Dirk Eddelbuettel

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/

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Dirk Eddelbuettel
@eddelbuettel.com

Smart (as usual for Daniel): "If your keys are known at compile time, you should not pay for collision handling at runtime."

Daniel Lemire@lemire.bsky.social

Billion-query-per-second lookup tables in C++ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/26/billion-query-per-second-lookup-tables-in-c/

Dirk Eddelbuettel
@eddelbuettel.com

New CRAN Policy revision just dropped (per my cronjob posting only to @CRANPolicyWatch@fosstodon.org) and now I want to of course know which #Rstats package at CRAN was the offender 🤯

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data.table Community Team
@rdatatable.bsky.social

On Sunday, November 15th, we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first release of data.table!!! 🥳 👩‍💻 This remote event features talks from data.table superstars, tutorials for all levels, and prize giveaways! 🎟️ Get your tickets here:

ti.to20 Years of data.tableVersion 1.0.0 of data.table was released in 2006. In the 20 years since then, it has grown to one of the most widely-used and influential packages in R history. With hundreds of contributors, thousands of reverse dependencies, and millions of CRAN downloads a year, anyone who has used R in the past two decades is guaranteed to have been helped by data.table. Join us in celebrating the 20th anniversary of this iconic package with a global remote event - featuring tutorials and talks by developers and users as well as fun games and freebie giveaways.

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Daniel Knowles
@dlknowles.bsky.social

Today marks five years that I have lived in Chicago. What that means, thanks to the vagaries of American immigration law, is that it is almost time to go home to London, where I will be covering Europe. It's been a time. I have learned a lot. I figured I'd write a bunch of it down:

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Vincent Arel-Bundock
@vincentab.bsky.social

Hi all! I'm looking for people to try out my new collaborative writing platform. Think: Overleaf or GDocs for Mkdown LaTeX HTML Typst Quarto Free, open source, and full-featured. Many editors, chat, comments, track changes, history, AI, mobile, templates, etc Would ❤️ any feedback! librepaper.org

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Isaac Baumann
@ibaumann.bsky.social

Replying to @eddelbuettel.com

First time using this (I don’t know how I haven’t come across r2u before) - this is a lifesaver. Thanks so much for making this

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Joshua Failé
@joshuafaile.bsky.social

The President of the United States, in front of a crowd of his supporters, during a televised rally, admits to a Quid Pro Quo pardon, which is a felony and impeachable offence. And absolutely nothing will happen, because his party, which controls congress, are fascist collaborators and sycophants.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

moments after saying he didn't expect anything in exchange for pardoning Cueller, Trump admits "I guess I expected maybe he wouldn't run or maybe he'd run as a Republican"

Dirk Eddelbuettel
@eddelbuettel.com

And before people jump at my throat: _implementing_ something like this is damn difficult because the whole 'age verification' complex is another nightmare online (and sufficient discussion around it). So maybe this is just too simple. Genie, bottle, and all that.

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Achim Zeileis
@zeileis.org

🚨 After 20 years of service, the R-Forge code-sharing platform will be retired. #rstats Timeline: - Until end of 2026: Normal operations. - Jan 2027: Switch to read-only, but SVN continues to work. - Jan 2028: SVN also read-only. Reason: The underlying FusionForge software is no longer maintained.

Dirk Eddelbuettel
@eddelbuettel.com

One Hundred Million binaries served (104.9 to be exact). Over Eleven Million last month alone. Serving amd64 and arm64 #Rstats CRAN package binaries for three Ubuntu LTS releases. #r2u: Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick all three.

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Peter Dalgaard
@pdalgd.bsky.social

#rstats 4.6.2 "Diversified Portfolio" scheduled for October 29. Full schedule on developer.r-project.org (or the svn if you're impatient.)

Dirk Eddelbuettel
@eddelbuettel.com

"Why we cannot have nice things." Plus: Steive Wonder graces us four unreleased songs. They are amazing. But I already said that it is Stevie. Minus: YouTube disgraces it by placing an ad at each of the three transitions. Awful.

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Kim A. Wagner
@kimatiwagner.bsky.social

Having just started teaching new undergraduates at uni, I think we're missing a key issue in the debate about AI: these kids do not know how *not* to use AI, full stop. We assume they are 'digital natives' but they are not and a Google Scholar search is as alien to them as an archival card-index.

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Shannon Vallor
@shannonvallor.bsky.social

It is a profound indictment of most media coverage of Big Tech that your best bet for getting an informed understanding of AI and its dangers is following a decently curated list of Bluesky shitposters

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apenwarr
@apenwarr.ca

Robots can only commit manslaughter, not first or second degree murder, because murder requires intent. In this essay I will

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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social

Someone needs to explain to Trump that the worse Republicans do in the midterms, the better it looks for him. Just goes to show the party is utterly lost without him on the ballot! He’s literally the only Republican who has the juice. (Natalie, if you see this, please print and share.)