二月

While Bluesky is taking off like a rocket, a number of us moving towards self sovereign digital infrastructure have been looking at how to use the Bluesky network for other uses than just short-form notes. This is possible because of my colleague Martin Kleppmann's hard work on the "AT Protocol" that underpins the Bluesky network.

The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) quantifies how precipitation deviates from the historical average over multiple time scales (e.g., from 1 to 12 months), allowing for consistent monitoring of droughts and floods across regions and time, making it a valuable tool for early warning and risk assessment systems.

Relawan Jurnal Indonesia and PKP invite journal managers, editors, and system administrators using OJS 2 to upgrade to OJS 3 in this free 2-day workshop.

This is mostly a test, but if it turns out the way I hope it will, likely after a few iterations, it adds support in my blog for CiTO intent annotations to the DOIs I cite. I pondered about the earlier.

Lucans Bellum Civile (oder Pharsalia) ist einer der großen europäischen Referenztexte über die menschliche Destruktivität.

First of all, a happy New Year – we at CSTonline hope you have all had a good winter break. And while we certainly agree with more pessimistic assessments that see 2025 as not looking to be off to a promising start – with everything happening in the world right now – we are of the conviction that we can’t just throw our hands in the air and give in to resignation.

Santa has been very kind to me again this year.

I didn’t expect the announcement to come in the form of a press release. For a moment, I thought it was a hoax. A single line, broadcast simultaneously across every major network, platform, and device, written with almost mocking simplicity: “The Nobel Turing Challenge has been solved. Quantum computing and energy abundance are here.

We’re 6 weeks into the new year and I’m still catching up on papers from my late 2024 backlog.

Back in 2020, when I worked in the supply chain side of Google, I had a fun and impactful side project related to human-level explanations of linear programs. A linear program is a mathematical model that defines some number of variables, linear constraints, and a linear objective function. When some variables are forced to be integer (ILPs), you can solve a lot of useful problems like scheduling, routing, and packing.