a library for scientific computing

http://apophenia.info

  • Apophenia: a library for scientific computing
    http://apophenia.info

    Apophenia is an open statistical library for working with data sets and statistical models. It provides functions on the same level as those of the typical stats package (such as OLS, probit, or singular value decomposition) but gives the user more flexibility to be creative in model-building. The core functions are written in C, but experience has shown them to be easy to bind to in Python/Julia/Perl/Ruby/&c.

    It is written to scale well, to comfortably work with gigabyte data sets, million-step simulations, or computationally-intensive agent-based models. If you have tried using other open source tools for computationally demanding work and found that those tools weren’t up to the task, then Apophenia is the library for you.

  • HTTPS : the end of an era — by Ben Klemens
    https://medium.com/@b_k/https-the-end-of-an-era-c106acded474

    the Mozilla foundation’s #HTTPS requirement is, to me, the real end of the DIY era. This is not a closed-source corporation, or a startup pushing its new tool, or the arrogant guy at the hackathon, but the Mozilla Foundation — “Our mission is to promote openness, innovation & opportunity on the Web” — saying that if you are building web pages using tools from your desert island, without first filling in registration forms, then you are doing it wrong.

    The dissident test

    Consider a dissident in a totalitarian state who wishes to share a modified bit of software with fellow dissidents, but does not wish to reveal the identity of the modifier, or directly reveal the modifications themselves, or even possession of the program, to the government.

    BK served as director of the FSF’s End Software Patents campaign, and is the lead author of Apophenia (http://apophenia.info), a statistics library.

    Je l’appelle "MOZILLA GO HOME", car c’est presque mot pour mot la version anti-https de la diatribe anti-XHTML d’@arno, “W3C go home" http://www.uzine.net/article1979.html (2003 !) (Heureusement depuis, XHTML est mort noyé dans son vomi, et on a à la place HTML5, une version très tolérante.)