When we think of LLMs (large language models), usually what comes to mind are general purpose chatbots like ChatGPT or code assistants like GitHub Copilot. But as useful as ChatGPT and Copilot are, LLMs have so much more to offer—if you know how to …
This talk will explore building AI Apps with a focus on Positron Assistant for Shiny developer experience and in-IDE tooling for accelerating app creation. This talk will discuss tools like ellmer / chatlas / querychat / shinychat and compare it to …
This talk demonstrates a 145-fold speedup in training time for a machine learning pipeline with tidymodels through 4 small changes. By adapting a grid search on a canonical model to use a more performant modeling engine, hooking into a parallel …
R users tend to be skeptical of modern AI models, given our weird insistence on answers being accurate, or at least supported by the data. But I believe the time has come—or maybe it’s a little late—for even the most AI-cynical among us to push past …
R users tend to be skeptical of modern AI models, given our weird insistence on answers being accurate, or at least supported by the data. But I believe the time has come—or maybe it’s a little late—for even the most AI-cynical among us to push past …