While reviewing an R package at work I realized I wasn’t totally sure what advice to give about examples for internal functions in a package. That is, there’s an R package. The package has some exported functions, and some internal functions that are not exported.
Sadiq Jaffer sent along this piece in The Conversation last week about the remarkable number of academic papers that are now AI generated. The numbers of these papers are probably underestimated: What caught my eye in this article is their development of the Problematic Paper Screener, which the good folks at Retraction Watch developed. It works with high precision to detect papers issued by grammar-based generators.
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Summary (summarised by Gemini 2.0-exp) We often think of AI-generated 'hallucinations' as blatant errors, but what happens when a RAG system produces information that's factually true but not explicitly stated in its sources?
La Columna Volante de la Unión (1824) por Emiliano Canto Mayén En el año de 1824, una desavenencia entre el Congreso del Estado de Yucatán y el Ayuntamiento de Campeche motivó que se dispararan los cañones, y la sangre estuvo a punto de correr en la península.
Starting in February, the Rogue Scholar science blog archive is showing the citations (publications that cite the blog post) of science blog posts it archives.
Der Zugang zu Wissen, Information und Kultur ist ein elementares Gut moderner Wissensgesellschaften. Ein neuer Leitfaden von Till Kreutzer unterstützt dabei, die richtige Creative-Commons-Lizenz zu wählen und Inhalte auf diese Weise rechtssicher zu teilen. Der Leitfaden entstand in Kooperation mit Wikimedia Deutschland und der Deutschen UNESCO-Kommission.
Im Juni 2024 rief der HeOSP-Verbund zur Teilnahme an einer Umfrage zu Identifiern für Forschungsinformationssysteme auf (https://doi.org/10.57689/dini-blog.20240722). An dieser Umfrage beteiligten sich 28 Personen über den online-Zugang und weitere 10 Personen über persönliche Befragung Insgesamt konnten 16 vollständige und valide Antworten ausgewertet werden.
Most of our work at Epiverse TRACE involves either developing an R package from scratch or adopting and maintaining an existing R package. In the former case, decision-making during development is guided by internal policies documented in the Epiverse-TRACE blueprints. However, a less common scenario for us has been taking on the maintenance of an existing package — a situation we recently encountered with the bpmodels R package.
There's a letter in Science today from a bunch of well known remote sensing researchers that make the unusual point that modern satellite resolution is getting too good to be accurate for forest carbon estimation. The lead author Laura Duncanson is a remote sensing scientist at Maryland who works on the incredible GEDI instrument on the International Space Station.
The terms carbon credits and carbon offsets are often used interchangeably, but are in fact two distinct concepts. I've spent a nice Sunday morning reading up on some recent articles that Bhaskar Vira sent me which introduce a third term, known as "carbon contributions" . Rather than this adding confusion, I found it helped me clarify my own thoughts on the matter, which I note down here in draft form.