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Stanislaw Ulam, Los Alamos, 1963 was bored in a meeting and he started dooddling integers in a spiral and circled the primes. Diagonal lines appeared. He later showed it to Martin Gardner, to Ulam surprise, Gardner published his findings in…Read more ›

🧬 Back to basics! Learning non-polar amino acids, what zwitterions actually are, and dipping into the applied math — Rodrigues rotation and Lennard-Jones potential. Slowly building toward optimal phi/psi! Motivations We’ve explored quite a bit lately in molecular dynamic simulation and then protein-protein docking as well the last time. There ...

One of the challenges of working on R-universe is that there is never really a release day. Unlike software projects that accumulate changes for a big launch, R-universe evolves continuously. New features, infrastructure improvements, UI tweaks, and b...

Hi pharmaverse community, I wanted to share that Joe Zhu will be taking over from me (Ross Farrugia) as the Roche/Genentech representative on our pharmaverse council. Having been one of the initial co-founders of pharmaverse back in mid-2020, ...

Probabilistic forecasts for the 2026 FIFA World Cup are obtained by using a hybrid model that combines data, expert insights, and advanced statistical models. The favorite is Spain, closely followed by England, France, and Germany. ...

1. Introduction & Theoretical Framework In modern electronic trading markets, algorithmic execution engines drive the vast majority of institutional order flows. Evaluating whether these independent, learning-driven trading algorithms behave competitively or tacitly coordinate has become a critical challenge for quantitative compliance, market microstructure design, and risk management. This technical article implements an ...

Learn to recognize problems in R test code that cause your test suite to pass while hiding real bugs. Detect those issues and start writing more trustworthy tests.

Three hundred seventy-six of the new packages submitted to CRAN in April were still there in mid-May. Here are my Top 40 picks in twenty-three categories: Actuarial Analysis, Archaeology, Biology, Causal Inference, Computational Methods, Ecology...

Zhenguo Zhang's Blog https://fortune9.netlify.app/2026/05/30/r-position-legend-inside-plot/ - By default, ggplot2 places the legend outside the plot area (usually on the right). However, sometimes you may want to move the legend inside the plot to sa...

Join us in Turku The Tidyomics community is organising a hackathon during the pre-conference programme of EuroBioC2026 in Turku, Finland. The hackathon will take place on June 1-2, 2026, ahead of the main EuroBioC2026 conference on June 3-5, 20...

I’ve been using Unix and Linux systems for nearly 20 years. When I found myself with a Windows laptop for a while I felt lost and quickly installed Windows Subsystem for Linux. And yet the number of commands I know and use regularly is surprisingly short: cd, ls, rm, pwd, ...

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! rOpenSci HQ 15 Years of rOpenSci, and we’re just getting started 🎉 This y...