Rule 42 Software
Continuing (and hopefully ending) our quick series on software pathologies I would like to follow-up The Hyper Dance with “Rule 42 Software.”
The Hyper Dance
A lot of machine learning, statistical, plotting, and analytics algorithms over-sell a small evil trick I call “the hyper dance.”
Thumbs up for Anaconda
One of the things I like about R is: because it is not used for systems programming you can expect to install your own current version of R without interference from some system version of R that is deliberately being held back at some older version (for reasons of script […]
Do your tools support production or complexity?
Stop and think: which of our tools are making us smarter and which of our tools are making us dumber. In my opinion tools and habits that support complexity literally train us to be dumber.