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.
With the vast amount of data we have these days for our planetary computing processing, it's naturally tempting to use more hardware offload. The obvious choice, GPGPUs, are not a great fit for the problem due to the difficulty of unlocking high data parallelism for geospatial data. So it's back to an old technology I worked on twelve years ago in the form of FPGAs!
We've been happy users of Matrix for our group communications in the EEG. Today we've been bringing in more members of the wider group to using it instead of Slack. As part of that, I've set up a cool bot called Hookshot which allows Matrix to be connected to external services such as GitHub and Atom/RSS feeds. This is a test post to demonstrate to the members of the EEG how Matrix and Atom work!
Este año estoy preparando los contenidos para el curso de tecnología educativa versión 2025. La tecnología informática en la educación es un tema actual y en evolución se refiere al uso de herramientas, recursos y técnicas tecnológicas digitales disponibles a través de la Web por medio de dispositivos electrónicos como la computadora persona para mejorar el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje.
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This text is derived from a lecture I gave to first-year undergraduates about a decade ago. It was languishing on my computer and I thought it better to put it out there for general educational benefit, in case it helps anyone starting out with her poetry.
Dark times at the moment. Authoritarianism is on the rise everywhere and censorship regimes become ever more common. None of the material on my blog is particularly sensitive. Some two decades out-of-date information security stuff, posts about English literature, some posts about health, and posts about scholarly communication. It’s not really the kind of stuff that will get me in trouble.
Wissenschaftliche Texte mit einer Creative-Commons-Lizenz zu versehen, heißt nicht, das Urheberrecht am Werk aufzugeben. Das ist wichtig, denn das Urheberrecht schützt vor Entstellung. Lea Singson erläutert, was gegen den missbräuchlichen Einsatz von wissenschaftlichen Werken hilft. Was tun, wenn Forschung für die Verbreitung von Verschwörungstheorien missbraucht wird?
Elsewhere
I started as the KB’s new Director General last September and, since then, I’ve met many colleagues and reported on our exchanges in this column. These visits were invaluable to me and I hope you also enjoyed the glimpses behind the scenes at the KB. How hard everyone works to meet our missions! I cannot help but think about all the customers we delight when we find an item that they had long been searching for.