Jeffrey Spies

This sounds like fun!

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@JohnHolbein1 We need a podcast to explain this

Whoa. This looks like an amazing project. Scholars at UMichigan have recently collected a massive dataset of over 1.1M podcast transcripts that is largely comprehensive of all English language podcasts. Using this data, they conduct an investigation into the content, structure, and responsiveness of the podcast ecosystem. Check it out!

Aaron Swartz would/should be 38 years old today.

Luckily journal author pay has remained the same. 🙃

Very sad news: Our friend and colleague Fritz Leisch passed away this week. Among his many #rstats contributions: - Original R Core Team member - Co-founder of CRAN - Sweave author for reproducible documents R Core Team announcement: stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-an…

@neuralreckoning @PracheeAC You forgot the 10 year sustainability plan for the committee!

@PracheeAC I think we need to convene a committee to decide if you're right or not Prachee. We'll get back to you next year when all the relevant stake holders have had ample time to contribute to deciding the terms of reference for the committee.

I respectfully disagree with the article. I cannot think of a worse thing for the open science movement to become a consensus seeking juggernaut. It’s already a very insular space with the usual suspects and same ideas floating around for decades — it can be very difficult to get movement on the smallest things because, IMO, there is no surer guarantee to incrementalism or stasis than doing only things for which all people agree. And now for the optimism. Some of the best things to happen in open science are when Someone. Somewhere. Does. Something. And thankfully, there are so very many somethings precisely because we don’t need consensus to try something new. The people in this movement are a gorgeous panoply. Individual fires of a thousand colors. Abundant motivation to something good for the future of science. Many of their experiments have shaped our thinking and iteration on what might come next. By explicitly trying to unearth new ideas and people, we can see that that the movement is so much bigger than it seems. Many are acting rather than waiting for consensus and reports and convenings. That’s not to say that coordination, interoperability, standards etc. aren’t important or required for big change as well so kudos to all of these organizations and infrastructure we depend on that also try to move mountains. But progress thankfully does not hinge on one solution to rule them all or distribution of efforts in coordinated ways. TL;DR, in the open science movement, the opportunity to execute on new, unproven, non-consensus ideas and subsequent movement of the Overton window are a massive feature, not a bug. And IMO, further consolidation isn’t worth the downsides.

@MushtaqBilalPhD @raulpacheco @scite Can you upload your own collection of articles to scite?

@scite has this great AI-powered chat bot that answers your questions with citations to published scholarship. It also shows you the exact places in articles where the required infomation. As you can see in the screenshot, it shows the exact line where the author define illegality.

I am looking for good citations on definitions of "illegal", "informal", "illicit" and "immoral". Self-nominations welcome.

@amontalenti But imagine that...on Kafka! (Still a Kafka user?)

@JeffSpies Hah, no thanks. If someone wanted to tackle the problem, they could perhaps look at the work Internet Archive themselves did to build a bot to solve this problem for Wikipedia: blog.archive.org/2018/10/01/mor…

Is there an open source tool or WordPress plugin that checks outbound links on your old blog posts, makes sure they are not 404s or unresponsive, and offers way to replace with Internet Archive links instead, if available? Ideally something F/OSS and truly non-commercial?

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When it comes to AI, definitions are one of the few things really flourishing (*cough* AGI *cough*).

@ARWalz Well deserved!

This was such a surprise! Congrats, team! #oer #opentextbook #music #conducting

@JasonWilliamsNY Hmm, not bad. This could become a thing. With that said, I'd go for your dish if for no other reason than the meat on the AI dish is almost certainly people.

@JeffSpies At your choice Sir. Looks pretty good.

Dinner: short-rib chili over rice.

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@word_water_wine 👋

@Rafa_Sanjuan_ So, it's not great news, but at least we have some new areas of study?

Happy to share our preprint on the zoonotic potential of >100 animal viruses! We used pseudotypes to study viral entry into human cells and its molecular determinants. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

11 years. RIP my darling boy.