Software I use

This page is mostly so I can quickly get going on a new computer (and it’s a bit out of date)…

• R  (I miss decent type checking)
• RStudio
• Haskell (GHC)
• Python.  The Pygame library was handy for psych experiment programming around 2009!
• LaTeX (MikTeX on Windows)
• Zotero.
• Firefox
• VirtualBox
• SFTP SilverSHielD (server) and Swish (client) for Windows
• Cmap, for making concept maps
• ScreenToGif – “Screen, webcam and sketchboard recorder with an integrated editor”. As the name suggests, outputs to GIF.

Qualitative analysis

• Taguette – simple and straightforward to use (I’ve tried the web-based version so far, in 2024)
• Open Code – used around 2013, was grand!

Inference engines of various kinds

• Prover and Mace
• CkC-Check Coherence – really want a version of this in R!
• GeNIe
• LEAN
• pyAgrum – just discovered (April 2022); looks useful for imprecise probabilities
• Hackenbush – this is an interesting game that is related to surreal numbers
• DAGitty – causal DAGs; free online tool and R package

Linear programming

• lp_solve: a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) solver

Diagrams

Mermaid is a great tool, e.g., taking

flowchart TD
    D{Decide what to write}
    D --> R[R code]
    D --> blog[Blog post]
    D --> poem[Poem]

And creating:

LLMs

• Ollama; see, e.g., Playing with Llama 3.1 in R, by Christoph Sax, on using it via the {ollamar} library
• LM Studio; see, e.g., this R gist by Alex Farach

Radio

• Rivet