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Positron Assistant: GitHub Copilot and Claude-Powered Agentic Coding in R
Positron Assistant provides inline completions with GitHub Copilot and chat using Claude 4 Sonnet. Demonstration: using agent mode to create an R…
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Stephen Turner
Tidy RAG in R with ragnar
Retrieval augmented generation in R using the ragnar package. Demonstration: scraping text from relevant links on a website and using RAG to ask about a…
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Stephen Turner
Free AI courses from Google
Free short courses on GenAI, LLMs, responsible AI, image generation, encoder-decoder architectures, BERT, attention, transformers, ...
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The Modern R Stack for Production AI
Python isn't the only game in town anymore: R can interact with local and cloud LLM APIs, inspect and modify your local R environment and files…
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Stephen Turner
Build a local RAG application with Open WebUI to chat with your Zotero library
Demonstration using Mistral and Nomic Embed with Ollama and Open WebUI
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GUIs for Local LLMs with RAG
Running local LLMs with Ollama, LMStudio, Open WebUI, and others for private and secure chat, vibe coding, image analysis, and "chat with your…
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AI in data science education
Listen now | Balancing growth with guidance: teaching data science in the age of AI assistants
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Write code in unfamiliar territory with AI
I used Claude to build a Chrome extension to add a post-to-Bluesky button on bioRxiv. I've never written Javascript or a Chrome extension before. It…
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Gene Info Custom GPT
Gene Info: a custom GPT that takes a list of gene symbols and provides summary information, gene ontology terms, and provides contextual information…
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Bluesky conversation analysis with local and frontier LLMs with R/Tidyverse
Summary, translation, and sentiment analysis of Bluesky posts on a topic using atrrr, tidyverse/ellmer, and mlverse/mall with Claude and other open…
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The Enlightenment Conservatory
A parable of scientific publishing, open access, and preprints
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Video to audio to transcript to summary using local AI: whisperfile and llama3.3
Using local LLMs to extract and summarize audio transcripts from YouTube and podcasts. Examples: DESeq2 tutorial from YouTube, and the Nextflow Podcast.
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