Setting Up Local Llms for R and Python
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If you are at NIH, perhaps wait until you are fired?
It is very sad that the whole scientific ecosystem is jumping on the hype train. There are no interesting articles any longer, no real scientific discoveries. Just article after article how to feed the bureaucratic LLM machinery and become a good apparatchik within it.
Some are incorporating llms in a nice way, eg integrating into docs.