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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Try Google Protocol Buffers ♻ @DataJunkie: Anyone know if there is a way to write a Python dict to disk and have Java read it as a HashMap?
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You violated Hadleys's rule #1: Drop (many|most) vowels. ♻ @jeffreyhorner: @hadleywickham Cool! Yeah the name isn't that googleable.
@pkedrosky is childish. I wrote one tweet making fun of his (admittedly poor) Boston Marathon chart. So he blocks me. How old are you, Paul?
Doing same on my LG ♻ @DataJunkie: Rooted Droid X for location data. Not much to see. Kudos to Google for making more private than iPhone.
Oh rest assured I noticed and smiled :) ♻ @drewconway: @eddelbuettel I @hadleywickham-a-fed a package name for you! http://bit.ly/g0Axuq
No cache.cell or cache.wifi on my LG either MT @DataJunkie: I can't find the [location] cache files anywhere on my Droid X.success.
Damn. Should have cashed those in when you were here for the PolSci conf ♻ @drewconway: @eddelbuettel I owe you several beers by now
Only Gauss knows whether Schrodinger's cat is dead or alive. http://goo.gl/z7zOe Hat tips: @siah @JohnAllenPaulos @sc_k
Is @mattyglesias moonlighting? ♻ @TheOnion: Mitt Romney Haunted By Past Of Trying To Help Uninsured Sick People http://onion.com/gZPeIy
Merely fewer scruples guessing. No inside knowledge here. ♻ @jeffreyhorner: @eddelbuettel you always have the inside scoop. #rstats
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It is called 'Kurt being human' and taking time off. He will be back. ♻ @jeffreyhorner: Anyone know why #rstat CRAN subissions are stalled?
Cute typo, that WORLD cloud :) ♻ @jeffreyhorner: @drewconway THAT is cool! So will we get to see your world cloud Rack app soon?
All it takes is 'wajig install pianobar', and all of a sudden Pandora is useable outside a browser. Yay!
:) That was a poor bug report by him, zero reproduceability ♻ @gaygoygourmet: also your engagement with ripley over vignette makefiles: ♥
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We looked at this via popcon stats for Debian/Ubuntu: about 1 - 3% of machines contained R ♻ @johnmyleswhite @drewconway @i2pi
Define standard. It is in repos, but never a default pkg ♻ @johnmyleswhite @drewconway @i2pi I think our book says it is standard.
Just put it on r-forge, can even import your SVN history. ♻ @geoffjentry: @cmastication I don't. I just use my old private svn archive.
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Idea: relate Boston records to World records, both over time. Should show how unusual today's time is ♻ @pkedrosky: @eddelbuettel
You should annotate the chart too ♻ @pkedrosky: @eddelbuettel @fishertrey No question. Mentioned wind this morning in comments ...
How to lie with data -- no control for the wind today! ♻ @pkedrosky: [post] Progression of Boston Marathon Records http://dlvr.it/Nw05s