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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New release RcppArmadillo 0.2.30 now on CRAN wrapping Armadillo 2.3.91. More at goo.gl/YdR26 #rstats #rcpp
Excellent essay on what makes Emacs so versatile in so many ways ♻ @emacs_knight: From the blog - Why Emacs? batsov.com/articles/2011/11/…
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"Asking computer nerds to design social software is a little bit like hiring a Mormon bartender." goo.gl/T4jAj
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Nice! RT @chlalanne 10 Great Free Fonts for @font-face embedding, bit.ly/uHVPa3
I like Go too MT @jeffreyhorner The Return of the Gopher, or rumors of his death have been greatly exagerated: blog.golang.org/2011/11/go-p…
Yup. And Gelman posted w/ "statistician" MT @gappy3000 Which is all but science: "Three hours in the life of a (glorified) data scientist"
@DataJunkie Been using byobu daily for many years, it does rock. But the kids, and even byobu's author, now plug tmux: goo.gl/yaqQU
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Doug Bates on Rcpp and RcppEigen for faster linear model fitting: goo.gl/pvf6L #rstats
Please post the code too, the document is very nice. The Tufte-class and I will become good friends... @chlalanne @cmastication
How to ignore Ctrl-A when a different escape sequence is already chosen askubuntu.com/q/77272/1771
@jeffreyhorner Working useR2007 example with a fixed tarball; just like I told you a few days ago in email ;-)
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Hm, tasty: MapReduce over MPI, more at sandia.gov/~sjplimp/mapreduc… and just added to Debian.
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Next Rcpp talk at Seattle R User Group on December 7 goo.gl/h5kp9 #rstats
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@kirkwy but to paraphrase the timeless Frank Zappa quote is surely "smells funny".
Wow. CRAN on fire after the R 2.14.0 update with 73 new or updates packages today -- per @CRANberries at goo.gl/BtcUv @rstats