I’ve been using the llama3.1:70b model just released by Meta using Ollama running on my MacBook Pro. Ollama makes it easy to talk to a locally running LLM in the terminal (ollama run llama3.1:70b) or via a familiar GUI with the open-webui Docker container. Here I’ll demonstrate using the ollamar package on CRAN to talk to an LLM running locally on my Mac.
Here are a few papers that caught my attention recently. I summarize a few in the deep dive at the top, then link to a few other papers of note later on. Subscribe to Paired Ends to get periodic summaries like this delivered to your e-mail.
It’s been a big week in the genomics+bioinformatics space. This post expands on a few of the recent papers I posted in a Twitter thread. I highlight a few in the deep dive at the top, then link to a few other papers of note later on. Subscribe (free!) to Paired Ends to get summaries like this delivered to your e-mail as soon as I write them.
This post is about the R package development experience with Positron, the new IDE from Posit based on VS Code. This is not a tutorial on R package development in general — there are great resources for that elsewhere. Read on.Subscribe to Paired Ends to get future posts like this delivered to your e-mail. RStudio, VS Code, and Positron Back in 2011 I wrote a blog post about a relatively new IDE for R called RStudio.
This post expands on a few of the papers I posted in this Twitter thread. I highlight a few in the deep dive at the top, then link to a few other papers of note later on. Subscribe to Paired Ends to get summaries like this delivered to your e-mail as soon as I write them. Subscribe now You might remember me from Getting Genetics Done where I blogged about genetics, statistics, and bioinformatics from 2008-2017.
This post expands on a few of the papers I posted in this Twitter thread. I highlight a few in the deep dive at the top, then link to a few other papers of note later on. Subscribe to Paired Ends to get summaries like this in your e-mail as soon as I write them.
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