenet is still a strange place
Rewritten in Rust: Modern Alternatives of Command-Line Tools. I bookmarked this a while ago. I’ve tried them all, yet I only find added value in exa and ripgrep.