I'm back to my all-too-slow reading of Oliver Burkeman's Four Thousand Weeks , and am finding myself a bit haunted this morning by this passage: Haunted, because I at least in theory started a vacation yesterday -- or, rather, two days of vacation followed by my university's relatively new December 24 to January 1 closure. But I'm having a super hard time actually turning work off.

The rise of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and microservices architecture has led to a major shift in software development, enabling the creation of complex, distributed systems composed of independent, loosely coupled services. These architectures offer numerous benefits, including scalability, flexibility, and resilience.

The Baader–Meinhof phenomenon (aka the frequency illusion) is the name for that thing that happens when you buy a new car, and suddenly you notice that same model car everywhere you drive.

Acaba de sair o livro Corpo, Vida e Biopolítica – encontros extensionistas em torno de Michel Foucault, organizado por Alessandra Daflon e Marcio Miotto. Links para download via editora e PhilPapers. Sinopse: O livro...

“Content drift” is an important concept for digital preservation and web archiving. Scholarly readers expect to find immutable (“persisted”) content at the resolution endpoint of a DOI. It is a matter of research integrity that research articles should remain the same at the endpoint, as citations can refer to specific textual formulations.

I’ve been wanting to expand on the previous post ever since I wrote it, which is over a month ago now. It has been a busy end to the semester. Plus, there’s a lot to say – nothing that hasn’t been said before, somewhere, somehow, yet still a lot to cobble together into a coherent story – if that’s even possible. This will be a long post, and there will be more after to narrate the story of our big paper in the ApJ.

I'm finally getting a chance to do some sustained reading, now that my winter break has begun, and so managed at last to dive into Maxwell Neely-Cohen's "Century-Scale Storage". It's good to see foregrounded the idea that preservation is not a matter of technological development (quite the contrary) but of human care buttressed by financial investment.

The International Advisory Board for OpenCitations is one of the four organizational bodies which define OpenCitations’s governance structure (Director; Council; Advisory Board;

We have wrapped up The Comics Grid’s 14th volume, corresponding to 2024.

The last few notes have been framed around the question of ‘what time is it?’ (first note, second note, third note). Another question I have been asking alongside it is, ‘where are we’? Together these prompts speak to the sense of confusion and disorientation that prevails as events race ahead of our capacity to comprehend and assign meaning to them.

This week’s recap highlights the Evo model for sequence modeling and design, biomedical discovery with AI agents, improving bioinformatics software quality through teamwork, a new tool from Brent Pedersen and Aaron Quinlan (vcfexpress) for filtering and formatting VCFs with Lua expressions, a new paper about the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog, and a review paper on designing and engineering synthetic genomes.