Jeremy Allen

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Not only can people say nonsense, but many people say nonsense frequently, sometimes innocently, but many times on purpose and with malice and even abuse! Sometimes, some people can be the worst interlocutors.

what I can do with an LLM is ask it tons of questions for clarifications, examples, analogies, summaries, etc, and in such rapid succession that would annoy the ever-living shit out of any human interlocutor

A worthy mantra from Andrew: "[I] cannot LLM [my] way into domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, or coding ability."

Screenshot of quarto yaml making feed for R posts

You can create feeds for a specific category e.g. I this to create a feed of all blog posts that have R as a category label

(sort of does the opposite to excluding one though I guess...)

Laufey is so good!

new possibility for you @andrew.heiss.phd

same here

Thanks, Eduardo! Does the context of the work lean more science-y or more business-y?

Hi #RStats friends. If you use R for analysis at work, what portion of your analyses are causal and what portion predictive?

They are famous for constantly moving

Very cool! btw, the bird in your header image is a Golden-crowned Kinglet. Lately I've been learning field recording and audio editing. I had been doing lots of bird videography, and from there decided to branch into field audio as well. It's a fun hobby so far.

Indeed! I paid someone to do mine :)

yeah that's so bad! i remember having to insulate my crawl space in Colorado and it was shorter, so actual crawling. but great when it's done and your house is warmer! we sealed edges in the attic, too

playing in the crawl space is never too much fun

also recommend after any dinner :)

Thanks! This is good o know. Lots of Python folks I encounter love modeling in that language because of the ML Ops tools available there.

YouTube video by Jeremy Allen Relax in a Downpour of Falling Leaves

some soothing slow-motion leaf fall in a deciduous forest, aka, my backyard, yesterday. I'd love to shoot an hour of this, but I am away from home from for a couple of days. Hopefully, there will be more leaves when I get back. youtu.be/uzmvSETWqjw?...

2025-11-07 AI Newsletter - Posit Anthropic tested whether LLMs can introspect, Posit added support for AWS Bedrock and custom providers in Positron Assistant, and OpenAI finalized its for-profit shift toward a $1T IPO.

This edition of @sara-altman.bsky.social and I's AI Newsletter is a @posit.co heavy one! Support for new model providers in Positron Assistant, an experimental coding agent for RStudio, a conference on #rstats + AI this week, and more. :)

posit.co/blog/2025-11...

YouTube video by Jeremy Allen Raccoon Sleepy Time

This dead tree is home to owls, squirrels, and raccoons. But not all at the same time. Tonight it was for the raccoons. Beautiful light and super cute sleepy guy. This was a fun video to shoot. youtu.be/hjHgj3fHG8M?...

A wooded scene in early autumn, with tall trees in mixed green and golden-yellow foliage. Sunlight filters through the branches, and a small creek runs along the forest floor covered in fallen leaves.

View off the deck. It doesn’t get much better. Owls, hawks, woodpeckers, herons, kingfishers, a host of local and migrating song birds, deer, coyotes, raccoons, squirrels, and chipmunks. All in this view. And some noisy neighbors banging on stuff.

Looking down at my boot-clad feet standing on rocks in the creek. Warm sunlight across the scene.

The creek surrounded tall deciduous trees whose leaves are turning yellow.

The creek surrounded by tall deciduous trees whose leaves are turning yellow.

Looking straight up into the yellow and orange deciduous canopy.

I don’t want to come back inside

I am from Louisiana, so I see that as a crawfish.

Shiny application that blends inputs and markdown to pass into R markdown. The application features a section to fill out information about the client, the project, and then has a markdown editor to pass in text to create nice looking R markdown PDF documents.

Another screenshot of the app, this one focuses on the Compensation section to show how you can use markdown to generate a table.

Example of the PDF output (uses mix of fixed content with the input variables to create dynamic documents).

I really enjoy tool building. A use case that comes up a lot in my world is dynamic doc gen.

Sharing an example of how you can leverage the powers of Shiny + R markdown to create something bespoke to your needs.

Use case below to generate contract docs ✨

so manipulative 😜

yeah it's great having a zotero integration

so true

In which use cases does #RStats excel for you compared to other languages?

If you've done it other ways and speak from experience, even better.

the older I get the more duplicates and triplicates I find around the house, but way after I needed the thing and ordered another one

I don't think we are allowed to have so much fun are we?