The “advantage” of confinment is that I now have a decupled time for reading from the comfort of my own home, listening to music I like and enjoying the nice wether (from behind the windows most of the time, but I have a small balcony that allows me to get some fresh air and possibly have lunch outside whenever I want). Social distancing isn’t a big deal, since I haven’t seen much of the world for a long time now. #self

Travis Hinkelman is again hacking with Chez, this time on “data frame” objects. #scheme

Writing an OS in Rust, by Philipp Oppermann. #rust

Writing a Ph.D. thesis with Org Mode (via Irreal). Screenshots look like some king of magic!

For 35 years, Apple’s been telling me this thing should called a pointer, and I’ve been following along, mainly because I thought the distinction between a pointer and a cursor was useful. Are there no standards anymore? Is nothing sacred? — Foiled again?

Grab your crayons, it’s coloring time!. When I saw this on HN, I immediately thought of one of Bill Huber’s wonderful answer on Cross Validated. Hope you’re doing fine, btw!

Sometimes we can “augment knowledge” with an unusual or different approach. I would like this reply to be accessible to kindergartners and also have some fun, so everybody get out your crayons! — whuber on Cross Validated

Nice weather today (cold, though), day #14 in the middle of nowhere.

Since many people have discovered a passion for epidemiology these days, and are in the process of becoming apprentice statisticians, this should keep them busy for the weekend: Epidemiology for the uninitiated..

I now have plenty of time, why not reading GAM in R, which I bookmarked so long ago? #rstats

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