Using Binder to build a virtual environment for reproducibility

Docker has made building web applications much easier than before. For literate programming and teaching reproducibility, this means virtual environments can be built with the specific versions of software we want, allowing us to experiment with e.g. Jupyter notebooks and R Markdown in a “clean” environment, and not allowing one to claim that “it doesn’t work on my machine”.

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Revamping my webpage

I have finally decided to revamp my previously webpage, which is almost non-existent. Thanks to Github Pages, giving my page a decent new look is not too difficult, even though I am illiterate at web development. A bit of knowledge in Markdown does help too. The template I use is Reverie. I chose this template partly because I subconsciously relate to the piano piece by Debussy, reimagined here by Ramin Djawadi.

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