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Exploring qwen-3.5 35B

Unpacking qwen-3.5 35B on my Linux machine. It does not run quickly but it is definitely worth exploring further. Here we explore models of marketing and some Monte Carlo…

Exploring qwen-3.5 35B in Accounting

Unpacking qwen-3.5 35B on my Linux machine. It does not run quickly but it is definitely worth exploring further.

Cleaning my Inbox with Gemini

It was time to ask Gemini to help me out. With university email supported by Google, Gemini seemed like an ideal tool.

A Dissent in the Trump 14th Amendment Case?

Last updated: 2026-03-12 02:09:21.743378

Connecting RStudio and Github

Last updated: 2026-03-12 02:09:03.718506

Investigating shinylive

In his talk at rstudio::conf, Joe Cheng discussed the arrival of shinylive for R. Coming almost a year after the python deployment, it is really nice to think about teaching…

Updating R and R Packages

I find updating R to be unnecessarily time-consuming. Much of this is my fault; I do not make good choices about packages and their management. Nevertheless, in my never…

A Shiny on Corruption Data

Last updated: 2026-03-12 02:09:06.037678

Docker and Shiny

Last updated: 2026-03-12 02:08:13.554358

Parameterizing Markdown

Last updated: 2026-03-12 02:09:28.13206

Interactive Visualizations

Last updated: 2026-03-12 02:08:48.443933

Human Rights Protections–Tables

Chris Fariss of the University of Michigan has done some very interesting work on human rights protection. You can find tons of stuff on his work on his website. I want to…

Pigeons and Palettes

It really is an amazing pigeon. Apologies that I haven’t a photo credit for it; I found it one day on twitter as it went viral. It is a New York City pigeon.

geoFacets of Credit Quality

In previous work with Skip Krueger, we conceptualized bond ratings as a multiple rater problem and extracted measure of state level creditworthiness. I had always had it on…

Tribute to Griffin Park

A tribute to Griffin Park. I had the opportunity to pub crawl all four pubs before kickoff. Brentford’s last season there.