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R Programming – Improvements in the Language
8+ hour, 44+ min ago (782+ words) The function fwrite was written by Otto Seiskari and Matt Dowle and first released in 2016. It became fully parallel by 2020; it is 10-100 times faster than the alternative write functions. For reading comma delimited files (CSV files) the companion fread function…...
CFACT comments on using AI to understand big bodies of research
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1395+ words) The focus of their RFI is on using AI models to do research. But we pointed out that they can also be used to understand what is going on in research across the huge number of publications that are often…...
The Curious Case of the Missing Data
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (682+ words) In 1850, may I remind you, Dickens was writing David Copperfield, California was admitted to the Union as the 31st state and vast areas of the earth were still unexplored. 1900 brought the Boxer Rebellion (China), the Boer War (South Africa) and the…...
The Emergence of Emergence
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (495+ words) Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach "I'm going camping, and I'm taking a tent, a sleeping bag, a hatchet, and ___" "Based on your camping list'tent, sleeping bag, hatchet'the next logical and essential item to bring would be a flashlight. A flashlight…...
(Grid) Inertia explained
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (25+ words) Layman's guide to system inertia from Kathryn Porter Layman's guide to system inertia from Kathryn Porter Discover more from Watts Up With That?...