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
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
Congrats to Julia Eddelbuettel (@julia_edd) who just successfully defended her honors thesis in @PolicyCornell! Her thesis (on abortion policy) was also just accepted for presentation at @PopAssocAmerica.
Congrats Julia!
Cc: @PopulationCU @MattDEisenberg
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STAT 447 at U of Illinois would like to express its gratitude to @Sondreus and @EmilyRiederer for providing two thoughtful and challenging guest lectures to the Fall 2021 class. Both lectures are now available to everybody via the link below -- enjoy!
stat447.com/guest_lectures/
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. @ussoccer: Let's punk El Tri by playing the game in Cinci with a modest local hispanic fanbase: Done. "Dos a Cero".
@CanadaSoccerEN: Hold my beer.
A home game in Edmonton in November? That is another level.
#ICETECA
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How it started how it's going
Exercised every day of 2020 starting Nov 17, and every day of 2021 so far (til Nov 16 today) making it one year of daily running, indoor treadmill/ski machine, or biking (and some day two). Working from home has its charms.
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A rant: "Every one of these package managers is designed for a reckless world in which programmers chuck packages wholesale into ~/.pip, set up virtualenvs and pin their dependencies to 10 versions and 6 vulnerabilities ago, [...]" #RStats is better here
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
nanotime - Full 64-bit resolution date and time functionality with nanosecond granularity is provided, with easy transition to and from the standard 'POSIXct' type. Three additional classes offer interval, period and duration functionality for n... #rstats github.com/eddelbuettel/nano…
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Let's hope for another 'dos a cero'! Go #USMNT
And here is what I just made: tarte alsacienne (with onions). I used Mexican colors: white + red (onions) + green (halapenos). Turned out well. Picture has one after / one before baking. Now off to the pub to watch with friends...
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"[...] there hasn’t been much breakthrough technical innovation in the tech business for years. Facebook is off ruining democracies, Google just keeps sucking more money out of ads and each new iPhone is just incrementally better than the last."
nytimes.com/2021/11/10/opini…
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
Today is the 50th Anniversary of the 1st Edition of Unix.... It was targeted at the PDP-11/20 with 8kW of memory (16,384 bytes)....
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RDieHarder 0.2.2 on CRAN: Simpler Build, Fixes
DieHarder RNG testing for R
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RcppQuantuccia 0.1.0 on CRAN: Full Business Calendar Support
Self-containted QuantLib Calendar Library for R
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#rcpp #rstats
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dang 0.0.15 on CRAN: Small Correction
A collection of a few small helper functions
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
To unlock the world’s research papers for computerized analysis Carl Malamud built and released what he calls the ‘General Index’.
107 million full-text-searchable scientific papers. 38 terabyte.
It can be queried for any five-word snippet within it.
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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td 0.0.5 on CRAN: New Reference Data Getters
R access to @TwelveData Financial Data API
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/cc @kennethrose82
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Big Thank You! to @Sondreus for a fab guest lecture on 'Data Science at @TheEconomist' yesterday to STAT 447. A focus on 'coding and modeling' plus open source repos at @github with rich data sets well processed and analysed yield great results! #Rstats
youtube.com/watch?v=1TgEl5OZ…
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"[E]conomists are often fumbling in the dark, with too little information to pick the policies [...] The world is on the brink of a real-time revolution in economics, [...] Big firms [...] already use instant data to monitor ..."
economist.com/briefing/2021/…
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