Show threadbs2Sep 22, 2024
> What project have you worked on do you wish you could go back to, and do better? ggplot2! ggplot2 is such a heavily used package, and I knew so little about R programming when I wrote it. It works (mostly) and I love it, but the internals are pretty hairy. Even I don’t understand how a lot of works these days.... https://peadarcoyle.wordpress.com/2015/08/02/interview-with-a-data-scientist-hadley-wickham/
#ggplot2 #Rggplot2
I love this guy, Wickham, but still feel drawn to Racket Plot, LOL's #DougHoyte approach to Blub comes to mind.
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Interview with a Data Scientist (Hadley Wickham)

I recently interviewed Hadley Wickham the creator of Ggplot2 and a famous R Stats person. He works for RStudio and his job is to work on Open Source software aimed at Data Geeks. Hadley is famous f…

Models are illuminating and wrong
bs2Jul 6, 2022
> One of the conclusions that we reached was that the "object" need not be a primitive notion in a programming language; one can build objects and their behaviour from little more than assignable value cells and good old lambda expressions. — #GuySteele on the design of #Scheme in #DougHoyte's #LetOverLambda has me thinking #LambdaTheBase as a helpful metaphor, something to demystify all the compact forms that can be overwhelming for the occasional would-be progammer.
https://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/guest/chap2.html
Let Over Lambda

Show threadbs2Jul 6, 2022
I think we need a #MinimalistProgram for everything. I've been wondering what the equivalent of #CKOgden's #BasicEnglish might be for #Racket or #Scheme. The #FossAndCrafts Scheme tutorial mentioned #LambdaTheUltimate and reminded me of #DougHoyte's #LetOverLambda book where he quote #GuySteele on primitives. I have Laozi in mind and want to think of #LambdaTheBase or #BasicLambda... With just lambda and an approach like #TheSchemersGuide learning could be in a very minimalist situation.