Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel

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
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Joined March 2007
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Having lived "there" for 25+ years,"here" for 16+ (and two more countries in-between) I find this to be a good read, despite lots of errors.
Erik Bernhardsson @bernhardsson
1 Jan 2017
How and how not to copy Germany’s manufacturing mojo johnnybowman.org/post/155089…
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Quick mini-tutorial on installing R, CRAN packages, their dependencies on @ubuntu stackoverflow.com/a/41399000…
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anytime 0.2.0 on CRAN: New features, fixes and tests Parse anything to Date(time) in R goo.gl/aqu19k #rstats
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Tomas Kalibera has joined the R Core Team. He is working on improvements to the R runtime and byte code compiler, among other projects.
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Remember how UseR! 2016 in Stanford sold out in now time? Now with moules et frites and Belgian Beer. What else to wait for?
useR!2017 @useR_Brussels
21 Dec 2016
Registrations are open! Register here: user2017.brussels #user2017
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.@eddelbuettel And here is why -- 88 patches is what they'd call Yuge.
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Tomas Kalibera is now part of R Core -- well deserved, and congratulations! github.com/wch/r-source/comm…

ported r71831 [ R-core++ ] from trunk · wch/r-source@808d4ff

git-svn-id: https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-3-3-branch@71832 00db46b3-68df-0310-9c12-caf00c1e9a41

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Using true and TRUE in different languages may be a close second.
Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel
10 Aug 2014
Forcing us to alternate between comment characters %, # and // may have been the biggest trick ever pulled by the Devil.
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RcppArmadillo 0.7.600.1.0 on CRAN Connects R to Armadillo Linear Algebra Template Library goo.gl/74N8NN #rstats #rcpp
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I am not @richhickey but I endorse this message. The "good parts" of #rstats behave the same way, methinks. (Via goo.gl/BJkUBL)
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. @eddelbuettel Now on CRAN
CRAN Package Updates @CRANberriesFeed
16 Dec 2016
New CRAN package nanotime with initial version 0.0.1 goo.gl/pgljT #rstats
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.@eddelbuettel Possibly even 'high-resolution' Always keep `fortunes::fortune(112)` in mind
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New package nanotime 0.0.1 High-resoultion nanosecond time functionality for R goo.gl/Pn1Ynm #rstats
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
Joshua Ulrich @joshua_ulrich
14 Dec 2016
.@MMaechler on R-devel: some TZs have a leap-second at the end of 2016. You'll need R-patched/devel for second precision in 2017. #rstats
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anytime 0.1.2 on CRAN: Windows Bugfix Parse anything to Date or Datetime goo.gl/PzZfqN #rstats
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
Yuan (Terry) Tang
 @TerryTangYuan
14 Dec 2016
TF.Learn - TensorFlow's High-level Module for Distributed Machine Learning - on arXiv! goo.gl/aNC33X @tensorflow #machinelearning

TF.Learn: TensorFlow's High-level Module for Distributed...

TF.Learn is a high-level Python module for distributed machine learning inside TensorFlow. It provides an easy-to-use Scikit-learn style interface to simplify the process of creating, configuring,...

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RcppCCTZ 0.1.0 on CRAN: Updated CCTZ, new utilities Modern C++11 dates/times and tz library from R goo.gl/kRPeyK #rstats
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I said it before, I will say it again: Hire this guy! nitter.vloup.ch/KKusingR/status/…
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RcppAPT 0.0.3 on CRAN Access apt and its caches from R goo.gl/FNgbuo #rstats
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Can't wait. #readingIsHard #comprehensionEvenHarder
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