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Published in Anil Madhavapeddy's feed

Our neighbours France and the UK announced a Franco-British AI collaboration a few months ago dubbed the Entente CordIAle. Last week we held a couple of days of workshops with our Oxford and French buddies deep diving into details of what a partnership might actually involve; a particular pleasure with France given my group's long history of working with Inria on OCaml and other open source projects.

SpatialSpatial-patternsSpatial-machine-learningRstatsRspatial
Published in Thinking in spatial patterns

Slides: https://jakubnowosad.com/rome2025 Video recording: https://youtu.be/uZe7thh80MI Reproducible code: https://jakubnowosad.com/rome2025/index.R Geospatial predictive mapping is a common task across many domains, aiming to produce continuous surfaces from point observations and spatial predictors.

Large Language ModelAi Search
Published in Aaron Tay's Musings about librarianship
Author Aaron Tay

The Model Context Protocol may fundamentally change how AI tools access academic content. Rather than AI powered search engines building massive centralised indexes, MCP allows AI models to connect directly to publisher content in a real-time federated search model.

Appalachian FiguresHarlan County KY
Published in Appalachianhistorian.org
Author Alex Hall

Appalachian Figures On the House floor in Frankfort, Charles “Charlie” Siler never stopped looking like what he said he was back home: a farmer from the hills who happened to hold a seat in the state legislature. White haired, soft spoken, and rarely flashy, he spent more than two decades representing the 82nd District of Whitley and Laurel counties, after an earlier career as a decorated Army lieutenant colonel.

Appalachian FiguresBoyd County KY
Published in Appalachianhistorian.org
Author Alex Hall

In the summer of 1913, a photographer clambered through the streets of Matamoros, Mexico, stepping past shattered walls and fresh graves with a camera and a pocket full of glass plates. The man who made some of the best known images of the Mexican Revolution on the Texas border was not a native of the Rio Grande Valley.