Embedded procedural programming inside SQL Server Databases

Let’s suppose one is tasked with a complex set of calculations where the input data loads from a database and the output data saves to a database. This has come up a number of times in my consulting work. There are 2 approaches: Use language of choice, read data, perform calculations, write data Work entirely …

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IRT, CAT, and related Packages In R

I’ve been using some of these a lot for some psychometrics software developmont work. TAM: Test Analysis Modules (3.3-10 released 2019-08-23) sirt: Supplementary Item Response Theory Models (3.7-40 released 2019-11-04) mirt: Multidimensional Item Response Theory (1.31 released 2019-09-15) eRm: Extended Rasch Modeling (1.0-0 released 2019-06-06) catR: Generation of IRT Response Patterns under Computerized Adaptive Testing …

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The world is ready for a new generation of programming languages

I believe the rise of so many new programming languages in the past few years is in response to a reconsideration and reflection of what people like and dislike about current programming languages and not yet finding a language that is as great as they imagine a language could be. I suspect someone could write …

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I created an account on Stack Overflow, then deleted it within a few hours

Like many developers I come across Stack Overflow pages with some frequency when performing research. I came across a question to which I had an answer and I decided to was time to try and contribute. Well, my answer was deleted, and then the question was deleted, and at no time did I get any …

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Stumbling on cool things

I’m interested in emulators, always have been, and I was wondering if anyone had used LLVM to write an emulator. I came across this highly detailed account which was a fun read: Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go It concludes stating that static recompilation is probably less practical than JIT, …

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