Posted on Tue 17 December 2024 in misc
In a previous post, I discussed some of the dangers of challenges, dangers and weaknesses of Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLabs and their ilk. I used The Parables of Anne and Beth as a device to illustrate what I think of as good and bad practices for data science. A reasonable criticism …
Continue readingPosted on Thu 12 December 2024 in misc
In his novel Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein1 introduced the word grok. It is used all the time in the computing sphere, but rarely, as far as I know, outside it. The definition that seems to me most closely to match its usage is:
grok (transitive verb …
Continue readingPosted on Sun 22 September 2024 in misc
This is not, primarily, an article about TDDA, but I thought it was worth publishing here anyway. Itʼs a story about a kind of adware/malware incident I had this morning—with digressions about box plots.
I was doing some research for a book (on TDDA), looking up information …
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