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
Open Source can be so amazeballs. Two hours after tweeting the awesome upstream author @gabi_melman gave me two pointers for fixes in the initial issue ticket github.com/eddelbuettel/rcpp… and we're golden. "Release early, release often". And talk to people who know their code.
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When you finally push something to a public repo that you had on your drive for years, and the upstream author notices and stars it the same day.... #rstats #rcpp #cplusplus #spdlog /cc @gabi_melman
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To the lake via the wonderful @The606Chicago (both ways). #chicago
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RcppSimdJson 0.1.1: More Features! Highest-performance JSON Parsing via Modern C++ from R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats #rcpp /cc @knapply_
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nanotime 0.3.1: Some Build Fixes for Yuge New Features dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… High-resolution nanosecond time functionality for R #rstats #rcpp #tinytest
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RVowpalWabbit 0.0.15 on CRAN: More Small Build Fixes R Interface to the 'Vowpal Wabbit' fast out-of-core learner dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats #rcpp
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nanotime 0.3.0 on CRAN: Yuge New Features! dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… High-resolution nanosecond time functionality for R #rstats #rcpp #tinytest Now with periods, intervals and durations at nanosecond resolution. Plus tinyest, data.table corrections and a vignette.
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RcppCCTZ 0.2.8 on CRAN: Minor API Extension Powerful C++ timezone / datetime library for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats #rcpp
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