R, the acf function and statistical significance
The R language provides us with a useful method to calculate the autocorrelation function (ACF) of a time series. An example of an environmental time series with a seasonal cycle is shown below, with the resulting plot: corr
January 20, 2010
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Updated Songbird Icon
The Songbird icon has been updated with the newest, none-more-black version of the application icon (from Songbird 1.4.1). You can download it from the Icons page. Update 03/03/2010: Fixed the download link.
January 9, 2010
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DVDs that won’t play in Linux, and how to make them behave
Playing DVDs in Linux is generally a pretty painless process. The libdvdcss library does a sterling job of allowing us to watch our DVDs on legitimate hardware using the operating system of our choice, legal machinations notwithstanding. It also manages to circumvent the region encoding of the DVD (an abitrary and legally dubious restriction), allowing [...]
January 8, 2010
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The ultimate get-rich-quick scheme
Since my email address is reasonably easily accessible on the Internet (I make no specific attempts to hide it), I get a fairly decent amount of spam. As an experiment, I thought I’d keep track of all the money I’m offered, just to see how rich I could be if only I bothered to respond [...]
January 1, 2010
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