Posts tagged aleph
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25 Apr, '25
Odds and ends for writing
༄> A few things that I need to remember when writing posts for this site: -
18 Apr, '25
Writing tools
༄> A few links to working with text editors: -
13 Feb, '25
Quantitative Genetics links
༄> A couple of links that could be useful for teaching: -
31 Dec, '24
Some git links
༄> Some links on git: -
27 Dec, '24
Optimal contribution HiGHS
༄> A new pre-print Robust Optimal Contribution Selection led by Josh Fogg. -
16 Dec, '24
Rust-eze
༄> Interesting post on Using Rust for Scientific Numerical applications: Learning from Past Experiences. -
30 Sep, '24
R / Rmarkdown / Quarto collaborative guide
༄> Good list for collaboration. -
28 Sep, '24
Type safety in R
༄> Introduction to r-lib type safety checks. -
16 Sep, '24
Why do anova(type=’marginal’) and anova(type=’III’) yield different results on lmer() models?
༄> A good answer in StackExchange. -
27 Aug, '24
R and Visual Studio Code
༄> Setup blog post by Aaron Schiff. -
19 Aug, '24
Suggested books
༄> I was asking about introductory Forest Mensuration and Forest Growth books and got: -
17 Aug, '24
DevOps for data science
༄> It looks like a handy book: DevOps for data science -
12 Jul, '24
Overinvesting on Artificial Intelligence
༄> Goldman Sachs Report Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit? -
12 Jul, '24
Trade Flows for Wood
༄> Worldbank’s World Integrated Trade Solution for wood. -
19 Apr, '24
Potential material for teaching
༄> Statistics for ecologists -
12 Apr, '24
Transforming Crop Breeding with Trait Extraction from Drone Imagery
༄> Quick popsci explanation of drone use in breeding. -
11 Apr, '24
Superindex and subindex in ggpairs axes labels
༄> I was having problems on the syntax to get the axis labels with subindices and superindices, as it didn’t work… -
11 Apr, '24
greenR: Green spaces in R
༄> Yesterday I was attending the Urban Forest Futures conference and there were several interesting presentations. Here is a couple of… -
5 Apr, '24
duckplyr: dplyr + DuckDB
༄> DuckDB released a new R package – duckplyr, which enables running dplyr functions using the DuckDB engine on the backend… -
4 Apr, '24
SQL: I always need a refresh
༄> The Querynomicon by “Mad Arab” Abdul Alhazred or Greg Wilson. Your pick. -
23 Mar, '24
I haven’t done an animation in R in ages
༄> So I needed to remember how to do it. Thie post “Building an animation step-by-step with gganimate” is pretty helpful:… -
16 Mar, '24
Genomic data analysis for beginners
༄> Video series by Gábor Mészáros on genomic data analysis. -
15 Mar, '24
Water stress, Dothistroma and remote sensing
༄> Long-term effects of water stress on hyperspectral remote sensing indicators in young radiata pine. -
15 Mar, '24
Experiments in glasshouse
༄> Blocking and re-arrangement of pots in greenhouse experiments: which approach is more effective? -
14 Mar, '24
Plant image analysis
༄> The pliman (plant image analysis) package is designed to analyze plant images, particularly for leaf and seed analysis. It offers… -
14 Mar, '24
Pedigree pruning
༄> ggroups: an R package for pedigree and genetic groups data. -
14 Mar, '24
Semantic Linefeeds
༄> Most documents go through several versions (always more than you expected) before they are finally finished. Accordingly, you should do… -
10 Mar, '24
Genetic competition
༄> Good explanation on fitting competition models in forest genetic trials using asreml: -
9 Mar, '24
Physics of coffee
༄> I’m often fascinated by the lengths people will go to get something they like, as in “Reaching Fuller Flavor Profiles… -
8 Mar, '24
Tabla de salvación
༄> Mi post Tuesday evening mid-life crisis tuvo buena acogida. Como acá en Nueva Zelanda ya es viernes en la tarde,… -
8 Mar, '24
Getting rid of convergence information in asreml
༄> I am coding simulations where I call asreml() and it was taking longer than necessary, because it was sending the… -
8 Mar, '24
Getting rid of bars and outliers in boxplots
༄> Sometimes I am testing graphs and I want to get rid of the lines (coef = 0) and outliers (outlier.shape… -
8 Mar, '24
A good entry point to Julia
༄> Danielle Navarro wrote a three-post series introducing Julia almost from scratch. Fantastic work. Bookmarking. -
3 Mar, '24
Keeping track of my links
༄> I have been using internet since 1993, which means thousands of browsed sites, broken links, storing and losing information for… -
3 Mar, '24
Basic course on population genetics
༄> Population genetics course by Bruce Weir and Jerome Goudet. I added it to the Internet Archive as well. -
3 Mar, '24
Improving genomic selection
༄> Would data augmentation improve the performance of within-family selection in forestry datasets? -
2 Mar, '24
Processing LiDAR
༄> Looking for alternatives to the lidR R package, for research purposes, plus some resources to start working on it. -
1 Mar, '24
Background on research and memex
༄> “As we may think” by Vannevar Bush (1945), the introduction of the Memex (local copy PDF) -
1 Mar, '24
AI/ML/LLM bubble is gonna pop
༄> Tim Bray making the case that there is an overly optimistic understanding or, another way, a general misunderstanding of LLM… -
29 Feb, '24
Oh my git!
༄> An open source game about learning Git! Just another way in which I won’t learn git 🙁 Only my efforts… -
29 Feb, '24
Tumblr and WordPress to sell users’ data to train AI tools
༄> As if the web was not dystopian enough, all of your content in hosted sites now becomes fodder for AI… -
17 Mar, '23
Flotsam 18: writing
༄> Adrian Kosmaczewski has an interesting post on How to write a programming book (using ASCIIDOC of all things). And another… -
18 Feb, '23
Flotsam 16: neovim
༄> Just to remember where things are in my neovim installation in MacOS: -
31 Jan, '23
Flotsam 15: inference
༄> Before I lose the link—as I’m deleting toots & tweets two weeks after I post the—I should save the address… -
24 Nov, '21
Flotsam 14: dev links
༄> Back doing some coding, playing with R packages and collaborating with someone else. This is an unusual situation for me,… -
10 Jul, '13
Flotsam 13: early July links
༄> Man flu kept me at home today, so I decided to do something ‘useful’ and go for a linkathon: -
1 Jun, '13
Flotsam 12: early June linkathon
༄> A list of interesting R/Stats quickies to keep the mind distracted: -
16 Apr, '13
Flotsam 11: mostly on books
༄> ‘No estaba muerto, andaba the parranda’† as the song says. Although rather than partying it mostly has been reading, taking… -
29 Nov, '12
Pythonic links
༄> Before I forget: a few links about starting up in Python for scientific projects: -
20 Aug, '12
Mid-August flotsam
༄> Reached mid-semester point, with quite a few new lectures to prepare. Nothing extremely complicated but, as always, the tricky part… -
6 Aug, '12
Early August flotsam
༄> Back teaching a couple of subjects and it’s the constant challenge to find enough common ground with students so one… -
29 May, '12
End of May flotsam
༄> The end is near! At least the semester is coming to an end, so students have crazy expectations like getting… -
26 Apr, '12
Late-April flotsam
༄> It has been month and a half since I compiled a list of statistical/programming internet flotsam and jetsam. -
8 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… -
18 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… -
7 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… -
17 Jan, '12
Mid-January flotsam: teaching edition
༄> I was thinking about new material that I will use for teaching this coming semester (starting the third week of…