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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PSA: Switched on three machines to "Nord", a gorgeous and (new to me) family of themes for multiple apps and editors. Screenshot below for what matters to me: terminal and Emacs (and Emacs in terminal, of course).
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Thread, with an awesome blog post link hiding in it:
brodieg.com/2018/12/12/three…
Some people do just plain magic with base R. A skill that should treasured.
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Word in @TheEconomist : "Foreigners increasingly talk about Britain in the way they would talk about an admired relative who has gone stark raving bonkers."
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
I was a bit worried that everyone was chasing the next shiny thing but it's clear from talking to folks on the ground that a lot of people are still really invested in the fundamentals (which is what we need!)
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RQuantLib 0.4.7 on CRAN: Restored full windows capabilities
Quantitative Finance library bindings for R
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#rstats #rcpp
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
John Coltrane’s masterpiece A Love Supreme was recorded on 9 December 1964. Take a look at rare photographs from the session at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio | rhystranter.com/2015/09/03/j…
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
I finally did it—I compiled (pun intended) most of what I know about building #rstats packages w/ #Fortran & blogged it. Next up—comparing R, #Rcpp, and Fortran timings of a simple function. H/T @wrathematics for his writings & @eddelbuettel for Rcpp!
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Small world! Around 1995, he had pinged me as we were among the (then very small) se(c)t of @Debian developers, and I (as a semi-permanent visitor) had been using a @queensu handle (his alma mater).
Doug was instrumental in me getting into R. So big thanks to @BatesDmbates !
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It was twenty years ago ... this week that I first showed up in debian/changelog for the r-base package.
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#rstats @debian
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Old and "hard" problem: if you want to guarantee rng streams across systems / languages you need to implement your own.
See eg Paul Gilbert in his R/Finance 2012 keynote referencing work he did in the 1990s at the Bank of Canada comparing R and S-Plus.
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Ok - thank you. I don't need anymore. So random.seed() doesn't lead to same sequence of random numbers in Python 2.7 as in Python 3. Anyone have a work around?
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
Congratulations to Luke Tierney, winner of the 2019 Statistical Computing and Graphics Award from @AmstatNews for his creation of XLisp-Stat, work on MCMC methods, and critical contributions to R #rstats
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
I used to share music videos on Google+, but it's getting the boot.
So if you follow me for QuantLib, well, you just picked the short straw.
cc @eddelbuettel and @CaspersPeter
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Second music recommendation in two days: a really nice video essay on why John Coltrane's 1959 album Giant Steps is such a monumentally important piece.
And I also learned the title track is 290 bpm :)
/cc @lballabio @CaspersPeter
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With the untimely coming demise of @GooglePlus, our small group of @lballabio @CaspersPeter and myself are "forced" to continue our habit of sharing music somewhere else.
No let's start here with another 26 wicked minutes of live music by @TheNational: youtube.com/watch?v=jscmj8Iz…
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RcppArmadillo 0.9.200.5.0 on CRAN: Bugfix update
Powerful and expressive C++ matrix library
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RQuantLib 0.4.6 on CRAN: Upstream updates, and two calls for help
Quantitative Finance functionality for R
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RcppEigen 0.3.3.5.0 on CRAN: Upstream update and some polishing
Eigen C++ Matrix Algebra binding for R
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Thanks to the R Core Group, for volunteering their time and expertise to create, improve and support R r-project.org/contributors.h… #rstats
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