Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Link list of programming tips
A crowd-sourced list of recommendations for learning good programming style from the lab group.
Software Design in Python Pragmatic Programmer Clean Code Philosophy of Software Design Code Craft The Missing README Beyond the Basic Stuff Refactoring code All the little things Nothing is something
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Friday, February 12, 2021
50 Years of Data Science: Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics: Vol 26, No 4:
This paper is a great find. Not the least because the argument (statistics versus data science) was already in full swing 50 years ago.
I have no problem with predictive modelling, but it is a different task. And it does seem that the emphasis on ML has obscured the value (in a pendulum swing from the days of Tukey) on importance of understanding the generative model.
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