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Bourne Shell Functions In Pipelines
Sep 23 2008, 11:02 permalinkI spent quite some time trying to debug a simple shell script which used a function modifying global variables. The problem turned out to be a different behaviour of a shell function when that's called from a pipeline.
Fitting Quadratic Models In R
Jul 14 2008, 12:35 permalinkI guess it's fairly obvious to statistics gurus, but I've spent quite some time trying to figure out how to fit a quadratic model (with linear coefficients) in R. Here's how.
WadcomBlog 0.3 Released
Jul 05 2008, 13:15 permalinkI've just released WadcomBlog 0.3. The major change in this version is getting rid of a notion of category (which you might have already noticed by looking at my blog).
WadcomBlog 0.2 Released
Feb 21 2008, 13:13 permalinkI've finally got around to release WadcomBlog version 0.2, with help from Oley in testing. Most important changes include tag cloud support and many more customizable settings.
Installing (Russian) LaTeX On MacOS X
Feb 03 2008, 11:15 permalinkToday I had to install LaTeX (with Russian support) on another Mac. Since it took me some time (and trial and error), I'm jotting down the recipe.
Small Ideas For A Better Programming Language (Part 1)
Jan 16 2008, 13:00 permalinkSome time ago I've started taking notes of things that I would implement in a "perfect" programming language if I was creating one. I'm starting with minor and/or vague general things which I'm pretty positive about.
DITrack Is Worth A Million Bucks
Oct 30 2007, 13:15 permalinkDITrack appeared on Ohloh.net yesterday and per the system's evaluation, it's worth $1,296,764. Hey, dudes, please make the check payable to my name! :-)
Command Line Image Resizing On Mac
Aug 03 2007, 14:27 permalinkI was long looking for a quick way to resize images (without loading them into iPhoto or what not). After digging into Jason Molenda's Makethumbs I've finally found one.
Home-made Music
Aug 01 2007, 14:56 permalinkI've been playing guitar for quite some time (though still at pretty amateurish level) and recently started recording some stuff. Here are two pieces that I think are the best of what I've done so far.
Cyrillic Fonts In R Plots
May 20 2007, 13:46 permalinkI've been using the R Project to perform statistic-related tasks in my ongoing Ph.D work. It's a great system and the only thing I had missed so far was the ability to annotate plots with russian texts in cyrillic. Of course R is capable of that, but I haven't seen complete recipes on how to do it anywhere on the web.