About a year ago I started migrating my blogger.com blog to a git-version-controlled, Markdown-based blogging platform. I have to say, it has been a happy year. It actually is awesome to port old blog posts (follow that here) and to see what I have been working on some 17, 18 years ago.

One of the best features of Strava is the battle to be King (or Queen) of the Mountain. Originally, in cycling, segments were typically climbs or difficult sections of road, and the simple idea, is who can complete the segment in the quickest time. Hence they would be KOM/QOM, King or Queen of the Mountain. Segments quickly expanded to pretty much any section of a course and to include running segments, to separate them from cycling.

There’s a movement at the moment on social media where angry academic authors are gathering with the intent to boycott Routledge, who are apparently distributing academic works for training in AI. I say: read your publishing contracts. I believe that Routledge’s default agreement certainly allows this.

Chercher par essai-erreur un fonctionnement efficace – Fermer les réseaux sociaux/courriel/framateam/mode avion durant sessions de rédaction/lecture – Prise de note manuelle sur cahier, sur article/livre, dans zotero,

Bridging Human Intent with AI Understanding

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog.Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! 🔗rOpenSci HQ 🔗Announcing New Software Peer Review Editors: Beatriz Milz and Margaret Siple We are excited to welcome Beatriz Milz and Margaret Siple to our team of Associate Editors for rOpenSci Software Peer Review.

I’ve been working a lot with the Discrete Cosine Transform in python, specifically as it’s implemented in scipy. But, I really prefer doing my data munging and stats in R. ¹ What to do! I knew the answer rested in using the reticulate package, which lets you communicate back and forth between python and R, but I hadn’t appreciated how cool reticulate was, which is why I’m making this blog post.

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MicroCT imaging is an exceptional tool for 3D visualisation. A new Data Note published in GigaScience reports on a unique, high-quality series of MicroCT images that covers the lifespan of an amphibian from tadpole to froglet to mature adult frog.

A citation manipulation scheme so easy, even a cat can do it.

Getting started to join the Hugging Face community