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OpenAI introduced the ability to create custom GPTs back in November 2023. I wanted to try to create one of these, and in the spirit of learning in public this post describes how I made it. But first, what does it do?Gene Info Custom GPT Gene Info custom GPT The Gene Info custom GPT takes a list of human gene symbols as input.

Die Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information Im April 2024 wurde die Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information veröffentlicht, in der erklärt wird, was offene Forschungsinformationen sind und darauf aufbauend vier Selbstverpflichtungen der Unterzeichnenden aufgestellt und erläutert werden. Zuerst einmal: Was sind offene Forschungsinformationen?

Introduction Ever wondered how your brain manages to tell your hand to grab that slice of pizza before your roommate does?

The last week before the winter break Serious Request took place. We started an action around WikiPathways and we collected 877 euro for the MetaKids Foundation. In total there were 2612 actions, many of which brought in a lot more. We ended up in position 928.

The Hyperfixed Podcast had a lovely episode recently about tape measures. It started from “why does my tape measure seem to always be off a little bit” and went all the way to the inherent limitations of physical measurement at small scales. In there is an awesome quote by Adam Savage, “I had always had faith in the sanctity and solidity of numbers… and when I got into this… I realized there’s no such thing as a measurement.

This post continues the series summarizing our ApJ paper on high redshift galaxies. To keep it finite, I will focus here on the growth of stellar mass. The earlier post discussed what we expect in theory.

When he first began his excavations at what is today Hisarlik in modern-day Türkiye, Heinrich Schliemann set out to find a single city – the city of Homer’s Iliad, a city many actually felt lay in the realms of fiction rather than any map he could lay his hands on. By the time excavations were over, Schliemann would find not one but nine cities, all built on top of each other. ¹ In that, he found something relatively common – cities

In 2022 I had my first experience with the ISAAC database by the Dutch NWO research funding organization. ISAAC is where you apply for funding and where grants get tracked. As such, research output is recorded in this database.

Happy New Year! I’m still catching up on papers from my late 2024 backlog.

A small map-extract of Venado Tuerto over four time points in 2024, showing the addition of buildings and POI. tl;dr: One can now create >2 frames in the OSM comparison GIF. And the MyBinder version can download OSM history files , no local up/downloads needed.