I put these Book Week posts into sequence with a level of forethought about one notch above pure randomness, but a felicity emerged. It’s useful for me to cover The Last Days of the Dinosaurs after the previous three books, each for a particular reason.
Our neighbours France and the UK announced a Franco-British AI collaboration a few months ago dubbed the Entente CordIAle. Last week we held a couple of days of workshops with our Oxford and French buddies deep diving into details of what a partnership might actually involve; a particular pleasure with France given my group's long history of working with Inria on OCaml and other open source projects.
Slides: https://jakubnowosad.com/rome2025 Video recording: https://youtu.be/uZe7thh80MI Reproducible code: https://jakubnowosad.com/rome2025/index.R Geospatial predictive mapping is a common task across many domains, aiming to produce continuous surfaces from point observations and spatial predictors.
I spent the morning bashing my head against a brick wall, trying to sort out a problem with my Lando install. This worked on Friday, but by Monday was misbehaving. I hadn’t touched the codebase, but every time I hit the primary URL, I got: “404 page not found”.
Because I was busy with the Berlin FediDay25 and Open Networks at the EU Digital Summit, I forgot to blog, […]
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AI search tools like Elicit, Consensus, and Scite.ai have spent years racing to build centralised indexes of academic content— first by indexing the open content that is available and then trying to get publisher partnerships.
Otherlands is unlike any other book I’ve encountered.
Appalachian Figures A coalfield lawyer in a national spotlight In the spring of 1938, reporters crowded into the federal courtroom at London, Kentucky.
Appalachian Figures On the House floor in Frankfort, Charles “Charlie” Siler never stopped looking like what he said he was back home: a farmer from the hills who happened to hold a seat in the state legislature. White haired, soft spoken, and rarely flashy, he spent more than two decades representing the 82nd District of Whitley and Laurel counties, after an earlier career as a decorated Army lieutenant colonel.
In the summer of 1913, a photographer clambered through the streets of Matamoros, Mexico, stepping past shattered walls and fresh graves with a camera and a pocket full of glass plates. The man who made some of the best known images of the Mexican Revolution on the Texas border was not a native of the Rio Grande Valley.