Mastodawn

Chris Fariss Nov 28, 2023

Jonathan Carroll Nov 28, 2023

I realised that #adventofcode is fast approaching, so I had better publish my post about my #rstats and #rust solutions from last year already!

I had a WIP post with some comments but I haven't added commentary for *all* the days. I'd rather get this off my plate, though, so out it goes as-is.

https://jcarroll.com.au/2023/11/28/advent-of-code-2022/

I was quite happy with the few visualisations I did manage to make...

Advent of Code 2022

In the lead up to Christmas each year, Advent of Code offers a series of 25 puzzles which start out reasonably simple, but get progressively harder, eventually requiring knowledge of algorithms and dynamic programming techniques. Last year I solved these in (strictly) base R on the day they were released (or as close to as I could). I then (starting Dec 27) went back and re-solved (13 of) them in Rust. This post details what I learned along the way and some fun visualisations I made.

Irregularly Scheduled Programming

Chris Fariss Aug 31, 2023

Jascha Polet Aug 31, 2023

“#Seismic data have been used to continuously identify individual #military explosions in #Ukraine” providing “unprecedented details of these attacks and an objective data source”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02454-3?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=nature&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1693428700-1

Monitoring an active war zone in Ukraine using seismic data

Seismometers have identified more than 1,200 military explosions in Ukraine.

Chris Fariss Jul 5, 2023

Bastian Herre Jul 5, 2023

We just overhauled expanded our topic page on Human Rights at Our World in Data:

ourworldindata.org/human-rights

It has research and data on how the protection of human rights has changed over time, and how it differs across countries.

A thread on what the new page has in store:

Chris Fariss Jul 5, 2023

https://www.openglobalrights.org/human-rights-still-in-demand/

Human rights are still in demand

After collecting and analyzing recent search data from 109 countries in five different language groups, we found little to no evidence that people are becoming less interested in human rights.

OpenGlobalRights

Chris Fariss Jun 29, 2023

Crows Labyrinth Jun 29, 2023

This is an absolutely wild story about a 40 year-old computer platform that was essentially an internet avant-la-lettre.

The reason: they found over 2000 of the computers that could work with this network in an old barn, and someone sold them on eBay.

Story by @ernie

👉 https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3k34/2200-forgotten-vintage-computers-are-being-liberated-from-a-barn-in-massachusetts

#retrocomputing

2,200 Forgotten Vintage Computers Are Being Liberated From a Barn in Massachusetts

The NABU Network was an obscure, forgotten part of Canadian tech history—until the day the internet noticed that thousands of NABU machines were being sold on eBay at rock-bottom prices.

Chris Fariss Jun 4, 2023

Ulrike Franke Jun 4, 2023

Photos: Ukraine’s Battlefield #Drones - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2023/05/photos-ukraine-war-drones/674160/

Photos: Ukraine’s Battlefield Drones

Images of some of the many small drones being used on Ukraine’s battlefields

The Atlantic

Chris Fariss Jun 4, 2023

Cactuar Joe Jun 4, 2023

The design work is my favorite part of #FFIX. Even incidental characters have such interesting and well-crafted designs. Plus there are a TON of one-off characters who you'd think would have just some generic look to save budget, but they have unique designs -- like the orchestra members from the opening scene. They could've just used generic NPCs, but they went whole hog instead, it's great :D #FinalFantasy #RetroGaming #Gaming

Chris Fariss May 8, 2023

JeriLRyan May 7, 2023

Seems like this petition should get a little Mastodon love too…#StarTrekLegacy

https://chng.it/bnkgNkfgy6

Make STAR TREK LEGACY with Terry Matalas as Showrunner!

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Change.org

Chris Fariss Apr 19, 2023

#HumanRights https://news.umich.edu/human-rights-a-thing-of-the-past-google-says-no/ #DataScience #Google

Human rights a thing of the past? Google says: No

Using Google search data from around the world, U-M researchers showed that human rights are the most popular in the Global South, and that people in countries such as Guatemala and Uganda search the internet for information on human rights far more frequently than people in countries such as the Un

University of Michigan News

Chris Fariss Apr 19, 2023

New article with Geoff Dancy in #APSR in which we use Google Trends data to show that human rights (#HumanRights) are most resonant in places that need them most: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/global-resonance-of-human-rights-what-google-trends-can-tell-us/1403324949474DC9A6FB78ED7BDB3150/share/86a002b36786435d8f06e07afd12de271b93cdde

The Global Resonance of Human Rights: What Google Trends Can Tell Us | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

The Global Resonance of Human Rights: What Google Trends Can Tell Us

Cambridge Core