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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Seriously smart and funny MT @jakeporway @benlee: http://goo.gl/uTwfm - Ken Jennings takes questions on Reddit under username WatsonsBitch.
Nice jazz find to stream from NPR: Kurt Elling live set from Philadelphia six weeks ago featuring his new album http://goo.gl/YqEli
@CRANberriesFeed now tweets CRAN updates as well as new packages. Updates at http://goo.gl/5g3iZ, new ones at #http://goo.gl/pgljT rstats
Awesome introduction and elegy to @MayorEmanuel with numerous tweets and cross-references. http://goo.gl/qQL0E
With or without Rcpp? ;-) MT @hadleywickham @CMastication @gappy3000 @CMastication @gappy3000 my aim is to make plyr as fast as data.table
Rcpp 0.9.2 released with a build / test fix for the older OS X 10.5 used on CRAN, Intel compiler support and more docs http://goo.gl/cQhH5
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I take screen / byobu over nohup any day. MT @mikedewar nohupped jobs don't appear in ps when you log back in.
That's what we call just-in-time RT @numbercrunching 2010 March Madness Contest Winning Algorithm: Code http://bit.ly/hmJjlu
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Very impressive interactive weather data visualization and forecasting http://goo.gl/pWb7M HT Aleks Jakulin http://goo.gl/pWb7M
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Kirilenko et al (CFTC + NBER) paper on high-frequency trading and the flash crash http://goo.gl/KNc4X HT DeLong
Seconded RT @sfalcon @hadleywickham @jeffreyhorner twitter sucks for discussion. If you feel strongly, use paragraphs :-)
Yes the whole piece rocketh, and hard (@CMastication "Now we have much more freedom in the stupid assumptions that we can make.")
Pat Burns takes beta behind the barn and shoots it: "4 and a half myths about beta in finance" http://goo.gl/n7H2N
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He has similar praise for Debian @JohnDCook "I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor." -- Neal Stephenson
And ponies! RT @ChrisDiehl We need to build algorithms that embrace dirty data. I for one am tired of spending so much time on cleaning.