Data Science. TileDB. Open Source. Quant Research. R. C++. Debian. Linux. Adjunct Clinical Professor, University of Illinois. Lots of coffee. And some running.
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Breaking Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrested in NY. Bye-bye French presidency? Headlines at NY Times, confirmed at NY Post -- no tweets yet?
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Journal of Statistical Software Vol 41 is out -- a special issue on State Space Methods in various languages / packages http://goo.gl/ov4ob
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@hadleywickham @HarlanH Methinks Boost Date_Time goes back to 2001-2005 and may precede JODA.
Latex already is viral; I caught the bug around 1989 ;-) MT @siah @johnDCook have you seen this? they build a virus with Latex :)
Ace. There is even a link about the joke MT @lgatt0 Google for 'recursion' and check the 'Did you mean' suggestion.
Another CentOS surprise. Cannot install the @dropbox rpm, and cannot build it from source. Is that what they call "winning" ? Yikes.
Intro sent. I used a 20th century technology called e-mail. Comes in handy sometimes MT @kirkwy @dexyit @ananelson @cmastication
IIRC, he sat at your table all Saturday afternoon MT @kirkwy huh. Never had an introduction to such a person. /cc @cmastication
I can recommended a charming Frenchman and RJava committer :) @kirkwy @dexyit @ananelson MT @eddelbuettel RJava anyone?
Give me a few weeks after you switch from Java to C++ ;-) @kirkwy @eddelbuettel and when's the OpenGamma analytics integration package? :-)
Building a first test package of the QuantLib 1.1 beta release announced earlier: http://goo.gl/xfX8Q
Uggh: CentOS has only emacs21 and I cannot find a rpm for emacs23. Do I really have to compile from source on this Linux flavour?
Could the gentlemen over there please look up the first rule of fight club♻ @cmastication: @pchalasani
Patches welcome, or fund development ♻ @hadleywickham: @eddelbuettel could we please have a benchmark vignette [for Rcpp performance]
But as a general rule, Rcpp questions go to rcpp-devel please ♻ @hadleywickham
Spot on. Big win over R♻ @hadleywickham: @eddelbuettel if first element of x is missing, then any(is_na)) only evaluates is_na once, right?
New blog post with links to the slides and examples from yesterday's full-day workshop on Rcpp and RINside http://goo.gl/GeGau #rstats
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I recommend the dinner to meet and great other R users. ♻ @jeffreyhorner: Anone NOT going to the #rstats #RFinance dinner Friday night?
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