NASA Tracks the Brightest Cosmic Event Ever Recorded – “This Thing’s Crazy!”
Astronomers witnessed the BOAT, the brightest cosmic event ever recorded, demonstrating the power of Time-Domain and Multimessenger Astronomy. This event and others like it offer insights into the universe's dynamic processes and the role of collaboration in scientific discovery. Stephen Lesage’s
rdocdump: Dump 'R' Package Source, Documentation, and Vignettes into One File
Dump source code, documentation and vignettes of an 'R' package into a single file. Supports installed packages, tar.gz archives, and package source directories. If the package is not installed, only its source is automatically downloaded from CRAN for processing. The output is a single plain text file or a character vector, which is useful to ingest complete package documentation and source into a large language model (LLM) or pass it further to other tools, such as 'ragnar' <https://github.com/tidyverse/ragnar> to create a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflow.
Introducing fodr: a package for French open data in R
Nowadays, more and more government organisations subscribe to the open data movement and some have done so in France, in the hopes that new services or insights would come from the analysis of this data.
Retrieval augmented generation in R using the ragnar package. Demonstration: scraping text from relevant links on a website and using RAG to ask about a university's grant funding.
Intent context defines what the user wants to get out of the model. For example, a system prompt usually serves as high-level instructions for how the user wants the model to behave. Most of the “prompting” done in Cursor is intent context. “Turn that button from blue to green” is an example of stated intent; it is prescriptive.
State context describes the state of the current world. Providing Cursor with error messages, console logs, images, and chunks of code are examples of context related to state. It is descriptive, not prescriptive.
Together, these two types of context work in harmony by describing the current state and desired future state, enabling Cursor to make useful coding suggestions.
Building a webapp for data collection & visualization using R Shiny
This is a tutorial post about building a webapp with user form and leaflet map visualization using R Shiny. The webapp I built aims to collect crowdsourced data of how sustainable are the eateries …