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Setting the tone: Exploring LLM Temperature Settings with Taylor Swift’s Songs

After a few conversations around the non-deterministic nature of Large Language Models (LLMs), I realized I had not explored the impact of temperature settings on LLM…

Developing a personal python package

Software Development

After copying and pasting some OpenAI code for working with LLMs, I decided it was time to create a personal python package. I’ve built R packages previously, but this was…

Prompt engineering with kids on a rainy Day

On a rainy Saturday stuck inside, my kids and I created short stories with OpenAI’s latest model, gpt-4o.

GPT, Claude, and Gemini: An exploration of different Large Language Models

I don’t know enough about the tradeoff between using different LLMs, so I’m going to compare OpenAI’s GPT-4, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini.

A Recipe for change - OpenAI as a sous chef

Can we create recipes my family will like? Pivoting on my initial plan, I used OpenAI to generate a recipe for healthy banana bread that my kids would enjoy.

Exploring image generation with DALL-E

When you need a bear to send a message.

A Recipe for change

Moving a simple recipe website to Quarto while planning to leverage OpenAI Large Language Models for summarization and Github Actions for automation.

Generating my resume with {pagedown}

Creating a daynamic resume I can easily update and share with R, {pagedown}, and some basic {rmarkdown} functionality,

Moving to a Quarto website

Updating my previous {blogdown} website with RStudio and Quarto (an open-source scientific and technical publishing system.