Laurent Bergé

jokes aside, it's really stg I'd like to implement

It will come some day: you just have to make amz pay me haha

kudos btw, it looks cool!!!! I love the :switch

With that project, I must say that my C++ skills and knowledge went to the roof... I thought I was decent in C++, but after that I realised how little I knew!

Were you good at Rust already? Did you see the same gains? It seems to me AI kills learning (for advanced K), but I may be wrong.

Gosh I've spent too much time developing one... I just should have waited 😅

#rstats I've been testing out `arf`, a new R console written in Rust. Early days, but a v. smooth experience so far. Much simpler to install and link from VS Code than radian, for example, with better features too. github.com/eitsupi/arf

Haha Grant, you couldn't wait for the fixest update :-)

Beginning of the week CRAN's fixest version will have a brand new citation :-)

Dang what's that accent?! First time I'm submitting to arxiv... there's a learning curve 😅

thanks :-)

One of the most important statistical packages made in Econ in the last decade

Dynamic Factor Models for R Efficient estimation of Dynamic Factor Models using the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm or Two-Step (2S) estimation, supporting datasets with missing data and mixed-frequency nowcasting applic...

I'm excited to share the release and rOpenSci publication of dfms 1.0 (docs.ropensci.org/dfms), a high-performance, feature-rich implementation of Dynamics Factor Models for R, supporting mixed-frequency estimation and news decomposition for nowcasting. See also blog post: sebkrantz.github.io/Rblog/

Research Notes of the AAS in particular, which was set up to handle short, moderated contributions especially from students, is getting swamped. Often the authors clearly haven’t read what they’ve submitting, (Descriptions of figures that don’t exist or don’t show what they purport to)

Things are grim. But in more frivolous news...

@jamesbrandecon.bsky.social and I have been chipping away at `dbreg`, a 📦 for running big regression models on database backends. For the right kinds of problems, the speed-ups are near magical.

Website: grantmcdermott.com/dbreg/

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We are responding to this call for evidence:
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Do you have concrete examples of the added value of #Rstats in the public or private sectors?

Include the most important factors (risk, lock-in, security, innovation...) to assess the added value.

Thanks!

Cool project!

Soon we'll be putting an enclosure for our house: I'll ask you for tips!

Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane? What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?

Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...

my tweet in 2020 "I'm sorry but I'm laughing in french now" RT of a tweet "our brand new BITE collection just dropped and we are STOKED. check it shop.heybitethis.com" picture of two models with a sweat "BITE"

Happy anniversary to my most successful tweet in 2020

The creator didn't like it :D
(RIP my account since)

Félicitations!!! Je ne connaissais pas : c'est compliqué de postuler (je suis moi même contributeur) ?

Thanks for the resource: it looks very nice!

At the beginning of my teacher's career I taught mostly for the best students in the class.

As I get older, I can see I'm lowering my standards and teach more and more for the weaker students.

I also grade more generously as time passes.

=> is this a common pattern? Or is it just me? I'm curious.

Thanks! I knew the other but not this one! Good to know!

Thanks Alex, that's a great ref indeed!

Thanks for sharing!

The website is super cool!

Thanks a lot Achim: that's exactly the target's level!

Just went through the intro: tis great!

Thanks! But starting with the shell, they'll be off right away :-D
I wish I has sciencepo students!!!

Thanks for the references: I'll have a look at the mit gnl prog, it might be the one!

I'll also link them to your course.

Thanks for the ref. Very nice course website btw!

Some context: I do teach an intro to R programming class,
and it goes smoothly for the students with some prior programming knowledge.

However I have some (admittedly weak, but with goodwill) students with no experience in programming and I feel it's an uphill battle to teach them anything.

Any good ressource for LEARNING PROGRAMMING for students who know NOTHING about programming (really nothing)?

It would be great in R/python (final obj. is data analysis).

Any help appreciated! Thanks!

@andrew.heiss.phd @gmcd.bsky.social @kylefbutts.bsky.social @vincentab.bsky.social

Two-panel cartoon 1. A small hermit crab praises the shell of a Purple-ringed Topsnail. 2. A year later, a hermit crab, having grown larger and inherited the shell, is grateful. The atmosphere somehow feels like a law of nature.

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