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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Welcome to adulthood :) @joshua_ulrich: put 4GB of RAM in my laptop, moved /home partition, installed 64-bit Ubuntu (was using 32-bit).
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Nicely done. Installs like a charm on Ubuntu as it should MT @rstudioapp: RStudio Beta 2 now available blog.rstudio.org/2011/04/11/… #rstats #rstudio
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@freakonometrics: @suncoolsu The `` allows you to protect otherwise unallowed identifiers, see help(make.names) for more.
Couldn't agree more. Use iptables or hosts.{allow,deny} to limit access. MT @geoffjentry Changing port numbers won't do jack for security.
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Really too bad @mayoremmanuel left the White Hourse... MT @felixsalmon: I find it sad that @BarackObama's Twitter account is so boring.
We want the blog post! MT @cmastication: Bidirectional sync using lsyncd + unison + autossh like Dropbox without giving strangers my data.
Utter awesomeness. Best acronym ever. @KidDynamiteBlog: Bring On Your Best Country Group Acronyms (DOUCHEBAGS) - http://bit.ly/eXhTqC
Only because you slacked off on StackOverflow. Looser! @hadleywickham: @eddelbuettel plus a few articles by other people :P
Journal of Statistical Software v40 is out -- with three articles by @hadleywickham and my 'Nutshell' review http://goo.gl/1iyVs #rstats
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A little bird told me UCLA stat has been using it for a year MT @drewconway: It's official @RStudioapp has penetrated academia #wrongCoast
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Because all change is glacial over there MT @jeffjarvis: Warum? RT "Abo ist auf der ganzen Welt tot. Nur in Deutschland noch nicht"
Haha! Ansgar put a commercial for his closed-source P compiler in the post @joshua_ulrich: @statalgo too bad you're using Python now... ;-)
And Luke Tierney himself answering on SO ! [ BTW there is the r-devel RSS summary of R commits ] MT @statalgo: Compiler in R 2.13? Whoa!
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sudo apt-get install python-opencv MT @siah: It took 6 hrs, 3 gb of disk + 2 advils to build python wrapper for OpenCV from c++ sources
Rcpp master class / workshop in Chicago on April 28, more details at http://goo.gl/3GK1R #rstats
Rcpp 0.9.3 now on CRAN and in Debian, more details at http://goo.gl/HqJVt #rstats
Michael Rutter rocks hard and implements my suggestion of letting Launchpad autobuild R alpha/beta/rc releases. See r-sig-debian for more.
The true cost of the NY Times paywall is ... more permanent Chrome tabs at Globe & Mail, Spiegel, Economist (subscriber) and Bloomberg.
No, sorry, don't know of anything MT @drewconway: in all seriousness, does JSS have review articles like that?