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Just a reminder: Libraries/Packages can contain bad stuff
This is a very short entry for now, but I thought I couldn’t skip it. Bad Libraries This year in a conference, someone demoed how you could really do some harm if you were able to create libraries and get people to use those in Python. Essentially, “all there is to it” (I’m being simplistic…
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A quick look at memory usage when “copying variables”
This one is not exactly about changing code in practice… This entry differs a bit in that it is purely “educational”, not an opinion or recommendation or anything to change in the way I program at all, but rather about how the R interpreter works. As always, there are much better references out there (see…
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A tidy running environment
A clean environment is rather “hard work” to maintain I always worry that installing stuff on my laptop will creep up my machine. I don’t like re-installing (not if that means using up my own spare time). So I try to install as little as possible (it’s also simply a matter of “reducing the attack…