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Positron & AI

Enable and use Positron’s AI chat and Copilot code completion — setup, settings, and sensible practice.

A reference guide to code and writing quality standards for empirical finance assignments — with concrete examples.

Literate programming with Quarto — keep code, output, and prose in one file that re-renders on every change.

The essential Git and GitHub workflow for collaborating with your group on the mandatory assignments.

Prepare the Gu, Kelly & Xiu (2020) dataset in Python and set it up for machine-learning models.

Persist and share trained ML models in Python so results stay reproducible across machines and sessions.

Fit, shrink, upload, and retrieve model objects via the Hugging Face Hub.