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postdoc (programming languages, haskell, bioinformatics) https://github.com/exaexa

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rms , to random
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[2/2] … nonfree software in the users' browser. Once they send private data to the server, there is hardly any limit in practice to where it will go. (There are some dis-services that explicit demand users enter sensitive private data - those pose various more complex problems.) I've considered using Signal, since the client program (what I would need to run) is free software. However, it requires having a portable phone, and that requirement conclusively excludes me.

exa ,
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@rms signal should work without a smartphone nowadays, you can use eg. a VoIP phone service to get a number and receive the registration message with some SIP client

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I find it WILDLY FRUSTRATING implementing contrast coding in Julia.

If I use ContrastCoding(), I can specify my own contrast matrices (yay!) but I can't label them. So the regression output just reuses my actual factor levels to label an actual model term that means something like, say, 'mean of levels A and B vs. mean of levels C and D'. Or whatever. To interpret my model, I must make physical notes on a piece of paper about what each term means.

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exa ,
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@ergative whats the package? (apparently the api might need rethinking)

exa ,
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@ergative Ah so... yeah a bit of API opacity is common in julia. People are working on that quite hard though, julia community is great at that. If the use-case makes sense (it does!) and there isn't an issue, please do open one.

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