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Comment · 4 months ago
Sorry for the confusion. Though, it is a mango tree in a mango garden! The continued development and maintenance of plotnine is supported by Posit, PBC, the same company behind the Tidyverse.

Disclaimer: I am the author.

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Comment · 5 years ago
It is a summary of a rather well known book of the same title.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
It depends on how many decimal places you are printing

    >>> f'{b:.54f}'
    0.299999999999999988897769753748434595763683319091796875
    >>> f'{x:.16g}'
    0.3
    >>> f'{x:.17g}'
    0.29999999999999999
Comment · 5 years ago
Plotnine uses other packages in the scientific Python ecosystem. That is probably where the abbreviations that irk you come from. In some cases those "abbreviations" have roots 20 years deep!
Comment · 6 years ago
There is geothermal energy if it has a molten core.
Comment · 6 years ago
An interesting note is, the footprints where formed on the supercontinent Pangea.
Comment · 6 years ago
I think it would be helpful for discourse if you read the article in full.
Comment · 6 years ago
May be strange at a first glance but binary/boolean logic/reasoning/quantification is just a special case of probability theory. This is covered exhaustively in Probability Theory: The Logic Science, by E.T Jaynes.

And so "tend" and "iron law" are interpreted as assertions of different levels of certainty, where "tend" implies a certainty greater than 50% and "iron law" a certainty closer to 100%.

Comment · 6 years ago
"One of history’s fews iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations." Sapiens, By Yuval Noah Harari

This quote stood out for me when I read Sapiens.

Comment · 6 years ago
Given that Chroloquine has been around for a long time and that it is well studied, is there any merit to assume that using it was not a random idea and that it works against some other known RNA viruses?
Comment · 6 years ago
It is not straight forward but look into the Second-Digit Benford's Law (2BL-test).
Comment · 6 years ago
I have been through this path of trying to figure out why pandas Groupby is slow. It is a big bottleneck when building packages on top of pandas.

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