Trying the Fish shell right now. Looks good so far.

The talk that wasn’t: Lisp is not based on the Lambda Calculus. #lisp

There is now a JS api for Vega-Lite, and it looks quite awesome (i.e., compared to writing raw JSON specs). #javascript #dataviz

TIL about Yack!: The Unified Community Browser.

Season 1 of 12 Monkeys, done.

Racket 7.4 is out! #racket

How many of you are still using or even knowing the APL language? I remember that Jan de Leeuw played a bit with R to resurrect it at the REPL several years ago, and that Nick Cox used to use J in addition to Stata. Never used any of those two languages, but the APL book contains a lot of useful information on designing PL.

TIL about a lot if useful Lisp stuff on Paul Khuong’s old website: contents listed here. #lisp

Reading another of the excellent blog post by Alex Harsányi, More Timezone Lookup (loading and saving data), I thought it would be good if there were something like a “data.table” module available in Racket. #racket

If you’re interested in design of experiments and analysis of variance, this textbook is the latest available online I am aware of.