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An academic integrity-friendly code pal for R Studio

How to plug in an LLM to help – but not too much – in a world that wants to cheat

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One of the struggles on campus these days is all about where to draw the lines when it comes to AI in the classroom. There’s no end of discussion about students using…

Nebraska’s season long slide on offense

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If you’ve been following Nebraska’s football season, you’d be forgiven if you thought it started out great and has slowly driven into a ditch as time went on. Even after a…

A simple example of AI agents(?) doing journalism(?) work

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Let’s start this with some confessions:

Another year, another attempt, another bracket disaster

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Once again, I attempted to predict the outcome of the NCAA tournament using machine learning, and I had a class-load of students try the same.

Nebraska is not the best worst team in basketball again. They’re third best worst.

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Last year, this post may have suggested that Nebraska would be better this year than last year. That Nebraska was the best worst team in college basketball, and with major…

Is Nebraska the best worst team in college basketball?

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Nebraska fans haven’t had the best time watching basketball lately. The last two seasons have featured only seven wins in each season. This season they only won three games…

How I (poorly) filled out my NCAA bracket with machine learning

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I do not know a lot about college basketball. I follow the travails of my employer and a little about the Big Ten Conference as a whole, but at best it’s surface knowledge.…