My final exam for the Monte Carlo course I taught last semester proved too much of a challenge for my fourth year students, despite being rather elementary and centred on accept-reject algorithms and importance/bridge sampling. One of the problems was a decomposition of the truncated Normal simulation method proposed ...

This week we had a wonderful community call, From Novice to Contributor: Making and Supporting First-Time Contributions to FOSS, where Sunny Tseng, Pascal Burkhard, and Yaoxiang Li shared with us their experiences with, and advice for, first time cont...

Introduction The ADaM in R Asset Library • admiral {admiral} team is celebrating the newest addition to the extension package family with the release of Metabolism Extension Package for ADaM in R Asset Library • admiralmetabolic {admi...

How can we teach “R for cell biologists” rather than teaching R to cell biologists? I’ve noticed that many R training courses will teach R – regardless of who is taking the course – and leave it to the participants to figure out how they can use R in their own ...

R For SEO Part 8: Apply Methods in R Welcome back again. Now we’re at part eight of my series on R for SEO and we’ve been on quite a journey... This post was written by Ben Johnston on Ben Johnston

Geometry x Colors Experimentation I’m still obsessing with Pentomino dataset that I have been using. I love using the ggforce package for creating stunning visualizations. ggforce essentially allows you to extend the ggplot2 capabilities, i.e.&...

How to join this free online event with Yi-Chin Sunny Tseng, Pascal Burkhard, Yaoxiang Li and Hugo Gruson. Contributing to open source can be very rewarding, but also incredibly intimidating. When we asked about first time contributions on the rOpenSc...

Extensive benchmark based on 1311 time series from the Tourism competition, comparing the splitconformal method to the state of the art.

Summary: in this post I demonstrate how you can interact with locally hosted LLM models in R using the ellmer package and LM Studio.

Three years in, I am still absolutely hooked on the Traitors (the TV series). Sure, yes, they stretch ten minutes of gameplay into sixty minutes of “you know I love you, but…” and the weirdly maddening attempts to make “yourself” a polite versio...

Introduction Like alot of lecturers I’m teaching at the moment. If I have a presentation to do that’s mainly images I’ll use Powerpoint or Google Slides. If the presentation includes maths or code or both I used to use LaTeX Beamer. Over the years ...

E-mails are a surprisingly effective tool to send out recurring reports/stats, alert people that a long-running job finished, or simply contact customers or other departments with user-specific information. So in today’s video, I’m going to show you how the {blastula} package makes all of that possible for ...