Hot off the press - a letter from the Exec Chair of @ukri.org explaining his plans and in particular the financial position of STFC. It notes curiosity driven research is protected and will make up around half of UKRI spend over the coming period
www.ukri.org/news/open-le...
New open source: cuthbert 🐛
State space models with all the hotness: (temporally) parallelisable, JAX, Kalman, SMC
The first data science book that has a chapter on monads reproducible-data-science.dev
Learn how to build robust #DataScience pipelines with #RStats, #Python , #Julia and #Nix !
BBSRC and EPSRC join MRC "pausing" funding grant apps www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-u...
Hivemind question: Palmer Penguins is doing great work avoiding overuse of Fisher's iris data. What other "dataset substitutions" do you like? Or just generally other cool, real, open datasets that are good for teaching because established methods work pretty well on them?
It's not something I've looked into deeply, but I do look at the close relationship between discrete and continuous (space and) time in these notes, so you may find them relevant.
I made a (sort of) "Tinder for Git" site to help developers find 'good first issues' in open-source projects. It's early days, but it could be helpful.
gitafix.com/
I used to teach a course quite close to this. Notes here: darrenjw.github.io/work/teachin...
LOL! Imperative programmers are just determined to burn the whole world down! 😜
Some lecture notes on spatial and temporal modelling, illustrated using R - darrenjw.github.io/spatio-tempo... - #rstats #rspatial #quarto
The "netcontrol" #rstats package was recently removed from #cran - I have some instructions for installing the archived version: darrenjw.github.io/work/docs/ne...
Stochastic Gray Scott diffusion via the spatial chemical Langevin equation.
The Pennine Way is quite beginner-friendly, and intersects Hadrian's wall. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennine...
I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
Staff fear UK's Turing AI Institute at risk of collapse www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News has seen the complaint that the Guardian reported on Sunday. Main additional info seems to be that Helen Margetts and Cosmina Dorobantu left positions at the ATI last month.
#govtech #techpolicy #AIpolicy
"ChatGPT will apologize for anything - even advice it definitely didn't give". Is ChatGPT... British?!
Little summer holiday project: learn enough about fluid dynamics to implement a 2d simulation from scratch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYos...
Probably two different issues at play here. Turing hero- worshiping is probably a bit nationalistic, but I think the call for spending on defense related research is more a reflection of the current geopolitical landscape.
Yes. There are a bunch of issues with the Turing, but it's not clear (to me) that this is a better path forward.
Going to the hospital because I broke my wrist smashing the endorse button:
www.understandingai.org/p/i-got-fool...
Yes, Haskell is great, but as well as the critical mass issue that Scala has, it has the additional, more fundamental issue that I don't think lazy languages are ideal for scientific and statistical computing (controversial, I know).
Reflections on Haskell and Rust. ~ Sibi Prabakaran. academy.fpblock.com/blog/rust-ha... #Haskell #FunctionalProgramming #Rust
Actually, I think I misinterpreted your question. I much prefer strongly typed functional languages (especially Scala 3), but although Scala is popular for big data analytics, there isn't really a critical mass of people using it for serious statistical computing and machine learning.
Let's just say that they both have their areas of strength and weakness. But the point I make in the podcast is that they are actually both very similar when considered in the space of all programming languages.
I was interviewed recently for the Durham maths student podcast, @chalkboardultra.bsky.social, episode 39: open.spotify.com/episode/06jx... - good fun.
Did you know? 100 years ago today, the BBC broadcast the #ShippingForecast for the very first time, produced by the Met Office for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
More than just a lifesaver, it’s become a beloved part of Britain’s cultural identity. Learn more: bit.ly/4kg877D 🛳️🌊
📢 UKRI is seeking feedback on a new draft research data policy to update expectations for sharing and managing research data.
More info and feedback details: engagementhub.ukri.org/ukri-openres...
Existing policies remain in effect: www.ukri.org/manage-your-...
#ResearchData #UKRI
I’m teaching a grad course for the first time (a bit terrifying 😅) and I’ve decided to write a short blog post after each lecture, that will highlight a key takeaway from it and reflect on what can be improved.
First one ⬇️
#python #jax #sysbio #scicomp #opensource
