I tried to learn assembly, but didn’t find the energy. But I had a inspired times anyways.

On Friday the 13th of December 2024 our PhD student Linda Berube had her viva voce examination and was awarded a PhD with minor corrections in Human-Computer Interaction Design!

I had good intentions to give NaNoWriMo a try this year but didn’t get very far. Instead I gave OpenAI’s Creative Writing Coach GPT a try for a (very) short story I had in mind, inspired by my frustration trying to access closed-access research articles for a review article I’m preparing.

UPDATE: Thanks to additional support from GBIF the deadline has been extended to 6th June 2025. TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases hosted at the World Health Organization (WHO), GBIF and GigaScience Press have announced a third call for authors to submit Data Release papers on vectors of human disease for inclusion in a thematic series published in GigaByte Journal.

Introduction The Immunological Challenge Let’s face it, the immune system is a bit of a drama queen (or king, depending on the situation). It’s constantly patrolling our bodies, acting as a vigilant security force , looking for trouble (like invading pathogens, damaged cells, or rogue cancer cells). When it finds something suspicious, it initiates a complex and tightly regulated

This is a Draft Introduction The Immunological Challenge Let’s face it, the immune system is a bit of a drama queen (or king, depending on the situation). It’s constantly patrolling our bodies, acting as a vigilant security force , looking for trouble (like invading pathogens, damaged cells, or rogue cancer cells). When it finds something suspicious, it initiates a

Universities worldwide currently face a pivotal choice: should they contribute to building a global infrastructure for exchange, science, and discourse, free from the control of oligarchs, to promote democracy, human rights, and digital participation? Or should they continue advertising on private networks, hoping for clicks and marginally increased student enrollment?

Recent analyses of Meta and Alibaba’s production microservices architectures identified patterns of heavy-tail and power law distributions. These patterns manifest in service scale, and request patterns, providing a glimpse into the inherent characteristics of large-scale distributed systems. For details review of Meta and Alibaba’s microservices ecosystem please see here and here.

Newly out in VAMP: Oh man, there is soooo much to say about this paper, which is a free download here. The short, short version is that OMNH 1123, the holotype specimen of the giant allosaurid Saurophaganax maximus , does not definitely belong to a theropod and may actually belong to a sauropod, and the same goes for some of the referred material, namely the atlas and chevrons.

Alibaba has built a complex system of microservices to support its large user base and manage its diverse business operations. This article explores key learning from Alibaba’s microservices architecture, presenting critical observations from its design, scalability, performance optimisation, and resource allocation model.