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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Joined March 2007
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The best thing about the Santorum surge is the ... chance of seeing more Andy Sandberg impersonations of him at #SNL
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@johnmyleswhite cf Distributions Task View; the fBasics + stabledist packages have d/q/p/r functions based on Nolan's work and code
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New version Rcpp 0.9.8 released, a short summary at goo.gl/l48fx #rstats
Interesting new Machine Learning library "MLPACK" in C++ at goo.gl/Sd1EZ, even uses Armadillo. Rcpp bindings, anyone? #rstats
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@tonybreyal @romain_francois Our aim with Rcpp is to provide a nicer, simpler and easier to use layer. You need R-ints only to extend Rcpp.
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"@i2pi 's Guide to Personal Finance: Just create your own bank". That tops Torvalds' quote about real men, backups and mirror sites.
The R/Finance 2012 Call for Papers just went online, more at goo.gl/OBeAG -- and see you in Chicago in May! #rstats
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@romain_francois @hadleywickham And I hear there is a package to facilitate bringing C++ APIs to R ;-)
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@jeffreyhorner @fbahr But look what it did to your car! This ought to scare poor old Florian....
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@fbahr Naaahh, you just don't see us nodding in the distance.
New RInside release 0.2.5, restores ability to easily embed R inside C++ apps on Windows, more at goo.gl/0ZHZB #rstats
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RT @JohnAllenPaulos A new trigonometric function: the corzine, as in corzine($1.2 billion) = 0.
One day we all will work for firms doing their own logos in R @i2pi Math FTW: gist.github.com/0b7e1b4f88cd……
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May I suggest a s/Governments/${Whatever}/ MT @JohnDCook "Governments should not be given toys they do not understand." -- Nassim Taleb
@drewconway @zachstednick I must have hijacked the wrong prior conversation. I'll be drinking in Seattle this weekend. Anybody else?
@zachstednick @drewconway Hear, hear. I'm around this weekend too.
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By all means please go and run with it! RT @revodavid: @eddelbuettel That's a great idea!