At Jumping Rivers we love data dashboards and are delighted to announce the release of a gallery to showcase our application-development skills. Tools like Shiny, Dash, Streamlit and Observable have simplified the process of making interactive, v...

In the third and final installment of the Up and Running with JAX series, we demonstrate the remaining steps required to train and evaluate a simple neural network, specifically the implementation of the loss function, backward pass and training...

ShinyConf 2025 is almost here! From April 9 to 11, thousands of data scientists, developers, and Shiny fans will come together online to share ideas, build skills, and connect. Whether you’re joining for the workshops, the talks, the networking, or all of it, this post will walk you through how to get ...

Python and R examples of use of the Theta model for GLMs and attention (context)

In a previous post, I introduced JAX with particular emphasis on JIT compilation, vectorizing transformations and automatic differentiation. In this post, we walkthrough an implementation of the forward pass for a fully-connected neural network ...

The Internal Rate of Return (IRR) is a financial metric used to evaluate the profitability of an investment by calculating the discount rate at which the net present value (NPV) of a series of cash flows equals zero. In finance, IRR helps investors compare the potential returns of different projects, ...

Electromagnetic interference (EMI) is a growing concern in modern technology, affecting everything from wireless communications to medical devices. As electronic systems become more complex, reducing unwanted interference is necessary to maintain performance and reliability. One of the most effective solutions for managing EMI is the use of an RF absorber. ...

If you work in pharma, you know how much time and money go into drug development. The last thing you want is a painful FDA rejection, one that not only costs your company millions but also delays critical treatments for patients who need them. Regulatory rejections can happen for many ...