Slots and Pipes
Recent explorations in R have reminded me about two ways of thinking about how you refer to objects or (parts of objects) in the language.
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The paths in the wood
I began writing this post after realising that it is the first of June and I might as well attempt once more to write a post every day. The …
What is FFI anyway?
At the moment I can’t compile this blog locally because my ruby-ffi install is somehow wrong and is preventing Jekyll from running on my …
A Little Lesson in R
I had to compute an indicator this week. It had confidence intervals that relied on taking 100,000 samples from the indicator’s …
Personal ggplot tips and tweaks
I love making plots in R with ggplot. However, there are always a few niggles that I forget about between plots. I wrote this post so that I …
Swaptastic Part 3: The Shiny App
The shiny app embedded below allows you to explore the number of packets you need to complete the Panini sticker album for this …
Swaptastic Part 2
As a follow-up to my post about the Euro 2016 Panini Stickers, I’ve now completed the collection with the help of an online swapping …
Learn X in Y Minutes
I found “Learn X in Y minutes” (www.learnxinyminutes.com) while researching the programming languages needed for a new project. …
Building Brains
This is a longer form post about artificial intelligence inspired by reading a little bit of “The Pale King” by David Foster …
Programming a Carcassonne Game
Although I have put off finishing my UNO game for over eighteen months, I thought I would get started with another pet project of mine: …
Programming an UNO game, part 2
It turns out that programming the UNO game is not that complicated once you start designing the thing. This post will get the rules and game …
