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A trio of papers on forestry and biodiversity this week https://anil.recoil.org/notes/forest-apps-and-benchmarks

A trio of papers on forestry and biodiversity this week https://anil.recoil.org/notes/forest-apps-and-benchmarks

Thinking through the UK National Data Library proposals and why it's so darn hard right now...

Thinking through the UK National Data Library proposals and why it's so darn hard right now https://anil.recoil.org/notes/uk-national-data-lib

Updated preprint available on quantifying the biodiversity cost of global food consumption, along with a neat followup idea from @mort...

Updated preprint available on quantifying the biodiversity cost of global food consumption, along with a neat followup idea from @mort https://anil.recoil.org/news/2024-food-life-2

I'm sketching out what a cooperative carbon emissions mechanism might look like, via a new "Cambridge Green Blue" league....

I'm sketching out what a cooperative carbon emissions mechanism might look like, via a new "Cambridge Green Blue" league. Interested in participating?

This is either a dumb or a great idea, and I can't tell which it is yet without the feedback of you, the good reader :-) https://anil.recoil.org/notes/cambridge-green-blue

I've been rounding up some of the alternative uses of Bluesky via ATProto here, including long form blogging and chat projects. Most...

I've been rounding up some of the alternative uses of Bluesky via ATProto here, including long form blogging and chat projects. Most entertainingly, it made me go back and read @quentinsf 's blog circa 2012 :-) https://anil.recoil.org/notes/atproto-for-fun-and-blogging

Switching to end-to-end encrypted communications is more important than than ever; here are some notes on our switch from Slack to using...

Switching to end-to-end encrypted communications is more important than than ever; here are some notes on our switch from Slack to using @matrix via the very useful Hookshot bot bridge https://anil.recoil.org/notes/enter-the-matrix-hookshot

In my hunger for faster processing pipelines over our satellite data, I've jotted down some notes on a pretty unsung technology...

In my hunger for faster processing pipelines over our satellite data, I've jotted down some notes on a pretty unsung technology that's been around for a while and is very production grade: using OCaml to program FPGAs https://anil.recoil.org/notes/fpgas-hardcaml

Disentangling nature carbon credits from carbon offsets, via a method known as "carbon contributions". I'd particularly value...

Disentangling nature carbon credits from carbon offsets, via a method known as "carbon contributions". I'd particularly value feedback from anyone who has noped out of carbon offsetting, and might be persuaded by the cleaner incentives in this new mechanism instead. https://anil.recoil.org/notes/carbon-credits-vs-offsets

Homebrew has made it really easy to publish quick WIP binary packages of OCaml utilities. Here's how I'm using it for my own little...

Homebrew has made it really easy to publish quick WIP binary packages of OCaml utilities. Here's how I'm using it for my own little tools https://anil.recoil.org/notes/custom-homebrew-taps

Ok, using player traces from Dead By Daylight (a survival multiplayer game) to then model predator/prey interactions for ecologists; this...

Ok, using player traces from Dead By Daylight (a survival multiplayer game) to then model predator/prey interactions for ecologists; this preprint made for fun reading! https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/8126/

Do I know anyone working at Meta who's involved in Llama? If so a DM would be appreciated regarding being an internal sponsor to support...

Do I know anyone working at Meta who's involved in Llama? If so a DM would be appreciated regarding being an internal sponsor to support our work on applying it to conservation https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5409185/v1

Went to the BAFTA for the Google/Royal Society "AI for Science" forum, which had (count them) 4 Nobel laureates and a cast...

Went to the BAFTA for the Google/Royal Society "AI for Science" forum, which had (count them) 4 Nobel laureates and a cast including Thomas Friedman and Siddhartha Mukherjee. Here's livenotes; so much happened it'll take me days to process! https://anil.recoil.org/notes/ai-for-science-2024/

Nice collection of companies hiring for functional programming gigs, for anyone jobhunting. https://github.com/ad-si/awesome-fp-jobs

Nice collection of companies hiring for functional programming gigs, for anyone jobhunting. https://github.com/ad-si/awesome-fp-jobs

https://fed.brid.gy is a lovely little bridging service to go between Bluesky and Mastodon

https://fed.brid.gy is a lovely little bridging service to go between Bluesky and Mastodon

Also, Nature's use of Research Square for their "In Review" initiative is quite cool; you can see the progress of reviewer...

Also, Nature's use of Research Square for their "In Review" initiative is quite cool; you can see the progress of reviewer assignment and acceptance directly in the preprint site. No more wondering if the paper's blocked on the editor not finding anyone for months! https://www.researchsquare.com

New preprint from our work on using LLMs to accelerate conservation evidence synthesis across millions of papers. We crosscheck 3 retrieval...

New preprint from our work on using LLMs to accelerate conservation evidence synthesis across millions of papers. We crosscheck 3 retrieval strategies against 10 LLMs and benchmark against human experts and find quite a bit of variance https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5409185/v1

Being nerdsniped into selfhosting my own Bluesky PDS now; it looks increasingly like using ATproto is easier than ActivityPub to sync on (so...

Being nerdsniped into selfhosting my own Bluesky PDS now; it looks increasingly like using ATproto is easier than ActivityPub to sync on (so going via Bluesky to the fediverse might be easiest) https://chrismcleod.dev/blog/next-steps-with-bluesky-hosting-your-own-data-and-more-on-the-api/

OpenVibe, not OpenVite, to be accurate! https://openvibe.social

OpenVibe, not OpenVite, to be accurate! https://openvibe.social

Just setup OpenVite to crosspost to Bluesky/Threads/Mastodon (thanks @stmarr.bsky.social) and also playing with the excellent looking...

Just setup OpenVite to crosspost to Bluesky/Threads/Mastodon (thanks @stmarr.bsky.social) and also playing with the excellent looking brid.gy to get WebMentions hooked up to my website

Doing lots of batch tasks using a cluster of computers? You're not a hyperscalar with 10000000 spare machines and free head massages at...

Doing lots of batch tasks using a cluster of computers? You're not a hyperscalar with 10000000 spare machines and free head massages at lunchtime? Then I dare say you need this new Murmuration scheduler! To appear at SOCC 2024. https://anil.recoil.org/papers/2024-socc-murmuration/#v1