some kind of blog

Was just reading some interesting articles and thought it might be worth to share some of them here:

• Are we taking supercomputing code seriously?
• Odds Are, It’s Wrong: Science fails to face the shortcomings of statistics
• A survey of cross-validation procedures for model selection

There are lots of free books available on the internet. This page summarises some very good sites for books on topics such as computer programming, literature, etc.

The Best 6 Sites to Get Free Ebooks.

Just found some interesting stuff concerning functional programming using Python. Here are the links:

These articles are from a larger collection of pages on Python called Charming Python on the IBM website.

Boot PowerPC Macs via USB 2.0 drives

Well, should you ever be switching keyboards for your Mac computer, then you may be interested in the following. The following link is to an information sheet (that you may print out!!) which shows your for every symbol which key combination you need to produce it on your Mac keyboard. Or use it the other way round: which combination results in what symbol. In any way, it’s quite useful!
Reference for EVERY Character Key on a Mac

Part 1. Dabbling with a wealth of statistical facilities: Introduces basic conceptes of R and a general overview.

Part 2. Functional programming and data exploration: Shows vector slices, introduces dataframes and basic operations such as how to get histograms and linear regressions.

Part 3. Reusable and object-oriented programming: A concise but very useful introduction on the object oriented programming that R is capable of doing.