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After seeing the Github Co-Pilot webage, I got intrigued by the color scheme used to demo the “powers” of Co-pilot. The dark theme caught my attention and I wanted to incorporate into my editor. Unfortunately, there is no official version of the Github Co-pilot theme. Upon search, I found this add-on https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=BenjaminBenais.copilot-theme which is supposed…

Centered log ratio is a very common approach when one needs to transform the data which is skewed such as composition data or some other count data. Geometric Mean In order to perform centered log ratio transform or CLR transform, we need to use the concept of Geometric Mean. Geometric mean is one of the…

These are some of the code snippets that I often need while using ggplot2 library.

After hearing about ARM macs in November 2020, it was about time to test one myself. I heard lot about overwhelmingly positive experience with everyone. I was reluctant to try one since I already have the current 18 wheeler of the Mac computers – Mac Pro with 12 cores and RAM upgraded to 240GB (Plenty…

My usual interest in the WWDC has waned over the past four years. I remember being so excited about WWDC for iOS updates. Granted things were improving or new features were introduced at faster rate. May be my expectations have reached levels that exceeds the current improvements in iOS. I can say the same for…

After my iMac pro debacle, I decided that it was a time to switch to proper workstation type tower computer. I think iMac pro is a great computer but the convenience of having all in one computer hurts when something goes wrong with it. Upgrades are also very difficult in iMac pro. Opening iMac pro…

Imac pro has given me the most trouble in the history of my computer usage. While the first repair one month, the other repair took over 5 days. The reason for my second repair was the smudge in the lower right corner of my screen. That repair was faster because iMac pro uses the same…

By CDF, I mean Cumulative distribution function and by PDF, I mean probability density function. These are related to each other and are very important in understanding statistics and probability. I came across these terms while I was plotting a histogram of temperatures in Houston and Chicago. Normally, when we have some data, we can…

This is the update on the previous posts. Please see iMac pro repair 1 and iMac pro repair 2 for the background. Actually, there is a good news that I finally received my iMac pro after ~ one month. The problem started on 24th December 2018 and I received it back on 27th January 2019.…