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Computational Drawing Book. I find myself more and more interested in generative art, so this is a nice find. (via @mattesl) #dataviz
One of the last person, with Dirk and Matt, I find interesting to follow given the recent evolution of the R language. I started with the R Inferno, by Patrick Burns, then discovered Norman’s books, in addition to the MASS book. That was all what I needed to get started. Now, this is illuminating:
R is rapidly devolving into two mutually unintelligible dialects, ordinary R and the Tidyverse. (…) It might be more acceptable if the Tidyverse were superior to ordinary R, but in my opinion it is not. It makes things more difficult for beginners. E.g. the Tidyverse has so many functions, some complex, that must be learned to do what are very simple operations in base R. Pipes, apparently meant to help beginners learn R, actually make it more difficult, I believe. And the Tidyverse is of questionable value for advanced users.
If you’re more versed into Julia these days, see also R vs. Julia. #rstats #python
It’s raining again, and I’m done with the 800th micro-post by now.
The Desktop Neo project looks super exciting. This is second time (see Introducing Mercury OS) I noticed some fresh new ideas re. OS core UIs.
Latest action movies watched: Siberia a few days ago (since everyone likes to talk about Keanu Reeves right now) – didn’t like it much; Agent 47, yesterday. Latest book read: Pactum Salis (Olivier Bourdeaut) – really great reading!
From design patterns to category theory (via HN).
Yet another zsh prompt minimalistic theme.
First Clojure Program, and it’s Tetris! #clojure