Dirk Eddelbuettel
@eddelbuettel.com
Code, Data, Analysis, Teaching, Running, Breadmaking ... https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
"God doesn't know, and the devil isn't telling." xkcd.com/2867/
"God doesn't know, and the devil isn't telling." xkcd.com/2867/
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The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN!
Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered
jbgruber.github.io/traktok/
Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered
jbgruber.github.io/traktok/
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN!
Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered
jbgruber.github.io/traktok/
Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered
jbgruber.github.io/traktok/
RcppQuantuccia 0.1.3 on CRAN: Micro Maintenance
Self-containted QuantLib Calendar Library for R
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats #rcpp
Exchange / business calendaring based on QuantLib: initial package, but now `qlcal` is preferred / recommended
Self-containted QuantLib Calendar Library for R
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats #rcpp
Exchange / business calendaring based on QuantLib: initial package, but now `qlcal` is preferred / recommended
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
RcppQuantuccia 0.1.3 on CRAN: Micro Maintenance
Self-containted QuantLib Calendar Library for R
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats #rcpp
Exchange / business calendaring based on QuantLib: initial package, but now `qlcal` is preferred / recommended
Self-containted QuantLib Calendar Library for R
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats #rcpp
Exchange / business calendaring based on QuantLib: initial package, but now `qlcal` is preferred / recommended
RcppArmadillo 15.2.2-1 on CRAN: Upstream Update, OpenMP Updates
R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats #rcpp
New upstream bug fixes, updated OpenMP setup
R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats #rcpp
New upstream bug fixes, updated OpenMP setup
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
RcppArmadillo 15.2.2-1 on CRAN: Upstream Update, OpenMP Updates
R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats #rcpp
New upstream bug fixes, updated OpenMP setup
R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats #rcpp
New upstream bug fixes, updated OpenMP setup
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this is the peace plan we should be pushing
russia goes home and gets nothing. they learn from this that adventures in occupying neighbors has no benefit and only costs
russia goes home and gets nothing. they learn from this that adventures in occupying neighbors has no benefit and only costs
Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.”
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
this is the peace plan we should be pushing
russia goes home and gets nothing. they learn from this that adventures in occupying neighbors has no benefit and only costs
russia goes home and gets nothing. they learn from this that adventures in occupying neighbors has no benefit and only costs
digest 0.6.39 on CRAN: Micro Update
Compact hash representations of arbitrary R objects
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats
Small incremental release addressing two SAN issues revealed only once 0.6.38 was released last week.
Compact hash representations of arbitrary R objects
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats
Small incremental release addressing two SAN issues revealed only once 0.6.38 was released last week.
November 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
digest 0.6.39 on CRAN: Micro Update
Compact hash representations of arbitrary R objects
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats
Small incremental release addressing two SAN issues revealed only once 0.6.38 was released last week.
Compact hash representations of arbitrary R objects
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats
Small incremental release addressing two SAN issues revealed only once 0.6.38 was released last week.
r^4 post #055: More Frequent r2u Updates
r2u builds fully at GitHub Actions, multiple runs per day
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats #r2u
Internal updates allowing for more frequent builds of CRAN binaries for Ubuntu
r2u builds fully at GitHub Actions, multiple runs per day
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats #r2u
Internal updates allowing for more frequent builds of CRAN binaries for Ubuntu
November 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
r^4 post #055: More Frequent r2u Updates
r2u builds fully at GitHub Actions, multiple runs per day
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats #r2u
Internal updates allowing for more frequent builds of CRAN binaries for Ubuntu
r2u builds fully at GitHub Actions, multiple runs per day
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats #r2u
Internal updates allowing for more frequent builds of CRAN binaries for Ubuntu
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Reposted by Dirk Eddelbuettel
This December, I'll be posting an article & video each day until Christmas in the Advent of Compiler Optimisations! #AoCO2025
Each day we'll explore a fun optimisation in C or C++; some low-level, x86 or ARM-specific, some high-level. Hope you'll join me!
YT: youtube.com/mattgodbolt
Blog: xania.org
Each day we'll explore a fun optimisation in C or C++; some low-level, x86 or ARM-specific, some high-level. Hope you'll join me!
YT: youtube.com/mattgodbolt
Blog: xania.org
Matt Godbolt’s blog
xania.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This December, I'll be posting an article & video each day until Christmas in the Advent of Compiler Optimisations! #AoCO2025
Each day we'll explore a fun optimisation in C or C++; some low-level, x86 or ARM-specific, some high-level. Hope you'll join me!
YT: youtube.com/mattgodbolt
Blog: xania.org
Each day we'll explore a fun optimisation in C or C++; some low-level, x86 or ARM-specific, some high-level. Hope you'll join me!
YT: youtube.com/mattgodbolt
Blog: xania.org
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Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people):
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people):
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
Reposted by Dirk Eddelbuettel
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
digest 0.6.38 on CRAN: Several Updates
Compact hash representations of arbitrary R objects
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats
With special thanks to Carl Pearson, Bill Denney, Thierry Onkelinx, and Sergey Fedorov for contributions to this release.
Compact hash representations of arbitrary R objects
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats
With special thanks to Carl Pearson, Bill Denney, Thierry Onkelinx, and Sergey Fedorov for contributions to this release.
November 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
digest 0.6.38 on CRAN: Several Updates
Compact hash representations of arbitrary R objects
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats
With special thanks to Carl Pearson, Bill Denney, Thierry Onkelinx, and Sergey Fedorov for contributions to this release.
Compact hash representations of arbitrary R objects
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats
With special thanks to Carl Pearson, Bill Denney, Thierry Onkelinx, and Sergey Fedorov for contributions to this release.
duckdb-mlpack 0.0.4: Added random forest and logistic regression
Bringing mlpack machine learning to duckdb SQL
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
Adds random forest and logistic regression, reworks interface, adds new state variable for verbosity, expands documentation and adds unit tests
Bringing mlpack machine learning to duckdb SQL
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
Adds random forest and logistic regression, reworks interface, adds new state variable for verbosity, expands documentation and adds unit tests
November 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
duckdb-mlpack 0.0.4: Added random forest and logistic regression
Bringing mlpack machine learning to duckdb SQL
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
Adds random forest and logistic regression, reworks interface, adds new state variable for verbosity, expands documentation and adds unit tests
Bringing mlpack machine learning to duckdb SQL
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
Adds random forest and logistic regression, reworks interface, adds new state variable for verbosity, expands documentation and adds unit tests
It is really hard being @TheOnion these days.
Apple has made a $230 iPhone sock 😅 the iPhone Pocket is actually a knitted bag, and Apple will start selling it on Friday www.theverge.com/news/818328/...
Apple made a $230 crossbody… sock
The iPhone Pocket isn’t really a pocket at all.
www.theverge.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
It is really hard being @TheOnion these days.
#r2u for #Rstats now also includes #BioConductor on arm64 and not only on standard amd64. Following the upgrade to #BioConductor 3.22 we added this hardware platform.
`zlibbioc` was removed so a few packages we have for amd64 could not be built. Should I backfill it (and them)?
`zlibbioc` was removed so a few packages we have for amd64 could not be built. Should I backfill it (and them)?
November 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
#r2u for #Rstats now also includes #BioConductor on arm64 and not only on standard amd64. Following the upgrade to #BioConductor 3.22 we added this hardware platform.
`zlibbioc` was removed so a few packages we have for amd64 could not be built. Should I backfill it (and them)?
`zlibbioc` was removed so a few packages we have for amd64 could not be built. Should I backfill it (and them)?
The Asahi Linux folks need to get their port working on this.
Apple set to release a Chromebook competitor.
Also from @markgurman.bsky.social a couple days ago: 2026 set to be a massive year for new Apple products ranging from Macs to glasses to a foldable iPhone to revamped Siri.
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Also from @markgurman.bsky.social a couple days ago: 2026 set to be a massive year for new Apple products ranging from Macs to glasses to a foldable iPhone to revamped Siri.
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
November 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The Asahi Linux folks need to get their port working on this.
RcppCNPy 0.2.14 on CRAN: Minor Maintenance
Read/write NumPy data from R
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats #rcpp
Read/write NumPy data from R
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats #rcpp
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM
RcppCNPy 0.2.14 on CRAN: Minor Maintenance
Read/write NumPy data from R
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats #rcpp
Read/write NumPy data from R
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#rstats #rcpp
duckdb-mlpack 0.0.3: macOS binaries, unit tests, more outputs
Bringing mlpack machine learning to duckdb SQL
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#duckdb #mlpack
Bringing mlpack machine learning to duckdb SQL
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#duckdb #mlpack
November 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
duckdb-mlpack 0.0.3: macOS binaries, unit tests, more outputs
Bringing mlpack machine learning to duckdb SQL
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#duckdb #mlpack
Bringing mlpack machine learning to duckdb SQL
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...
#duckdb #mlpack
This is a surprisingly poor article. Volatily can modeled, is used as a proxy for risk (the "unknown"), but is still (by construction and definition) a second moment, i.e. a model of _variability_ which is to say the _error term_.
Which is another way of saying you cannot forecast it. 1 of 2
Which is another way of saying you cannot forecast it. 1 of 2
Wall Street’s finest might warn of a crash, but do not expect them to say when it will arrive econ.st/3JAJQNh
Photo: Reuters
Photo: Reuters
November 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
This is a surprisingly poor article. Volatily can modeled, is used as a proxy for risk (the "unknown"), but is still (by construction and definition) a second moment, i.e. a model of _variability_ which is to say the _error term_.
Which is another way of saying you cannot forecast it. 1 of 2
Which is another way of saying you cannot forecast it. 1 of 2
#r2u now contains BioConductor 3.22 released yesterday for Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04 (for the 500-some packages we cover, details at the site). #Rstats 4.5.2 has been built, we will update the containers in a few days as well.
#r2u. Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick All Three.
eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u
#r2u. Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick All Three.
eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u
CRAN as Ubuntu Binaries - r2u
Easy, fast, reliable -- pick all three!
eddelbuettel.github.io
October 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
#r2u now contains BioConductor 3.22 released yesterday for Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04 (for the 500-some packages we cover, details at the site). #Rstats 4.5.2 has been built, we will update the containers in a few days as well.
#r2u. Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick All Three.
eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u
#r2u. Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick All Three.
eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u
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#r2u is back with 162 (jammy) and 202 (noble, for arm64 and amd64) package "kittens" (well: .deb files) catching up for time lost since the last update Friday. Big thanks to the CRAN admins and the @posit.co folks for unplugging their piping, and to @glin.github.io for the heads-up. #rstats
October 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
#r2u is back with 162 (jammy) and 202 (noble, for arm64 and amd64) package "kittens" (well: .deb files) catching up for time lost since the last update Friday. Big thanks to the CRAN admins and the @posit.co folks for unplugging their piping, and to @glin.github.io for the heads-up. #rstats
The kids are alright.
October 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The kids are alright.
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