Very cool. Any plans to add support for local models? This has what has prevented us from adopting Positron so far. We have sensitive data and sending to third party APIs is not an option (regardless of their stated retention policies). Show 1 reply

This is a good idea, although IMO source control, compute, and MLOps integration are bigger but less flashy pain points for data scientists than AI in notebooks.

If you're going to market Erdos as open source, then IMO there should be a github link somewhere on your website.

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Give me this, but with a very efficient, opinionated path to put models into production. Give me accessible PM and customer friendly documentation about features and model choices at every stage. Make it reusable and easy to modify. Make it robust and scalable at inference time, with metrics and dashboards tracking performance over time. This seems like optimising the bit that's already fun, but I see a lot of value in hand-holding a department through all the stodgy boring bits and getting high quality analysis repeatably into customer hands.

This looks very cool, I’m gonna try it later today.

Out of curiosity, why the name Erdos? AFAIK Erdos was neither a statistician, data scientist nor AI researcher.

He sure solved many probability/combinatorics problems and famously had many many collaborators.

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Apple Silicon only, might be worth mentioning on the download link. Show 2 replies

Looks interesting but i'm unclear what makes it "more accurate"? Show 1 reply

Have you done any fine-tuning or prompt-customization for the R-specific work? I've found the models worse on R when compared to Python, especially for more complex tasks. This looks cool, thanks for sharing! Show 1 reply

I can't tell how this differs to Cursor from your website. How is it different? Show 1 reply

I think Rao is more appealing to me since Positron already has that kind of integration, while RStudio doesn’t. Plus, Posit probably won’t ever add an AI Chat feature to RStudio anyway. Show 1 reply

Does it support OpenRouter? I tried configuring OpenRouter as a "local model" but it seems to silently fail. Show 1 reply

Do you have the option to run on a local model? Lots of firms don't want data or prompts going outside the local network Show 1 reply

We started with a product like this at Definite (https://www.definite.app/), but it became clear there weren't enough people willing to spend real money on a product like it when Cursor / VS Code already have good coverage on data science. Show 1 reply

I see Google acquiring Iotas in the future, that's how good it gets

The choice of name seems pretty bizarre. The famous Erdos [1] was a mathematician, not data scientist, computer scientist, or statistician.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s

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