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• End of May flotsam

  ༄> The end is near! At least the semester is coming to an end, so students have crazy expectations like getting…
  29 May, '12

• On point of view

  Often times we experience mental paralysis: we can only see a problem, a situation or a person from a single…
  21 May, '12

• My approach to presentations

  I give a fair number of presentations per year, some to university students (in classes from 6 to 90 students),…
  21 May, '12

• R’s increasing popularity. Should we care?

  Some people will say ‘you have to learn R if you want to get a job doing statistics/data science’. I…
  17 May, '12

• Bivariate linear mixed models using ASReml-R with multiple cores

  A while ago I wanted to run a quantitative genetic analysis where the performance of genotypes in each site was…
  7 May, '12

• Teaching code, production code, benchmarks and new languages

  I’m a bit obsessive with words. May be I should have used learning in the title, rather than teaching code.…
  30 Apr, '12

• Late-April flotsam

  ༄> It has been month and a half since I compiled a list of statistical/programming internet flotsam and jetsam.
  26 Apr, '12

• R, Julia and genome wide selection

  — “You are a pussy” emailed my friend. — “Sensu cat?” I replied. — “No. Sensu chicken” blurbed my now ex-friend.
  25 Apr, '12

• My setup

  Yesterday I accidentally started a dialogue in Twitter with the dude running The Setup. Tonight I decided to procrastinate in…
  17 Apr, '12

• On the destruction of a trial of genetically modified pines

  The media in New Zealand briefly covered the destruction of a trial with genetically modified pines (Pinus radiata D. Don,…
  16 Apr, '12