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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A new R package 'parallell' is starting to emerge in R's SVN with 'Support for Parallel Computation in R'. Commits so far by BDR. #rstats
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@lordsutch Is soccer a big deal at TAMUIU? But not bigger than football, right?
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@ProbablePattern Historical context, grasshopper! The paper came out in 1985 when "everything is efficient" still reigned supreme.
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You surely know this as foundational in behavioural finance, right ? @ProbablePattern [...] Captain Obvious [...] JoF moneyscience.com/pg/bookmark…
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@kirkwy Congratulations, you just lost the all-important Edinburgh market.
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I belatedly added some @kjhealy to it! MT rstats toolchains bit.ly/qP1iWU [..] my R workflow [needs] @eddelbuettel or @hadleywickham
New Rcpp 0.9.6 release, see http://goo.gl/sRZwO for more #rstats
JSS v40(8) is the formal address of the paper MT @RLangTip Introduction to Rcpp [for] for integrating C and C++ code: bit.ly/nHl7Um
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Yup! ♻ @drewconway: @eddelbuettel that's fantastic! Is your wife Lisa Powell?
Awesome Rcpp example provided by a StackOverflow question: http://goo.gl/Qxd2P which shows a 700-fold speed gain. #rstats
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And my wife has a paragraph in it :-) ♻ @drewconway: op-ed on a junk food tax to subsidize fruit and vegetables http://nyti.ms/poJPXC
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Context-sensitive (?) ads while watching Amy Winehouse clip on YouTube flip between 'Dell latitude', 'Drug rehab' and 'Chevy Malibu'. Hm.
Keep up via @CRANberriesFeed ♻ @hadleywickham: Kurt is back from holiday. Be ready for an onslaught of new and updated R packages! #rstats
New versions RcppArmadillo 0.2.26 and 0.2.27 now on CRAN, more at http://goo.gl/Gvofp #rstats
Seconded. One day I may rejig some of my pages with http://www.getskeleton.com too ♻ @hadleywickham: @jeffreyhorner very nice!
@mattyglesias "Aufschaukel" is approx. 'going up on a swing' so escalating (ie panic). Interesting that you went to "downward spiral".
Seeing @jeffjarvis about Giuliani defending Murdoch ("as honest, honorable man"), I thought I was reading @BorowitzReport or @TheOnion.
Typo in your tweet, you meant frndl2 ♻ @hadleywickham: @eddelbuettel i'm working on a package called frndly to provide a friendly intro ;)
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For sure! And JD will be aboard as well. ♻ @hadleywickham: @PhilRack still a lot to be done on ... showing you how to kick butt #rstats
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