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2019-09-02 16:09 #
2019-09-02 16:04 #

eBay’s TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data files. Filtering, statistics, sampling, joins and more.

2019-09-02 15:46 #

Population genetics notes, from the the Coop Lab. #bioinformatics

2019-09-02 11:55 #

Ezhil: Clean and minimal personal blog theme for Hugo.

2019-09-02 09:04 #

Random Forests, Decision Trees, and Categorical Predictors: The “Absent Levels” Problem (PDF).

This problem occurs whenever there is an indeterminacy over how to handle an observation that has reached a categorical split which was determined when the observation in question’s level was absent during training.

TL;DR No feature engineering heuristics seem to really help mitigate this kind problem.

2019-09-02 08:56 #

Old times good times: A Brief Timeline of the History of Blogging. Although I came late to the party (around 2006), I remember all those emerging blogs from the 2000s, I mean, before the advent of social networks. Then came Twitter, Blogger and Tumblr.

2019-09-02 08:55 #

Want some training or refresh your TeX memory? https://texnique.xyz

2019-08-29 16:38 #

Well, I finally updated my config for Doom Emacs, which now relies on straight to manage all packages. The first upgrade was quite buggy, but once I figured out I could just delete my current .emacs.d and start from scratch again, I got a working install in a few minutes. Beware that the process of downloading and configuring all packages is quite long. You will also likely need to update your autoloads, e.g., doom refresh -f. Also, if you have a problem rebuilding the pdf-tools viewer, eval this before running pdf-tools-install: (setenv "PKG_CONFIG_PATH" "/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/Cellar/libffi/3.2.1/lib/pkgconfig"). #emacs