R + AI, uv, RAG+Zotero, Quarto books, Codex in Positron, Positron assistant &

Back on October I presented Everything you always wanted to know: plant pathway modelling in WikiPathways (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18149988) at the Knowledge Graphs for Plant and Microbiome Multiomics symposium (see this archived LinkedIn post) on 14th October 2025 (youtube recording). I had not found time yet to post about this meeting, but it was an awesome list of speakers, regrettable absense of some others, but resulting in new contacts and some

Five years ago, we introduced a second criterion, “substantial scholarly effort” , to ensure that we publish meaningful contributions to research software. Our benchmark at the time – at least roughly three months of developer time – offered a practical, human-centered proxy for effort. For that era, it served us well. Today, the landscape is fundamentally different.

What would happen to prices if firms started internalizing the social impact of their behavior? A few years ago I published a model of moral management in competitive markets (Martin 2019) and I thought it would be an interesting exercise to take the price and quantity functions from this model to make a price index.

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None of these were intended by their creators to be about research; even Marie Curie’s line was about her education. But each of them touched a nerve for me. Also, since they’re not explicitly about research, you may find them applicable to other areas of life as well, whether you’re a researcher or not.

Das Känguru hat uns auf dem #39C3 erklärt, dass jeder erste Sonntag im Monat digitaler Unabhängigkeitstag (#did) ist.

TipHey, I’m writing a book about this! I’m actually writing a book about this stuff. It turns out there isn’t a lot of literature on how to do post-training at the level too big for single-GPU laptop-sized hobby projects and requiring enterprise reliability on one hand, but not quite at the scale of multi-team distributed post-training you’d get in foundation labs.

In my previous post, I shared my annual running stats which were generated in R using summary data from Garmin Connect. The code I use to generate these summaries was beginning to get a bit unwieldy, so I have now rebased it into a package.

We refactored the R-universe CI workflows to make it possible to run the exact same workflow from your own GitHub repository. This allows you to test or debug the build and check process on your R package, exactly as it will happen on R-universe, but without actually deploying to https://r-universe.dev.

The stability of spiral galaxies was a foundational motivation to invoke dark matter: a thin disk of self-gravitating stars is unstable unless embedded in a dark matter halo. Modified dynamics can also stabilize galactic disks.