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Evaluating TOON in a Real-World Scenario
Evaluating TOON in a Real-World Scenario
Token-Oriented Notation (abbreviated as TOON) is the concept of rewriting JSON in such a way that fewer characters, and thus fewer tokens, are generated. The concept is explained in more detail at https://toonformat.dev/, and a simple example is shown below. When querying the systemd-mcp server for all inactive services on a system, the output without TOON is as follows: [...]
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Rlang ☛ A world still to be mapped: reflections on geocomputation in R: takeaways from the talk and workshop at UseR! 2026
At useR! 2026 in Warsaw, I contributed to a workshop on Geocomputation with R (July 6, 2026) and gave a keynote entitled A world still to be mapped: reflections on geocomputation in R (July 8, 2026).
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Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk Eddelbuettel: qlcal 0.1.3 on CRAN: Micro Bugfix, Build Tweak
The twenty-first release of the qlcal package has been built for r2u. It comes a week after the 0.1.2
This releases includes a one-line fix we also sent upstream as a now-merged PR: one of the calendar files added in QuantLib 1.43 also needed to include the
vectorheader file.