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The generative AI technology powering ChatGPT—OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 LLMs—is available to R users, with a growing collection of packages and apps to choose from.

Teaching students how to code is really teaching them computational thinking, she said, and classes now are very different from older coding classes. "We're now looking at 3D modelling, which is ...

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