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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GS has a biz patent on this MT @mattyglesias Someone should walk up to roulette table and put chips on 33 diff. numbers with 40:1 leverage.
Only mildly pretentious, not as bad as in English. @JohnDCook Does 'zeitgeist' sound high-brow in German like it does in English?
@fbahr please refresh my memory, my Zeit subscription expired many, many years ago + I do not check Spiegel and Zeit online that regularly.
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Adding my small voice to @timoreilly's call for Dennis Ritchie Day today goo.gl/oVb4P
The latter using the former: The packages multicore, and now parallel, using the hardware. ♻ @DataJunkie: multiple cores or "multicore"
We knew your would miss Chicago. If the withdrawl is that bad, just come back. ♻ @gappy3000: Honestly, the past three day have been brutal.
JJ clarified (in private mail) that the newest RStudio does multicore just fine. Even better! ♻ @chlalanne @eddelbuettel @datajunkie #rstats
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"I am a firm believer that no statistics blog post is complete without an Andrew Gelman quote" @NPHard in j.mp/stsNAe
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And I looked up curve(dnorm()) for matching Normal dist :) ♻ @lordsutch: Used @eddelbuettel's StackOverflow tip to show histogram + density
RStudio has issues with threads, so no GUIs (RGtk2) or multicore / parallel ♻ @chlalanne @DataJunkie I believe RStudio now offers everything
Somewhere Uwe Ligges is crying. ♻ @ProbablePattern: @johnmyleswhite That's really cool! I had never considered using R for music. #rstats
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There are 3400+ packages so if you don't update ... you get nuked. Fair deal AFAICT ♻ @statalgo: They're too aggressive at removing things
The code is stale, once was on CRAN, now withdrawn ♻ @statalgo Not on CRAN [but] R-Forge RT @carlcarrie Using R to analyze limit order books
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Kurt Elling and the Kluvers Big Band at the Green Mill in Chicago -- and coming to New York, DC and Boston next. goo.gl/1T5p9
Chicago? ♻ @gappy3000: What do @Jeffely @msiniscalchi @cmastication @eddelbuettel @gappy3000 and @rahmemanuel have in common *right now*?
@hadleywickham The underscore pony is inbred and genetically deficient. The camelCase pony will outrun it.
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Do you have a pony for me too? @hadleywickham @HarlanH @DataJunkie ... a modern consistent replacement for base
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"Can we do it with R?" /always/ triggers fortunes::fortune("Yoda") @romain_francois @drewconway #rstats
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@gappy3000 there are lots of truetype fonts you can easily swap into latex, doesn't take much more than a \usepackage{foo}