Spoilers in this post I have just read qntm’s excellent science fiction novel, There Is No Antimemetics Division . Those who have read the text will know that the novel focuses on the concept of “anti-memetics”, which consists of ideas and entities that are impossible to spread and sometimes even to perceive. In the novel, when people come within reach of such an entity, they simply forget they ever had the encounter.
Last autumn two TDCC projects started, FAIR4ChemNL (with the PeerTube channel and doi:10.61686/XVYQV45374) and FAIRify for metabolomics data (doi:10.61686/CSGIP04334). But I haven’t written much on either yet and what the role is our research group in these projects.
Very little sleep this week as I hopped over to India's AI Impact Summit for a slew of events to followup my earlier meetings at OpenUK and the Turing. The Indian government knocked it out of the park with the first summit held in the majority world: there were over 200,000 people registered and the keynote for Sarvam AI's launch had more people attending than the entire French AI summit last year!
Those of you who have been following my work for awhile may have realised that I have a certain fondness for analysing short-lived, unstudied and often poorly-regarded media texts.
Human uplift with AI in viral synthesis, AI in biology, lab automation, R updates (Posit, R Weekly, R Ladies), DOE OPAL, stats+AI, AI & labor, coding agents, Vibe Teaching, papers &
by Moritz Schepp and Thorsten Wübbena The headline “Everything dies, including information”, published 2022 in MIT Technology Review, still resonates today.
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El federalismo itinerante de Juan Pablo de Anaya provocó enfrentamientos contra el presidente Anastasio Bustamante (18371841) desde el noreste, Texas, Yucatán y Tabasco.
In today’s digital scholarly landscape, ensuring research is findable, accessible, and trusted is crucial for national development and global collaboration. For Malawi, a key step toward this goal is now underway. The Malawi Research and Education Network (MAREN) is spearheading an initiative to transform how Malawian research is shared and discovered worldwide.
Software powers modern research across many scientific disciplines, but it’s often hidden in plain sight, buried as unstructured text within the article body. This means that often software is difficult to identify and track in scholarly publications. SoFAIR is a project dedicated to automatically extracting software mentions from scientific literature.
