This is Jessica.  As literary agent and Epstein comrade John Brockman tells us, “Only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody else.” I was curious what serious thoughts we’ve been gifted by the men who … Continue reading → …

Both R and Python make it reasonably easy to work with compiled extensions. But how to access objects in one environment from the other and share state or (non-trivial) objects remains trickier. Recently (and while r-forge was ‘resting’ so we opened GitHub Discussions) a question was asked concerning R and Python object pointer exchange.

This lead to a pretty decent discussion including arrow interchange demos (pretty ideal if dealing with data.frame-alike objects), but once …

I don’t agree with everything that Freeman Dyson writes, but this review of a book by Columbia physicist Brian Greene was pretty good. It’s on the topic of string theory, which has come up before on this blog. Dyson begins … Continue reading → …