Publications by Thinking inside the box
R / Finance 2009
Our inaugural R / Finance conference, mentioned here twice is now over. We were fortunate to get seven outstanding invited keynote speakers, as well as eleven excellent presentations. This was preceded by four short tutorials (and I’ll post slides from my Introduction to High-Performance Computing with R soon). With about 150 registered partic...
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Review of ‘Analysis of Integrated and Cointegrated Time Series with R (2nd ed)’ in JSS
A few weeks ago I wrote up a short review of Bernhard Pfaff’s nice (but somewhat dry) Analysis of Integrated and Cointegrated Time Series with R (2nd ed) on unit root and cointegration modeling with R. This is now online at the Journal of Statistical Software. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on t...
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Google Summer of Code 2009: R / Quantlib
With everything that has been going on of late, I have yet to mention that Khanh Nguyen, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at U Mass / Boston, will be working with me on RQuantLib as part of the Google Summer of Code program this year. We had twenty-two applications to review for the R project, including three for the RQuantLib topic I had pr...
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Slides from most recent R and HPC tutorial
A little earlier I put the slides from my Introduction to High-Performance Computing with R tutorial at the R / Finance conference last week onto my talks / presentation page. Other tutorials, talks and keynotes are also being posted on the conference program page. This tutorial was a shorter format of just an hour which did not allow for any...
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GSoC 2009 Chicago area meeting
Thanks to the effort of the tireless Borja Sotomayor for the local ACM chpater as well as the good folks at Google in Chicago, we had a local kickoff meeting for this year’s Google Summer of Code at Google’s Chicago office. A few accepted GSoC students, mentors, and a few Google engineers gave short presentations to a bunch of ACM-affiliated ...
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Brad Mehldau at the CSO
Just got home from a wonderful concert by Brad Mehldau at the CSO. This was long overdue as I kept reading about Mehldau. And even though he performs quite regularly around here, I had never seen him. Big mistake. The first set was performed as a (strictly acoustic) trio with Larry Grenadier on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums. After several comp...
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Temporary Debian mail outage
It would appear that debian.org rejected mail for maybe up to twelve hours from late yesterday afternoon (Central timezone) to some time shortly after I got up this morning. Things appear to be back to normal, so a big Thanks to the mail admins. If you happened to have sent me mail to my debian.org address during that time period, you may have ...
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JPM Chase Corporate Challenge 2009
The 28th annual JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge race took place a couple of days ago May 21. Participation was down from the record of 23,000 runners set last year at around 17,125. With splendid weather, it is always a nice way to start the Memorial day weekend. We fielded a small but spirited team of nine runners. I finished with a decent...
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Ubuntu Developer Summit in Barcelona
Due to some things falling into place, I had an opportunity to attend the first two days of last week’s Ubuntu Developer Summit in beautiful Barcelona. Somehow, I had never managed to attend a Debian conference either, so it was good to meet a few of the old Debian hands now moving Ubuntu along, as well as a few of the Ubuntu folks. I also gav...
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R 2.9.1, CRANberries outage, and missing Java support
Just a short note that version 2.9.1 of R was released yesterday. And a corresponding Debian release went out as usual on the same day. One sour note: as the Java toolchain is currently broken, I had to disable compile-time support for Java. Just run R CMD javareconf once installed if you need it. Speaking of broken, I had neither noticed tha...
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