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Yes, and I get just as tired of the hearing ill-informed religious zealots crying over the threat of the phrase, "under god," being removed from the pledge, when that phrase was added after the fact by President Eisenhauer. Try saying the pledge without those two words. I think that the phrase, "one nation indivisible," sounds more meainingful anyway, and doesn't alienate any portion of the public whether Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Atheist, or otherwise.
Yes, exactly. And besides, no one language/tool is going to work best for every application. The 'integrative' approach illustrated above is a good example of how one might optimize their toolbox to fit a specific problem.
I hate to sound trollish, but Python seems to handle loops quite well, and I find them intuitively easier to implement than in C/C++. The next time the author uses Numeric Python maybe he should give for or while a try. Plus there are other modules such as sci.py and scientific python that offer other tools, and Python integrates well with R, gnuplot, GRASS, and other computational tools. And I find C++ to be pretty zippy speed-wise.
According to top level sources broadcasting out of Pahrump, Nevada (ie Art Bell), we've yet to make the trip. It will be embarrassing when some new lunar probe confirms this;)
A beginner should try the Python Tutorial at python.org or the O'Reilly book Learning Python by Lutz and Ascher. Both are better intro, and the Python Tutorial can get you programming in a day, especially if you have programming experience. Another online book available from the python site that is also very helpful is Dive Into Python by Pilgrim.
Also, I wouldn't brand this book "how to think like a compuyer scientist" because it glosses over too many basic concepts. A course in C or C++ is IMO more in line with beginning to think like a computer scentist. Only after mastering the basic concepts presented in one of these languages (or their equivalent) can you even really begin to appreciate the elegance of a language like python.
Not to change the subject, but a list of books not to recommend might be as useful as knowing the good ones, especially given the price of technical books...kind of like in college when you thought it might be cool to read James Joyce but later found that they were unreadable.
These are truly beautiful books. I actually keep TVDQI on my living room coffee table...and sometimes even find some of my more my quantitatively inhibited friends perusing the pages.
Another book I forgot to mention is Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS by Venables and Ripley (Springer, 3rd ed.). It applies to both the S-PLUS software package and the open source package R. Additionally, Ripley contributes much code to the R project and also seems to respond well to specific questions to do with R. I highly recommend R to those who need a high powered stats and plotting package...it's well worth the learning curve.
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Yes, and I get just as tired of the hearing ill-informed religious zealots crying over the threat of the phrase, "under god," being removed from the pledge, when that phrase was added after the fact by President Eisenhauer. Try saying the pledge without those two words. I think that the phrase, "one nation indivisible," sounds more meainingful anyway, and doesn't alienate any portion of the public whether Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Atheist, or otherwise.
Yes, exactly. And besides, no one language/tool is going to work best for every application. The 'integrative' approach illustrated above is a good example of how one might optimize their toolbox to fit a specific problem.
I hate to sound trollish, but Python seems to handle loops quite well, and I find them intuitively easier to implement than in C/C++. The next time the author uses Numeric Python maybe he should give for or while a try. Plus there are other modules such as sci.py and scientific python that offer other tools, and Python integrates well with R, gnuplot, GRASS, and other computational tools. And I find C++ to be pretty zippy speed-wise.
According to top level sources broadcasting out of Pahrump, Nevada (ie Art Bell), we've yet to make the trip. It will be embarrassing when some new lunar probe confirms this ;)
A beginner should try the Python Tutorial at python.org or the O'Reilly book Learning Python by Lutz and Ascher. Both are better intro, and the Python Tutorial can get you programming in a day, especially if you have programming experience. Another online book available from the python site that is also very helpful is Dive Into Python by Pilgrim.
Also, I wouldn't brand this book "how to think like a compuyer scientist" because it glosses over too many basic concepts. A course in C or C++ is IMO more in line with beginning to think like a computer scentist. Only after mastering the basic concepts presented in one of these languages (or their equivalent) can you even really begin to appreciate the elegance of a language like python.
...so instead of saying a good dj is 'bad', we can now say he is LAME!
Not to change the subject, but a list of books not to recommend might be as useful as knowing the good ones, especially given the price of technical books...kind of like in college when you thought it might be cool to read James Joyce but later found that they were unreadable.
Any non-suggestions???
These are truly beautiful books. I actually keep TVDQI on my living room coffee table...and sometimes even find some of my more my quantitatively inhibited friends perusing the pages.
Another book I forgot to mention is Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS by Venables and Ripley (Springer, 3rd ed.). It applies to both the S-PLUS software package and the open source package R. Additionally, Ripley contributes much code to the R project and also seems to respond well to specific questions to do with R. I highly recommend R to those who need a high powered stats and plotting package...it's well worth the learning curve.
So will our donation get us into GnomeDrake or ManGnome Club? ;)
>and even though I am not a Mandrake fan per se, I applaud them for their courage in standing up to this nonsense.
You are applauding them for their efforts to be charlatans of the community!
They stand up only when they think it might cost them a buck or two.