Sebastian De Haro reviews Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity, by James Read

(This is a bit of a departure from my usual chemistry-focused writing.)

While reviewing an R package at work I realized I wasn’t totally sure what advice to give about examples for internal functions in a package. That is, there’s an R package. The package has some exported functions, and some internal functions that are not exported.

Summary (summarised by Gemini 2.0-exp) We often think of AI-generated 'hallucinations' as blatant errors, but what happens when a RAG system produces information that's factually true but not explicitly stated in its sources?

La Columna Volante de la Unión (1824) por Emiliano Canto Mayén En el año de 1824, una desavenencia entre el Congreso del Estado de Yucatán y el Ayuntamiento de Campeche motivó que se dispararan los cañones, y la sangre estuvo a punto de correr en la península.

Starting in February, the Rogue Scholar science blog archive is showing the citations (publications that cite the blog post) of science blog posts it archives.

Der Zugang zu Wissen, Information und Kultur ist ein elementares Gut moderner Wissensgesellschaften. Ein neuer Leitfaden von Till Kreutzer unterstützt dabei, die richtige Creative-Commons-Lizenz zu wählen und Inhalte auf diese Weise rechtssicher zu teilen. Der Leitfaden entstand in Kooperation mit Wikimedia Deutschland und der Deutschen UNESCO-Kommission. Der Leitfaden „Open Content.

Im Juni 2024 rief der HeOSP-Verbund zur Teilnahme an einer Umfrage zu Identifiern für Forschungsinformationssysteme auf (https://doi.org/10.57689/dini-blog.20240722). An dieser Umfrage beteiligten sich 28 Personen über den online-Zugang und weitere 10 Personen über persönliche Befragung Insgesamt konnten 16 vollständige und valide Antworten ausgewertet werden.

Most of our work at Epiverse TRACE involves either developing an R package from scratch or adopting and maintaining an existing R package. In the former case, decision-making during development is guided by internal policies documented in the Epiverse-TRACE blueprints. However, a less common scenario for us has been taking on the maintenance of an existing package — a situation we recently encountered with the bpmodels R package.

Youko Marian Horiuchi Beltrán, DR © Ilustración digital Ciudad de México, octubre 2021 Sitio de la autora Redes sociales de la artista Instagram Esta es una reproducción digital, con fines de divulgación, de una obra original proporcionada por su autor o propietario. Todos los derechos están reservados por la artista.

Any list of 100 best anything is going to be riddled with biases, flaws and omissions, but here’s a list of albums you might enjoy listening to from 100best.music.apple.com. I’ve posted them here because my family are listening to three albums a week throughout 2025, and discussing them as we go. The albums are listed in reverse order of “greatness“ below, as we’re starting from the top.