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coding2
  • Swift downfall Sat 09 July 2022
  • Nothing is easy but failure Wed 29 July 2020
data science5
  • Data no defense Thu 23 July 2020
  • Mosteller and data science Tue 14 July 2020
  • Code is for people Sun 07 June 2020
  • Immediate dangers from credulity about artificial intelligence. Sun 07 June 2020
  • The fall and rise of exploratory data analysis Mon 02 September 2019
G+ archive207
  • Recalibrating expectations of acceptable decorum Mon 01 April 2019
  • Awful indignation Sun 10 February 2019
  • Lambda calculus, a vignette Sat 09 February 2019
  • I don’t want to get too meta here, but, I just got an email about the phased shutdown and deletion of Google+ content Fri 01 February 2019
  • Who knew Wed 19 December 2018
  • The NHS sues a small volunteer organization making a Linux distribution for use by the NHS Fri 31 August 2018
  • The language hygiene initiative Fri 17 August 2018
  • He’s still alive Sat 21 July 2018
  • What is Data Science Mon 16 July 2018
  • I call bullshit on this email description of changes in Paypal’s legal policy Tue 26 June 2018
  • I’ve been reflecting from time to time on the mystery of Hadley Wickham’s “Readings in Applied Data Science” at Stanford Tue 05 June 2018
  • James Shaw Jr. on why he wrestled an assault rifle out of the hands of a man killing indiscriminately in a Tennessee waffle house Mon 23 April 2018
  • The dirty little secret of the ongoing “data science” boom is that most of what people talk about as being data science isn’t what businesses actually need. Sat 07 April 2018
  • The Dunning-Kruger effect Thu 05 April 2018
  • We know now that we get it wrong an awful lot of the time Thu 22 March 2018
  • Video from Uber car in autonomous mode, that hit and killed a cyclist on a highway Thu 22 March 2018
  • Alex Lovell’s girlfriend suspected he was cheating, so she waited until he was asleep and attacked him with a Samurai sword. Fri 16 March 2018
  • The StackOverflow developer survey has a section called most loved / dreaded / wanted languages, where “wanted” means a language that you want to learn Fri 16 March 2018
  • Science by volume … that has to stop. Mon 26 February 2018
  • Learning outcomes encapsulate a trivial view of University education Sun 25 February 2018
  • Python has become the most popular language for teaching introductory courses in computer science Fri 23 February 2018
  • Data scientist wanted: Must have Python, spontaneity not required Mon 19 February 2018
  • Working more than 40 hours a week causes an overall drop in productivity and increase in errors Mon 29 January 2018
  • Noam Chomsky on the purpose of education Tue 16 January 2018
  • Just a humble question Sat 13 January 2018
  • Some evidence that employers want data and coding skills Sat 13 January 2018
  • Why I’m Learning Python in 2018 Sat 13 January 2018
  • I had not thought that I would read this opinion on Pinochet, but here it is Sat 30 December 2017
  • Do not love the system Sat 30 December 2017
  • The growth of Julia seems to be pretty slow Sat 09 December 2017
  • Python overtook R in a poll of languages used for data analytics Sat 09 December 2017
  • In his famous essay “On Bullshit”, Harry G. Frankfurt argues that a bullshitter is someone who does not care about the difference between true or false, but will use whatever comes to hand in order to persuade. Fri 10 November 2017
  • I wrote up the argument for switching to Python from Matlab Thu 09 November 2017
  • The seeker after truth Mon 30 October 2017
  • A study comparing standard teaching with Arts Integrated (AI) teaching of science subjects Wed 25 October 2017
  • The derisive local nickname for Amazon employees is “Amholes” — pugnacious and work-obsessed Sat 21 October 2017
  • I am trying to work out how to teach statistics to undergraduates in life-science disciplines such as Biology and Psychology. Wed 04 October 2017
  • I am reading a 2006 paper by Kirschner, Sweller and Clark on “Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work Mon 02 October 2017
  • Douglas Crockford got uninvited from a conference, apparently because he as a reputation for being rather rude about things he doesn’t like Mon 25 September 2017
  • Analysis of StackOverflow views shows that interest in Python is growing fast, and at an increasing rate. Fri 08 September 2017
  • Data Engineering Mon 04 September 2017
  • How to deal with an armed kidnapper, 1974 UK style Sun 03 September 2017
  • I had previously noticed that most people that do teaching believe that they are pretty good, including people I would have rated as bad teachers. Wed 30 August 2017
  • Training data scientists is hard work Wed 30 August 2017
  • Eminent teachers of statistics discussing the future of statistics education Mon 28 August 2017
  • I just read the now famous Google memo, that got the author fired. Thu 10 August 2017
  • I just watched “An American Radical” about Normal Finkelstein Sat 29 July 2017
  • What does real data analysis look like? Thu 20 July 2017
  • Excellent 10 minute argument about the horrors of standard statistical theory compared to the joys of resampling methods. Thu 20 July 2017
  • Gender reveal parties Sun 09 July 2017
  • UK science has declined compared to the US in terms of Nobel prizes, but is catching up in terms of number of papers and citations. Thu 06 July 2017
  • Is the UK research excellence framework doing more harm than good Thu 06 July 2017
  • Student ratings of satisfaction have very little relationship to their performance in the final exam Wed 05 July 2017
  • Hadley Wickham on “big data” Sat 01 July 2017
  • Smetative Sat 03 June 2017
  • Wasting money on mapping the brain Sat 27 May 2017
  • Shotguns to toddlers Wed 24 May 2017
  • Bundle it up and send it off Wed 24 May 2017
  • Big data and (not) knowledge Thu 18 May 2017
  • A panel discussion on the nature of data science Wed 17 May 2017
  • Academic statistics may have lost its way Wed 17 May 2017
  • Industry as the origin of “data science” Wed 17 May 2017
  • Tukey (1965) on the importance of computing in the education of statisticians Wed 17 May 2017
  • In 1965, Tukey predicted the rise of computer science at the expense of statistics Wed 17 May 2017
  • “Computing with data” in 1998 Wed 17 May 2017
  • To be a mature data analyst, you must also be a programmer Wed 17 May 2017
  • Hatred in America Wed 17 May 2017
  • A rather depressing snapshot of the visitors to St Peter’s in Rome Fri 28 April 2017
  • I have a memory, that is probably false, of a 1980s Private Eye cover, with a picture of Cecil Parkinson, a reviled Thatcherite. Sun 23 April 2017
  • I have found it very hard to work out the meaning behind the term “data science”, but I think I have solved it now Sat 11 March 2017
  • Looking out a link for the Anaconda Python distribution, I found the main web page at Mon 27 February 2017
  • I got sick, so took to following Wikipedia trails, which brought me to Thu 23 February 2017
  • A love-song to Cuba, with beautiful and evocative images of Havana (that I know) and the Cuban countryside (that I don’t know Sat 11 February 2017
  • In the 1820s, the Society for Progressive Education in New York introduced a system of redeemable tokens as rewards for correct school work and a system of fines for various offenses in the school. Wed 25 January 2017
  • Inauguration day Fri 20 January 2017
  • Here I have made a small change to another quote from Marcus Aurelius Fri 13 January 2017
  • This is more of the story of cell culture contamination and striking indifference in the scientific community. Fri 13 January 2017
  • Terry Speed remembering George E. P. Box, and the huge advances in statistics that resulted from work during the second World War Thu 12 January 2017
  • Let them eat Gauss Sat 07 January 2017
  • Kent Beck is interesting on the change in culture from the old days, where programmers wrote code and the quality assessment people tested it, to the current practice, where the programmer takes responsibility for the quality of their own code Sat 03 December 2016
  • How much do scientists care whether their results are correct Fri 25 November 2016
  • I hope you will enjoy the irony as I quote this fragment from Plato, Letter 7 Sun 18 September 2016
  • There’s an interesting discussion going on at the Research Software Engineers mailing list Tue 13 September 2016
  • On getting basics right Mon 29 August 2016
  • Data Scientist (n.) Wed 24 August 2016
  • Blog post on sheltering students from install problems Fri 19 August 2016
  • I get regular fund-raising emails from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Fri 22 July 2016
  • In the years between 1974 and 2014, the frequency of the words “innovative,” ”groundbreaking,” and “novel” in PubMed abstracts increased by 2500% or more (Vinkers, Tijdink & Otte, 2015)” From Mon 06 June 2016
  • TODD talks Mon 30 May 2016
  • At the theory lunch, we do not believe in using slides, waiting until the end to ask questions, or stopping the speaker when he or she runs out of time Wed 04 May 2016
  • UC Berkeley student questioned, refused service after speaking Arabic on flight | The Daily Californian Fri 15 April 2016
  • I found that I didn’t understand the Fourier transform very well, and I’m weak on my complex number algebra, so I wrote a tutorial explaining the Fourier transform using cos and sin rather than the traditional e^ix notation Wed 13 April 2016
  • In “Guess who’s coming to dinner” (1967), Joey Drayton, a young white woman, wants to marry John Prentice, a black man. Sun 03 April 2016
  • A flash-bulb illumination of a moment in history Sun 03 April 2016
  • Which programming language should we use for scientific computing Sun 27 March 2016
  • An occasional cure for injelititis Mon 21 March 2016
  • Every error is a jewel that can be used to uncover weaknesses in systems and individuals, which in turn can be improved Mon 07 March 2016
  • One evening [Thomas Carlyle and Alfred Tennyson] met in [Carlyle’s] house, and smoked continuously for three hours, neither of them saying a word, opening their mouths only to emit floods of smoke, and when Tennyson rose to depart, he said “This has been a blessed evening, Thomas”, and Thomas replied “Alfred, I have never enjoyed your company more than tonight Thu 11 February 2016
  • Sea-Lioning is an Internet slang term referring to intrusive attempts at engaging an unwilling debate opponent by feigning civility and incessantly requesting evidence to back up their claims Sun 07 February 2016
  • An interesting before and after picture Sun 07 February 2016
  • Nine Reasons Women Don’t Edit Wikipedia (in their own words) Wed 27 January 2016
  • Thus structurelessness becomes a way of masking power, and within the women’s movement is usually most strongly advocated by those who are the most powerful (whether they are conscious of their power or not). Tue 26 January 2016
  • Stefan van der Walt pointed me to this Fri 22 January 2016
  • Researchers are surprisingly likely to admit to questionable research practices Fri 15 January 2016
  • I wrote a blog post about “makes-sense epistemology Fri 15 January 2016
  • The American Academy of Sciences wrote this paragraph in 1989 Sun 10 January 2016
  • Here we see a 1969 memo from the deputy director of the FBI Cartha De Loach Sat 09 January 2016
  • Stanford’s Jordan Hall is named after the first president of Stanford, David Starr Jordan, and home to the Department of Psychology Sat 09 January 2016
  • But - it is only Python and R, measures code contribution by number of commits, and doesn’t (can’t) analyze journals for which text is not freely available Tue 05 January 2016
  • I read this quote from a book written by a friend of mine Wed 23 September 2015
  • I believe these lines from the pope’s homily show a deep understanding of the way Cubans think of themselves Sun 20 September 2015
  • Jon Stewart on bullshit Mon 07 September 2015
  • A UK report on research culture found that Fri 21 August 2015
  • Excellent and relevant quote from Confucius in a comment on a nature news article Fri 21 August 2015
  • Nancy Kanwisher on how to evaluate FMRI studies Thu 13 August 2015
  • Bibliometrics: The Leiden Manifesto for research metrics Thu 06 August 2015
  • Sourceforge went down heavily and is only slowly coming back up. Tue 21 July 2015
  • The BBC bowed to pressure from the government to suppress a film about nuclear war and claimed they did this because the film was a failure. Fri 03 July 2015
  • Are preclinical drug studies becoming less replicable at a rapid rate Thu 02 July 2015
  • Here is a picture of the strangely informal world of the British Government during the war Wed 01 July 2015
  • The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) Mon 22 June 2015
  • APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. Mon 22 June 2015
  • The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. Wed 10 June 2015
  • I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of methodology as well as history and philosophy of science. Wed 10 June 2015
  • Results for standard neuroimaging analysis pipelines differ somewhat when run on two very similar Redhat-based Intel Linux clusters. Mon 08 June 2015
  • Authors should submit their proposed study for peer review. Thu 04 June 2015
  • Please sign this Tue 21 April 2015
  • I was reading about Joe Strummer (Clash singer / guitarist), and found this vivid echo from Britain in the 1980s Sat 28 March 2015
  • Fred Brooks on “The Joys of the Craft” in the book “The Mythical man-month Tue 24 March 2015
  • Suggestive evidence that women in technical jobs are more likely than men to get negative personal criticism in performance reviews, regardless of the gender of the reviewer Mon 23 March 2015
  • Software engineering had emerged as a compelling solution to the software crisis in part because it was flexible enough to appeal to a wide variety of computing practitioners. Fri 13 March 2015
  • I just watched this episode of Buffy the Vampire slayer Sat 07 February 2015
  • Thomas Caswell just mentioned this article in a post to the matplotlib mailing list Wed 04 February 2015
  • My impression is that most scientists feel that they don’t make very many errors in reporting their results. Fri 30 January 2015
  • One reason that people don’t want to share data is that other people might find mistakes or bias in the analysis Fri 30 January 2015
  • Psychiatry / psychology papers support the tested hypothesis 90% of the time. Fri 30 January 2015
  • Living in the danger zone Fri 30 January 2015
  • Dijkstra was not impressed by Ada Fri 30 January 2015
  • The last sentence of Edsger Dijkstra’s report on the “green” proposal for what would later become the Ada programming language Fri 23 January 2015
  • Max Weber on “Science as a vocation Fri 23 January 2015
  • The enjoyment of one’s tools is an essential ingredient of successful work Wed 21 January 2015
  • Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. Wed 21 January 2015
  • The BBC has a page on the outbreak of Christmas goodwill between the allied and German trenches in 1914 Tue 20 January 2015
  • US department of defense on open- vs closed- source software Mon 19 January 2015
  • Chomsky - you can only be “concise” if you saying something everyone believes already Thu 08 January 2015
  • Paul Ivanov mentioned this talk in his Scipy presentation Sat 18 October 2014
  • The founder that Julie Ann Horvath refers to in her interview was Tom Preston-Werner. Fri 04 July 2014
  • Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism And Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit | TechCrunch Fri 04 July 2014
  • This is a self-conscious rant about the Perl programming language Tue 24 June 2014
  • This blog post argues that BSD licenses make it more likely that projects will lose developers when they get hired by companies Sun 08 June 2014
  • Frederick Herzberg points out that satisfaction at work is not the opposite of dissatisfaction. Fri 16 May 2014
  • Egypt wants to execute how many people? Tue 29 April 2014
  • Elsevier journals – some facts Thu 24 April 2014
  • A poem by Ivor Cutler, in “Is that your flap, Jack Fri 21 March 2014
  • Mac binaries find their libraries at run-time Thu 27 February 2014
  • For the quote at the top from Steve Gilhooey Mon 17 February 2014
  • I spent a while trying to understand the detail of “Why most published research findings are false” by John PA Ioannidis Fri 08 November 2013
  • A confused crowd shouting at Sinead O’Connor or each other, and then she sings, bravely Sat 05 October 2013
  • A science journalist sent 304 random variations of a deliberately and severely flawed paper to open access journals Fri 04 October 2013
  • we urge future researchers to exercise caution in the use of advanced mathematical tools, such as nonlinear dynamics, and in particular to verify that the elementary conditions for their valid application have been met Fri 04 October 2013
  • Summary of a study of code review techniques Fri 27 September 2013
  • Quoting from page 32 of Eichmann in Jerusalem, by Hannah Arendt Sat 31 August 2013
  • Another danger is that commercial pressures of one sort or another will divert the attention of the best thinkers from real innovation to exploitation of the current fad, from prospecting to mining a known lode. Wed 28 August 2013
  • Since the Romans have taught us “Simplex Veri Sigillum” —that is Wed 28 August 2013
  • Computer coding for children Mon 12 August 2013
  • Honest, and later on, wise Sun 11 August 2013
  • This experience has taught me one very important lesson Fri 09 August 2013
  • A reflection on the the problems of paying for work on open source projects Wed 26 June 2013
  • Thinking of the depressing (lack of, blocking of) discussion about governance on the numpy mailing list, I came across this email explaining why making XFree86 governance more open was a waste of time Mon 24 June 2013
  • Paying people for work they are doing for the common good can make them angry Sun 02 June 2013
  • The page tells the sad story of Admiral Sir Dudley North. Sun 02 June 2013
  • The editors of PLoS responding as editors to the article “Why most published research findings are false Wed 29 May 2013
  • A hint as to why an older generation of scientists might be more prone to believe that scientific sofware need not be written by scientists Mon 27 May 2013
  • I gave desperate warnings against the obscurity, the complexity, and over-ambition of the new design, but my warnings went unheeded. Fri 24 May 2013
  • The mysterious belief that we don’t make many mistakes in scientific computer programs Thu 23 May 2013
  • Why many scientists think reproducible science is desirable but not necessary Thu 23 May 2013
  • A characteristic summary of the British idea of being British Thu 23 May 2013
  • Don’t expect too much in the early days; […]. Thu 09 May 2013
  • Some more vivid phrasing from the introduction to Wed 01 May 2013
  • Excellent quote from the end of the introduction to “Javascript, the good parts” (Douglas Crockford, 2008, O’Reilly Tue 30 April 2013
  • Disapproval of heart Tue 30 April 2013
  • A bad time Tue 30 April 2013
  • Evidence of very low statistical power and high risk of false positive findings in neuroscience Thu 18 April 2013
  • Matthew Brett hung out with 1 person.Nolan Nichols Thu 11 April 2013
  • Message in banner at top of page confirming I had paid for a book on the SpringerLink website Sat 06 April 2013
  • How Python installs scripts on Windows and Unix. Fri 01 February 2013
  • Quoting from Sat 12 January 2013
  • Fast forward tracking branch to latest remote commit Mon 31 December 2012
  • TED talks on vulnerability, shame and courage Mon 10 December 2012
  • my niece is so awesome!!!!! Thu 04 October 2012
  • Some useful references, including this paper in PLoS Fri 14 September 2012
  • I need to use Yahoo messenger web app. Tue 21 August 2012
  • Then the question ; what happens when this breaks down? Fri 29 June 2012
  • Last year, in a seven-month period there were two explosions inside factories where iPads were being produced that killed four people and injured 77 others. Tue 08 May 2012
  • This is a continuous functional MRI activation map. Sat 05 May 2012
  • In this study, the researchers pretended that they needed recommendation to the ethics committee for an experiment that would cause severe emotional distress. Sun 29 April 2012
  • I wonder whether there is a large difference between people in what they see. Sun 29 April 2012
  • I realized that I was still confused about floating point error, and I found it hard to understand the explanations I could easily find, so I wrote my own Mon 23 April 2012
  • I have twice now run into links to articles by Peter Lawrence. Mon 23 April 2012
  • Do functional MRI papers replicate? Wed 11 April 2012
  • Forensics on a paper published in Science, but likely to be substantially or entirely wrong Wed 04 April 2012
  • Blog post with some basic forensics of an open-source software fork Wed 28 March 2012
  • Then, on the BBC report Wed 14 March 2012
  • I visited this link Sun 04 March 2012
  • I wrote a discussion of culture on the numpy mailing list Mon 20 February 2012
  • The photo that JB sent to Neuroimage, celebrating finishing our somewhat late paper Mon 20 February 2012
  • I never felt I had quite grasped floating point, so wrote a tutorial to explain it to myself Fri 07 October 2011
information4
  • We own the science Wed 29 May 2024
  • Nissan knows what you did last summer Mon 01 January 2024
  • Where do we disagree? Wed 05 July 2023
  • Google Bard appears to admit it was directed what to say about masks for Covid-19 Mon 01 May 2023
management1
  • Fumbling the future Fri 08 July 2022
misc27
  • Win the election, then hammer disinformation Mon 30 September 2024
  • Love and warmth Thu 05 September 2024
  • Candor, commitment, courage and competence Thu 27 July 2023
  • Risk from artificial intelligence Mon 01 May 2023
  • Achieve! Mon 01 May 2023
  • Novel morality Sun 11 September 2022
  • No fog Sun 11 September 2022
  • Postmodern consent Tue 09 August 2022
  • Going at it blind Sat 06 August 2022
  • Not convinced Fri 08 July 2022
  • Define Professional Sat 11 September 2021
  • Die Frau mit dem Fagott Sat 06 February 2021
  • Desire to punish Fri 30 October 2020
  • Gothic mask Fri 30 October 2020
  • Why not do it ourselves? Sun 26 July 2020
  • Visual Studio Code dines out at expense of other editors Sun 26 July 2020
  • World divided Tue 21 July 2020
  • Against data Tue 04 February 2020
  • Chomsky on class war Sun 17 November 2019
  • Big stuff in Ukraine Sat 16 November 2019
  • Computer scientists differ little from the rest of us in “best practice” for software development Wed 10 July 2019
  • Arrogance and inexperience Mon 01 July 2019
  • Python is the primary language for data scientists Fri 07 June 2019
  • Where is data science on the hype cycle? Thu 30 May 2019
  • How do the foundations get built? Thu 16 May 2019
  • Learning and Twitter Wed 17 April 2019
  • Worse is better Mon 15 April 2019
NT criticism4
  • The eternal return Sun 31 January 2021
  • Legally Christian Sun 17 January 2021
  • Josephus on a political error by the high priest Sun 18 August 2019
  • Who is reading? Mon 22 August 2016
organizations19
  • Saw that everywhere Tue 07 May 2024
  • The shoes were still there Sun 31 March 2024
  • Meritocracy and valor Wed 13 March 2024
  • Die playing our own thing Fri 21 April 2023
  • Corrupt all the way down Wed 29 March 2023
  • To be an individual Sun 07 August 2022
  • Who do the work Fri 08 July 2022
  • Because it hurts Fri 08 July 2022
  • Parkinson’s law Tue 10 May 2022
  • Malice cured by stupidity Wed 08 September 2021
  • Language hygiene initiative Thu 15 July 2021
  • On too-simple solutions Thu 04 March 2021
  • Righteous, disobedient, stubborn and firm Wed 03 March 2021
  • Not professional Sat 08 August 2020
  • The Joys of the Craft Fri 12 October 2018
  • The XFree / X.Org fork and open source governance Tue 25 June 2013
  • The core melts down Tue 25 June 2013
  • Disapproval of heart Mon 22 April 2013
  • A bad time Sun 21 April 2013
politics17
  • Lose total control Tue 04 March 2025
  • Co-opting suffering Sun 01 December 2024
  • Covid school closures, and other deviations Mon 22 August 2022
  • Unscientific, unsafe, ableist, fatphobic, and unethical Wed 17 August 2022
  • Interested in politics? Study mathematics. Tue 09 August 2022
  • Calm capable women Sun 07 August 2022
  • Popper against proportional representation Sat 06 August 2022
  • Better educated, more irrational Sat 06 August 2022
  • Education of the heart Tue 02 August 2022
  • What is Critical Race Theory? Thu 28 July 2022
  • Wicked and dangerous fraud Sat 16 July 2022
  • Bad writing and sloppy thought Sat 07 August 2021
  • Quantum realm Mon 11 January 2021
  • COVID and cronies Mon 06 July 2020
  • US Police protect themselves from their own interrogation methods Sun 07 June 2020
  • Despair of Twitter Sat 04 January 2020
  • Brexit and modern art Wed 03 April 2019
Teaching31
  • Core goal of undergraduate education Fri 11 November 2022
  • The Julia language has stalled Sat 09 July 2022
  • How is Julia doing? June 2021 Fri 11 June 2021
  • Spiritual damage Thu 19 November 2020
  • Change programming Sat 18 July 2020
  • Mosteller’s classroom hint Tue 14 July 2020
  • Universities and truth Mon 06 July 2020
  • Drearification Thu 18 June 2020
  • Lecturers (used to) value teaching Fri 13 March 2020
  • Lecturers are nearly all above average Fri 13 March 2020
  • Popularity of Python and Matlab Wed 26 February 2020
  • How is Julia doing? February 2020 Fri 07 February 2020
  • Data science tools over time Wed 05 February 2020
  • Python for teaching computer science Fri 06 December 2019
  • Chapter 3 of the Raspberry Pi book Fri 29 November 2019
  • The great university con Wed 11 September 2019
  • Thinking is the hardest work Thu 05 September 2019
  • Maths and a hard chair Wed 04 September 2019
  • The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science Mon 08 July 2019
  • You can’t do data science in a GUI Mon 08 July 2019
  • Blueprint for a modern university Thu 20 June 2019
  • Who is building the foundations? Tue 14 May 2019
  • How is Julia doing? Thu 11 April 2019
  • Python, and R, 2019 Wed 10 April 2019
  • What do you get if you don’t teach stats properly? Fri 05 April 2019
  • Python, Matlab, R and Julia Fri 05 April 2019
  • Comparing Python and Matlab for teaching in science Wed 08 November 2017
  • Teaching easy, teaching simple Fri 09 December 2016
  • How should we teach students to use computers? Fri 19 August 2016
  • Why do researchers write sloppy code? Fri 15 January 2016
  • Makes-sense epistemology Fri 15 January 2016
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