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Better than pretty
Pretty R is a syntax formatter for R, it generates highlighted and properly indented R code suitable for including in an HTML document. Better yet, all the R keywords are linked back to an online reference manual at inside-r.org! Check it out. # multiple comparison with aov s <- read.table(“dogFoodSales.txt”,header=T) # fit the Read more
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Faster, please
Hey maybe the 21st Century will turn out OK after all: DARPA’s working on my friggin’ flying car! Tip from that unlikliest of Popular Scientists, the Instapundit. Read more
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Problems in evidence-based medicine
Ponder this the next time someone in the reality-based community tells you the “science is settled” based on peer-reviewed studies. Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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More tax dollars down a rathole
San Antonio is joining the ranks of hipster bike-friendly cities by unveiling our new Bike Sharing Posts, opening for business in January. For a mere $1 million in Federal funds, there will be 140 bikes available for tooling around downtown. Locals can get an annual subscription for $60. Arithmetic time! 140 bikes at $1 million, Read more
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That’s racist!
Boy, somebody’s gonna get scolded for calling Islamoterrorists the incompent perverts that they are. Where’s Rage Boy? Read more
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No wonder I stopped listening to this dimwit
CBS is going to let their bets ride on Kate Couric until they’ve lost all their shirts. That’s why Couric has spent recent weeks in Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is touring what she calls “this great unwashed middle of the country” in an effort to divine the mood of the Read more
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“Nobody ever got that much land without stealing it.”
I’m sure these two glitches are just coincidences. Nothing to see here, just move along…sucker. You can sit in the back. Update (26 October). “Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” —Goldfinger Read more
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Bert and Ernie, outed
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. —Otto von Bismarck Those outfits are at least metrosexual. Read more
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