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I don't think calling Luke an "agricultural statistician" is at all reflective of his work. Not everything in Iowa is corn, and Luke has been working in computa
by gbrown 11y ago
I don't think calling Luke an "agricultural statistician" is at all reflective of his work. Not everything in Iowa is corn, and Luke has been working in computationally intensive statistical methodology and statistical software development for decades.
- x0x0 11y agoHmm, you're quite right; I'm not sure how I came to believe that.
- kgwgk 11y agoHe created lisp-stat in the late 80's https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v013i09 https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v013i09 "While R and Lisp are internally very similar, in places where they differ the design choices of Lisp are in many cases superior. The difficulty of predicting performance and hence writing code that is guaranteed to be efficient in problems with larger data sets is an issue that R will need to come to grips with, and it is not likely that this can happen without some significant design changes."