I test if the US housing crisis could be solved by taking money from the rich and handing it too the poor. Spoilers ... it would work.

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From October 21 to 27 is International Open Access Week 2024, and this blog post summarizes my contribution for 2024. Open Access Week 2024 will continue the call to put “Community over Commercialization” and prioritize approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public and the academic community.

I have been working as a Director General at the KB for almost two months now. Just too early for an overall reflection, but also already that long that I can say that it feels very good to walk around the building, talk to the colleagues in the KB, and slowly (that is far from finished!) get to know the networks and organizations. The KB is the national library of the Netherlands and is there for everyone.

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog.Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci!

Revolutionising On-Device AI: High-Performance, Low-Resource Language Models for Edge Computing

La  Web es dinámica, cambia constantemente acorde con las tendencias y las necesidades, en los pocos años que la he utilizado para hacer investigación digital, he visto constantemente la aparición de nuevas tecnologías y la desaparición de otras, las modas van y vienen, pero las utilidades clásicas perduran.

Matt Boyd, Nick Wilson TLDR/Summary Two Tales of the Apocalypse In the book The Knowledge Lewis Dartnell speculates on how someone might rebuild civilisation from scratch after an apocalypse. The essential minerals he mentions, in rough order of priority, include those needed for agriculture (potassium, nitrogen, and phosphorus for fertiliser), food preservation (salt), thermal energy … Continue reading "The Critical Minerals That Matter: Aotearoa/NZ’s Basic Needs in a Global Catastrophe"

Dr. Sandra Gisela Martín from the re3data Editorial Board delivered a featured lecture, “re3data: Global Registry of Research Data Repositories”, at the Second Meeting of Colombian Institutional Repository Managers and Open Science (II Encuentro de Gestores de Repositorios Institucionales de Colombia y Ciencia Abierta, ERICCA 2024), which was held in Cartagena, Colombia, September 25-27. Convened by the Colombian Ministry of Science, Technology

Working Examples

Collaborative research projects often involve teams of researchers from different institutes, and each research stage—from the planning, the piloting, the data collection, analysis, writing, and revision—produces outputs that embody rich details of the research work that are essential for reproducibility and reuse.

This is reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/python-for-r-users. ---A Google search for “R vs Python” returns thousands of hits across sites like Reddit, IBM, Datacamp, Coursera, Kaggle, and many others.