This makes it clear that plague was progressively replaced with HIV/AIDS and flu-like syndromes.

TIL about simul, for those of you who need to collaborate using Word.

I’ve tried LaTex, because that’s what all the cool science kids are doing, but I don’t think the hassle is worth it. Show me a LaTex evangelist and I’ll show you someone who doesn’t collaborate with Word users. There’s too much software hipster-ism out there. I think you should use the software that best gets the job done for you. — Daniel Quintena on Uses This

Cory Doctorow has an interesting article that argues that far from being the new oil, data is actually the new toxic waste. He begins by noting that any data you collect will, sooner or later, leak and that when it does criminals will combine it with other leaked data to undo any anonymization that you’ve applied. That data is, he says, “pluripotent, immortal – and impossible to contain.” — Data is toxic waste

Animating US population distributions. #rstats

With social distanciation and confinment, getting in touch on social networks is likely to increase, despite all the useless comments one can found on, e.g., Twitter these days. Likewise, everybody is looking for remote meeting apps, and they probably found out that remote OSS workers or gamers have been doing this for a while.

Illustrated jq tutorial.

If you keep browsing your Twitter feeds these days, life should be like more or less depressing, right? Stay home and cook; sometimes, you may even enjoy the sun!

From HN:

Netflix will reduce the video quality on its service in Europe for the next 30 days, to reduce the strain on internet service providers.

I have a hard time believing this could happen — I’m no Netflix consumer, btw, since all other French provider are actually offering their channel package for free. But I can understand the consequences of everyone connecting to internet all day along.

Hardly working @home, for the moment. Just reading and checking emails, occasionally. I have lot of ideas for the blog, I know I need to do some biostats again – it looks to me like it’s just a matter of time until I launch a Twitch channel about applied biostats from the command-line if confinment persists. Yet, I could also keep reading litterature artwork as usual.

#rstats users, remember this? What’s in your .Rprofile?