The sibling control design
A friend of mine and his brother just received their 23andme results. In a table they look like this (I have added myself for comparison): Macrorace Bro1 Bro2 Emil European…
Tox, a decent alternative to Skype etc.
This post is severely outdated, and only kept here for historical reasons. For years I have looked for a good alternative to Skype. Skype has some nice features including: Group…
Developers refuse to make it possible to disable automatic, forced date recognition in Libre Office
It's a really annoying 'feature'. I'm searching for a way to disable the very annoying number formatting in Libre Office Calc. Whenever I enter some number or a string containing…
DMCA for Lewontin’s fallacy (paper)
DMCA email: VIA EMAIL: Demand for Immediate Take-Down: Notice of Infringing Activity Date: April 24, 2015 URL: http://filepost.com/ Dear Sir or Madam, We have been made aware that the domain…
Error handling in R is odd
So you want to run some code that may throw an error? This is somewhat less common with R than with e.g. php. It is quite simple in Python: The…
Fixing FPS and mouse lag for Dungeon Keeper 2 on windows 8.1
After playing War for the Overworld (unofficial DK3), I felt that I needed to play the real version. So I downloaded a version of DK2 from here. The game opens…
Measuring scientific knowledge: can we use questions that are denied by the religious?
In reply to http://www.ljzigerell.com/?p=534 and his working paper here: http://www.ljzigerell.com/?p=2376 We are discussing his working paper over email, and I had some reservations about his factor analysis. I decided to…
RCurl in R on Mint 17
So I was installing something (forgot what), and had problems with RCurl: * installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ... ** package ‘RCurl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked checking for curl-config...…
Sometimes doing elementary things in R is a pain
Getting a percentage table from a dataframe A reviewer asked me to: 1) As I said earlier, there should be some data on the countries of origin of the immigrant…
W values from the Shapiro-Wilk test visualized with different datasets
For a mathematical explanation of the test, see e.g. here. However, such an explanation is not very useful for using the test in practice. Just what does a W value…
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