Article on R-bloggers about the Tufte...
Christopher Molnar http://www.r-bloggers.com/from-openoffice-noob-to-control-freak-a-love-story-with-r-latex-and-knitr/ writes that he is using knitr (pronounced: neater) for presentations and the Tufte LaTeX style. Seems like a good way to generate presentations automatically. I have also seen that some people, notably David Smith http://bl [...]
Reading Gibbon and found this comment...
“…the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous”. This seems so true and the fact that he wrote this in 1782, suggests that it is likely a universal truth.
Teaching with technology
I am disappointed that Steve Myers appears to have stopped blogging
on teaching with technology this is one of the really great blogs on using technology in the classroom, I really hope the Ipad didn’t put a stop to his blog. I hope he comes back.
Comparing Julia and Matlab
Her is a somewhat idiosyncratic comparison of Julia and Matlab/Octave by M. Bazdresch
A Matlab Programmer’s Take On Julia
The discussion concerning dimensionality of vectors is sort of interesting. Reading this I would like to see someone compare Julia and Python.
Comparing R and Julia
Douglas Bates has done a nice comparison of R and Julia. See here An R programmer looks at Julia
will try and come back to details if I get time. Very busy with other matters at the moment.
Thoughts on things that concern and i...
I am just getting started with this not sure where it will lead but thought I would try it out and put down my thoughts on things that concern and interest me here. A lot of people use these blogs for public comment I might do that but I will likely deal with more technical issues as well. Also because I am very busy don’t expect me to [...]
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