Little playlist feat. Joy Division.

Joy Division raised desolation to the level of high art, and they covered plenty of stylistic ground while doing so. They could be severe: “Warsaw” is punishing, three-chord punk, bitter and mean. They could be chilly: “Heart and Soul” dwells in an ice cavern of echo. And they could be desperate, as on “Something Must Break”–a harrowing glimpse into the darkness that would be the band’s undoing.

A Stratification Approach to Partial Dependence for Codependent Variables: code and paper.

Free Book: Foundations of Data Science (from Microsoft Research Lab). We’re definitely going from surprise to surprise with Microsoft in the last few months. At least they are moving in the right direction with Github, VS Code and their open-source projects.

Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems.

Eventually you’ll be both fast and good.

That’s where the bat hurts, sometimes.

TIL how to get proper ligatures with Iosevka font in Emacs when running in GUI mode (which we get for free in iTerm for basic ligatures, like <-). See the instructions at the end of this issue. #emacs

Learning Parser Combinators With Rust. #rust

Efficient Leave-One-Out Brier Score for time-dependent evaluation of Bayesian Survival Models. #rstats

indextree: Arena based tree structure with multithreading support. #rust

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Information Theory for Intelligent People (PDF, 15 pp.). (via HN)