Posts tagged aleph

• Some git links

  ༄> Some links on git:
  31 Dec, '24

• Optimal contribution HiGHS

  ༄> A new pre-print Robust Optimal Contribution Selection led by Josh Fogg.
  27 Dec, '24

• Rust-eze

  ༄> Interesting post on Using Rust for Scientific Numerical applications: Learning from Past Experiences.
  16 Dec, '24

• R / Rmarkdown / Quarto collaborative guide

  ༄> Good list for collaboration.
  30 Sep, '24

• Type safety in R

  ༄> Introduction to r-lib type safety checks.
  28 Sep, '24

• Why do anova(type=’marginal’) and anova(type=’III’) yield different results on lmer() models?

  ༄> A good answer in StackExchange.
  16 Sep, '24

• R and Visual Studio Code

  ༄> Setup blog post by Aaron Schiff.
  27 Aug, '24

• Suggested books

  ༄> I was asking about introductory Forest Mensuration and Forest Growth books and got:
  19 Aug, '24

• DevOps for data science

  ༄> It looks like a handy book: DevOps for data science
  17 Aug, '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.
  12 Jul, '24

• Potential material for teaching

  ༄> Statistics for ecologists
  19 Apr, '24

• Transforming Crop Breeding with Trait Extraction from Drone Imagery

  ༄> Quick popsci explanation of drone use in breeding.
  12 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…
  11 Apr, '24

• duckplyr: dplyr + DuckDB

  ༄> DuckDB released a new R package – duckplyr, which enables running dplyr functions using the DuckDB engine on the backend…
  5 Apr, '24

• SQL: I always need a refresh

  ༄> The Querynomicon by “Mad Arab” Abdul Alhazred or Greg Wilson. Your pick.
  4 Apr, '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:…
  23 Mar, '24

• Genomic data analysis for beginners

  ༄> Video series by Gábor Mészáros on genomic data analysis.
  16 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?
  15 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…
  14 Mar, '24

• Genetic competition

  ༄> Good explanation on fitting competition models in forest genetic trials using asreml:
  10 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…
  9 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.
  8 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?
  3 Mar, '24

• Processing LiDAR

  ༄> Looking for alternatives to the lidR R package, for research purposes, plus some resources to start working on it.
  2 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…
  1 Mar, '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…
  29 Feb, '24

• Flotsam 18: writing

  ༄> Adrian Kosmaczewski has an interesting post on How to write a programming book (using ASCIIDOC of all things). And another…
  17 Mar, '23

• Flotsam 16: neovim

  ༄> Just to remember where things are in my neovim installation in MacOS:
  18 Feb, '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…
  31 Jan, '23

• Flotsam 14: dev links

  ༄> Back doing some coding, playing with R packages and collaborating with someone else. This is an unusual situation for me,…
  24 Nov, '21

• Flotsam 13: early July links

  ༄> Man flu kept me at home today, so I decided to do something ‘useful’ and go for a linkathon:
  10 Jul, '13

• Flotsam 12: early June linkathon

  ༄> A list of interesting R/Stats quickies to keep the mind distracted:
  1 Jun, '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…
  16 Apr, '13

• Pythonic links

  ༄> Before I forget: a few links about starting up in Python for scientific projects:
  29 Nov, '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…
  20 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…
  6 Aug, '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…
  29 May, '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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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…
  17 Jan, '12