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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Nice: "the toxic hell-swamp that is Windows" ♻ @jeffreyhorner: [...] ESR's post on re-taking over ownership of giflib: esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4304
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yes, buy lowest cost index trackers ♻ @zachstednick: should I be concerned my mutual fund has share buttons on individual fund info pages?
Efficient: ~ 2 reps in congress each for the money ♻ @timoreilly: "196 Americans have given 80% of all Super PAC money" @lessig #hacksociety
Linux ? ♻ @google: Introducing Google Drive—a place where you can create, share, collaborate & keep all of your stuff: goo.gl/cKw8I
At #bigdatacamp #chicago with a good 100+ others listening to opening lightning talks.
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Boston Marathon was quite an experience in 86 degree heat. First half 1:45, second 1:58 :-/ for a new personal low of 3:43:55. But finished.
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The SVN logs for R (-devel) reveal initial work to support vectors with more than 2^31-1 elements. Would be nice in R 2.16 in a year #rstats
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RDieHarder 0.1.2 is now on CRAN. More at goo.gl/0D3Qz #rstats
If whoever is uploading RInside to win-builder is reading this: use your email in Maintainer: if you want the completion email. #rstats
Rcpp / RInside talk at Boston R User's Group meeting next Tuesday April 17, more details at goo.gl/ShBJ0 #rstats rcpp
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@ananelson You can actually run Windows in kvw/qemu which via libvirt/virtmanager is a pretty virtualization without external depends.
@kirkwy That would be setting a new lightning talk record. Try to fill your six minutes for the kewl stuff.
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@kirkwy Looking forward to the "insanely cool stuff" talk next month at R/Finance 2012 :)
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@kirkwy Forget the Instagram deal. NOW I know there is tech bubble if you can blow funding on rewriting BLAS in Java. My head hurts :)
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@kirkwy Clearly demonstrated by the fact that you use Java as the implementation language. Now THAT is what we call crazy :)
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RcppArmadillo 0.3.0.1 is now on CRAN, containing a bug-fix release 3.0.1 of Armadillo goo.gl/3YmhM #rstats #rcpp
RcppArmadillo 0.3.0, containing a shiny new Armadillo 3.0.0 release, is now on CRAN. goo.gl/hTVO5 #rstats
Just registered for upcoming BigDataCamp in Chicago on Saturday, April 21. More information at goo.gl/3GN4G