mbq

Warsaw, Poland

Age: 25

Half physicist, half biologist, half programmer, half computer scientist, probably half mad also.
R enthusiast, open source lover, soft computing fan.
Scientific programmer at ICM UW, working on computational intelligence and bioinformatics.

There is R without plyr, JS without jQuery and C++ without Boost.

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Allow temporary guest accounts in chat

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Tool for cleaning LaTeX code

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Is the “true” result of >, <, !, &&, || or == defined?

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