This is a great lecture. For many years I had an office next to Grace Wahba and this lecture was an opportunity to some understanding of what she was saying all those years.

*sweats* 😰

Like every other geek on the planet I fell into the Wordle rabbit hole and implemented the game and a solution strategy in a Julia package, github.com/dmbates/Wordle…)

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Shout out to Kyla McConnell for her great work introducing #JuliaLang and other enhancements to the community.

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I posted a couple of #julialang tutorials using Wordle examples at dmbates.github.io/WordleTutorial… One more to come on viewing Wordle games as a tree.

photos.app.goo.gl/GNaJRHZKzsHwcM… Got to love living in Madison

Congrats Dr. Douglas Bates for the 2023 Statistical Computing and Graphics Award! "For his fundamental contributions to statistical computing infrastructure, developments of S, R, Julia, and mixed-effects models, and their applications in statistical research and practice."

Monarch?

Seven Sins of Numerical Linear Algebra nhigham.com/2022/10/11/sev…

Register NOW for ASA Stat Computing Section's Mini Symposium! bit.ly/asa-ssc-symp22 Why? 😻 see the power & beauty of stat computing 🧑‍💻 hone your stat comp skills 🤝 build cross-language community ASA Douglas Bates Dⓐniel Chen 🐍🏴‍☠️ Josh Day ASA Stat Computing & Graphics Please RT!

I have a couple of new blog posts at dmbates.quarto.pub/random-musings/. Many thanks to Quarto for making it easy to do things like this. Julia Bloggers