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Aug 2024
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189 - LLMs and Data Science

ROGER PENG AND HILARY PARKER
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Hilary and Roger discuss Hilary's Use R! keynote presentation, LLMs and R, and whether R (or any programming language) has a future. Also, a brief preview of Roger's JSM 2024 talk.

 

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