I have just encountered this 30-40 olives meme format. I feel attacked. You really *can* eat 30 to 40 olives for dinner. I have done it several times. I wrote large sections of my book on olives. You will certainly not regret eating 30 to 40 olives.

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When I did my phd in anthropology, they made us all take a linguistics course, partly so we would be better at learning languages in the field, but also just for the science of it. I recall studying tables of consonants and vowel spaces. The diagram below would have been awesome to have.

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TIL that cran is "A measure of capacity for fresh herrings as caught; fixed by the Fisheries Board at 371/2 gallons (about 750 fish)." (Oxford English Dictionary).

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This is a great read. I will say that I think big-O notation and complexity analysis is useful and not just a mathematical game. But it's not a substitute for actually thinking. It's not the full story. Most of the textbooks you read about it do make this clear, even if people forget it in practice.

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Important knowledge for all those looking to submit an R package

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