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Re:Machine learning–what language should I use? on Thursday February 22, 2018 @11:37PM (#16444269)
I would like to have included R as a candidate. I pretty much just ran out of time. If I can get to it one day I'll update the article.
Re:“It turns out” on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @08:11PM (#1163040)
Douglas Adams summed it up nicely in The Salmon of Doubt:

"Incidentally, am I alone in finding the expression 'it turns out' to be incredibly useful? It allows you to make swift, succinct, and authoritative connections between otherwise randomly unconnected statements without the trouble of explaining what your source or authority actually is. It's great. It’s hugely better than its predecessors 'I read somewhere that...' or the craven 'they say that...' because it suggests not only that whatever flimsy bit of urban mythology you are passing on is actually based on brand new, ground breaking research, but that it's research in which you yourself were intimately involved. But again, with no actual authority anywhere in sight."