gentoo-dev talking about R textbook for forecasting

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13-20:37:56 <@robbat2> ezzieyguywuf, FreedomBear: I can 100% recommend using R via docker containers; upstream keeps them 
                       VERY up to date
13-20:38:54 <@robbat2> open-source textbook using R to do Forecasting: https://otexts.com/fpp3/
13-20:40:56 <@robbat2> the real mental breakthrough for me was realizing that forecasting was fundamentally converting any 
                       given series to a signal, doing signal analysis (e.g. fourier), and using that analysis to "predict" 
                       what the next terms of a sequence would be
13-20:42:06 <@robbat2> the big win of the docker containers is full multi-threading R stuff that's hard to get otherwise
13-20:42:36 <@robbat2> i used it on a project that reliably burned all 16 cores on my Ryzen for 30 minutes wallclock per 
                       dataset
13-20:43:42 <@robbat2> the textbook doesn't specifically cover using it via Docker, but it's a small hop only