Postagens de Rogue Scholar

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Filosofia, ética e estudos religiososInglês
Publicados in Imperfect notes on an imperfect world

I’m planning another note in the impromptu series on Japan, this one is more academic, presenting a paper I’ve written on Gramsci’s over-used line about ‘interregnum’. From kinetic conflicts, geopolitical rivalry, economic imbalances, societal polarisation, energy transitions, environmental destruction, technological transformations and much more, evidence of an order breaking is easy to find.

CommunityCrossrefMembershipCiências da Computação e da InformaçãoInglês
Publicados in Crossref Blog
Autores Amanda Bartel, Kornelia Korzec, Ginny Hendricks

The Crossref Board recently approved three recommendations for changes to our fees: introduction of a new lowest membership fee tier, removal of volume discounts for record registration, and normalisation of registration fees for peer reviews. The changes will be applied from January 2026.

BiologiaInglês
Publicados in Recology
Autor Scott Chamberlain

I’m excited to announce a new release of vcr: v2. vcr helps you record and replay HTTP interactions in your tests (and more now, see below). This release brings improvements in usability and security, it streamlines the API, and adds many new features.

ApatosaurusDiplodocidsFemurJuvenileRantsCiências da Terra e do AmbienteInglês
Publicados in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

In the past decade or two, I’ve seen a LOT of popular science books of this form: where the noun in question might be salt or wood or math or clouds or daydreaming or whatever. It’s not enough to write an engaging book on Topic X without somehow, by tortuously overreaching, making it the underpinning of life itself. If we ever do an SV-POW!

DeutschForschungDemokratieGeschlechtGrenzregimeCiências SociaisAlemão
Publicados in Netzwerk Fluchtforschung
Autor Ko-AutorInnen

Zum „Tag der Seenotretter“ (sic!) rückt der Beitrag das grundlegende Recht auf Rettung in den Fokus. Er zeigt, wie dieses Recht an den europäischen Außengrenzen selektiv umgesetzt wird.

DocumentationTricks Of The TradeUnderworld CodeCiências da Terra e do AmbienteInglês
Publicados in Underworld Geodynamics Community
Autores Juan Carlos Graciosa, Louis Moresi

Parallel computation puts many CPUs to work on solving a problem much more quickly than one CPU alone. But this only works if the tasks are carefully scheduled and the additional CPUs are not waiting around for something to do. How do we choose the right number of processors for a given problem ?

Large Language ModelAi SearchOutras ciências sociaisInglês
Publicados in Aaron Tay's Musings about librarianship
Autor Aaron Tay

One of the most interesting things about teaching is that the best questions come after I’ve finished my talk. Yesterday, during Day 2 of my three-hour crash course on AI search at FSCI 2025, a participant looked at our side-by-side demo of Scopus (not Scopus AI), SciSpace (in standard, non-deep search mode), and AI2 PaperFinder and asked (paraphrased): Thanks for reading Aaron Tay's Musings about Librarianship!

AILLMsAgentic AICiências NaturaisInglês
Publicados in Chris von Csefalvay
Autor Chris von Csefalvay

The Greeks loved oracles. The average temple of Apollo, who among others was in charge of soothsaying and predictery, was adorned to the gills with gifts from grateful worshippers whose inscrutable questions got equally inscrutable answers from Apollo’s oracles. None of these were more famous than the Pythia, the young ladies high as a kite on volcanic fumes at Apollo’s temple in Delphi.

MatemáticaInglês
Publicados in Math ∩ Programming
Autor Jeremy Kun

On Monday, July 14th 2025, I hosted a mini-workshop on homomorphic encryption at Google’s Portland, Oregon office. Though Portland is a small city, it’s becoming a hub for homomorphic encryption. Intel and Google both have a presence here, as well as the hardware startup Niobium, and a few individuals from other companies who happen to be based here.

Research-integrityAcademiaEntrepreneurshipResearchPeer-reviewCiências da Computação e da InformaçãoInglês
Publicados in Stories by Adam Day on Medium
Autor Adam Day

Clear Skies created the first index of research integrity: Oversight. We offer metrics describing research standards covering the entire research ecosystem. If you want to know more about metrics for your portfolio, get in touch. I sometimes get asked why I picked the name ‘Clear Skies’. I used to fly gliders. Gliders don’t have engines, so technically, they don’t actually “fly”, they just kind of fall out of the sky.

Science FictionOutras ciências técnicasInglês
Publicados in The Connected Ideas Project
Autor Alexander Titus

When I set out to write On the Wings of a Pig , I didn’t expect to end up writing it with anyone else. The core idea was mine, born from years spent straddling the line between bioengineering and policy, steeped in existential frustration at how little attention we give to the collapse of the living world around us, and how much a lot of my conversations felt like science fiction. I had the science. I had the stakes. I had the vision.