This might be a “everyone else already knew about this” thing, but I’ve finally gotten to a place of understanding about setting default colors scales for ggplot2, so I thought I’d share.
The Research and Teaching Group Information Management is conducting a survey on the topic of recording publication costs at research performing institutions in Germany.
por César Erik Castellanos Martínez Durante la llamada Guerra Fría (1945-1991) el mundo se polarizó en dos grandes campos: el bloque comunista, liderado por la Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas (URSS), y el bloque capitalista, liderado por los Estados Unidos de América (EUA). La confrontación global entre ambos sistemas impregnó el conjunto de la vida social, política y cultural de las sociedades de aquella época.
(Blog post) “MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier” by Cory Doctorow. This blog post is about the collective action problem of moving academic publishing away from the big corporate publishers that extract millions of dollars/year from scholarly research while contributing very little in return. It reports on an encouraging report by SPARC about MIT’s success in canceling their Elsevier subscriptions.
Alle? Na gut, nicht alle. Aber doch 14 tapfere Open-Access-Expert*innen fanden sich am frühen Morgen des letzten Tages der Open-Access-Tage 2024 ein, um gemeinsam den Antrag eines nordhessischen Repositoriums auf DINI-Zertifizierung kritisch zu begutachten. Wie kam es dazu?
Audio Overviews in Google NotebookLM is making waves online. When I first tried it, it was a "wow" moment for me. The last time I felt that way was trying Perplexity.ai in late 2022 and realizing that search engines could now return answers (with citations) instead of just potentially relevant links and I realized this would be a huge paradigm shift.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Running Llama 3.2 and Other Large Models on Android Using Ollama
Let’s try Qwen2.5 together!
Exploring the New Frontiers of Llama 3.2
A stretch too far? Discussing climate change alongside The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu 2017-) is unorthodox but offers an alternative and marginalised perspective. Typically, when thinking of climate change, David Attenborough, Britain’s national treasure, comes to mind.
As a currently-peripatetic academic, I often live and travel in areas that are meteorologically interesting. Between growing up somewhere that can give residents all four seasons in a single day (not to mention metres of snow at a time)[1] and then living in a series of deserts, tropical savannahs, highlands and seasides, listening to or watching local weather forecasts has long been an integral part of my daily life.