LOTD: 2007-06-18
2007-06-18 / 16:14 / dave
- Jon Udell’s interview with Jeanette Wing (audio) about why everyone should think like computer scientists
- Bruce Schneier explains why we hate the TSA
- Setuptools sucks. I’ve never had a problem with it–I like the simplicity of
east_install decorator
–but I’ve never encountered any of the scenarios he mentions. But I like his point: whatever’s there wins by default. So make sure what’s there works. - Visualizing sort (using Cairo.) Snappy. My only exposure to Cairo has been via matplotlib, I’ll have to dig a little deeper.
- Mistakes in Experimental Design and Interpretation by Peter Norvig is a good refresher on how hard it is to set up a good experiment. The example about Fisher and smoking illustartes both 1) how easy it is to believe the wrong things and 2) how hard it is to “prove” anything.