#fun

Have some sunshine! 银装素裹

#ML

Description of tables

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/gJZg/~3/jeMkmAfQxOk/totto-controlled-table-to-text.html

#fun

hmmm it must have been an endless reviewing process. 😱

#shameless

https://tools.kausalflow.com/

In the past years, I have been building a showcase of digital tools for academic researchers.
It started with some friends asking for recommendations of tools for reference management, visualization, note-taking, and so on ad infinitum.
So I built a GitHub repo to share what I have learned about these tools. This was way before the "awesome repo" concept. Later came the "GitHub awesome repo" shitstorm. Everyone is building an "awesome repo". I created a website for a better user experience to flee from the shitstorm.

Tools for Academic Research is a website for digital tool listings. At the moment, there are 154 tools listed. You can browse by tags or categories to find whatever you need. Or add an item (books, tools, reviews, etc) you love.

#TIL

https://stackoverflow.com/a/28142831/1477359

I had the same idea that git fast forward merge is more or less the same as rebase. Until I read this stackoverflow answer.

I guess we should always rebase whenever possible to maintain a clean history.

#cn
http://www.cddata.gov.cn/oportal/index
成都竟然有开放数据平台，而且做的还不错。

更新：
我发现有别的省市也有，难道是所有城市和省份已经统一了？都有这个开放数据平台？

#ML
http://jibencaozuo.com/
PaperClip made a platform for everyone to play with artificial neural networks.
My impression: it looks nice. The interactions can be better but I am sure the next iteration will be much better.

#ML

An interesting idea on time series predictions. Instead of predicting the exact time series, the author proposed a method to predict the future using ordinal patterns.

The figure shows how to disintegrate the time series into 8 overlapping short-term series (each with three numbers). To transform the short-term series into patterns, we write down the permutation pattern (for size of the series D=3, we have only 6 possible permutations). Then we will use the permutation patterns in the past to predict the patterns in the future.
BTW, this paper used the price of bitcoins as an example to test this method.
This method will not be super amazing. The point of this paper is to propose a simple method to predict the future using very limited resource.

This is the paper:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.201011
Short-term prediction through ordinal patterns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXRtNwUju5g

This is one of the hidden problems of our world. In some sense, the US is destroying the world. If you look at Germany, plastic recycling is much easier with all these machines in the stores. (or, is it?)

#fun

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/NotMyJob/comments/l3zv3o/of_course_i_proofread_the_paper_before_publication/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

#statistics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_and_independent_variables#Statistics_synonyms

The broken jargon system in statistics ...😱

> Depending on the context, an independent variable is sometimes called a "predictor variable", regressor, covariate, "controlled variable", "manipulated variable", "explanatory variable", exposure variable (see reliability theory), "risk factor" (see medical statistics), "feature" (in machine learning and pattern recognition) or "input variable." In econometrics, the term "control variable" is usually used instead of "covariate".

#til
https://youtu.be/3C2HVOB-g5s

So, volcanoes are very complicated.

介绍了一种基于粗略分类和顺序编号来整理数字内容的方法。分类的部分跟我目前整理文件的方式很类似，编号的做法则给我带来一些启发：令人联想到跟政府打交道时使用的一些表格，比如 I-140、1099-B 等。看似是随意的字符序列，但所有熟悉话题的人都明确它们是什么。

https://johnnydecimal.com/

#fun

The authors have got too many questions regarding Chinese translations....

Ref: https://www.deeplearningbook.org/

#TIL

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/l4y427/til_larry_hillblom_the_h_of_dhl_regularly_took/

> TIL Larry Hillblom, the H of DHL, regularly took "sex safari" trips to Asia to prey on underage girls. When he died in a plane crash, 4 of the illegitimate children he fathered were able to claim $50 million each from his estate.

#git
https://mergebase.com/doing-git-wrong/2018/03/07/fun-with-git-pull-rebase/

> Some people claim “git fetch; git rebase origin/master” is equivalent to “git pull -r”, but it isn’t.

git pull -r also deals with squashes.

#TIL
> Rebase hell happens when several commits on your branch edit the same area, and upstream also touched the same area. The problem occurs because each conflict resolution will itself conflict with the subsequent commit in the series.

#science
https://distill.pub/2017/research-debt/

> Research debt is the accumulation of missing interpretive labor. It’s extremely natural for young ideas to go through a stage of debt, like early prototypes in engineering.

That is because our value system doesn’t respect interpretors…