Fraidycat: Follow from afar. (via Robin’s blog)

Nice series of posts by geekAbyte on learning Rust. #rust

So get yourself some Ethernet cable (and adapter, if needed) and connect your computer directly to your home or office router. This is the single most effective thing you can do to improve your remote experience, especially if you’re in an apartment complex or office. — Remote 101: Cables

And if you’re a Mac user with a post 2012 Macbook (any model), go buy yet another dongle to plug your ethernet cable!

Randomized clinical trials do not require representative patients; they require representative treatment effects. Generalizability of randomized trial findings for relative efficacy comes from one of three things: (1) true absence of interactions, (2) interacting factors have a similar distribution in the RCT as in the target population, or (3) the RCT sample has enough representation of the distribution of interacting factors to allow them to be modeled and used to estimate treatment effects in target patients, and the researcher knows to include these interactions in her model. — Implications of Interactions in Treatment Comparisons

Conjugate models have the structure of a fold in functional programming, also known as a reduce or accumulate operation. We’ll show below how to compute the posterior distribution in a beta-binomial and normal-normal model using folds in Haskell. — Functional folds and conjugate models

Postgresql on Docker.

Nice post and beautiful interactive design at Stitch Fix!

The growth of command line options. Well, that’s just 139 options for tar!

The upgrade process for Doom Emacs got improved recently and boosted performance are much appreciated. #emacs

What beautiful pictures! (via kottke.org)