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Sciences de l'éducationAnglais

Puzzles to solve, but how? It keeps occupying my mind. This has to do with finding the right mix of the public values that are connected to justice, humanity and autonomy, and the “neutral” position of the library (or not?). I have now attended three of the six afternoons that form part of the SURF Course on Digital Sovereignty (for Executives in the field of education & research). And would like to make up my mind as a mid-term activity.

Sciences humainesAnglais
Publié in kfitz

This site is running in 11ty and is built locally, after which the live site (which gets built into the _site folder) is pushed to my Reclaim Hosting account, where it's served up as kfitz.info. As an intermediate step, I have been pushing the code and content that builds the site to a GitHub repository, and then the _site folder to another GitHub repository, kfitz-site, mostly for preservation/backup purposes;

RiscoInferência ContrafactualRedes BayesianasColapso BancárioSupervisão FinanceiraSciences économiquesPortugais
Publié in Risk Taker!

Introdução A falência de uma instituição financeira não é, em geral, o produto de um único erro ou de uma circunstância isolada. Trata-se, quase sempre, do acúmulo dinâmico de vulnerabilidades, decisões arriscadas e pressões contextuais que se inter-relacionam ao longo do tempo. No caso do Banco Master, a liquidação extrajudicial anunciada em 2024 não pode ser explicada por um fator único.

Appalachian HistoryHistoire et archéologieAnglais
Publié in Appalachianhistorian.org
Auteur Alex Hall

This is the Second installment in the Appalachian History series, which delves into the rich, complex past of the Appalachian region—exploring the people, events, and forces that have shaped its identity over generations. On a sweltering July dawn in 1973, the sleepy hamlet of Brookside woke to the rumble of coal trucks and the sight of cardboard signs nailed to wooden

Appalachian HistoryHistoire et archéologieAnglais
Publié in Appalachianhistorian.org
Auteur Alex Hall

This is the first installment in the Appalachian History series, which delves into the rich, complex past of the Appalachian region—exploring the people, events, and forces that have shaped its identity over generations. On a gray Tuesday morning—May 5, 1931—a handful of laid‑off coal miners shouldered rifles along the Poor Fork Road just east of Evarts, Kentucky.

ScholiaJavascriptSPARQLChimieAnglais
Publié in chem-bla-ics

This is the third weekend I am working on Scholia, the first two part of the April 2025 hackathon. It follows the hackathons last year October and November hackathons. There is some urgency for this unpaid work, because Wikidata is splitting the RDF into two SPARQL endpoints (see this The Signpost and this post by Finn). This split has happened, but there is a legacy server for tools that have not been upgraded.

PythonMypyStatic TypingSciences naturellesAnglais
Publié in Biopragmatics
Auteur Charles Tapley Hoyt

This post describes an issue I’ve had with writing correct types when using PEP-696 defaults in typing.TypeVar. I posted the exploration in a companion repository on GitHub. The motivation behind this comes from my work in biomedical data integration and the semantic web.

Repurposed AppalachiaHistoire et archéologieAnglais
Publié in Appalachianhistorian.org
Auteur Alex Hall

This is the First in the Repurpose Appalachia series, highlighting the transformation and revitalization of Appalachian mountain communities. Being perched between 4,100 and 4,223 feet on the rugged spine of Stone Mountain, the modern High Knob Observation Tower greets each sunrise with a gleam of galvanized steel on sandstone.

By-handMcmcAlgorithmsNon-linearEducationalInformatique et sciences de l'informationAnglais
Publié in Bayesically Speaking

Introduction When we exercise, our hearts run faster, which is associated with a decrease in the time between heartbeats. This time between heartbeats is also known by R-R intervals. If you have ever seen an electrocardiogram (EKG) curve before, each time your heart pumps you’ll see a small spike in your EKG;

BlogsSciences des médias et de la communicationAnglais
Publié in CST Online
Auteur Melissa Beattie

NB: This is part of research that will be published in a special issue of Popular Culture Studies Journal focusing upon Star Trek: Enterprise which I am guest-editing (CFP open until 15 June). As a lifelong fan of the Star Trek franchise and a lifelong queer person (even if it took me a few decades to figure it out),[i] it is hard to overstate the joy I felt upon learning that Star Trek: Lower Decks (Paramount+