January 2009
7 posts
muxtape.com →
(via jstn)
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“It is kind of like going from an Xbox to an Atari.”
– Bill Burton, Obama spokesman, describing the new staff’s transition to current White House technology.
Robert Sosinski » The Difference Between Ruby... →
Kevin Clark covered this years ago, but this review is a bit more thorough.
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“If the government is to tell big business men how to run their business, then...”
– Woodrow Wilson, via Ed Glaeser @ Economix (NYT) arguing for “small-government egalitarianism”
The Modelers' Hippocratic Oath →
The Modelers’ Hippocratic Oath
I will remember that I didn’t make the world, and it doesn’t satisfy my equations.
Though I will use models boldly to estimate value, I will not be overly impressed by mathematics.
I will never sacrifice reality for elegance without explaining why I have done so.
Nor will I give the people who use my model false comfort about its accuracy....
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“R has really become the second language for people coming out of grad school...”
– Max Kuhn, associate director of nonclinical statistics, Pfizer @ NYT
“Instead of talking about requests per second, we should always be focused on the...”
– Michael Koziarski @ The Rails Way