Dirk Eddelbuettel

Debian stable is now Debian 13 We are pleased to announce the official release of Debian 13, codenamed trixie! What's New in Debian 13 Official support for RISC-V (64-bit riscv64), a major architecture milestone Enhanced security t...

#Debian 13 "Trixie" is now released!

@debian.bsky.social

dlvr.it/TMPNbt

Scnreenshot of getting ChatGPT 5 to realize there are two b in blueberry.

Screenshot of ChatGPT 5 explanation (attempt) of its earlier error.

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

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.

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.

Anna exposing one of her three chapters/papers during her final oral.

Anna popping some bubbly once done.

Someone blinded us with science! And got to pop some bubbly once done. Huge set of congratulations on order! 😍

Picture of announcement of phd thesis oral of Anna tomorrow at Princeton's Chem + Bio Eng department

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

Two pieces of salmon on a shallot and cherry tomato (and red pepper) layer, marinating in a harrissa, lemon juice, olive oil, soy sauce, ... mix. Recipe from https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026695-baked-salmon-with-harissa-and-cherry-tomatoes

Two pieces of salmon on a shallot and cherry tomato (and red pepper) layer, now baked for 22 minutes, after marinating in a harrissa, lemon juice, olive oil, soy sauce, ... mix. Recipe from https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026695-baked-salmon-with-harissa-and-cherry-tomatoes

How it started: How it's going:

Recipe for salmon-on-harissa-and-cherry-tomato-and-shallots from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026...

You may have missed that I very much do _not_ intend to mute _all_ of Sharon's post, I merely aim to specifically skip these weekly summaries. Which requires an identifier. And that is all I suggested.

Could you possibly add a specific tag (say: #rstatstoots) to this series of recurrent posts to make it easier to mute them? Or post them from a dedicated account?

PLEDGE WEEK: “La conferencia secreta del Toto’s Bar” by Los Shakers This episode is part of Pledge Week 2025. For five days this week, I will be posting old Patreon bonus episodes to the main feed to encourage people to subscribe to my Patreon. If you want more of …

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...

Small improvement to CRANberries: "Re-admitted" packages (that once existed but were later archived) are now grouped separately and will no longer be announced as 'new'. The post below is a first example: when there are more than one in a batch they will be grouped just like updates. #rstats

Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/07/23#qlcal-r_0.0.16 describing release 0.0.16 of CRAN package qlcal

qlcal 0.0.16 on CRAN: Regular Update
QuantLib Business / Exchange Calendaring for R
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/07...
#rstats #rcpp

Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced.

I always find the before/after "panel" heatmaps of vaccination impacts compelling. Not sure what the canonical source is, the article below may be one.

graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

Photo of two freshly baked sourdough loafs, using two differently shaped proofing baskets yield a round and an oval loaf.

Now operating "industrial scale" doubling our output. #breadsky

Chart showing risk of being murdered in the subway if you rode 500 times last year (0.4 in 100,000) versus other risks such as that of dying in a traffic accident in the US last year (12.1 in 100,000)

The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

There are always alternatives. On a yuge (48 cores, 0.5tb ram) server for students the root/sudo account uses bspm + r2u for common packages, reliably + fast + easily. Students use non-bspm installation below $HOME by default. Best of both worlds.

Also, should your team use Docker? #r2u #rstats

Cover of the book "Three Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the lost empire of cool" by James Kaplan with a cool nightime picture of a dressed-to-the-nines Miles Davis smoking under a streetlight.

Last book I read was the eminently enjoyable "Three Shades of Blue" by James Kaplan. Been years since I read a Miles biography sonice to get back to all this--with superb related context about all this jazz.

And #chicago folks: This Friday Fitzgeralds in Forest Park has a 'Kind of Blue' tribute.

Absolutely. The RHEL/CentOS/Rocky setup is a sad one. Good maybe for sys admins as there is little in it, and it is old but terrible for users and devs. r2u cannot help here so manylinux is a good out. BTW Inaki has cran2copr for Fedora too.

Everything has upsides and downsides. Manylinux works more broadly but has the virtual env problem of littering your machine with library copies that go stale. When you can integrate with the system (as r2u does on Ubuntu) nothing beats that approach.

#r2u: Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick all three.

Six months down. Leaves 1280 days. One day at a time.

Using gdb to debug R packages with native code This is "Using gdb to debug R packages with native code" by userprimary on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

The "interesting" bit is that "nothing ever changes" around R and its C interface (and that is a key _feature_) so the best introduction is possibly still an old (but "not aged") video tutorial by then R Core / BioC dev Seth Falcon. Should also work for lldb. #rstats #rcpp

vimeo.com/11937905

Would require the Saturday mail delivery to actually contain the weekly print edition. Some/most weeks it pans out, this week it did not. Back to screen reading then...

R NEWS entry asking to use the new DOI for R citations.

DOI addition of (doi://)"10.32614/R.manuals" for R citations.

PSA for #Rstats from the R NEWS RSS stream: Let's all cite the new DOI for the R manuals.

Photo of a martini glass with a vaguely green drink -- a "Last Word" containing equal parts Gin, Green Chartreuse, Maraschino and Lime -- along with the ice cubes from shaking it up.

Having tasted a few "Last Word" cocktails while traveling recently, I succumbed to the wonders of inter-state alcoholic beverage retailing and procured an (expensive) Green Chartreuse so that summer can commence with a "Last Word" in the garden. All of this is entirely the fault of @kjhealy.co.

NIH Is Far Cheaper Than The Wrong Dependency Frivilous dependencies are the enemy of maintainability.

"One of the biggest fallacies in coding is that dependencies have zero downsides."

Best opening line in a while, more at the full post the link below. #rstats #tinyverse

lewiscampbell.tech/blog/250718....

Queen's U had done the same a few weeks ago.