The reason I am using Altair for most of my visualization in Python. I can understand the why – I too find that Matplotlib is not that good when it comes to statistical graphics, and that’s why I used to use R, Stata, Gnuplot or even Mathematica for that purpose. That being said, Altair like D3js are great but they require much more work compared to statistical packages. That’s why DSLs are important. #python #dataviz

DuckDuckGo has been my default search engine since 1.5 years. But there’s more on the market apparently, e.g. startpage.com (via Jack Baty).

Ivre et je confonds le jour
Et la nuit je leur appartiens
A ces songes qui détourent
Hier et demain

  Arno, Human incognito.

Just in case I’m up early tomorrow again: Low-memory symbol indexing with bloom filters.

Always good to be remebered of why software projects take longer than you think.

Yet another CC license, with “no rights reserved.”

A practical introduction to the bootstrap: a versatile method to make inferences by using data-driven simulations, with code on GH.

Fancy Euclid’s “Elements” in TeX (via @hardmaru). #tex

Purely Functional Data Structures (PDF, 162 pp.), by Chris Okasaki. (via @newsycombinator)