- Last week I attend the Dryad (Dryad) board meeting - Dryad is a not for profit that helps researchers share research data. This is a topic I’ve been thinking about for some time (a deck I presented on the topic 10 years ago - https://speakerdeck.com/ianmulvany/connecting-data-and-literature). The meeting was generously hosted by the Banbury centre.
- A few weeks ago I gave a talk on How AI bends the curve on product innovation - Ian Mulvany - recording is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkvlS_y5ysU
- Martin Fowler wrote up a very good example of using LLM prompting for programming:
- If you are using the Python stack, you might want to check out Astral: Next-gen Python tooling https://astral.sh/ - building insanely fast Python tools.
- I had a good experience with creating a browser extension using GPT two weeks ago::
- Clarivate have announced some new leadership - https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/04/19/clarivate-leadership-products/
- https://www.chatpdf.com is a way to drop a PDF into a tool, and use language models to talk to the PDF.
- I only just found out, you can run Python serverless functions in Vercel, and it supports frameworks such as Flask and Django https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/functions/serverless-functions/runtimes/python - this could be very useful for rapid prototyping.
- If you are moving applications loads around then https://mrsk.dev/ from the folk behind Hey email, and 67 Signals - the makers of Basecamp. MRSK uses the dynamic reverse-proxy Traefik to hold requests, while the new app container is started and the old one is stopped — working seamlessly across multiple hosts, using SSHKit to execute commands. ”
- Here is some advice on using ChatGPT with Tableau: https://www.popautomation.com/post/how-to-use-chat-gpt-with-tableau
- 50 journals have been delisted by WebOfScience - https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/sanctioning-of-50-journals-raises-concerns-over-special-issues-in-mega-journals/4017315.article, things are heating up in the fake paper war!
- The folks behind OpenAlex have announced a competitor to Google Scholar -https://alpha.openalex.org/works. This could be huge - watch this space.
- In person is mechanically better than Zoom - this has now been measured: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-02247-001 “In a [study](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-02247-001) last year, people who were face-to-face responded to yes/no questions in 297 milliseconds, on average, while those on Zoom chats took 976 milliseconds. Conversational turns — handing the mic back and forth between speakers, as it were — exhibited similar delays. The researchers hypothesized that something about the scant 30- to 70-millisecond delay in Zoom audio disrupts whatever neural mechanisms we meatbags use to get in sync with one another, that magic that creates true dialogue.”
A nice overview of Software Architecture Trends - https://www.infoq.com/articles/architecture-trends-2021/