Man flu kept me at home today, so I decided to do something 'useful' and go for a linkathon: Ed Yong discusses the effect of subject expectations in psychology experiments Nice Results, But What Did You Expect? At the beginning there was another article on The placebo phenomenon, and another one on The placebo defect.… Continue reading Flotsam 13: early July links
Category: python
Pythonic links
Before I forget: a few links about starting up in Python for scientific projects: Basic Data Analysis and More—A Guided Tour Using python. PDF in the arxiv. Python Scientific Lecture Notes. Quick introduction chapters. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python! An opinionated intro to Python. Numba versus Cython, for when you really need speed. Now if… Continue reading Pythonic links
Late-April flotsam
It has been month and a half since I compiled a list of statistical/programming internet flotsam and jetsam. Via Lambda The Ultimate: Evaluating the Design of the R Language: Objects and Functions For Data Analysis (PDF). A very detailed evaluation of the design and performance of R. HT: Christophe Lalanne. If you are in statistical… Continue reading Late-April flotsam
Early-March flotsam
It has been a strange last ten days since we unexpectedly entered grant writing mode. I was looking forward to work on this issue near the end of the year but a likely change on funding agency priorities requires applying in a few weeks; unfortunately, it means that all this is happening at the same… Continue reading Early-March flotsam
Mid-February flotsam
This coming Monday we start the first semester in Canterbury (and in New Zealand for that matter). We are all looking forward to an earthquake-free year; more realistically, I'd be happy with low magnitude aftershocks. The Wall Street Journal reports that more pediatricians are 'firing' patients that refuse to use vaccines. I'm wondering about practices… Continue reading Mid-February flotsam