Learning Statistics with R. Looks like a nice intro to statistics with R. I personally started with Peter Dalgaard’s Introductory Statistics with R, but no doubt this should be a good start too (beware this tutorial relies on external packages). #rstats

  Timber Timbre, Creep On Creepin’On.

  Timber Timbre, Sincerely, Future Pollution.

HN on the spotlight: Spotify to Apple and Google and DuckDuckGo.

Exactement, comme dans une épicerie. Et il faut voir ce que cela donne avec le bétail dedans… #fr

MacJournal 7 is now free. I will stay by Org for managing my text files, but it’s good to know anyway. (via Jack Baty)

Here is the best take I found on imperative vs. functionnal approach using Lisp. #lisp

TIL Better to use partition rather than split when you want to convert a ‘string’ to a ‘dict’ based on the first occurence of a specific delimiter (as in .split(..., 1)). Note that unlike split, the delimiter is kept and you probably don’t want to keep it. #python

  Peter Erskine, Palle Danielsson & John Taylor, As It Was.

Mathematical Recreations and Essays, by W. W. Rouse Ball. (Note that the PDF is nicely hyper-linked!)

Another common trick is to throw twenty cards on to a table in ten couples, and ask someone to select one couple. The cards are then taken up, and dealt out in a certain manner into four rows each containing five cards. If the rows which contain the given cards are indicated, the cards selected are known at once.