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dplyr: A gamechanger for data manipulation in R

If you’ve never looked at dplyr, then this is a must watch lecture.

Meditation experiment personal observations 208680d2-3ed5-2a34-6dab-6a8f91899255

Insufficient sleep results in cognitive fatigue.
Insufficient hydration and sustenance results in physcial fatigue.
Insufficient physical strength and cardiovascular investment/exercise results in both.
Cognitive and physical fatigue seem to hamper the practice of meditation and generally contribute to having a “bad day”.

The Conc Must Rest 2014

She now must take her rest for the winter.
Perhaps a tad early, but it is for the best.
Standard: fresh gas, StaBil, and the battery tender.

The cost of perfection

Do not fall for the illusion that by preventing errors, you won’t have errors to fix. The truth is, the cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them.

— Ed Catmull
Via The Endeavor.

zk-phi releases two perhaps necessary packages for Emacs

You may not be totally sure why, but you will immediately feel like you ought to install the following two packages for Emacs:

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[highlight-stages] highlight staged (quasi-quoted) expressions

Problems installing (M)ELPA packages

In Problems installing (M)ELPA packages Sebastien wrote:

While using `package.el’ fulfills a long-awaited dream for easily adding and upgrading Emacs libraries, I now feel upgrading packages is much more complex than what I anticipated.
At least two of the packages I use daily (Org and Helm) require to be installed from inside a fresh Emacs session (emacs -Q), where nothing has been loaded.

I had wondered but never found out why one must follow this approach when installing org from scratch. Good to know!