Effective visual systems can help eliminate that guesswork and uncertainty by creating layered sets of cues in the design and interface. — Cross-Cultural Design

The best time to make a breaking change that involves updating existing code is now, because the bad designs that result from maintaining backwards compat unnecessarily can have repercussions for decades, and the amount of code to update is only going to get larger. — Hundred year mistakes

Recon Learn: Free and open training resources to respond to outbreaks, health emergencies and humanitarian crises. #rstats

Reading and writing JSON files in R and Chez Scheme.

Best Paper Awards in Computer Science (since 1996).

Nice post on Asemic Writing, by Anders Hoff.

Automating Every Aspect of Your Python Project, using Docker. #python

The fastai book. Free on-line edition of the upcoming book by Jeremy Howard and Sylvain Gugger.

Visualizing the Bayesian workflow in R. #rstats

A recent study suggest that “today’s CNN-generated images retain detectable fingerprints that distinguish them from real photos.” This is good news if you are concerned with deep fakes, but how will it last?