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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…
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…
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…
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…
The Enlightenment Conservatory
A parable of scientific publishing, open access, and preprints
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.
Turn any webpage into markdown for LLM-friendly input
Add r.jina.ai/ in front of any URL to turn the entire page into Markdown for LLM-friendly input. Works on PDFs too.
Use an LLM to translate help documentation on-the-fly
The lang package overrides the ? and help() functions in your R session. If you are using RStudio or Positron, the translated help page will appear in…
Turn a GitHub repo into a single text file for LLM-friendly input
The open source repo2txt web app will take a GitHub repo URL, displays the directory structure, lets you choose which files to include, and provides a…
Inciteful+Zotero to find relevant literature
Listen now | Inciteful with the Zotero plugin is the perfect combo for filling in gaps in your knowledge of the literature in a particular field…
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AI code completion in Positron
Positron doesn't have GitHub Copilot, but Codeium and others are good alternatives.
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