"We have always been at war with Eastasia."

Intriguing new package `edgemodelr` offering llama.cpp / ggml for #Rstats for local model deployment. Quite tiny too with no dependencies besides #Rcpp. cran.r-project.org/package=edge...

Do you remember The 21st night of September? Love was changin' the minds of pretenders While chasin' the clouds away Our hearts were ringin' In the key that our souls were singin' As we danced in the night, remember How the stars stole the night away, oh, yeah www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...

rcppmlpackexamples 0.0.1 on CRAN: New Package Machine Learning via C++ side of R Packages dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/09... #rstats #rcpp

Eight months down. Leaves 1218 days. One day at a time.

Eight months down. Leaves 1218 days. One day at a time.

Pretty-please, can we close the SP 500 at 6666.66 today?

RcppArmadillo 15.0.2-2 on CRAN: Transition to Armadillo 15 R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/09... #rcpp #rstats

Endorsing this recipe: "Crispy Artichoke Pasta" How it started. How it went. (Very tasty!!)

“Maybe I met him on some boys’ trip? I feel like I’ve seen his penis before. Have we ever gone swimming at the same time? You have a mole right here under your rib cage, right?” said Trump

This is an excellent book (and I said so before at dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2023/09...) so go and get this new paperback (or use your public library as I did).

System package manager for the win, this morning updating @duckdb.org and #rstudio / #rstudioserver and #slack. Too bad only one of those four is supplied by their makers (and the other three are from a home-grown repo also covering #quarto and #positron).

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

From earlier this evening: Entertaining and feeding myself while better half is off to a WHO/PAHO meeting...

One-off errors are common -- LLM version.

RcppSimdJson 0.1.14 on CRAN: New Upstream Major Highest-performance JSON Parsing via Modern C++ from R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/09... #rcpp #rstats /cc @lemire.bsky.social

Every now and then someone is wrong on the interwebs. Every now and then we push back. A few years ago I set up github repo 'ldlasb' ('lies, damn lies, and selective benchmarks'). Today it was time for 'ldlasb2' which contains the note and four charts. #rstats eddelbuettel.github.io/ldlasb2/benc...

You can only install a _binary_ ggplot2 4.0.0 once that binary has been built. Until then, maybe try 'type="source"' or look at an alternate source which may already have a binary. (Quoted post as I can't reply to you.)

Every now and then someone is wrong on the interwebs. Every now and then we push back. A few years ago I set up github repo 'ldlasb' ('lies, damn lies, and selective benchmarks'). Today it was time for 'ldlasb2' which contains the note and four charts. #rstats eddelbuettel.github.io/ldlasb2/benc...

These turned out nicely. Started with an overnight soak of grain while the sourdough starter fermented, followed by a levain and rest, mixing and some folds plus proofing on counter and in fridge. #breadsky

This is good. Just right on the edge

RcppSMC 0.2.9 on CRAN: Maintenance Sequential Monte Carlo / Particle Filters for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/09... #rstats #rcpp

RcppArmadillo 15.0.2-1 on CRAN: New Upstream, Some Changes R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/09... #rcpp #rstats

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"For if Barthes – Roland, not Fabien – teaches us anything, it is that the very act of trying to mean nothing is in itself a form of meaning." Soccer writing at its finest, in the finest tradition of soccer as applied philosophy. Well played @jonathanliew.bsky.social

#r2u update: Now 50 million .deb packages of #rstats CRAN packages served as of end of August. #r2u: Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick All Three. More at eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u

We just launched the “DuckDB in Science” site, a curated collection of papers, lectures and podcasts about DuckDB in research: duckdb.org/science/ 🎡 If you would like to learn more about DuckDB in Science, consider joining our meetup in London this Thursday: www.meetup.com/duckdb/event...

#r2u: Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick All Three. New (quick) demo (on new machine with fast(er) disk): Install the whole of the `tidyverse` in _nine seconds_ including all dependencies thanks to #r2u. #rstats More as usual at eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u

Something to delight in, when it’s sorely needed: in celebration of the greatest concert film of all time being released on IMAX this weekend, here’s Prince’s 1987 performance of “Sign O’ The Times” live in Rotterdam prince.lnk.to/SOTTLIR87 You’ll want to see the whole concert — it’s extraordinary.

Kiddo #2 (aka @juliaedd.bsky.social) and two friends just hiked around Mont Blanc for a few days which is pretty amazeballs. #theyGrowUpSoFast

Least-convincing Buttonwood column in the @economist.com in some time. Fails to quantify small: many Enron employees wiped out all (incl retirement) savings because they bet their human capital _and_ savings. But we could agree on a small(er) capped portion. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

There’s no wrong way to tell the current administration to STFU About Chicago. #chicago

My general approach to trolley problems

Seven months down. Leaves 1249 days. One day at a time. And the second time I am a day late. Leaves 1248 days today.

x13binary 1.1.61.1 on CRAN: Micro Fix X13-ARIMA-SEATS by the US Census Bureau for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/08... #rstats

RcppArmadillo 14.6.3-1 on CRAN: Minor Upstream Bug Fixes R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/08... #rstats #rcpp

That surely is enough for an additional Nobel Prize in Physics. Now he is in gpt Peace (six or seven wars ended, who's counting), (non-standard Nobel) Econ (for showing the world how to get rich from a new tax called tariffs) plus Physics. Impressive.

Check out this timelapse of the turbulent shelf cloud rolling over the city // #Chicago #ILwx

#Debian 13 "Trixie" is now released! @debian.bsky.social dlvr.it/TMPNbt

Fixed it. While eating blueberries with my morning cereal.

"And the committee guys from the the Sveriges Riksbank, they came to me, and they had tears in their eyes, and they were begging, Sir please take this Econ Nobel"

If professional organisations had meaningful standards (along with some atual _cojones_) they would discipline him. As well as, in this case, possibly remove board certification. But we are talking about the AMA here, and he is a sitting senator so all we get is a cup of nope.

An interesting thread was spawned by this post. Yet _not one comment mentions the inferior license_. It may not be open source (as e.g. understood by the #Debian Free Software Guidelines) as it limits how you can deploy it. Tricky. So at U of Illinois we stick with RStudio Server for now. #rstats

AEA Statement on Dismissal of BLS Comm. "The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions."

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

Tomorrow this time kiddo #1 is turning into Dr kiddo #1 #theyGrowUpSoFast

How it started: How it's going: Recipe for salmon-on-harissa-and-cherry-tomato-and-shallots from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026...

As mentioned here before, @andrewhickey.500songs.com and his epic '500 songs' is what the internet was built for. But he surprises again and again. The most recent example: this 'pledge week' episode about Los Shakers from Montevideo. So go and listen already. 500songs.com/podcast/pled...