I was just reading some of Rackhim’s posts. He’s the author of the recent EmacsCast. The one on backups is quite interesting. I use Arq (Thx @fonnesbeck!) daily since 5 years or so and I have been happy with that only one solution to backup my personal and work-related data. I no longer use cloud fronts like Dropbox, except for already anonymised stuff I don’t get care enough to bother with privacy.

  Lorde, Pure Heroine.

Foundations of Machine Learning. Never heard of it before I spotted @gappy3000 tweet.

Moving to a World Beyond “p < 0.05”. Or maybe the earth isn’t just round. (via @kaz_yos)

Sudoku solver written in more or less 30 lines of Racket code. #scheme

TIL There are several flavours of awk lurking around on the internet. Here is bioawk, a bioinformatics-aware awk program.

📖 Alberto Moravia, L’amour conjugal (Denoël, 1948)

So I only have three episodes left before I finish my last TV series, Occupied.

Performance of Error Estimators for Classification (PDF). Always good to be remembered of how important error estimation is in statistical modeling, especially with small samples. Remember Frank Harrell’s post?

  Suede, Dog Man Star.