The longer you spend in these ecosystems, the more machine learning systems can optimize themselves against user preferences. – This Is How You’re Being Manipulated.

https://ask.clojure.org is a dedicated Stack Overflow for #clojure.

Discrete Differential Geometry: An Applied Introduction (PDF, 169 pp.). (via HN)

scikit-allel: Explore and analyse genetic variation. Back in 2010, we were using R and the snpMatrix package but it looks like Python now comes with good utilities too. #python

Great resources: Statistical Rethinking with brms, ggplot2, and the tidyverse. And I think we have to resign ourselves to seeing all the new R tutorials using almost only the tidyverse! #rstats

Visualizing and exploring sorting algorithms in two dimensions with Ink. (via HN)

Got a little update to the Macbook yesterday! Three years already, and still as valiant as ever:

The last few days were very, very hot! I don’t remember breathing such hot air in my life. It’s all in the past now, but I’m not about to forget it. A little memory of my last lunch:

We are back with some fresh news from Github: Fast polynomial arithmetic in Haskell.

Switching to Idle for a few days–weather’s too hot, sorry! In the meantime, go check Lisp, the Universe and Everything, and wish me luck with the next Euler problems. Cheers