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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Exercised every day of 2020 starting Nov 17, and every day of 2021 so far (til Nov 16 today) making it one year of daily running, indoor treadmill/ski machine, or biking (and some day two). Working from home has its charms.
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A rant: "Every one of these package managers is designed for a reckless world in which programmers chuck packages wholesale into ~/.pip, set up virtualenvs and pin their dependencies to 10 versions and 6 vulnerabilities ago, [...]" #RStats is better here
drewdevault.com/2021/11/16/P…
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
nanotime - Full 64-bit resolution date and time functionality with nanosecond granularity is provided, with easy transition to and from the standard 'POSIXct' type. Three additional classes offer interval, period and duration functionality for n... #rstats github.com/eddelbuettel/nano…
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Maintaining an autobuilder is (a lot of) work. All dependencies have to be current, all little build issues have to be sorted oout -- for all 18.4k packages.
This is all done by the same volunteers running CRAN so sometimes their delivery of binaries is not within 24 hrs.
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`base` is a package name in R ;it is also a name of a directory in `src/library/ `; when you fire up #Rstats is it the 'lowest' package returned by `search()`.
For Python, I would think it is 'native' as opposed to the compiled / jit'ed / ... variants of the Python core.
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The operating system works this out in your best interest, and it generally does that well.
Just how you generally do not ask your car to run on a particular cylinder after you shift gears.
(On some OSs you can pin to core, cpu, ..., but it is unlike to help with #RStats.)
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This is called '7.31' among #RStats friends.
After the corresponding entry in the R FAQ that is quite detailed and full of links.
This also happens equally with *every other programming language* using the standard 53 bit representation with 64 bit doubles.
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Let's hope for another 'dos a cero'! Go #USMNT
And here is what I just made: tarte alsacienne (with onions). I used Mexican colors: white + red (onions) + green (halapenos). Turned out well. Picture has one after / one before baking. Now off to the pub to watch with friends...
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They certainly changed how we write, test and release code. While imperfect they moved the needle. A lot.
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Feels like another variant, of Goodhart's law.
Unit tests become our success metric, and human nature being what it is we then optimize to that metric. As opposed to some abstract 'code quality'.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodha…
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"[...] there hasn’t been much breakthrough technical innovation in the tech business for years. Facebook is off ruining democracies, Google just keeps sucking more money out of ads and each new iPhone is just incrementally better than the last."
nytimes.com/2021/11/10/opini…
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Done, see github.com/sgaure/lfe/pull/5…
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That subset is transient, you just did it in an expression ... which you did not assign to a new variable.
Please do so, and smile in delight.
#teamDataTableForEverAndEver :)
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Canonical answer to "is there a datasat that ..." is the _wicked_ repo by @VincentAB
vincentarelbundock.github.io…
#rstats #drowningInData
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
Today is the 50th Anniversary of the 1st Edition of Unix.... It was targeted at the PDP-11/20 with 8kW of memory (16,384 bytes)....
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RDieHarder 0.2.2 on CRAN: Simpler Build, Fixes
DieHarder RNG testing for R
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2…
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a) For bug reports, the repo is a better place than the #RStats handle
b) What is your system? On Linux (and in Central) time:
> anytime::anytime("November 1, 2000")
[1] "2000-11-01 CST"
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