Gained in Translation
Brad DeLong:
DragonDictate for iPhone had better learn not to write “Martian” when I say “Marshallian”. Just saying.
It’s not often you see a case where the jokes literally write themselves.
Brad DeLong:
DragonDictate for iPhone had better learn not to write “Martian” when I say “Marshallian”. Just saying.
It’s not often you see a case where the jokes literally write themselves.
I found this post that provides a nice function for conveniently showing some information about R objects in ESS mode. ESS already shows some information about functions as you type them (in the status bar) but this has wider scope. Move the point over an R object (a function, a data frame, etc), hit C-c […]
I’ve been using Philipp Lehman’s biblatex package to manage citations in (xe)latex documents. When compiling in TextMate using cmd-R (with latexmk.pl enabled), the bibtex files are not processed properly. BibTeX cannot find the citations and exits (in the html window) with
Found 0 errors, and 0 warnings in 0 runs
bibtex exited with status 2
Biblatex works in […]
Funny to see the virtues of R extolled in The New York Times. Although I did wonder whether Professor Ripley spilled his tea when he read this effort at introducing Times readers to it:
Some people familiar with R describe it as a supercharged version of Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet software that can help illuminate data trends […]
Signs that things are very bad:
Emacs 23 from CVS + ESS + Auctex, + a custom color theme. Brought back from the dead because while TextMate has many virtues, Emacs still, unfortunately, beats all-comers for coding with R.
Via John Gruber comes news that Apple has hired Joel Podolny away from his position as Dean of Yale’s Business School to lead a project called “Apple University”. The Wall Street Journal says:
The Cupertino, Calif., computer maker said Joel Podolny, the dean of the Yale School of Management, will join Apple as vice president and […]
Though it may have seemed impossibly far off in our hazy youth, these days we fondly look back at the turn of the 21st century and think that was when the world was new and fresh and everything seemed possible. Or searchable, anyway. For one month only, here is Google’s index, c. 2001. It […]
Or so I was back in 1999, at least according to this Groklaw thread. If only I had known.
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