Rational approximations. #lisp

12 Common Mistakes and Missed Optimization Opportunities in SQL.

TIL about texme, a self-rendering Markdown + LaTeX documents written in JS.

Nice trick by Brett Terpstra: iTerm and the Find pasteboard. #apple

How lovely… The Art of the Travelling Salesman Problem. See also TSP Art.

Last episode of The Rook tonight. Interesting, although TBH the scenario could have been a little more developed.

Recipes for using R’s data.table package, via @eddelbuettel. #rstats

Symbolic Formulae for Linear Mixed Models, via @ucfagls.

Diving again into Shiny today. Happy to see nothing has changed (so much), so that I can reuse my boilerplate template from 4 years. #rstats

I had to cheat a bit for a few dozens of math-heavy problems, but overall I am quite happy with how much has been done in the past few months.