A newcomer in the Clojure land: Machine learning in Clojure with XGBoost. #lisp

Thanks to https://archive.org, the CLRS textbook (3rd ed.) can be freely downloaded. One can also find the famous Sedgewick’s Algorithms. I found a PDF copy long ago, and it is dedicated by Simon Plouffe.

  Tindersticks, Waiting for the Moon.

  Leonard Cohen, You Want It Darker.

There is always something we miss. Here is a shot of those vines that cradled my childhood.

  Cigarettes After Sex, Cigarettes After Sex.

Writing a PhD thesis with Org Mode. Because why not? (h/t irreal) #org

Frank Harrell started hosting his own blog several months ago, and I followed his posts once in a while, that is almost every time I see something new on Twitter. His last annoucement is about a talk he will give at the Johns Hopkins Department of Biostatistics, which appears to be a mix of his latest posts on this topic. I wish I could attend his talk as I did for his RMS workshop in Ottawa some years ago.

Please note that my last tweet or retweet is from October. Don’t expect any other news from me–I will only bookmark tweets that I found interesting while the liking option is still available. If the “like” feature is going to disappear, then it means I will definitely forget about Twitter.

SLEEF: A Vectorized Math Library.

It implements vectorized versions of all C99 real floating point math functions. It can utilize SIMD instructions of modern processors. SLEEF is designed to fully utilize SIMD computation by reducing the use of conditional branches and scatter/gather memory access.

It looks interesting even if I am not going to use it any time soon. (Other than the short vector math library available in clang).

The first season of Vikings is finally over. Let’s start season 2.