I jumped ship from Twitter following the Musk takeover in 2022. Seeking an alternative, I joined Mastodon and didn’t look back. Since then, I’ve enjoyed many wonderful interactions and conversations; and I feel a bit sad at what Twitter turned into.

As a quantitative political scientist who specializes in survey research, I have programmed many conjoint experiments in Qualtrics! Sometimes, a colleague will reach out for help with this programming, and I’ll share some some JavaScript code to help them with their research. But… individual emails are not the most efficient way to share this method;

Our community and tools rely on high-quality DOI metadata for building connections and obtaining efficiencies. However, the current model - where improvements to this metadata are limited to its creators or done within service-level silos - perpetuates a system of large-scale gaps, inefficiency, and disconnection. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Redefining AI: The Compact Power of TinyLlama in Everyday Applications

How to cite: Page, R. (2024). Why do museum and gallery displays ignore the web? https://doi.org/10.59350/a83tn-c6t14 This post is inspired by the Pharaoh exhibition at the NGV in Melbourne, Australia. This is a beautifully displayed exhibition of objects from the British Museum, London. It has all the trappings of a modern exhibition, beautiful lighting, a custom sound track, and lots of social media coverage.

The world is full of wonderful animals, both extant and extinct, and they all have names. As a result, it’s fairly common for newly named animals to be given names already in use — as for example with the giant Miocene sperm whale “ Leviathan “ (now Livyatan ). BUt there are ways to avoid walking into this problem, and in a helpful post on the Dinosaur Mailing Group, Ben Creisler recently posted a summary.

Los seises de la catedral de Puebla en el virreinato por Gustavo Medellín Luna El canto ha sido uno de los elementos más destacados en los ritos católicos. Pero, poco se sabe del trabajo de los niños cantores quienes hacían la labor de voz femenina, es decir, la de tiple; conocida ahora como soprano.

I want to take another step back in perspective from the last post to say a few words about what the radial acceleration relation (RAR) means and what it doesn’t mean. Here it is again: This information was not available when the dark matter paradigm was developed. We observed excess motion, like flat rotation curves, … Continue reading Why’d it have to be MOND?

Last time we talked about the evident hijacking of the PalArch Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. No-one seemed to know what had happened or how. I managed to track down Andre J. Veldmeijer, who was involved with the PalArch journals a while back. Based on my Facebook Messenger discussions with him, here’s what we now know: Andre is not involved any more with these journals.

Anfang Juni berichtete Nature über das Anliegen des japanischen Wissenschaftsministeriums, 10 Milliarden Yen in den Ausbau von institutionellen Open-Access-Repositorien zu investieren (Singh Chawla, 2024). Diese Initiative bietet einen guten Anlass, um auf dem 112. BiblioCon über die Zukunft von institutionellen Open-Access-Repositorien zu sprechen.

Introduction In today’s technological landscape, Large Language Models (LLMs) have become indispensable tools, capable of exhibiting human-level performance across various tasks, from text generation to code writing and language translation. However, deploying and running these models typically require substantial resources and expertise, especially in local environments. This is where Ollama comes into play.What is Ollama?