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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@wesmckinn R has had NAMESPACE since time immortal, and since R 2.14.0 even enforces it. But search order matters.
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Third time this week I got bitten by a @hadleywickham function hiding a base function + altering the behaviour. API hijacking is bad, kids!
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Looks like GOOG is testing the laws of gravity after the close, and release of earnings. Now down over 9%.
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@romain_francois "The dual-sidedness of nihilism is in fact quite poetic in its independence." (from phrasegenerator.com/academic)
@joshua_ulrich the whole website is a winner: movie titles, financial advice, wine reviews---what's not to like?
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@jaredlander Please post a full reproducible example on the (subscriber-only) rcpp-devel list. Thanks! #rstats #rcpp
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@revodavid So how do you feel 20 yrs later with '#' being called a 'little know feature'. Oh the injustice.... But thx for #, ## and ###.
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And even '###'; cf Section '7.5 Indenting and formatting S code'
♻ @geoffjentry @JohnDCook Or the "##" symbol(s) to play nicely with ESS ;)
Stop what you're doing and admire TeBowie: latenightwithjimmyfallon.com…
Most excellent news! MT @lessig Research Archive JStor Moves Toward Open Access techre.vu/y2LNbq BRAVO JSTOR!
New and shining RInside release, allowing you to embed R all so easily inside C++ applications, more at goo.gl/bGNJs #rstats
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Nice to read after a rigorous seven miles morning run :-) well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/…
Random LaTeX find of the day: 'fourier' font, per howtotex.com/packages/use-fo…
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@revodavid @reichlab revoIPC and doSMP were removed from CRAN today, as reported earlier by @CRANberriesFeed
@mikedewar Get as much ram as you can and just put Ubuntu in a virtual env on your mac.
@mikedewar It was really easy to build on Ubuntu / Debian. I did put together a first stab at RVowpalWabbit (on CRAN) but could use help.
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Nice piece MT "@justinwolfers: Long sentences. latimes.com/entertainment/ne…"
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So watch for wave of Economists hitting Wall St in 2030s @EmanuelDerman @justinwolfers Economists are to 2000s what physicists were to 1950s
Oops, make that Max Kuhn. Bad typo. (Was: awesome list of recommendations for R coding on r-devel: goo.gl/ELpWe #rstats)
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@mikedewar Kurt Elling. Start with this show streaming at NPR: npr.org/2011/01/14/132908380…
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