Exponential growth and log scales, or why it sometimes makes more sense to use a log(2) scale instead of log(10). See also Kieran Healy recent post.

An interesting series of new blog posts by Arthur Charpentier on modeling pandemics.

A Human Programming Interface, in Python, to help track your data.

And now we are halfway thru The 100, Season 6. Mostly delayed because, you know, Apple TV, but it’s right on the point and far less depressing than the news we are served every day after all. Next in the radar: The rest of Black List (starting from Season 5), and The Expanse, Season 3 probably.

  Glenn Gould, Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988.

Secure Rust guidelines. #rust

Signal processing is key to embedded Machine Learning.

Flattening vs shrinking: the math of #FlattenTheCurve, by Ben Bolker and Jonathan Dushoff.

Nice read: Product Placement, by Michael Betancourt.

I use fancy tools, and I certainly do use tools that are called debuggers (like gdb), but I almost never step through my programs line-by-line watching variable values. I almost never set breakpoints. — I do not use a debugger