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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'One rule to follow when assessing a technology is that it is no longer “new” once IBM makes a television commercial about it.'
One of many gems in this year's database review by @andy_pavlo (NB: Also holds for other companies making TV commercials)
ottertune.com/blog/2022-data…
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
A year ago, I scraped the locations of 22k bitcoin ATMs in the US. I didn't have time to finish the project, but they definitely were not in the rich neighborhoods.
Crypto was never a rich gambler's game; it was always a predatory con to offload the bag.
We tend to think of crypto as a rich person's gambling game. But as this chart illustrates, people in developing nations like Nigeria & Turkey are flocking to gamble on crypto, too.
(chart via bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…)
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You can look at the CRAN Task View on High-Performance Computing, and its references. We wrote a widely-used survey paper about a decade ago, and I updated it more recently. As for packages, most people are happy the the `futureverse` by Henrik. #rstats
cran.r-project.org/web/views…
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
A friend stopped by the other day, and checked in to make certain I am sticking to my physical therapy.
📸: Quintell Williams Carter 🥰
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I lost that one fair and square. The older one (in engineering) gets to matlab/python at most, and generally codes little. The younger one (in social-sciences) codes a ton and its all in stata. Didn't we already complain that the world wasn't fair?
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I had some time the last few days to re-view something I had seen decades ago: A short review of Heimat (1984) by Edgar Reitz on @letterboxd: boxd.it/3Canbn
From `help(round)`:
Note that for rounding off a 5, the IEC 60559 standard (see also ‘IEEE 754’) is expected to be used, ‘_go to the even digit_’. Therefore ‘round(0.5)’ is ‘0’ and ‘round(-1.5)’ is ‘-2’. However, this is dependent on OS services [...]
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I am not even sure it _is_ a good start, but it was certainly inevitable that someone would bridge these two. Whether that ultimately makes sense, or not.
#r2u going strong: We already served 30k .deb binaries of CRAN packages for @Ubuntu 20.04 / 22.04 today, surpassing a new 10k multiple. "Fast, easy, reliable" -- see eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u/ for more! #rstats
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Still warp speed ("15.1 MB is 0s" and 2803 kB in 0s") for me from us-east-1 as per the screen shot. So issue may be local to you?
Also, please use a repo issue ticket and not social media for such questions.
PSA: CRAN package `BH` is looking to update to the recently-released @Boost_Libraries 1.81.0 (subset).
Rev-dep checks show 300+ packages unaffected; we track and PRed a few others. See below for details how to test your #Rstats package with this rc.
github.com/eddelbuettel/bh/i…
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
Imagine reading about Ukraine, a country where people are living without heat and light, where incredibly brave men endure bombardment and artillery fire every day, where the whole nation has pulled together to stop barbarism of a kind we haven't seen in Europe since 1944...
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Agree in principle but happen to also put weight on 'overall computational literacy' and also include shell, git, a bit of sql -- and then R, wrangling, viz, ...
Lecture slides for my 'Data Science Programming Methods' course STAT 447 from this Fall 2021 at U of Illinois are now accessible via stat447.com covering shell (incl sed/awk), markdown, git(hub), sql, lots of #Rstats up to packaging, and Docker. Enjoy!
RcppDE 0.1.7 on CRAN: Several Updates
Differential Evolution Optimization via RcppArmadillo
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2…
#rstats #rcpp
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Last night: Andrew Bird (@andrewbird) and Alan Hampton, "Pulaski at Night", first encore of the final night of the "Gezelligheid" residency at @FourthChicago
youtube.com/mPxColMZtN8 via @YouTube
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
I used #ChatGPT, @IBMWatson, and #rstats to write, "record", and post a Top 40 Countdown on @Spotify
troyhernandez.com/2022/12/15…
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