Not So Standard Deviations

Hilary and Roger discuss Hilary’s Use R! keynote presentation, LLMs and R, and whether R (or any programming language) has a future. Also, a brief preview of Roger’s JSM 2024 talk.   Show notes: Support us on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/NSSDeviations] Roger Peng [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Peng] Hilary Parker [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Parker] List of NSSD Fellows [https://rdpeng.org/nssdeviations/] Get the Not So Standard Deviations book [https://leanpub.com/conversationsondatascience/] Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/not-so-standard-deviations/id1040614570] Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play [https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Izfnbx6tlruojkfrvhjfdj3nmna] Find past episodes [http://nssdeviations.com] Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell

Hilary and Roger talk about the commonplace usage of statistics terminology, Apple’s recent AI announcements, and Microsoft’s Recall feature.   Show Notes:  Support us on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/NSSDeviations] Roger Peng [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Peng] Hilary Parker [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Parker] List of NSSD Fellows [https://rdpeng.org/nssdeviations/] Get the Not So Standard Deviations book [https://leanpub.com/conversationsondatascience/] Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/not-so-standard-deviations/id1040614570] Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play [https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Izfnbx6tlruojkfrvhjfdj3nmna] Find past episodes [http://nssdeviations.com] Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell

Hilary and Roger discuss limitations of AI image generation and the possibility of replacing both podcast hosts with robots.   Show Notes: Support us on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/NSSDeviations] Roger Peng [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Peng] Hilary Parker [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Parker] List of NSSD Fellows [https://rdpeng.org/nssdeviations/] Get the Not So Standard Deviations book [https://leanpub.com/conversationsondatascience/] Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/not-so-standard-deviations/id1040614570] Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play [https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Izfnbx6tlruojkfrvhjfdj3nmna] Find past episodes [http://nssdeviations.com] Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell

Hilary and Roger discuss the latest AI news, open source Llama, and the prospect of humanoid robots.   Show Notes: Support us on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/NSSDeviations] Roger Peng [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Peng] Hilary Parker [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Parker] List of NSSD Fellows [https://rdpeng.org/nssdeviations/] Get the Not So Standard Deviations book [https://leanpub.com/conversationsondatascience/] Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/not-so-standard-deviations/id1040614570] Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play [https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Izfnbx6tlruojkfrvhjfdj3nmna] Find past episodes [http://nssdeviations.com] Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell

Roger and Hilary talk about a consulting engagement gone wrong and whether there have been any good consulting engagements.   Show Notes: Support us on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/NSSDeviations] Roger Peng [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Peng] Hilary Parker [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Parker] List of NSSD Fellows [https://rdpeng.org/nssdeviations/] Get the Not So Standard Deviations book [https://leanpub.com/conversationsondatascience/] Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/not-so-standard-deviations/id1040614570] Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play [https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Izfnbx6tlruojkfrvhjfdj3nmna] Find past episodes [http://nssdeviations.com] Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell