This is the fourth part of a blog post series on spatial machine learning with R. You can find the list of other blog posts in this series in part one. Aims of this post This post aims to give a minimal example on how to use mlr3 for a spatial prediction task. We want to get from measurements of temperature at specific locations in Spain to a spatially continuous map of temperature for all of Spain.

Apple made a notable announcement in WWDC 2025 that they've got a new containerisation framework in the new Tahoe beta. This took me right back to the early Docker for Mac days in 2016 when we announced the first mainstream use of the hypervisor framework, so I couldn't resist taking a quick peek under the hood.

Am 04.04.2025 veranstaltete das von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) geförderte Projekt OA Datenpraxis ein Webinar zum Thema “Offene Metadaten für Hochschulrankings am Beispiel des Leiden Ranking”. Für das Webinar konnten Nees Jan von Eck (CWTS Leiden) und Anja Oberländer (Universität Konstanz) als Vortragende gewonnen werden.

The AI future experts are predicting for us in 2027

The “publish or perish” culture pushes researchers to publish papers (regardless of the state of their research) for career survival. Academic jobs are tied to people’s publication records; and although change is happening, it is at a glacial pace. Since the system is gamified in this way, people are tempted to play. And they play to “win”.  This leads to many side effects that distort the way science is done.

Musing sabout librarianship - Substack A Home Full of Memories—And a New Door Opening When I first hit “Publish” on Musings About Librarianship on Blogger back in 2009, I was a wet behind the ears librarian nervously sharing half-baked thoughts. I never imagined that my tiny blogger corner would grow into a gathering place for thousands of curious colleagues around the world.

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por Valentina Tovar Mota Áurea Maya Alcántara, Ópera y gastos secretos. Su producción en México en la primera mitad del siglo XIX, México, Ediciones de Educación y Cultura, 2023. El libro de la historiadora Áurea Maya, Ópera y gastos secretos.

The DataCite metadata schema continues to improve, increasing the number of resource types that can be described, the number of relations between resources, and the number of identifiers. Together these improvements continue the long-term trend towards more FAIR research resources connected to form a growing global research infrastructure.

Ludus—Ludeme Last month, I mapped a working definition of game (ludus) and ludeme (conceptual units of a game and play) in preparation for an upcoming article on ludemes and programming video games. I went through many of the better known attempts for a definition and asked myself where my own perspective differs and what my approach needs to express.

I could not find the time earlier to report (reason), but three weeks ago we passed the fourth milestone release of the CCZero IUPAC names found in literature collection. This release contains 200026 IUPAC names, 168702 unique names, reflecting 116207 unique InChIKeys. Time for an update of the One Million IUPAC names project.