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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.
Secure Rust guidelines. #rust
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
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