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.

Installing VMware Tools in an Ubuntu virtual machine

Here is how.

Introduction to R Chapter for IFSWR Book

Useful resources here.

R and Swift candidate languages of the year

A pretty good year for R.

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.

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.

Useful Julia resources

This is a list of Julia resources for statistics.

Manjaro screenshot

My Manjaro desktop

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.