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International press organizations are criticizing the media attacks in Nicaragua, which include torching a radio station, stealing equipment and cutting off TV networks. (Image credit: Carrie Kahn/NPR) News : NPR https://ift.tt/2NyyrLL August 30, 2018 at 11:30PM

A standoff is heating up between the Trump administration and local leaders who are trying to open facilities where people can use opioids under the eye of medical staff. (Image credit: Jessica Rinaldi/Getty Images) News : NPR https://ift.tt/2MZDWGt August 30, 2018 at 11:02PM

The Justice Department says Harvard has "failed to show that it does not unlawfully discriminate against Asian-Americans." Harvard says it doesn't discriminate against any group. (Image credit: Darren McCollester/Getty Images) News : NPR https://ift.tt/2LGVan9 August 30, 2018 at 10:52PM

More than 40 researchers concluded that climate change would make ecosystems such as deciduous forests, grasslands and Arctic tundra unrecognizable. (Image credit: Ashley Cooper/Getty Images) News : NPR https://ift.tt/2PS7HYf August 30, 2018 at 10:23PM

When President Mauricio Macri requested early release of a $50 billion loan, he said it was to assuage market watchers' fears. But the opposite happened — and the central bank felt it had to step in. (Image credit: Eitan Abramovich/AFP/Getty Images) News : NPR https://ift.tt/2C4crao August 30, 2018 at 10:16PM

The tabloid had been collecting information on the president since the 1980s, according to The New York Times.ABC News: Top Stories https://ift.tt/2Nw4YlB August 31, 2018 at 03:00AM

Because you would never use a cow to propose, check out today's end-of-day links: shoes inspired by NYC bodegas, menacing radical paraglider, neo-Nazis hijack domestic abuse photos, 'My Brilliant Friend' trailer, and doggos on swings. [ more › ] Gothamist https://ift.tt/2PkR721 August 31, 2018 at 01:55AM

Cynthia Nixon and Governor Andrew Cuomo faced off on Wednesday night for 60 white knuckled minutes and the results did not disappoint! Well, maybe it was a little disappointing that so much time in the only debate of the Democratic gubernatorial primary was spent on the topics of bridge renaming and teaching children about the menace of marijuana. But the answers the candidates gave—on transportation, on healthcare, on corporate personhood and Shakespeare and helicopters —were somewhat illuminating! [ more › ] Gothamist https://ift.tt/2wuziXz August 31, 2018 at 01:42AM

A new report on the Brooklyn Queens Connector or BQX—the streetcar that Mayor Bill de Blasio is apparently still determined to build—scales back the route by five miles, cutting out Sunset Park entirely, for a total of 11 miles of track. Despite the shortened proposed route, costs have crept up to $2.73 billion, from early estimates of $2.5 billion. And construction is not expected to begin until 2024. [ more › ] Gothamist https://ift.tt/2NBHFH1 August 31, 2018 at 12:54AM

A shooting in Crown Heights shattered the back of a Lyft and narrowly missed hitting the passenger on Tuesday. "Nothing like a bullet whizzing by your head to make you appreciate your life," passenger Collin Morris observed after the near-death experience. [ more › ] Gothamist https://ift.tt/2PMxHUO August 31, 2018 at 12:34AM

    A nearly two-month-old baby mandrill is running around the Bronx Zoo 's Congo exhibit, or more likely, clinging to its mother. [ more › ] Gothamist https://ift.tt/2BYwaYW August 31, 2018 at 12:03AM

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A woman claiming to be the friend of Lisa Velasquez, the woman whose remains were found in plastic bags in two parks, was arrested on Wednesday for Velasquez's murder. Suspect Ciara Martinez yelled , "She was my friend and I love her," while being taken into a Bronx police station house on Wednesday night. [ more › ] Gothamist https://ift.tt/2MWTURJ August 30, 2018 at 10:00PM

On June 24th, a hit-and-run driver fatally struck four-year-old Luz Gonzalez while pulling out of an illegal parking lot in Bushwick. Police eventually stopped the driver, Jeanette Maria, a few blocks away, but she was not arrested or charged. Emotional rallies and online petitions followed, with family members and neighbors demanding "Justice for Luz" and claiming that the driver was let off easy because her brother is rumored to be an NYPD sergeant. (That NYPD connection has not been confirmed.) [ more › ] Gothamist https://ift.tt/2C2BlXV August 30, 2018 at 09:30PM

What reason would a for-profit company have to shelve a feature film starring Timothée Chalamet, Selena Gomez, Rebecca Hall, Jude Law, and Elle Fanning...aside from the fact that the director is Woody Allen, long-accused of having sexually abused his adoptive daughter, Dylan Farrow (but not the one he married )? While Amazon Studios isn't saying as much, they have nonetheless decided not to release A Rainy Day in New York , Allen's latest film which they reportedly bought for $25 million. [ more › ] Gothamist https://ift.tt/2NCVeq0 August 30, 2018 at 09:15PM

      Paulie Gee's in Greenpoint makes some of the city's best pizza , but excruciating table waits and a notorious no-takeout policy means that it can be frustratingly difficult to actually eat there. Which is one of the reasons why two years ago owner Paul Giannone decided he needed another storefront for feeding this pizza-crazy town. And yesterday, finally, it opened for real: Paulie Gee's Slice Shop, a spacious throwback-looking joint on the corner of Franklin and Noble Streets. [ more › ] Gothamist https://ift.tt/2PknBts August 30, 2018 at 08:07PM

Earlier this week, Rose McGowan released a detailed statement regarding recent allegations that Asia Argento sexually assaulted a former underage co-star. McGowan explained that the person she's dating, gender-nonconforming model and activist Rain Dove, was the one whose text messages with Argento—in which she seemingly admitted to having sex with Jimmy Bennett while he was underage—were leaked by TMZ. Dove has now issued their own statement explaining their role in all this: "When [Argento] made it clear that they were not going to be honest about their engagement, I turned in materials that may contribute towards an honest investigation. All victims deserve justice. Justice can rarely exist without honesty." [ more › ] Gothamist https://ift.tt/2LJ0ZjU August 30, 2018 at 07:52PM

Some Snapchat users awoke Thursday morning to find New York City renamed "Jewtropolis" on the app's maps features. The anti-Semitic label also appeared on Citi Bike apps and StreetEasy, and other companies that use the mapping service Mapbox. [ more › ] Gothamist https://ift.tt/2LEPB8I August 30, 2018 at 07:28PM

Because Trump really wants to get rid of Sessions, check out today's midday links: Keith Ellison accusations, DJ Khaled furniture, Trump keeps lying, Roxane Gay on Louis C.K., Gram Parsons lookback, Times Square Flea Circus, and pupper tries swimming. [ more › ] Gothamist https://ift.tt/2N46bnf August 30, 2018 at 07:14PM

Police are searching for a man with a large forearm tattoo who is suspected of stealing an iPad, a briefcase, and sneakers from Paul Manafort's banker's midtown Manhattan apartment and also burglarizing another nearby home. [ more › ] Gothamist https://ift.tt/2LEPxG0 August 30, 2018 at 07:01PM

In an emergency session Wednesday, the New York City Council passed a school speed camera bill, which not only reactivates the existing 140 cameras near schools, but allows the city to double the number of cameras and extend the hours in which they’re allowed to operate. [ more › ] Gothamist https://ift.tt/2C0DQdb August 30, 2018 at 06:33PM

Governor Andrew Cuomo and challenger Cynthia Nixon sparred for an hour last night at Hofstra University on Long Island, where each candidate seemed determined to pack as much vitriol as they could into their only debate ahead of the Democratic primary on Thursday, September 13th. The acrimonious encounter featured Cuomo accusing Nixon of being a political neophyte who "lives in the world of fiction," and Nixon dismissing Cuomo as "a corrupt corporate Democrat" who stood up to Trump "about as well as he stood up to Putin.” Here's what stood out most from last night's clash (full video below): [ more › ] Gothamist https://ift.tt/2PMXSuN August 30, 2018 at 05:57PM

I was looking back over an old blog post  and noticed some code in the comments that I had overlooked. Tom Pollard gives the following code for drawing Spirograph -like curves. import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from numpy import pi, exp, real, imag, linspace def spiro(t, r1, r2, r3): """ Create Spirograph curves made by one circle of radius r2 rolling around the inside (or outside) of another of radius r1. The pen is a distance r3 from the center of the first circle. """ return r3*exp(1j*t*(r1+r2)/r2) + (r1+r2)*exp(1j*t) def circle(t, r): return r * exp(1j*t) r1 = 1.0 r2 = 52.0/96.0 r3 = 42.0/96.0 ncycle = 13 # LCM(r1,r2)/r2 t = linspace(0, ncycle*2*pi, 1000) plt.plot(real(spiro(t, r1, r2, r3)), imag(spiro(t, r1, r2, r3))) plt.plot(real(circle(t, r1)), imag(circle(t, r1))) fig = plt.gcf() fig.gca().set_aspect('equal') plt.show() Tom points out that with the r parameters above, this produces the default curve o...

If you don’t get any outside input into your life, you’re literally an idiot, someone in your own little world. But if you get too much outside input, you become a bland cliche. I’ve written about this a couple times, and ran across a new post this morning from someone expressing a similar idea. I first wrote about this in a short post on noise removal . After talking about signal processing, I wax philosophical. This is a metaphor for life. If you only value your own opinion, you’re an idiot in the oldest sense of the word, someone in his or her own world. Your work may have a strong signal, but it also has a lot of noise. Getting even one outside opinion greatly cuts down on the noise. But it also cuts down on the signal to some extent. If you get too many opinions, the noise may be gone and the signal with it. Trying to please too many people leads to work that is offensively bland. I returned to this theme in The Opposite of an Idiot : An idiot lives only in his own world; t...

(This article was first published on Dominique Makowski , and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) What should I cite? How should I cite it? Previous blogposts Citing the packages, modules and softwares you used for your analysis is important , both from a reproducibility perspective (statistical routines are often implemented in different ways by different packages, which could explain slight discrepancies in the results. Saying " I did this using this function from that package version 1.2.3 � is a way of protecting yourself by being clear about what you have found doing what you have done) but also for acknowledging the work and time that people spent creating tools for others (sometimes at the expense of their own research). That's great, but how to actually cite them? I used about 100 packages, should I cite them all ? What should I cite? Ideally, you should indeed cite all the packages that you used. However, it's not very diegetic. Therefore,...

(This article was first published on R – Stat Tech , and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) This report describes an R package called ‘dvir’ that aims to use TeX as a layout engine, but performs all rendering within R. The package reads DVI files that are produced from TeX files and renders the content using the R package ‘grid’. Paul Murrell Download To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: R – Stat Tech . R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials on topics such as: Data science , Big Data, R jobs , visualization ( ggplot2 , Boxplots , maps , animation ), programming ( RStudio , Sweave , LaTeX , SQL , Eclipse , git , hadoop , Web Scraping ) statistics ( regression , PCA , time series , trading ) and more... from R-bloggers https://ift.tt/2LGRUIA via IFTTT

(This article was first published on Revolutions , and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) If you're familiar with analyzing data in Excel and want to learn how to work with the same data in R, Alyssa Columbus has put together a very useful guide:  How To Use R With Excel . In addition to providing you with a guide for installing and setting up R and the RStudio IDE, it provide a wealth of useful tips for working with Excel data in R, including: To import Excel data into R, use the readxl package To export Excel data from R, use the openxlsx package How to remove symbols like "$" and "%" from currency and percentage columns in Excel, and convert them to numeric variables suitable for analysis in R How to do computations on variables in R, and a list of common Excel functions (like RAND and VLOOKUP) with their R equivalents How to emulate common Excel chart types (like histograms and line plots) using R plotting functions Conversely, you can als...

(This article was first published on R – Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science , and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) We’re streaming live right now! Thursday 08:45-17:30: YouTube Link Friday 09:00-17:00: YouTube Link Timezone is Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) +0300 UTC Here’s a link to the full program . There have already been some great talks and they’ll all be posted with slides and runnable source code after the conference on the Stan web site. The post StanCon Helsinki streaming live now (and tomorrow) appeared first on Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science . To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: R – Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science . R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials on topics such as: Data science , Big Data, R jobs , visualization ( ggplot2 , Boxplots , maps , animation ), programming ( RStu...

(This article was first published on Peter Solymos - R related posts , and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) In a paper recently published in the Condor , titled Evaluating time-removal models for estimating availability of boreal birds during point-count surveys: sample size requirements and model complexity , we assessed different ways of controlling for point-count duration in bird counts using data from the Boreal Avian Modelling Project . As the title indicates, the paper describes a cost-benefit analysis to make recommendations about when to use different types of the removal model. The paper is open access, so feel free to read the whole paper here ). In summary, we evaluated a conventional removal model and a finite mixture removal model, with and without covariates, for 152 bird species. We found that the probabilities of predicted availability under conventional and finite mixture models were very similar with respect to the range of probability values and the sh...