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Publié in Public Knowledge Project
Auteur Famira Racy

PKP invites those interested in the developments that underpin its scholarly publishing software to join in on December 15th, 2025, for a Development News Update Webinar. This event is open to all our community members.

PerformanceIndex NumbersRSciences économiquesAnglais
Publié in Steve Martin

Multilateral price indexes are often used to measure the evolution of prices over time when there are large volumes of transaction data, such as retail scanner data or housing data. The main challenge with computing multilateral indexes with large amounts of data is that these indexes often depend on a matrix where the dimensions are at least as large as the number of products.

BioPortalOntoPortalSSSOMSciences naturellesAnglais
Publié in Biopragmatics
Auteur Charles Tapley Hoyt

Earlier this week, a question was asked on OBO Foundry Slack on where to find semantic mappings to terms in the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT). While some are available in the SeMRA Disease Mappings Database, there are many more available within BioPortal, which has access to the entire SNOMED-CT source data and has produced semantic mapping predictions using LOOM.

AiPolicySpatialNetworkingBiodiversityInformatique et sciences de l'informationAnglais
Publié in Anil Madhavapeddy's feed

I've been building some big collective knowledge systems recently, both for scholarly literature or to power large-scale observational foundation models. While the modalities of knowledge in these systems are very different, they share a common set of design principles I've noticed while building individual pieces. A good computer architecture is one that can be re-used, and I've been mulling over what this exactly is for some time.

LLMsAITech PredictionsEcologySciences naturellesAnglais
Publié in Chris von Csefalvay
Auteur Chris von Csefalvay

Hype, slop, craft: the evolutionary ecology of AI There’s a patch of ground near Chernobyl that botanists call Рудий ліс, the Red Forest. In the immediate aftermath of the 1986 disaster, 1 the radiation killed mostly everything, turning the pine trees a rust-red colour before they died. That’s poetic, but hardly unexpected – not even Polesian pines can withstand a firehose of low enriched uranium decay products.

XkcdTeachingSciences socialesAnglais
Publié in Antoine Vernet's blog

There are two things I try to keep in mind when preparing or delivering teaching. Helpfully, they are both described in xkcd comics. Ten Thousand Average Familiarity The first comic (Ten Thousand) is a reminder that, as teachers, we are privileged to teach a topic we know well to people who are new to it. To me, this suggests two things for us to do: First, learn to enjoy that feeling of taking someone through a process of discovery.

Abandoned AppalachiaKnott County KYHistoire et archéologieAnglais
Publié in Appalachianhistorian.org
Auteur Alex Hall

Abandoned Appalachia A stone schoolhouse above a future lake If you drive up Yellow Creek toward Building Mountain today, you can still spot it. Before the road tips over the ridge, a stone building sits on the flat ground across from where Roosevelt Honeycutt once kept a store.