As part of my “re-learn some statistics” goal for the year, I enrolled myself in the Data Analysis course taught through Coursera by Jeff Leek. It looked like a good survey of statistical and analytical methods and combined that with some R programming skills. So with that in mind, I signed myself up for the […]
germinating peas Willie Nelson and Tonto runner’s diet: meat “Search Term Haiku” is a series wherein I examine this site’s log files and construct one or more haiku poems from search terms and phrases that led visitors to the site. Where possible, I attempt to keep the search phrases intact. However, as these are haiku […]
Broken Promises Drew Crawford’s response to James Coglan's post about Node.js and Promises. (And yes, it has the same title as Mikeal Rogers' post — vide infra…) Also long, also worth reading. His promises : callbacks :: for-loops : while-loops analogy may or may not be completely appropriate, but I thought it was reasonably illustrative […]
First quarter of 2013 is wrapping up. How’d I do on my goals? Let’s take a look…
Programming languages ranked by expressiveness The Donnie Berkholz graph that's making the rounds. At the very least it's interesting, even if you ("I") don't necessarily agree with all the results and suspect that the data may indicate a sampling bias. (And as a friend points out, he doesn't seem to have accounted for whether/not the […]
The Most Notorious Counterfeiter Albert Talton Fascinating story about the man who put about $7 million worth of counterfeit bills into circulation. And it sounds like he got just about all his supplies at his local Staples. Just crazy. (tagged: counterfeit ) How to lose weight (in the browser) BrowserDiet.com: a pretty good list of […]
Star Wars Family Tree Inappropriate Kissing At Joe Stone Graphic Design. (tagged: none) fun.js At Fogus' blog. He's written a book about functional programming in JavaScript (with a healthy dose of Underscore.js to boot). I've had the unique pleasure of getting to review the manuscript, and let me just say that this is just as […]
She mentions that someone is asleep in the backyard. Or if not asleep then passed out. Curled up in the backseat of a car with two large and fluffy dogs piled on top of him. Grass is grown up around the car, like it has been abandoned for years. You head out into the back […]
Back from Florida. It was a pretty sweet vacation. Complete set of pictures is on Flickr.
Twitter archive 1 + R = nerdy charts! From my start in 2007 through approximately mid-February 2013. Six years![↩]