Darren Wilkinson
@darrenjw.bsky.social
Professor of Statistics, Bayesian, computational systems biologist and functional programmer, https://darrenjw.github.io/
🎉 JOSS turns 10 today! Ten years, 3,500+ papers, 11,000+ authors, 4000+ reviewers, and a community that built something remarkable together. Thank you to everyone who's reviewed, edited, authored, or cheered us on along the way 💚 joss.theoj.org #openscience #opensource
Journal of Open Source Software
Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is a developer friendly, open access journal for research software packages.
joss.theoj.org
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...
Open letter from Ian Chapman to research and innovation community
UKRI Chief Executive outlines changes to UKRI investment approach, addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC.
ukri.org
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 !
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?
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/
Some lecture notes on spatial and temporal modelling, illustrated using R - darrenjw.github.io/spatio-tempo... - #rstats #rspatial #quarto
Spatial and temporal statistics
darrenjw.github.io
The "netcontrol" #rstats package was recently removed from #cran - I have some instructions for installing the archived version: darrenjw.github.io/work/docs/ne...
netcontrol for R
darrenjw.github.io
Stochastic Gray Scott diffusion via the spatial chemical Langevin equation.
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?!
James Grimmelmann@jtlg.bsky.social · 12mo ago"I'm sorry for advising you to accept the trade of your cow for three beans. In hindsight, that deal was not supported by conventional livestock market values, nor was it backed by any credible bean-based economic index." www.aiweirdness.com/chatgpt-will...
Little summer holiday project: learn enough about fluid dynamics to implement a 2d simulation from scratch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYos...
2d incompressible fluid flow
YouTube video by Darren Wilkinson
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Going to the hospital because I broke my wrist smashing the endorse button: www.understandingai.org/p/i-got-fool...
I got fooled by AI-for-science hype—here's what it taught me
I used AI in my plasma physics research and it didn’t go the way I expected.
understandingai.org
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
Developing UKRI's research data policy - UK Research and Innovation - Citizen Space
Find and participate in activities run by UK Research and Innovation
engagementhub.ukri.org
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 ⬇️
'I can't make money without breaking the law and therefore you should let me break the law' is one helluva flex. futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.
futurism.com
Published (advance access) in #Bayesian Analysis: Bayesian Inference on the Order of Stationary Vector Autoregressions - doi.org/10.1214/24-B...
Bayesian Inference on the Order of Stationary Vector Autoregressions
Vector autoregressions (VARs) are a widely used tool for modelling multivariate time-series. It is common to assume a VAR is stationary; this can be enforced by imposing the stationarity condition whi...
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Created a Starter pack for all #Scala programming language enthusiasts, developers and users. Please share. If I missed anyone please let me know so I can add them to the list! I wasn't able to add some people assume that's their #Bluesky settings that prevents me adding them. go.bsky.app/APytbWH
Bayesian statistics and bayesian machine learning starter pack go.bsky.app/HiwtzcZ
UK Uni Funding Crisis "Among academics, morale is reportedly at an all-time low. The prospect of further job losses follows on from years of falling pay, heavier workloads, often precarious working conditions, and pension reductions – which have led to waves of strikes." #UKHE #AcademicSky
The UK universities in financial crisis
Spiralling costs and fewer international students is leaving universities in serious financial trouble
theweek.com
I got a Probabilistic Programming starter pack going. Hit me up if you're involved with #probprog R&D and want in! go.bsky.app/JfvubEf
By popular demand… the Guardian is officially on BlueSky @theguardian.com
