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1 + 2 + 3 + ... is not equal to -1/12, you gullible rubes
For some reason, a relatively uninteresting observation of Ramanujan has become a bit of an internet celebrity among factoids lately. Someone who's out to generate link bait makes a post stating that...
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How to Make a Bad Password with R
I have a lot of projects that will take ages to finish (some are in such poor shape that I tuck them away in private repositories, so no one can see my shame). So sometimes it's nice to just take a...
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Modern Applied Statistics in R'lyeh
So you've probably heard of King James Programming; if not, you should check it out because it's great. A quick summary is that someone took the King James Bible and Sussman's Structure and...
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"F-bombs" in GitHub Commits (warning: contains profanity)
Warning: this post contains profanity...arguably excessive amounts of it. If you are a humorless no-fun, you are recommended to proceed no further. Seriously though, the title is quite descriptive of...
View ArticleA New Use for Pipes in R: Forkbombs
Almost 3 years ago, I wrote about how to forkbomb with R. A quick recap is that a forkbomb is a low-tier, malicious misuse of a system; sort of a "baby's first denial of service". The idea is that you...
View ArticleIntroducing Rfiglet: ASCII logos from the comfort of R
The Rfiglet Package For those who don't know what figlet is, it's a command line utility for creating ascii logos. Rfiglet, therefore, is a set of R bindings for figlet. Works about like you would...
View ArticleA "did you mean?" Feature for R
Most search engines have a "did you mean?" feature, where suggestions are given in the presence of likely typos. And while search engines use sophisticated NLP methods on their vast amounts of...
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One of My Favorite R Oddities: dump()
R is full of things that make "real programmers" (I dislike this term) turn their noses up in disgust. One of my favorites is the dump() function. It is...odd. I think the best way to introduce it to...
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