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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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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
January 14, 2026 at 5:15 PM
gunsales 0.1.3 on CRAN: Maintenance
NY Times Analysis of NICS gun purchase background checks
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#rstats
January 14, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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
Paging @adambecker.bsky.social to cut through the crap.
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
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.
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. 🧵
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
How it started. How it's going.
January 13, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Reposted by Dirk Eddelbuettel
I didn't save this tweet but somebody did and it feels worth resurfacing
January 13, 2026 at 4:08 AM
RcppAnnoy 0.0.23 on CRAN: Several Updates
(Very Fast) Approximate Nearest Neighbours for R
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#rcpp #rstats
January 12, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Reposted by Dirk Eddelbuettel
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
RApiDatetime 0.0.10 on CRAN: Maintenance
Exported C-level API of R for Date + Datetime conversion
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#rcpp #rstats
January 12, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Gave baguettes au levain another go. #breadsky
January 11, 2026 at 10:22 PM
RProtoBuf 0.4.25 on CRAN: Mostly Maintenance
An R interface to Google Protocol Buffers data serialization
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#rstats #rcpp
January 11, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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
January 10, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Reposted by Dirk Eddelbuettel
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
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.
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
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.
github.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:36 PM
RcppCCTZ 0.2.14 on CRAN: New Upstream, Small Edits
Powerful C++ timezone / datetime library for R
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#rstats #rcpp
January 8, 2026 at 4:46 PM
RcppSpdlog 0.0.24 on CRAN: New Upstream
Modern C++ logging for R extension packages
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#rcpp #rstats
January 8, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Yay
January 8, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Reposted by Dirk Eddelbuettel
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
The world may well be going down the drain ... but then $evilStreamingCorp just served me this so there are small moments of respite.

open.spotify.com/track/4NHNzt...
April In Paris
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January 5, 2026 at 1:30 AM
No cheating. Reskeet the most recent picture of your pet(s).
January 4, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Reposted by Dirk Eddelbuettel
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