AIMs/SNPs, genomic ancestry and measurement error
The fewer SNPs (which may be AIMs or not) used to estimate individual-level ancestry, the higher the measurement error. Here I just dump some findings related to this topic. The…
Number and size of computer monitors and productivity: a review
A colleague of mine has an old crappy computer. I am thinking about searching for some money to buy him a newer one with two large screens. This got me…
How to add names to choroplethr ggplot2 maps
A brief tutorial on how to add names to choroplethr maps in R.
Talks from ISIR 2016 Saint Petersburg
Some of the talks from ISIR 2016 in Saint Petersburg are now online. In particular, I enjoyed Detterman's talk, but of course I think he is too pessimistic about reproductive…
Important gender gaps
Following the publication of another gender pay gap article, I wondered: What kinds of gender gaps do people think are important to talk about? Googling stuff is a crude measure…
Cognitive ability and political preferences in Denmark: knitr edition
http://rpubs.com/EmilOWK/208757 Analysis of the data collected so far, presented side by side with R code. It will be expanded into a proper paper and submitted to OQSPS soonish. Soonish here…
Embryo selection and genetic correlated traits: A reanalysis
There seem to be ways to post knitr documents to Wordpress blogs, but until that's set up, I will be publishing them over at RPubs and posting a link here.…
Python: Removing empty lists from mixed nested lists
Suppose you have some function that returns possibly nested lists with empty lists inside. Worse, they may have lists with lists with an empty list inside. And suppose you want…
Installing the gsl package for R on Linux Mint 18
Today I was trying to install the MBESS package. One of its dependencies is the gsl package. However, trying to install that package gave the following error: cp: cannot stat…