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
R 3.5.0 binaries for Debian and Update: An Update Details on apt-get'able binaries for R and numerous packages dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… Co-written and cross-posted with @marutterstat
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With the 20yo back at college to lab-rat for the summer, and the professor spouse in Brasilia for a few days, I cooked up a wicked sous-vide and pan-seared salmon plus apple/spinach/nuts/sweet peppers salad and rice for the college-bound 18yp and myself. Worked out quite well.
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RcppZiggurat 0.1.5, RcppGSL 0.3.6, RcppClass 0.9.10: Updates Mostly maintenance, and minor new features for RcppZiggurat #rcpp #rstats
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RcppDE 0.1.6. on CRAN: Several small updates Differential Evolution Optimization via RcppArmadillo dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats #rcpp
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pinp 0.0.5 on CRAN: accomodating pandoc 2.* snazzier one- and two column pdf vignettes dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/p… #rcpp
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
Replying to @stevebot
It looks like you are trying to decide which GitHub version is right for you. Have you tried GitHub365?
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
It looks like you are trying to exit vim, have you tried using notepad.exe?
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Big congratulations to Julia on a (gorgeous) graduation day. So life goal "Have two wonderful kids graduate high school": Done. @oprfhshuskies class of 2018 (and 2016)
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
Day one of the 10th annual #RFinance2018 conference is well underway!
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R/Finance is kicking off! Thanks to all our sponsors, all the attendees, and Mary Deering and her team for all their hard work!
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We are really excited to have you as a sponsor and supporter! #rfinance2018 #RFin2018
Very proud to sponsor the R in finance conference in Chicago! Today we made ou R Api available with the 2.6.0 release!
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
A little project I have been working on is finished. c2d4u3.5 is available for for your apt-getting pleasure. 3,400+ R packages for your #Ubuntu box running R 3.5.0. Details here: rubuntu.netlify.com/post/201… #rstats #seemyfamilyagain
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The @TheEconomist hires @gelliottmorris and BAM there comes a fancy predictive model of the upcoming mid-term elections. Nice writeup and charts -- but your explanation of “elastic-net regularisation” describes standard k-fold cross-validation. nitter.vloup.ch/EconomistOnce/st…
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And as usual I added @Debian binaries the same day. @Ubuntu 14.04 and 17.10 builds were added to my PPA yesterday.
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
Miles Davis was born #onthisday in 1926.
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By the age of 35 you should have realized that Emacs is the One True Editor and should have embraced it. If that’s not the case - your life so far has been completely wasted.
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Rcpp 0.12.17 on CRAN: Small updates Seamless R and C++ Integration dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats #rcpp
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RcppGSL 0.3.5: Maintenance release Easier GNU GSL use from R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2… #rstats #rcpp
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