I’ve always believed that the process of discovery is as fascinating as the outcomes it yields. It’s not just about the eureka moments but the intricate web of questions, failures, and persistence that lead us there. I have been a fan of the concept of the Nobel Turing Challenge for a while, an idea I first read about in a paper by Hiroaki Kitano.
I have a new paper out: Ramnani, A.S., Landeros, J.T., Wedel, M., Moellmer, R., Wan, S., Shofler, D.W. 2025. Supernumerary muscles in the leg and foot: A review of their types, frequency, and clinical implications. Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association 114(6): 9pp.
Sebastian De Haro reviews Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity, by James Read
(This is a bit of a departure from my usual chemistry-focused writing.)
While reviewing an R package at work I realized I wasn’t totally sure what advice to give about examples for internal functions in a package. That is, there’s an R package. The package has some exported functions, and some internal functions that are not exported.
PKP, an organizing partner, invites students involved in or interested in student journals to register for the Canada Student Journal Forum happening February 18 – 20, 2025. Registration is now open for the Canada Student Journal Forum 2025, February 18 – 20, 2025.
Summary (summarised by Gemini 2.0-exp) We often think of AI-generated 'hallucinations' as blatant errors, but what happens when a RAG system produces information that's factually true but not explicitly stated in its sources?
La Columna Volante de la Unión (1824) por Emiliano Canto Mayén En el año de 1824, una desavenencia entre el Congreso del Estado de Yucatán y el Ayuntamiento de Campeche motivó que se dispararan los cañones, y la sangre estuvo a punto de correr en la península.
Starting in February, the Rogue Scholar science blog archive is showing the citations (publications that cite the blog post) of science blog posts it archives.
Der Zugang zu Wissen, Information und Kultur ist ein elementares Gut moderner Wissensgesellschaften. Ein neuer Leitfaden von Till Kreutzer unterstützt dabei, die richtige Creative-Commons-Lizenz zu wählen und Inhalte auf diese Weise rechtssicher zu teilen. Der Leitfaden entstand in Kooperation mit Wikimedia Deutschland und der Deutschen UNESCO-Kommission. Der Leitfaden „Open Content.
Im Juni 2024 rief der HeOSP-Verbund zur Teilnahme an einer Umfrage zu Identifiern für Forschungsinformationssysteme auf (https://doi.org/10.57689/dini-blog.20240722). An dieser Umfrage beteiligten sich 28 Personen über den online-Zugang und weitere 10 Personen über persönliche Befragung Insgesamt konnten 16 vollständige und valide Antworten ausgewertet werden.