Installing the latest version of R on Ubuntu/Mint
I wrote about this before, but since this is a frequent problem and my last post wasn't brief, here's a shorter version. The primary way to install software in Linux…
Amphetamine vs. methylphenidate for ADHD
Brief summary of thinking: The war on drugs makes it difficult or impossible to study drugs on the ban list. A drug's presence on the ban list is primary due…
Crowdsourcing a dataset: Multiparty democracies, election thresholds and running for parliament
I've decided to re-do my old and not too well done 2013 study. It goes like this, for multiparty democracies: Countries differ in the number of houses: 1 vs. 2.…
Preparation for: Municipality level social inequality in Brazil
I was reviewing a paper on social inequality in Brazil at the state level (I published one myself in 2015), and it struck me that one should be able to…
Syncthing: some notes and recommendations
Syncthing is a open source synchronization application. It's a replacement for the closed source Bittorrent Sync (BTS). If you are currently using BTS, I recommend switching because 1) it's closed…