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The data may not contain the answer
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. John W Tukey in Sunset Salvo. 1986. The American Statistician 40(1): 72-76.
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Flotsam 17: maps
Tiling is one of the big pieces to put together nice, interactive maps. How The Post is replacing Mapbox with open source solutions describe the tech behind solving this problem with Open Source software.
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Reviewing a manuscript in two hours
Today I declined to review a manuscript for a journal because the English language in the title and abstract, which is the only part I received, was quite poor. The manuscript sounded more or less interesting, but the time and effort to deal with it was something that I could not afford and simultaneously maintain […]
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Entrevista: información de fondo
El jueves pasado, miércoles en Chile, grabamos una entrevista con Gabriel León. Espero haber dejado claro que era mi opinión personal, en el sentido que no representa una posición institucional, pero también en el sentido de que está informada por 30 años de mi ejercicio profesional. Gabriel me contactó partiendo de ver algunos de mis […]
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Flotsam 16: neovim
Just to remember where things are in my neovim installation in MacOS: The init file follows the structure presented in here: https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug pointing to the location of the plugins as:
I am Luis Apiolaza and this site is a constant rewriting of my notes, images and sounds. Transient thoughts live in @ojala (Mastodon) or zentree (Twitter), photos end up at 500px, and very sporadic writing in Spanish shows up in Tren de Carga.
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