# HG changeset patch # User Steve Losh # Date 1696960445 14400 # Node ID 2fb68c5f7ed69b41cdbed899f89c244782155ac8 # Parent b09c68e6279cca902cd5cff11541e080165ea766 Update diff -r b09c68e6279c -r 2fb68c5f7ed6 README.markdown --- a/README.markdown Mon Oct 09 10:00:38 2023 -0400 +++ b/README.markdown Tue Oct 10 13:54:05 2023 -0400 @@ -1258,3 +1258,29 @@ having slides is that people put a ton of things on them and you can't take notes fast enough. Need to go back over the slides and write down things once I get home so I don't forget them. + +## 2023-10-10 + +BS521, hypothesis testing, p values, t distribution. + +BI500, code quality tips. Checked with Prof. Sartor and submitting a LaTeX PDF +for the references homework is fine. + +Pinged a few students in a lab I'm interested in to see if they're willing to +chat about their experience. Just need to nail down my third rotation and then +I'll be all set. + +Ordered a used copy of the Grammar of Graphics book. I've read enough in the +ebook copy from the library that I know I want the entire thing, even though +it's quite expensive. + +Read chapter 4 of the book while the straggler genomes finish in the last batch, +about variables and basic transformations on them. The book uses the ridiculous +terms "homoscedasticity" and "heteroscedasticity" to mean "homogeneous variance" +and "heterogeneous variance", which I *think* is the same idea as Cleveland's +"monotone spread" (or possibly a more general version of it). + +I really wish the book wouldn't omit the axis-drawing code from the diagrams +— it makes it unclear where each piece of the output is coming from. I think +I *mostly* understand it, but would prefer if it were all explicit (even if it +would make things a bit longer).