Brandon Hall @bthall@scholar.social

@bthall You don't always get what you ask for, but you rarely get what you don't ask for.

One thing I heard in the Democrat debates last night that interested me was one candidate's proposal to provide credits to stay-at-home parents (they said mothers, but...yeah) to compensate/reward them for the labor that (presumably) they provide to the household. This is a fascinating proposal because it's been an issue in #economics that household labor isn't commonly accounted for in most economic models. One of my favorite papers ever is about this.

A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors In More Than 100 Published Studies

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjwda/a-code-glitch-may-have-caused-errors-in-more-than-100-published-studies

Working & Reading Habits:

Where do you find yourself at your most productive? Do you prefer to read papers and do writing / busywork in different locations?

Libraries? Coffee Shops? Campus? Town?

I'm interested in hearing how best you all work and learn!

Plants in the city vs outside of it - what are they like and how do they make babies?

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ece3.5539

How does urbanization affect the reproductive characteristics and ecological affinities of street plant communities?

#ecology #urbanecology #plants #botany

Become the skateboard academic you want to see in the world
...or on campus

Never pass up an opportunity to learn something new about statistics

As the #PinePhone ($150 Linux smartphone) development is moving fast, a series of articles might be redundant and confusing for most people. This article, to be dynamically updated as development proceeds, gathers what is known at this stage, and will hopefully be an answer to some of your questions.

You can read our latest article on TuxPhones.com: https://tuxphones.com/pinephone-pictures-specs-release-date-software-support/

#pine64 #linux #privacy

RT @GarethSoye@twitter.com

Now I know what owl legs look like and life can never be the same again.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GarethSoye/status/1162748129973821445

Trying a similar request again: can anyone recommend a good #OpenAccess journal that covers environmental justice?

@bthall
Again correct me if I am wrong. Nothing is done during installation, the JIT cache is only created when you run it for the first time. I'm not sure if it would persist.
As I see it it is a technological problem and they might fix it eventually. I hate it when they have JIT compile everything, even Plots.jl.

https://medium.com/@sdanisch/compiling-julia-binaries-ddd6d4e0caf4

https://juliacomputing.com/blog/2016/02/09/static-julia.html

@bthall
Julia doesn't have an equivalent pacaking format of Python wheels. So you would end up JIT compiling everything you install. And that can be annoying. This also means that distros won't be able to package Julia packages.

There is some talk about sysimage support, but is not position independent code, from what I read. Tbh, that is out of my league.

I wonder how much poor #marketing and #advertising leads to products being higher priced than they'd be if their marketing and advertising efforts were better.

The things I think about when I look at the #Purism website. https://puri.sm

#Librem5 will be dope. The marketing is overly pointed towards privacy-focused people, restricting market awareness and favorable market perceptions. Prices per unit for the first production run will be high but wouldn't be as high if they could produce more units. They'd produce more if they could estimate that more would sell. But they can't/shouldn't given their current, lame marketing.

@bgcarlisle @hugh @bthall I hear you. If only we could convince journals to adopt an epub-like plain HTML format that would support responsive design and not rely on gobs of JavaScript...