An LLM Chat Plants the Seed To come up with small projects to do in preparation for job interviews (contact me if you need a cheminformatics scientific software developer!), I interactively asked ChatGPT for suggestions. It suggested The Murcko Scaffolds Blog Post I wrote code to find the Murcko scaffold for a set of molecules, then determine the count of unique scaffolds. That answered the ChapGPT challenge.
I've just taken Kyutai's speech-to-text model for a spin on my Mac laptop, and it's stunningly good. As background, this is what the prolific Laurent Mazare has been hacking on; he has made a ton of contributions to the OCaml community as well, such as ocaml-torch and starred in a very fun Signals to Threads episode on machine learning at Jane Street back in 2020.
I had a lot of fun working with the XKCD color survey data, and I think I’ll keep messing around with it here and there in the future. But I also think I’ll want access to the full data. The tidytuesday data set was necessarily boiled down. The answers data frame contained just one hex code associated with one color label, not every color label given to every hex code in the survey.
Reposted from the original at: https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/tidy-rag-in-r-with-ragnar Retrieval augmented generation in R using the ragnar package. Demonstration: scraping text from relevant links on a website and using RAG to ask about a university's grant funding.
How can scholarly publications be made more visible, discoverable, and interconnected? This question is the focus of a student practical project conducted as part of the seminar within the module Information Production and Management (BP3) in the summer semester 2025.
The call for applications for round 2 of the OBF Event Fellowship for 2025 is now open. The deadline for this round is 1 August 2025. You can submit your application through this Google Form. We have provided a Word template to help you draft the application locally before filling out the form – make a copy of this template.
How might we illustrate, explore, and begin to define the ‘state of the nation’ film and television text? This edited collection, in collaboration with Intellect, invites consideration of these questions.
After Invincible ’s fifteen-year run as a comics series (Image Comics/Skybound, 2003-18), creator Robert Kirkman and TV writer Simon Racioppa pitched an adaptation to Amazon Prime Video. Their ongoing animated superhero drama series, which has run for three seasons so far (2021, 2023-25), is an undeniable success. Rotten Tomatoes rates the seasons at or near 100% approval.
The European audiovisual landscape is complex, with a huge variety of content providers and a traditionally strong public service.
Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing.
Das Open Research Office Berlin (angesiedelt an der Universitätsbibliothek der FU Berlin) und die Universitätsbibliothek der TU Berlin laden herzlich ein zum zweiten Workshop des Projekts „Recht offen. Juristische Kompetenzen in und für die Offene Wissenschaft stärken“! Der Workshop dient der Vorbereitung des Legal Helpdesk für Berlins Wissenschafts- und Kulturerbe-Einrichtungen.