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”.

This is the presentation I made for our paper on discrete extremes & power law is available on arXiv.

A new version of our paper on discrete extremes & power law is available on arXiv now. Instead of talking about the content (maybe another post), I would like to document the issue when submitting on arXiv.

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.

I have been quite crazy with Rmarkdown and its upgrade, bookdown. It has helped me create and convert accessible & reproducible teaching materials over the years. This presentation is a summary of the conversion from LaTeX to Rmarkdown, essentially a reminder to myself in the future.

It’s a shame that FiveThirtyEight is no longer making club football (soccer) predictions anymore. This presentation was made around the same time the website was archived.