Brandon Hall @bthall@scholar.social

Never pass up an opportunity to learn something new about statistics

As the #PinePhone ($150 Linux smartphone) development is moving fast, a series of articles might be redundant and confusing for most people. This article, to be dynamically updated as development proceeds, gathers what is known at this stage, and will hopefully be an answer to some of your questions.

You can read our latest article on TuxPhones.com: https://tuxphones.com/pinephone-pictures-specs-release-date-software-support/

#pine64 #linux #privacy

RT @GarethSoye@twitter.com

Now I know what owl legs look like and life can never be the same again.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GarethSoye/status/1162748129973821445

Trying a similar request again: can anyone recommend a good #OpenAccess journal that covers environmental justice?

Generating argumentation maps by writing the logical structure of an argument: https://argdown.org/

Interesting stuff. This could also be used for digging into arguments and assumptions about #futures.

Open-mindedness... "How Intellectual Humility Can Make Us More Curious, Reflective & Able to Learn More: Read the Findings of a New Study" http://www.openculture.com/2019/07/how-intellectual-humility-can-make-us-more-curious-reflective-able-to-learn-more.html

The traditional method for forced rhubarb goes back nearly 200 years.

Rhubarb is planted in fields, fertilised well with manure, and left to grow pretty much wild for 2 years. During this time, it'll store a ton of energy in its roots as carbohydrates. Then at the start of Winter, the rhubarb is moved somewhere warm and completely dark.

In the darkness, the plants start to grow vivaciously, converting those carbs into sugars. As a result, it's sweeter and more tender than Summer rhubarb.

I found what appears to be a major data entry error in the Drugs@FDA database

Or rather, about 1400 data entry errors

If you have reproducibility issues with Jupyter notebooks you should give a shot to Nextjournal (https://nextjournal.com/)

Here's a great presentation of the platform by the company CEO

https://youtu.be/MI9tl-3kNS0

Academic life, that means conferences. They are an important part of science: Many of my collaboration projects were thought up at a conference or brought into a public form for one. We may (and should) find other ways to present our work and network with potential new colleagues in the future, but for now it means I sit at the airport to fly half around the globe and back to meet other people doing the same, which is clearly not sustainable. What ideas for alternatives are out there?

Reading Akerloff’s “A Theory of Social Custom, of which unemployment may be one consequence” in his An Economic Theorist’s Book of Tales (1984)

Run across a formulation which is similar to some of my charitability thoughts for social groups.

@bthall if i'm not mistaken, this already exists. for example, if you're in a julia shell, you can type

?≥

and you get this:
```
help?> ≥
"≥" can be typed by \ge<tab>
search: ≥

>=(x, y)
≥(x,y)

Greater-than-or-equals comparison operator. Falls back to y <= x.

Examples
≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡

julia> 'a' >= 'b'
false

julia> 7 ≥ 7 ≥ 3
true

julia> "abc" ≥ "abc"
true

julia> 5 >= 3
true
```

@bthall I would try visualising the data points from both perspectives. I've found RapidMiner a good software (non free for productive purposes) for doing this. It allows you to apply most data science algorithms, visualize them and find connections or new data points. Once I find a good representation of my data, I can move the actual implementation to something more efficient (R, Numpy, scikit, etc)