Thinking with type
Ellen Lupton / 2010
A nice book for leisure reading, and helps making better decisions on choice of
fonts and page layout. It has a website too: http://thinkingwithtype.com
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van der Maaten & Hinton (2008) Visualizing data using t-SNE
t-SNE is often used as a better alternative than PCA in terms of visualization.
This paper is the one that proposed it. It is an extension to SNE (stochastic
neighbor embedding), which the first few page of the paper outlined it:
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Excel conventions
Excel is quite ubiquitous but not many people use it well. The finance industry use it a lot and there are some good practices created. The key to use Excel (or other spreadsheet) well is to remember that there are two layers in it, the formula and the result, and...
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Using neovim
Have been using neovim for a few years now and I don’t feel a thing! To
remember what should be done in case of reinstallation from scratch, it is
better to write down some tips and configuration.
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Time Management for System Administrators
Thomas A. Limoncelli / 2006
This is a book I read 15 years ago. It is still very insightful re-reading it today. Perhaps because of the examples are more relevant, I found the time management advices are more useful. The theme of this book is “do not trust your brain” and therefore, we should offload...
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