I’ve committed one of the cardinal sins, according to the majority of productivity gurus. Not only did I invest time in my app, I wrote the app I use for my implementation of GTD, investing hundreds of hours over a period of years. And I’m not don...
This post is motivated by It doesn’t take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate that was posted on HN today. You’ll want to read that post first.
Another discussion of VS Code versus a classic text editor, this time Vim.
I recently opened to the public a project called betterr. There’s a lot going on there, but the basic idea is that you can use R as if it’s a shared library. Some of the functionality it provides:
It’s been a while since I’ve used R for parallel computing. Most of the time, the cost-benefit analysis comes down on the side of running a program sequentially on a single processor. I don’t do that many massive tasks that can take advantage of s...
I’ve been working on embedr and its successor for about a decade. I used to think the better approach was to call D functions from R, with the main program being written in R, and the bottlenecks rewritten in D. This makes sense if you’re talking...
The daily note is popular these days. Roam, Logseq, Obsidian, and probably a load of others offer a daily note feature. After learning about the concept, I decided to give it a try. I wanted to see if it was really as magical as they said. After ...
Reading Brad DeLong’s Slouching Towards Utopia, I was surprised to see that he explains events using the fiscal theory of the price level (FTPL). The FTPL is not my area of expertise. I’ve known about it for 25 years or so, as one of my grad schoo...
I wish I was writing more. Unfortunately, as “they” say, sometimes life gets in the way. There was the extended COVID sickness. Then not that long after I had that behind me, but before I had any chance to catch up, I got a different virus. That ...
It’s okay to be mediocre if you’re consistent. What I mean by that is that you generally can’t judge the quality of your work by looking at a single day.