Data Science. TileDB. Open Source. Quant Research. R. C++. Debian. Linux. Adjunct Clinical Professor, University of Illinois. Lots of coffee. And some running.

Chicago, IL, USA
Joined March 2007
Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
New comparative breakdown feature added to #rstats gtrendsR 📦 Feel free to test it! github.com/PMassicotte/gtren… cc @eddelbuettel
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RcppQuantuccia 0.0.5 on CRAN: Updated and Calendar Focus Header-only QuantLib Calendar Library for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rcpp #rstats
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
[1/*] If we take the chance that a tool (compiler, linker, batch, whatever) remains working for a particular codebase after one year as a given probability p, then the chance that build remains working after x years is p^xn, where n is the number of tools used in the build.
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Today's dish: Pissaladière Because you can take the boy out of Marseille, but you can't take Marseille out of the boy ...
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Congrats! The @Debian package has been updated and is already available; an @Ubuntu 20.04 build will be published in 'edd/misc' PPA shortly. Also the most recent #RStats package release RQuantLib 0.4.14 installs unchanged.
#QuantLib 1.24 was released today. Thanks to all contributors, new and old! Release info and downloads at github.com/lballabio/QuantLi…
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RVowpalWabbit 0.0.16 on CRAN: One More CRAN Request R Interface to the 'Vowpal Wabbit' fast out-of-core learner dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats #rcpp
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dang 0.0.14 on CRAN: Several Updates A collection of a few small helper functions dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
Person 1: The glass is 1/2 full Person 2: The glass is 1/2 empty Excel: The glass is the 1st of February
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Neat! Any need for North American test drivers? 😍 theguardian.com/environment/…
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Beyond thrilled that two weeks from today, @Sondreus of the data team at @TheEconomist will guest lecture to the students of my STAT 447 class. Details still being worked out, but we may have a publically available recording. stat447.com/guest_lectures/ #rstats #datascience
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RcppQuantuccia 0.0.4 on CRAN: Calendaring Update Header-only subset of QuantLib for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rcpp #rstats
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
Replying to @NobelPrize
Remembering when Josh Angrist moonlighted as an Uber driver to get info for a paper (he got low ratings b/c passengers said he asked them too many questions). Rando drunk Boston ppl driven around by a Nobel laureate studying incentives and human behavior is <kiss-fingers>
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It is Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, so I made a tasty _tourtiere_ as one does. 🇨🇦
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hey @guardian typo on title page in US edition
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corels 0.0.3 on CRAN: Update R Bindings to 'Certifiably Optimal Rule Lists' Learner dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rcpp #rstats
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That should of course say *RcppGSL* 0.3.10
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Rcpp 0.3.10 on CRAN: Small Update Easier GNU GSL use from R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rcpp #rstats
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RQuantLib 0.4.14 on CRAN: More Calendars, Small Updates Quantitative Finance library bindings for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rcpp #rstats
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littler 0.3.14 on CRAN: Updates Everybody's favourite way to rock R at the command-line and in scripts dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats
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Hey @ECONdailycharts that lovely piece by @jamesfransham you emailed in the "Off the charts" newsletter on how and why #Rstats rocks: it there a publically visible URL we can reference ? (And I pondered that question for earlier pieces too...) /cc @MarieSegger @Sondreus
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