It's interesting that the increase in Vim commits is concurrent with the fist release of NeoVim. They've certainly both been good for each other and I'm hoping this won't change with Bram's passing.
Specifically in the case of vim, Bram took decisions that forced the community to choose one or the other. Like the implementation of async and the choice of a second extension language.
No, it wasn't, and hasn't been since the 90s (most of the gvim code was written by others back in the day, to give an example of a large body of code not written by Bram). There have been many people contributing, and some of them for years.
Yes, Bram was the BFDL and the only one committing patches, but don't confuse that with "one man show".
There were of courses patches by other people, but most big features were driven by him. Do you have some example of a big feature more recent than 20 years old gvim?
Most of the multibyte from the last few years for example.
Bram didn't really record these things very well until quite recently (and even then, rather inconsistently) by just listing the author in the commit message rather than the git author field, so there's no easy way to check.
If you have 1 bad officer but 999 who go along with it, you have 1000 bad officers.
And remember, this is just one case.
"Instead of making headlines with reform, though, the TSA has become better-known for stealing money from travelers. In September, news reports called out the case of TSA working with other agencies to seize $27,600 from a Texas man, apparently because he was traveling to Oregon where marijuana is legal in conflict with federal law; he was never charged with a crime. Last year, the Institute for Justice reported that TSA and its sister agencies at Homeland Security "seized over $2 billion in currency at airports" between 2000 and 2016."
I don't get why every comment here is answering a different question than the one being asked. The question is "is it common for TSA agents to covertly steal from carry-on luggage", not "is the TSA bad" or "do TSA follow due process" or "is it risky to carry cash in checked luggage when traveling" or "is law enforcement stealing from people" or what have you.
At the time the TSA was hired the majority of workers had previously been airport security which is was low-skill/low-pay job. When Bush Jr established the TSA, those same people were federalized. Meaning Federal pay, benefits, retirement, etc for the same low skill level.
They haven't improved much since then. The organization has essentially made Security Theater an event with audience participation. Yet they routinely miss threats -- like they have a 95% FAILURE rate at points.
I accidentally brought a full-sized 4th of July smokebomb through TSA and didn't realize it until I unpacked after I got home.
I'm not talking one of those small, spherical smokebombs. No, this was one of those 5" long, 1" diameter sticks, and it was by itself in a pocket of my netbook bag, which didn't have room for much else, so it's not like the xray image would have been confusing.
Seems like tons of other people have had similar experiences.
TSA's impact on safety is largely imagination and wishful thinking.
That sounds about right, I took a domestic flight from SFO to PSP this week. I had a full-sized tube of toothpaste going there, with no issues, and they took it away coming back.
If you're talking real trauma, I'd seek out a therapist licensed in EMD or EMDR. Data shows it's faster and more transformative that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It seems to work well for critical past events (rape, driving accident, etc). Sub-clinical trauma (like that often experienced by police officers) seems to respond if the event can be crystallized.
If you're talking about the trauma of something that isn't to that scale, say the trauma of being dissatisfied with how life is turning out, consider meditation.
I agree you'll definitely want to read Elements of Statistical Learning but there are a few more, namely Think Stats and Think Bayes.
Since no one has really said much about Bayes yet, I think it worth mentioning just how useful it is in DS and ML. A Bayesian approach makes a very good baseline and often one that is hard to beat.
If you're not particular fluent with Probability and Statistics now, let me suggest you add in Khan Academy (make sure to pick the CLEP version) and JBstatistics. Khan has the advantage of quizzes (so you're not just kidding yourself that you know the material). JBstatistics has the advantage of really good explanations. You'll probably want to watch Khan at x1.5 speed.
