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In R there is now a function to load packages called use() (from version 4.4.0 onwards). There are of course already library() and require(), but I strongly recommend using use(), or at least understand why it exists and adjust how you use library() accordingly.  To understand the usefulness of use(), let us work with an example […]

If you work with big data in a tabular format in Python, it is difficult to avoid polars in the current environment. There are many good reasons to use polars in Python (performance and the API are the two most relevant ones), and for R users the question is whether polars is worth considering as […]

Here are a few brief reviews of some of the things I have been watching and reading lately. Movies/TV series A Complete Unknown (2024): A somewhat conventional and great movie about Bob Dylan (i.e., much better than movies like I’m Not There). Timothée Chalamet’s performance as Bob Dylan is great and deserved an Oscar (much […]

I decided to create a Chess.com account to, you guessed it, play some chess. Specifically, I would like to play chess with people I know in person. While I now play online chess with some colleagues, I could not resist playing some rated bullet chess against anybody that would be up for it, and it […]

Hos DR kan man i en artikel læse, at danskernes livskvalitet blandt andet hænger sammen med lokalområdet og det gode naboskab. Artiklen bygger på en undersøgelse af Realdania kaldet Vores Livskvalitet. Jeg fandt artiklen og undersøgelsen interessant, da det bliver beskrevet, at det er kommuner som Langeland, der “løber med placeringen i toppen, når det […]