…All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?—Reg in ‘Life of Brian’, Monthy Python.
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Oracle’s strange understanding of R users
After reading David Smith's tweet on the price of Oracle R Enterprise (actually free, but it requires Oracle Data Mining at $23K/core as pointed out by Joshua Ulrich.) I went to Oracle's site to see what was all about. Oracle has a very interesting concept of why we use R: Statisticians and data analysts like… Continue reading Oracle’s strange understanding of R users
The world owes you nothing
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.—Mark Twain.
The introduction of a new system
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain… Continue reading The introduction of a new system
Living with uncertainty
I think it is much more interesting to live with uncertainty than to live with answers that might be wrong.—Richard Feynman in a TV interview.