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eliocamp, 30 days ago to australia

In the one month I've been in #Australia I've already been asked to sign two farewell cards. I've seen full aisles in supermarkets and dedicated stores that sell cards for any occasion one could think of.

Australia is a card-based culture, apparently.

eliocamp, 1 month ago to australia

Now this is an office. #Australia #Argentina

eliocamp, 1 month ago to melbourne

The thing that shocked me when I arrived in #Melbourne is that the vast majority of this gigantic city is suburbs of one floor houses or duplex at the most. It's so low density compared with #BuenosAires. I found this website with an interactive population density map that confirms just how sparsely populated this city actually is.

Similar plot for Melbourn. Most ares are light blue and most people live in areas with 2000 people per squared kilometre and almost no one lives in ares with more tan 10000 people per squared kilometre. The population weighted density in 2020 is almost 3700 people per squared kilometre and the peak population density is 16900 people per squared kilometre.

eliocamp, 1 month ago to random

Today I learned about fir waves. When a tal tree dies due to wind exposure, it exposes downwind trees to the wind, with also are more likely to die. Small trees start to grow in its place that are protected by the wind by their neighbours until they are tall enough to be affected. These waves travel downwind at between 1 and 3 meters per year.

I took historic pictures from google earth to make this gif. Notice the rows of taller trees "propagating" north.

https://northernwoodlands.org/outside_story/article/doing_the_fir_wave

A gif of many satellite photos of a forest. There are many lines of lighter trees that move north.

eliocamp, 1 month ago to random

Tan lejos y a la vez tan cerca.

eliocamp, 1 month ago to random

The great thing about living in Australia is that the weekend comes earlier.

eliocamp, 1 month ago to random

"ahhh, the Australian experience. 💆‍♂️"
"Ehmm, that's New Zealand"

eliocamp, 2 months ago to random

I've been thinking about that Sabine Hossenfelder video* that is doing the rounds and I have to say that I mostly don't like it. It raises real issues with how the incentives are laid out in science, yes, but the whole framing is (sometimes explicitly) that that is all academia is and there's nothing of value. Besides, these are not new issues and a lot of people have been talking about these points in a much more productive way.

1/n

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8

eliocamp, 2 months ago to random

I've just learned that Doom on the SNES used precomputed lookup tables to compute trigonometry functions because the processor was to weak to compute them in real time. I wonder if modern games couldn't use that trick to eek out a bit more performance.

eliocamp, 2 months ago to random

Boost this toot if in your house there's a bag or drawer full of mysterious keys that you don't know what are for but are too scared to throw out.

eliocamp, 2 months ago to random

My morning today. #RStats

eliocamp, 2 months ago to random

Pretty unenforceable and abusive-prone rules. A lot of work is hard to attribute or doesn't require attribution (will I get banned if I post the Gioconda without attributing it to the artist?) and a blanket ban on (pure) "AI" content irregarless of harm and intent is silly, hard to enforce and, honestly, pretty exclusionary.

Https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/112118260677357857

eliocamp, 2 months ago to random

How much did Elsevier charge for publishing this without even reading the first sentence of the abstract?

https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/112088494660142768

eliocamp, 2 months ago to random

This is... concerning.
https://press.coop/@BBCWorld/112079136518256298

eliocamp, 2 months ago to random

New display name 😁😁

eliocamp, 3 months ago to random

Watching The Devil Wears Prada and so far it's a horror story about a toxic workspace with not clear hours, attrocious onboarding and a terrible boss that everyone fears.

eliocamp, 3 months ago to random

CS50's second week has a couple of exercises that encouraged you to use ASCII tables to manipulate characters (checking passwords, scoring scrabble words, etc.). And they're fine, but I cannot apply any of that to my language (Spanish) or any other that is not "American", and any code I write using those skills would be severely "unportable".

eliocamp, 3 months ago to random

Woah, this new ggplot2 release is a banger!

https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2024/02/ggplot2-3-5-0/

#RStats

eliocamp, 3 months ago to random

This is soo cool! Work in progress, but still!

#RStats

Video de RStudio. El comando help("mean") muestra la ayuda de la función mean en inglés. Luego, library(rhelpi18n) y Sys.setenv(LANGUAGE = "es") y help("mean") muestra la ayuda de la función mean, pero en español

eliocamp, 3 months ago to random

If anyone asks me why I chose to move to Australia to do a postdoc, I'm going to answer that it's the only country with the same electrical plug that Argentina.

eliocamp, 3 months ago to random

Warning! We have plane tickets. I repeat, plane tickets have been obtained! #🇦🇷to🇦🇺

eliocamp, 3 months ago to random

Again I have to ask, what are ~USD 3 000 that Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology charges for publishing being used for if they can publish such utter nonsense.

What should be the response to an author submitting such an obviously nonsensical figures, the editor accepting, and the reviewers who let it pass? (Also, read the quote by one of the reviewers, who basically said that it wasn't his responsibility to check the figures).

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3jbz/scientific-journal-frontiers-publishes-ai-generated-rat-with-gigantic-penis-in-worrying-incident

#AcademicChatter

Figure with a nonsensical diagram with arrows going everywhere and multiple nodes labelled "JAK". The caption starts "Diagram of the JAK-STAT signaling pathway.
Bizarre drawing of a rat with a dissected penis whichis twice its body in size and is labelled with nonsensical text such as Dissiliced, sentollcstem cells, and dck. THe caption of the figure reads "Spermatogonial stem cells, isolated, purified and cultured from rat testes"

eliocamp, 4 months ago to random

First working prototype of multilingual help support in #RStats. A help_i18n() function that takes a topic and a language and opens up the help page of that topic and any installed translations in that language.

Translations are regular packages with the translated documentation but no exports.

https://github.com/eliocamp/rhelpi18n

eliocamp, 4 months ago to random

I wrote a blog post on using the various #RStats pipes with data.table.

https://rdatatable-community.github.io/The-Raft/posts/2024-01-28-piping_data_tables-elio_campitelli/

#RDataTable

eliocamp, 4 months ago to random

The solution to the border crisis is to do away with the border.

#OpenBorders