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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Fifth of six, and third very hard one done. Fell apart in sun, heat and humity. #RagnarFLK @RagnarRelay
Fourth of six legs, and second very hard one---but felt great under a starry sky. #RagnarFLK @RagnarRelay
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Third of six legs, and first of three hard ones. In the dark, on gravel, next to gators. #RagnarFLK @RagnarRelay
Second easy one down, now have a few hours to rest. #RagnarFLK @RagnarRelay
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Leg one of six down. It's bloody hot and humud and I went too fast. #RagnarFLK
Team 'Six Slows Dudes' about to start our second @RagnarRelay #RagnarFLK
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"Legs 13 and 14 are along the canal. There are alligators." #RagnarFLK security briefing. Our team starts in under an hour!!
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Replying to @geospacedman
. @geospacedman @lgatt0 @BorisAdryan I'm honoured and in. Now we need to convince FOAStat to sponsor it just like @jstatsoft :)
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Free (for 50 days) access to the CSDA paper by Conrad and myself on RcppArmadillo elsarticle.com/1ejh7oj #rstats #rcpp
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Replying to @dickoah
. @dickoah Yes -- very basic script on GitHub at goo.gl/QMFydh -- please feel free to improve. Will try to post more this eve.
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Fighting words: "But the microbenchmark package isn’t useful for the purpose for which it was designed." goo.gl/1Hkg79 #rstats
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Replying to @Ritholtz
.@ritholtz 1) Never confuse investment decisions with tax decisions. 2) Many states only offer overpriced bad alpha, not cheap beta,
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Replying to @aofarre
. @aofarre Yes, very much so. I had a weak moment and tried to be civil and polite.
New definition: A Data Scientist is someone rehashing R / Julia / Python nonsense instead of getting predictive modeling done in any one.
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.@gvwilson @swcarpentry Economics and statistics also score 'hard'.
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Replying to @FalseMedium
About time. MT "@FalseMedium How to Get into the Secret Internet That Split Off from the Stupid One"
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