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• R, Julia and the shiny new thing

  My head exploded a while ago. Perhaps not my head but my brain was all mushy after working every day…
  12 Apr, '12

• Having a break cycling

  [◉¯] I’ve spent the last three weeks working in a project that:
  22 Mar, '12

• Early-March flotsam

  ༄> It has been a strange last ten days since we unexpectedly entered grant writing mode. I was looking forward to…
  8 Mar, '12

• The weirdness of ebooks

  A couple of weeks ago I got a Sony Reader PRS-T1 through the use of Flybuys (a loyalty card scheme…
  8 Mar, '12

• Eucalypt earthquake memories

  [◉¯] This week was the first anniversary of the February 22nd earthquake in Christchurch. Between that and the first week of…
  26 Feb, '12

• Mid-February flotsam

  ༄> This coming Monday we start the first semester in Canterbury (and in New Zealand for that matter). We are all…
  18 Feb, '12

• If you have to use circles…

  Stats Chat is an interesting kiwi site—managed by the Department of Statistics of the University of Auckland—that centers around the…
  15 Feb, '12

• Revisiting homicide rates

  A pint of R plotted an interesting dataset: intentional homicides in South America. I thought the graphs were pretty but…
  11 Feb, '12

• Oracle’s strange understanding of R users

  After reading David Smith’s on the price of Oracle R Enterprise (actually free, but it requires Oracle Data Mining at…
  9 Feb, '12

• Early-February flotsam

  ༄> Mike Croucher at Walking Randomly points out an interesting difference in operator precedence for several mathematical packages to evaluate a…
  7 Feb, '12