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Dirk Eddelbuettel
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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 · Aug 3
Tom Fishburne cartoon from https://marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-written-ai-read.html aptly describing how AI creates messages from three bullet points into expanded text ... which is fed at the other end into AI to extract three bullet points. Lossly, one assumes.
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RcppSimdJson 0.1.15 on CRAN: New Upstream, Some Maintenance
Highest-performance JSON Parsing via Modern C++ from R
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#rcpp #rstats
Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/01/14#rcppsimdjson_0.1.15 describing release 0.1.15 of CRAN package RcppSimdJson
January 14, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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gunsales 0.1.3 on CRAN: Maintenance
NY Times Analysis of NICS gun purchase background checks
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Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/01/14#gunsales_0.1.3 describing release 0.1.3 of CRAN package gunsales
January 14, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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Been running Linux on the desktop (or laptop) for thirty years and am somewhat resilient ... but a semi-annual Ubuntu upgrade going sideways unti I ssh in and blacklist kernel module 'amdgpu' in order to get my graphical workstation back means ... this again is not the year of the Linux desktop.
January 14, 2026 at 5:49 AM
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Paging @adambecker.bsky.social to cut through the crap.
bloomberg.com Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d
As the AI industry expands and developers pursue increasingly sophisticated systems that require ever-larger volumes of data, space has some attractive qualities for housing data centers. Here's what to know
Why AI Data Centers in Space Aren’t Totally Science Fiction
Tech billionaires want to move AI’s massive energy demands off Earth. The engineering hurdles are enormous.
bloom.bg
January 14, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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Something that never gets old: running `wajig new` to see what `apt` get-able packages have been added since the previous `apt` run -- this time once more only #r2u packages bring #Rstats CRAN repo as fully-formed binaries with _all_ dependencies to Ubuntu.
Screenshot of running 'wajig new' which compares the most recent `apt` package index with the previous one, and thereby identifies new packages. As the machine was update yesterday, the change is just the new CRAN packages provided by r2u.
January 13, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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How it started. How it's going.
Famous Nate Silver Xitter post from Jan 2022 declaring Eric Adams to be in "my top 5 for 'who wiill be the next Democratic presidential nominee'". Quoted post about Eric Adams doing a meme coin scam netting him USD 2.5 million.
January 13, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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I didn't save this tweet but somebody did and it feels worth resurfacing
Old tweet that says when I was young I thought things wre bad because solutions were complicated and now I'm old and realize things are bad because solutions are simple but will inconvenience affluent people (or those who aspire to be) and religious fanatics.
January 13, 2026 at 4:08 AM
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RcppAnnoy 0.0.23 on CRAN: Several Updates
(Very Fast) Approximate Nearest Neighbours for R
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#rcpp #rstats
Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/01/12#rcppannoy_0.0.23 describing release 0.0.23 of CRAN package RcppAnnoy
January 12, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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in Canada they put the central bank head in charge of the country, in the United States they try to put the President in charge of monetary policy
January 12, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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RApiDatetime 0.0.10 on CRAN: Maintenance
Exported C-level API of R for Date + Datetime conversion
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#rcpp #rstats
Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/01/11#rapidatetime_0.0.10 describing release 0.0.10 of CRAN package RApiDatetime
January 12, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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Gave baguettes au levain another go. #breadsky
Photo of four oven-fresh home-made baguettes au levain (i.e. sourdough based). Different degree of browning visible. Photo of home-made baguette au levain cut open showing some air bubbles.
January 11, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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RProtoBuf 0.4.25 on CRAN: Mostly Maintenance
An R interface to Google Protocol Buffers data serialization
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#rstats #rcpp
Screenshot of blog post at http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/01/11#rprotobuf_0.4.25 describing release 0.4.25 of CRAN package RProtoBuf
January 11, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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Rcpp 1.1.1 on CRAN: Many Improvements in Semi-Annual Update
Seamless R and C++ Integration
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#rstats #rcpp

/cc @enchufa2.es @kevinushey.bsky.social
Screenshot 1 of 2 of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/01/10#rcpp_1.1.1 describing release 1.1.1 of CRAN package Rcpp Screenshot 2 of 2 of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/01/10#rcpp_1.1.1 describing release 1.1.1 of CRAN package Rcpp
January 10, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
January 10, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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BREAKING: Trump says it would be an honor to receive Dennis Rodman's 1989/90 and 1990/91 NBA awards for Defensive Player of the Year.
jeremybushey.bsky.social Jeremy Bushey @jeremybushey.bsky.social · 5d
BREAKING: Trump says it would be an honor to accept Lee Greenwood's 1985 Grammy award for Top Male Vocal Performance.
January 10, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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PSA: The long-lived "let us talk about anything and everything" related to #Rcpp mailing list 'rcpp-devel' at R-Forge seems to have moved on to another place where we cannot reach it. May its memory be a blessing. #rstats

Going forward, let's try to connect at this link: github.com/RcppCore/Rcp...
RcppCore Rcpp · Discussions
Explore the GitHub Discussions forum for RcppCore Rcpp. Discuss code, ask questions & collaborate with the developer community.
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January 9, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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RcppCCTZ 0.2.14 on CRAN: New Upstream, Small Edits
Powerful C++ timezone / datetime library for R
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#rstats #rcpp
Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/01/08#rcppcctz_0.2.14 describing release 0.2.14 of CRAN package RcppCCTZ
January 8, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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RcppSpdlog 0.0.24 on CRAN: New Upstream
Modern C++ logging for R extension packages
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#rcpp #rstats
Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/01/08#rcppspdlog_0.0.24 describing release 0.0.24 of CRAN package RcppSpdlog
January 8, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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Yay
Screen shot from Strava telling me I am the 'local legen' (== most runs on given segment) for four segments on the local track a good half mile from our place.
January 8, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 8, 2026 at 1:39 AM
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A rose by any other name? In Jan 1979 Bradley Efron published his bootstrap resampling method.‘Bootstrap’ was derived from “The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen”- the baron pulled himself out of a swamp by his own bootstraps. But Efron's friends had other suggestions...
January 4, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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The world may well be going down the drain ... but then $evilStreamingCorp just served me this so there are small moments of respite.

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April In Paris
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January 5, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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No cheating. Reskeet the most recent picture of your pet(s).
Domestic long-hair cat taking a rest.
January 4, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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Canada: Our Prime Minster studied at Oxford and Harvard, was the Governor of both the Banks of England and Canada, and is recognized as one of the sharpest financial minds around.

America: oh yeah? Our guy has to take dementia tests every week.
January 2, 2026 at 1:53 PM