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...volutionanalytics.com/2017/12/because-its-friday-3-d-animation.html * A very, very wide web page visualizes the Solar System to scale: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/because-its-friday-1-pixel-moon.html As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at davidsmi at microsoft.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <davidsmi at microsoft.com> Developer Advocate, Microsoft Cloud & Enterprise Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: ?http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com

...tionanalytics.com/2018/03/because-its-friday-meet-the-neighbors.html * Free Azure credits for students, without needing a credit card: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/03/free-azure-credits-for-students.html As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at davidsmi at microsoft.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <davidsmi at microsoft.com> Developer Advocate, Microsoft Cloud & Enterprise Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: ?http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com

...captions for incorrect maps used in news reports: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/bad-maps-on-tv.html * A few podcast recommendations, from me: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/podcasts.html As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at davidsmi at microsoft.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <davidsmi at microsoft.com> Developer Advocate, Microsoft Cloud & Enterprise Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: ?http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com

...http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/02/because-its-friday-bon-voyage-starman.html * A bizarre CGI short film, Time for Sushi: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/02/because-its-friday-time-for-sushi.html As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at davidsmi at microsoft.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <davidsmi at microsoft.com> Developer Advocate, Microsoft Cloud & Enterprise Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: ?http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com

...onanalytics.com/2018/01/kite-ballet.html * A new Harry Potter chapter, written with a predictive text algorithm: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/01/because-its-friday-harry-potter-was-the-time-to-come.html As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at davidsmi at microsoft.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <davidsmi at microsoft.com> Developer Advocate, Microsoft Cloud & Enterprise Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: ?http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com

...r X: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/because-its-friday-o-captain.html * High school students build a facial-recognition drone: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/deep-learning-and-drones.html As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at davidsmi at microsoft.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <davidsmi at microsoft.com> R Community Lead, Microsoft AI & Research Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: ?http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com

...blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/because-its-friday-radiohead-videotape.html * A system for lifelike synthesis of a speaker's video and audio: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/friday-fake-views.html As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at davidsmi at microsoft.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <davidsmi at microsoft.com> R Community Lead, Microsoft AI & Research? Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: ?http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com

...ytics.com/2017/11/how-a-drone-impacted-flight-paths.html * An AI sythesizes novel images of furniture, animals, and celebrities: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/11/because-its-friday-fake-celebrities.html As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at davidsmi at microsoft.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <davidsmi at microsoft.com> R Community Lead, Microsoft AI & Research? Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: ?http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com

...volutionanalytics.com/2017/12/because-its-friday-3-d-animation.html * A very, very wide web page visualizes the Solar System to scale: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/because-its-friday-1-pixel-moon.html As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at davidsmi at microsoft.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <davidsmi at microsoft.com> Developer Advocate, Microsoft Cloud & Enterprise Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: ?http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com _________________...

...://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/because-its-friday-line-rider.html * A website suggests a random cause of death, from CDC data: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/because-its-friday-death-risk.html As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at davidsmi at microsoft.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <davidsmi at microsoft.com> R Community Lead, Microsoft AI & Research? Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: ?http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com

..., as mapped and to scale: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/06/subway-maps-to-scale.html * A disappearing dots illusion: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/06/because-its-friday-disappearing-dots.html As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at davidsmi at microsoft.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <davidsmi at microsoft.com> R Community Lead, Microsoft? Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: ?http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com

We were also able to reproduce the issue on Windows Server 2012. If there's anything we can do to help please let me know; Elliot Waingold (CC'd here) can provide access to the VM we used for testing if that's of any help. # David Smith -- David M Smith <davidsmi at microsoft.com> R Community Lead, Revolution Analytics (a Microsoft company)? Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: ?http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com We are hiring engineers for Revolution R and Azure Machine Learning. -----Original Message----- From: R-devel...

...vies: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/because-its-friday-the-shepard-tone.html * People Are Awesome, 2016-2107: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/because-its-friday-people-remain-awesome.html As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at davidsmi at microsoft.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <davidsmi at microsoft.com> R Community Lead, Microsoft AI & Research? Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: ?http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com

...blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/becasue-its-friday-bayesian-trap.html * CareerCast ranks Statistician as the best job to have in 2017: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/best-job-i2017-statistican.html As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at davidsmi at microsoft.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <davidsmi at microsoft.com> R Community Lead, Microsoft? Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: ?http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com

...you're looking for more articles about R, you can find summaries from previous months at http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/roundups/. You can receive daily blog posts via email using services like blogtrottr.com. As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at davidsmi at microsoft.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <davidsmi at microsoft.com> R Community Lead, Microsoft? Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: ?http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com

Hi David, ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Smith" <davidsmi at microsoft.com> > To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>, "Uwe Ligges" <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>, "Elliot Waingold" > <Elliot.Waingold at microsoft.com> > Cc: "R-devel at r-project.org" <r-devel at r-proj...

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Uwe Ligges" <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> > To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>, "R-devel at r-project.org" <r-devel at r-project.org> > Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2015 3:57:34 PM > Subject: Re: [Rd] download.file() on ftp URL fails in windows with default download method > >

Dear R-devel: The Cluster administrators at KU got enthusiastic about testing R-3.2.2 with Intel MKL when I asked for some BLAS integration. Below I forward a performance report, which is encouraging, and thought you would like to know the numbers. Appears to my untrained eye there are some extraordinary speedups on Cholesky decomposition, determinants, and matrix inversion. They had

...ages do benefit from MKL (or any multi-threaded BLAS) to some degree, although the actual benefit depends on the R functions they call. Some packages (and some built-in R functions) don't call into BLAS endpoints, so you won't see benefits in all cases. # David Smith -- David M Smith <davidsmi at microsoft.com> R Community Lead, Revolution Analytics (a Microsoft company)? Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: ?http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com We are hiring engineers for Revolution R and Azure Machine Learning. -----Original Message----- From: R-devel...

...se tasks left open for anyone (possibly Microsoft itself) to take them over? And if so, how will the decision be made on that? Cheers Joris -- ----------- Biowiskundedagen 2017-2018 https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biowiskundedagen.ugent.be%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cdavidsmi%40microsoft.com%7C2fd515da9138451611b508d50685822b%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636422092884858146&sdata=BK7GESC6ladsk6cig0ima%2BbdV1sQ5Gdeng%2BhWvtgwj4%3D&reserved=0 ----------- Joris Meys Statistical consultant Ghent University Faculty of Bioscience Engineering Departme...