Wednesday, December 31, 2014

wxMEdit

wxMEdit is the reincarnation of the once popular text/hex editor called MadEdit. I liked the editor but not its icon (the one with teeth). The new editor looks pleasant and snappy. I think it handles very large file size.

Saturday, December 20, 2014

Thursday, December 11, 2014

R vs. RRO (OpenBALS vs. MKL)

The Revolution R Open (RRO) just released a new version based on R 3.12 (Intel MKL). I installed this on Mint 17.1. Now I want to compare its performance against the vanilla R 3.12 I installed on Manjaro a few days earlier, which as compiled against OpenBLAS. I used the benchmark test provided here.

RRO + MKL: 7.347 sec
R + OpenBLAS: 7.557 sec

Now it's a tie.

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Lighttable as a Julia IDE

Unconventional but very exciting.

The Chinese Century

The Chinese Century, by Joseph Stiglitz.

Why R is Hard to Learn

A long list of reasons here. Power and flexibility do come with a price, I guess. From a user perspective, a big part of learning R is about identifying a set of key packages that suite your needs best.

Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Useful Julia resources

This is a list of Julia resources for statistics.

Saturday, December 06, 2014

Thursday, December 04, 2014

Manjaro 0.8.11

The newly released Manjaro Linux is surprisingly stable and polished. After playing with it for a day (virtual machine installation), I think I am going to keep it. As it matures, it can be a viable competitor for a serious workstation OS.

Not the mention the fact that it is a rolling release so one always gets the latest and greatest of everything.

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