Has StackOverflow jumped the shark ? I have a bro, he works for a scientific institution, he's a really good coder/mathematician and a bit on the "OCD side for PRECISION" and such. He made a number of scientific publications so "he knows how to write/expose things" plus he often teaches stuff too. When he exposes "this is the problem, that's what I need" he's VERY clear".. so .. he put a few questions on Stack Overflow .. the last one was "does it exist a C++ library to write CONT.
@gilesgoat I have positive experiences from SO, but I don't know the C++ community. "Is there a library for..." questions are off topic but maybe this wasn't explained very clearly. I had the same issue to begin with, if you don't know how questions should be asked it can come across as unhelpful.
Hey #rstats gang, in my attempt to make the violin plots useful I am trying to overlay the true values of the simulation on the violins. Preferably tiny horizontal lines, but points are ok. This is as far as I got, since the true values have different names (b1,b3) as the simulation values (mrdoc2_b1_hat ...) I cannot overlay one on the other, how to go about it?
I wouldn't normally put out two calls for good vibes in one day, but today is different. My best bud Sammy has been hit by an extremely aggressive tumor or inflammation. His doctor is awesome, but his chances are poor, and we'll probably need to do the needful thing in a few days if he isn't feeling better. We're focusing on making him as comfy as possible and trying to get him to take his meds.
Fun🤪fact: you can generate a julia set inside ðe mandelbrot set by just switching c to a constant halfway θru 🐱
(ðo a lot of points escape from ðis, so it's only visible wiθ escape time / orbit traps)
I generally try to keep up to date and stop using superseded #rstats functions. However, I continually use several {scales} functions that have been superseded: percent(), number(), comma(), dollar(), etc. I know I can use label_percent() in ggplot, but I often want to create nicely formatted values during data wrangling.
Are there better alternatives for these particular functions?
If you teach, at what point do you stop teaching functions that have been superseded?
@dgkeyes I don't think it matters what you teach. So long as you remind students to stay in the loop with new developments, and that they'll see all kinds of code to perform the same task. Whatever you teach could be superseded soon enough anyway.
Israel—a terrorist state committing genocide in Palestine backed by the US, Canada, and the UK—has just destroyed the office building of the Belgian Agency for Development Cooperation in Gaza as retaliation a day after Belgium announced it would continue to fund the vital humanitarian work of UNRWA.
Anyone got any good ideas for things that are good to buy in bulk with long shelf lives?
My top two favourites are tinned tomatoes, I use at least 1 tin a week, and tinned oily fish, 2 tins a week - both reward bulk buying in savings and there is zero problem with shelf life.
Oh, I also buy soap and toothpaste in bulk too.
It takes effort to get there, but once you are ahead, the savings are significant!