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Writing a book with Quarto
Turn a collection of RMarkdown documents into a book in <1 hour using Quarto
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Stephen Turner
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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Stephen Turner
Exploring the bioRxiv API with R, httr2, rvest, tidytext, and Datawrapper
Collect metadata and publication details for >200k preprints over a 10 year period, investigate trends, and scrape full text for sentiment analysis
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Stephen Turner
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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Stephen Turner
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.
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Stephen Turner
TIL: dplyr::mutate()'s .keep argument
Use the .keep argument in dplyr::mutate() to control which variables to retain after mutating to create new variables.
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Stephen Turner
Build a Python CLI with Click+Cookiecutter
Demonstration for how to build a Python command line utility with Click using a Cookiecutter project template, and how to publish to PyPI and Docker Hub
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Stephen Turner
Use nanoparquet instead of readr/CSV
Parquet is interoperable between Python and R, fast to read+write, works well with databases, and stores complex data types (e.g., tibble listcols). Use…
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Stephen Turner
DuckDB vs dplyr vs base R
Using DuckDB in R to analyze 100 million rows of data in 3 seconds
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Stephen Turner
Learning in Public
A short essay on writing about what you're learning
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Stephen Turner
Excalidraw: create and share workflow diagrams with end-to-end encryption
Excalidraw might be my new go-to open-source tool over draw.io for creating and sharing workflow diagrams. It's simple, fast, aesthetically pleasing…
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Illuminate preprints with an AI-generated podcast discussion
Listen now | Google's new Illuminate tool takes a PDF from arXiv and generates a short podcast discussion on the paper's key points
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