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BJPS Review Of BooksPhilosophy, Ethics and Religion
Published in BJPS Review Of Books
Author Samuel Schindler and Patrick Duerr

Home CHRIS HAUFE FRUITFULNESS REVIEWED BY Samuel Schindler & Patrick M Duerr Fruitfulness Chris Haufe Reviewed by Samuel Schindler & Patrick M Duerr Fruitfulness: Science, Metaphor, and the Puzzle of Promise Chris Haufe Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, £22.99 ISBN 9780197666395 Cite as: Schindler, S. and Duerr, P. M.

PerformanceIndex NumbersREconomics and Business
Published in Steve Martin

Multilateral price indexes are often used to measure the evolution of prices over time when there are large volumes of transaction data, such as retail scanner data or housing data. The main challenge with computing multilateral indexes with large amounts of data is that these indexes often depend on a matrix where the dimensions are at least as large as the number of products.

BioPortalOntoPortalSSSOMNatural Sciences
Published in Biopragmatics
Author Charles Tapley Hoyt

Earlier this week, a question was asked on OBO Foundry Slack on where to find semantic mappings to terms in the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT). While some are available in the SeMRA Disease Mappings Database, there are many more available within BioPortal, which has access to the entire SNOMED-CT source data and has produced semantic mapping predictions using LOOM.

LLMsAITech PredictionsEcologyNatural Sciences
Published in Chris von Csefalvay
Author Chris von Csefalvay

Hype, slop, craft: the evolutionary ecology of AI There’s a patch of ground near Chernobyl that botanists call Рудий ліс, the Red Forest. In the immediate aftermath of the 1986 disaster, 1 the radiation killed mostly everything, turning the pine trees a rust-red colour before they died. That’s poetic, but hardly unexpected – not even Polesian pines can withstand a firehose of low enriched uranium decay products.

XkcdTeachingSocial Science
Published in Antoine Vernet's blog

There are two things I try to keep in mind when preparing or delivering teaching. Helpfully, they are both described in xkcd comics. Ten Thousand Average Familiarity The first comic (Ten Thousand) is a reminder that, as teachers, we are privileged to teach a topic we know well to people who are new to it. To me, this suggests two things for us to do: First, learn to enjoy that feeling of taking someone through a process of discovery.

Abandoned AppalachiaKnott County KYHistory and Archaeology
Published in Appalachianhistorian.org
Author Alex Hall

Abandoned Appalachia A stone schoolhouse above a future lake If you drive up Yellow Creek toward Building Mountain today, you can still spot it. Before the road tips over the ridge, a stone building sits on the flat ground across from where Roosevelt Honeycutt once kept a store.