I was a guest on the Cup o’ Go podcast recently, talking with Shay Nehmad and Jonathan Hall about writing and teaching Go. Here’s a transcript of our chat.

I am very happy to be giving a keynote on October 22nd at the LundOnline conference, which, despite its name, will take place in person in Sweden. The conference’s theme is Turning policy into practice – opportunities and consequences for stakeholders in scholarly communication , and accordingly, my presentation will focus on the role of policies in Open Access.

Reposted from https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/duckdb-vs-dplyr-vs-base-r. TL;DR : For a very simple analysis (means by group on 100M rows), duckdb was 125x faster than base R, and 28x faster than readr+dplyr, without having to read data from disk into memory. The duckplyr package wraps DuckDB's analytical query processing techniques in a dplyr-compatible API.

Travis McKenna reviews Humean Laws for Human Agents, edited by Michael Townsen Hicks, Siegfried Jaag and Christian Loew

After some time away from cloud computing (due to my new focus on conservation research), I served on the ACM SOCC 2024 program committee. It was quite interesting seeing the massive shift away from "traditional" cloud research (such as consensus protocols) towards many submissions aimed at accelerating machine learning workloads.

This document analyzes a dataset of species from the 15 most visited National Parks in the USA provided by #TidyTuesday.

Alcances y límites de la actividad mercantil femenina en la sociedad patriarcal porteña (fines del siglo XVIII y comienzos del XIX) por Marcela Aguirrezabala Durante los años ’60 del siglo pasado, los movimientos feministas hicieron del fin del patriarcado una bandera de lucha, en tanto que, bajo la pretendida superioridad masculina terminaban justificando la opresión femenina en todo tiempo y lugar.

Tiny organisms reveal oceanic secrets through plankton tow methods, but which technique will unlock the hidden world beneath the waves?

Wondrous microscopic life forms populate our oceans, from diatoms to krill, but which species dominate the marine plankton community?

Uncover the hidden world of aquatic drifters with zooplankton identification keys, but beware the challenges that await curious researchers.

From nets to high-tech imaging, zooplankton sampling techniques have evolved dramatically, but which method reigns supreme for marine research?