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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RVowpalWabbit -- Integrating the Vowpal Wabbit fast machine learner into R -- on R-Forge at goo.gl/e1KEr and collaborators welcome!
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Once the horse carriage was best too. Time to move on. ♻ @jcheng: @eddelbuettel XML is amazing compared with previous interchange formats
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Still cannot decide whether XML or Java is history's greatest monster ♻ @sorenmacbeth: tweaking xml based config files. #likeyoudo
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New blog post: Easily accelerating R loops that are hard to vectorise -- A simple Rcpp case study at goo.gl/tyF2r #rstats
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Our JSS piece from 2009 goo.gl/Y5bpO says snow +Rmpi ♻ @genetics_blog @brendan642: What are good #rstats parallelism / #HPC pkgs?
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Trying to watch a lecture at videolectures.net and it times out all the friggin time. C'mon, we're no longer on dial-up.
Als Exilniedersachse habe ich so meine Zweifel ob das lange haelt. Geniess es nun :) ♻ @fbahr: Spitzenreitertweet. #H96 nitter.vloup.ch/fbahr/status/102…
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Just like you on Google+ ♻ @gappy3000: @joshua_ulrich if he doesn't have a twitter handle he doesn't exist..
Replying to @NPHard
@NPHard There are 3210 CRAN packages right now as per cran.r-project.org/web/packa… -- and John Fox once estimated 40% p.a. growth
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How is that not a red card offense?
Nice combination, nice goal. Much spunkier US in 2nd half. Mexico 1 : US 1. #soccer
Replying to @wligtenberg
Awesome on all counts RT @wligtenberg Yes, I hope mine is more user friendly. And uses Rcpp for ease of maintenance. Will be on CRAN ASAP.
Replying to @wligtenberg
Have you looked at Simon's OpenCL package on CRAN ? When will yours be on CRAN? RT @wligtenberg [...] ROpenCL package [...] at UseR2011!
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@chicagocdo I can probably help you with R and time series -- just found your handle via cmastications posts.
Replying to @joshua_ulrich
Up next: Standard downgrades Poors @joshua_ulrich Breaking News: S&P downgrades McGraw-Hill
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Abso-friggin-lutely. ♻ @JohnDCook: RT @gapingvoid: Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue is not overrated. It really IS that good.
No hope as long as enough voters remain insane ♻ @benhammersley: Cheer up America! [...] downgraded because your political class is insane.
Can someone please get the real @felixsalmon back? There is an impostor on his handle attempting to make intra-daily market forecasts.
Just got interviewed by @runnersworld; a writer had found my blogging about my eight Chicago Halfmarathon races http://goo.gl/7P11q
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Two new Rcpp master classes scheduled for New York (Sep 24) and San Francisco (Oct 8) --- see http://goo.gl/4Eehy for more. #rstats
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