Pierre DeBois·6h agoAI Made R Packages Easy to Write. But Did It Make Packages in CRAN Better?New package volume on CRAN has roughly doubled since late 2025. The documentation attached to those packages has not kept pace. What does…
Pierre DeBois·3d agoFrom Positron to Packages: How to Track Session Memory Usage in R ProgrammingPositron shipped a memory monitor. Here’s how to read it, as well as the R packages that also aid your memory management.A response icon1A response icon1
Pierre DeBois·4d agoThe Model-Selection Shift: What Foundation AI Models Change About Forecasting BudgetsPretrained forecasting models turn a training expense into a selection decision. Here is how that reshapes the AI budget conversation…
Pierre DeBois·Sep 8How to Create a Pareto Chart in PythonA Pareto chart turns a long list of categories into a short list of priorities, and pandas plus matplotlib build one with no specialized…A response icon1A response icon1
Pierre DeBois·Aug 31Microsoft Foundry Toolkit for VS Code: Building a Local AI Agent Within the EditorA Visual Studio Code extension for building agents while leveraging the Microsoft Foundry AI environment.A response icon1A response icon1