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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Go tell us how you like it. MT @chlalanne Trying dexy, http://www.dexy.it/ (via @eddelbuettel on #stackoverflow, http://bit.ly/lMxCz2)
I would try e.g. RcppArmadillo if I wanted to bypass those @gappy3000 I am concerned about overhead to check for NAs #rstats
Valid point and a reason to discuss in email on r-sig-hpc @mjbommar @eddelbuettel @gappy3000 how about the NA/NAN/INF propagation? #rstats
@gappy3000 Too much to say for 140 chars but R itself uses LAPACK you have one answer right there. MT Overhead in calling LAPACK #rstats
Hey Google, I am reading the New York Times in Chrome. So why do you show me a huge (and annoying) ad for downloading Chrome? #fail
C.f. "Innumeracy", JA Paulos, 1990. Add probability and it gets worse. @johnmyleswhite @i2pi It's unreal how little understanding there is
On a _training_ run? Wow. @fdaapproved the quest to get back under 30 for 5mi continues
@DataJunkie So how much (approx) did the (nice) rig set you back?
@mjbommar @DataJunkie I am also suspicious of the return-on-extra-Intel-Xeon-premium for the very newest CPUs.
Long, competing with Tom's HW? ;-) What's total cost? @DataJunkie New at Byte Mining: Want to Build a Research Server? http://dlvr.it/TcsCK
Yeebus. I just had to pay USD 7.20 extra for 'processing' a race entry via the corresponding web form. What a racket.
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@ecerami @gappy3000 Much better automated multipage beamer presentation via Sweave - pdf: http://goo.gl/PuGzV, writeup: http://goo.gl/LFGsT
Google, thanks for the Music beta invite. Seems nice on the Android but what is the story about win / mac only for music management? #fail
@NPHard No worries, try `library(fortunes); fortune("dirk can type")`.
Presentation slides from the third annual R / Finance conference are now online. http://goo.gl/hfxTp #rstats
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