Exterminate Magit buffers: Quite useful tip if like me you happen to kill your Magit buffers by hand. #emacs

Viewing Matrices & Probability as Graphs. With great illustrations. For those interested in catgeory theory, the other posts are worth a look too. See, e.g. this booklet on arXiv (PDF, 50 pp.). #maths

Rash - The Reckless Racket Shell. (via @NlightNFotis) #scheme

Natural Gradient Descent. Be sure to check the rest of the site. I just added it to my RSS reader.

Vim within Emacs: A very good read even if you’re not versed into Spacemacs. #emacs

Better than time? gnomon is a command line utility to prepend timestamp information to the standard output of another command.

Doing work as it shows up.

  Beirut, No No No.

As I am using Postgresql a lot these days, I thought I would import a large CSV file (1 Go) to see if I can play with in-database tools from dplyr & Co. I will probably need this for work so it’s worth the effort. I started with a Stata file that I read using haven, and I converted it to a CSV using data.table::fwrite. This already eated up all my RAM. Now, I’m using csvkit to import the CSV file into a Postgresql local database. Well, it says a lot about the process:

I guess I just found another org-powered user! #emacs