When you insist on your CLI-based workflow (reproducibility, text-based, etc. you know…) and you realize that Stata 13 does not recognize graph export with a PDF backend (while Stata 15 does) from a Terminal. Back to Encapsulated PostScript then, like in the 90s! #stata

While I appreciate that there are so useful Docker images available, I think I will need to build a more lightweight one if I want to stay on CircleCI free plan. Hopefully, it looks like someone already had the same idea. #rstats

Statistical Thinking for the 21st Century. #rstats

Emacs build-status: a nice package that allows to monitor build on Travis or CircleCI. #emacs

The first edition of Interpretable Machine Learning is out. (via @ChristophMolnar)

Yet another org-powered website. This makes me think that I added a little org-capture template to write those micro-posts without having to open my micro.org file. #org

("b" "Blog post" entry (file+headline "~/org/micro.org" "Micro")
     "** TODO %?\n:PROPERTIES:\n:EXPORT_FILE_NAME:\n:END:\n%^g\n"
     :empty-lines 1)

Stephen Wolfram reflecting on his “productive” and digital life. What a man!

Didn’t know either: Beware that wc counts newlines, and not lines. (via Irreal)

Despite the useful utility under the “File” menu, my attempt at installing a Mathematica package properly failed miserably this morning. I ended up copying/pasting the wole archive into ~/Library/Mathematica/Applications. Anyway, this worked and I am now able to plot phylogenetic trees!

Didn’t know there was such a thing: MacJournal (via Jack Baty). Whether you are interested in this app or not, the author provides a nice discussion of the pros and cons of keeping a diary vs. a journal, and on the importance of meta data.