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Dirk Eddelbuettel
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Dirk Eddelbuettel's personal blog at dirk.eddelbuettel.com covers programming and data. Since 2011, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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For people that want to try OpenMOSIX out, take a look at this site http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html He has a distro that is called Quantian, with a big collection of science tools added. Shame it's Sunday, I'll need to wait a week to pull it down and see how well it flys.
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on “Teleforking a Process onto a Different Computer”Submitted Introduction to High-Performance Computing with R (2010) [pdf] as a story · 8 points
HN discussionCurrently, this comment is heavily downvoted, which I do not understand. If Julia warrants mentioning as having a lispy core, then it’s at least as valid to point out R’s deeply lisp-inspired (and technical implementation based) heritage. I mean, scratch the surface on any of the FFI docs, and you’ll see that SEXPRs are right there lurking barely beneath the surface: http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rcpp.html EDIT:…
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on “Chicken Scheme 5.0”Submitted Introducing Rocker: Docker for R as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou are asking for a "thesis", for a unique proposition. Well, maybe Perl 5's backwards-compatibility can be marketed, (or will emerge anyway, without any marketing), as a key advantage. "These 20 year old Perl 5 scripts still run without any modifications on the new machine. Amazing!..." There are not many languages that have this property of long-term stability. One of them is R , see recent Blogpost "Ode to R sta…
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on “The Future of Perl”Submitted #060: Using bubblewrap for R sandboxing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rblpapi.html
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on “How R Took the World of Statistics by Storm”Submitted An Ode to Stable Interfaces: R and R Core Deserve So Much Praise as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"the horsing around to get the data in and out" seems to be the key factor. An analysis of BLAS libraries' performance across several architectures [1] showed that GPU-based calculation only approached implementations like Goto BLAS with matrix dimensions well up into the thousands. That's just one example, but there seems to be a fair bit of overhead in getting the data to and from the GPU. [1] http://dirk.eddelbue…
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on “KGPU — Accelerating Linux Kernel Functions with CUDA”Submitted A Gentle Introduction to Rcpp [pdf] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rblpapi.html
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on “How the Bloomberg Terminal Made History and Stays Relevant”Submitted Rblpapi: Connecting R to Bloomberg as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rblpapi.html
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on “How the Bloomberg terminal made history”Submitted Carmageddon by Daniel Knowles: A Brief Review as a story · 1 points
HN discussionRegarding scripting, analysis may be of more use than "bots": http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rblpapi.html Other than that, I recommend opening a debit account with TIAA-CREF.org and going from there.
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on “Ask HN: I want to get into stocks and options”Submitted Rfoaas 1.0.0 – an R interface to FOAAS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing Rocker: Docker for R as a story · 1 points
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