Magithub (soon, forge) is now part of Spacemacs/magit. No need to add further configuration to your init.el. Today I was trying to send an issue for on one of my repo and I figured out that there’s some trouble at the moment. #emacs

  Colossal Youth, Young Marble Giants.

Just throw out more than 30k messages from my Gmail account. I have a local copy, so no worries, but the Google team will have a harder time to analyze it. Incidentally, I just came across a new testimony from people tired of Google.

Last round shown below:

BTW, did you know that Google actually stores everything you buy based on payment or shipping receipts?

Updating my global dist for the newly released v1.1 of Julia. Installing packages is much easier (e.g. Gadfly) and smoother compared to the preceding versions (prior to v1). Only caveat is that rendering plot via Gadfly is kind of slow, especially compared to other graphing engines (R, Gnuplot, Mathematica, or even Stata). #julia

Home alone again…

After Tamás K. Papp’s CL libraries, I discovered this new library for numerical computing in the Lisp world: MAGICL. #lisp

  Nick Drake, Five Leaves Left.

📖 Christine Angot, Une semaine de vacances (Flammarion, 2012)

Just doing my little technical care and weekly backup. Homebrew 2 is out.

~  brew --version
Homebrew 2.0.0
Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision 175af; last commit 2019-02-02)
Homebrew/homebrew-cask (git revision 05a81; last commit 2019-02-02)

Tropical geometry of statistical models. At least, the conclusion is very understandable:

The algebraic representation for graphical models with hidden variables leads naturally to an interpretation of a parameterized model as a point on an algebraic variety. Marginal probabilities are coordinates of points on the variety. Varieties can be tropicalized, and the statistical meaning is that the MAP prob- abilities (calculated with logarithms of the parameters) can be interpreted as coordinates of points on the positive part of the tropical variety.