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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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Published 08/05/24
Hilary and Roger talk about the commonplace usage of statistics terminology, Apple’s recent AI announcements, and Microsoft’s Recall feature.
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Published 06/24/24
Hilary and Roger discuss limitations of AI image generation and the possibility of replacing both podcast hosts with robots.
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Published 06/11/24
Hilary and Roger discuss the latest AI news, open source Llama, and the prospect of humanoid robots.
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Published 05/09/24
Roger and Hilary talk about a consulting engagement gone wrong and whether there have been any good consulting engagements.
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Published 02/26/24
Hilary and Roger talk about whether it might be better if ChatGPT didn’t give you what you wanted.
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Published 02/16/24
Hilary and Roger discuss what makes a data analytic tool informative for a given problem and Hilary, predictably, gets furious.
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Published 01/31/24
Hilary and Roger ring in the new year with some discussion of AI and data science, Roger’s upcoming spring semester data science course, and some predictions for 2024.
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Published 01/10/24
Hilary and Roger discuss Hilary’s new ChatGPT consulting business and tease the future of data analysis with AI.
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Published 11/15/23
Hilary and Roger discuss how to improve ChatGPT interactions and important lessons learned from Terminator 2.
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Published 10/04/23
Hilary and Roger are discussing Python in Excel, speed cubing data, and a grand strategy for AI weapons.
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Python in Excel
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Published 09/06/23
Hilary and Roger discuss data vs. oil, large language models, automated vehicles, and Hilary contributes to Roger’s research.
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Published 08/22/23
Hilary and Roger return to see if anything has changed in the world since they took their break. Topics include the changing world of social media and the “data as oil” metaphor.
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Catching up with the weird world of LLMs
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Published 08/12/23
Hilary and Roger make a special announcement and discuss large language models, prompt engineering, and the frustration of teaching R these days.
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Published 05/03/23
Hilary and Roger discuss Posit ads and continue the discussion of ChatGPT and AI (including AI movies!)
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Published 04/17/23
Hilary and Roger debate the impacts and time horizon of ChatGPT and its competitors.
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Published 04/04/23
Hilary and Roger reflect on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, discuss what the goal of data version control is, and critique Roger’s idea for a way to learn from other people’s data analyses.
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Published 03/14/23
Hilary and Roger winge about Twitter, correct the record about dbt, and consider more counterfactuals.
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Published 02/17/23
Hilary recovers from COVID while Roger throws various difficult discussion topics at her. They talk about Charlie Javice, Data Day Texas, Posit / Palantir, and classified documents.
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Published 02/03/23
Hilary spills a smoothie and coffee and Roger starts teaching again.
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Published 01/13/23
Hilary and Roger close out the year discussing brain biomarkers, ChatGPT and AI art, and Roger’s failed experiment with a rocket company.
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Published 12/16/22
Hilary and Roger design a coffee experiment, sell some mugs, and discuss Roger’s college transcript.
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Not So Standard Mugs
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Published 12/03/22
Hilary and Roger follow up on DALL-E and discuss the main topic of the day – Twitter and whether there are any viable alternatives.
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Published 11/21/22
Hilary and Roger discuss Roger’s latest coffee conundrum, remaking the 2007 Apple store, and using DALL-E for ad campaigns. And Roger is hiring a postdoc!
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Roger’s Postdoc Ad: https://rdpeng.org/postdoc.html
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Published 10/07/22