Benoît Bovy

Somewhere between Earth Science, open-source software development and music creation.

[Benoît Bovy @benbovy]

🚨 Excited to announce a new release of ipytone, a big one and the first “public” release!

More details below 🧵

But let’s start with this little piece of music made entirely in a @ProjectJupyter notebook (+ some “waving topography” made with pyvista / ipygany). 🔊🔊🔊🌍

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[Benoît Bovy @benbovy]

I can't say I've been very active on social networks so far... Here I won't be at all. You can find me there:

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[Earthmover @EarthmoverHQ]

🚀 We are thrilled to announce the release of the Icechunk storage engine, a new open-source library and specification for the storage of multidimensional array (a.k.a. tensor) data in cloud object storage.

Read our blog post about Icechunk here: https://t.co/S8MTgJT5lz

[Benoît Bovy @benbovy]

@choldgraf @rabernat Yes in this case “confusingification” would be a better term.

[Benoît Bovy @benbovy]

@MilesCranmer @fcrameri ‘s color maps https://t.co/0yLElwywPt, matplotlib cmaps https://t.co/bl1XaSvQEF

[Benoît Bovy @benbovy]

@choldgraf @anacondainc The problem is about enforcement: it is still so easy to download packages from the anaconda channel and not be aware (or forget about) that change of license… I remember the situation was quite messy after the org was contacted by Anaconda about that.

[Benoît Bovy @benbovy]

@choldgraf @anacondainc It happened a few years ago to the research institute I work with. TBF, I think it only applies to downloading packages from the anaconda channel, no license issue with conda / conda-forge.

[Benoît Bovy @benbovy]

@trevmanz @TEGNicholasCode @xarray_dev Could be a nice (and pretty easy?) addition to https://t.co/zxOtJaFgEU, which already uses #anywidget.

[Benoît Bovy @benbovy]

@wuoulf @condaproject Downloading repodata has been the main bottleneck since fast spec solving in my experience, especially when I just need to install one or two packages in an environment. Speeding up this step will be a great improvement!

[Benoît Bovy @benbovy]

@DPManchee It is a small Python module included in the fastscape-demo repository (https://t.co/f73wc4Q8Z0). It requires xarray-spatial. The conda env file w/ all dependencies for fastscape-demo is here: https://t.co/1VbmxuJcSZ

[Benoît Bovy @benbovy]

@DPManchee Have you tried mamba? https://t.co/FmPNPZqPPS

[Benoît Bovy @benbovy]

@DPManchee If you don't really need to build the library from source and use it via the Python bindings, I strongly recommend installing it using conda, e.g., "conda install fastscapelib-f2py -c conda-forge".

Fastscape (the python package) uses it under the hood (also available w/ conda).

[Benoît Bovy @benbovy]

@PhilippJFR @kolibril13 @davidbrochart @Panel_org @marlene_zw I also find "used by" on github a pretty nice and complementary metric indicating some real world usage, although it doesn't seem to always show up properly.

[Benoît Bovy @benbovy]

@JMTurowski Maybe @zzsylvester's segmenteverygrain? https://t.co/PmgNvn4Z2y

[Benoît Bovy @benbovy]

@TEGNicholasCode Great talk!

[Benoît Bovy @benbovy]

@DrFionaClubb @GIStuart I wish I could attend the workshop (and also share a bit about the hard work we've been doing on @fastscape over the past few years), but unfortunately I had a schedule conflict those two days.

[John Armitage @johnjarmitage]

I am hiring! I am looking for a PhD student to work with myself, @ChrisAndermann, Micha Dietze and Niels Hovius to study the connectivity between groundwater, surface water, and sediment yield. The job will involve code development and field work in the beautiful Eifel mountains.

[Benoît Bovy @benbovy]

@davidbrochart My 2-cents: I like the idea but I’d remove the antialiasing effect completely or limit the number of colors (e.g., to match 256 colors terminals). Also the font looks a bit weird and out of scope, is it a monospace font?

[Benoît Bovy @benbovy]

@ProfMoucha In theory you can use it in both cases. For multiple valleys it is possible to set any inner node of the grid as base level. Fastscapelib doesn't provide anything like a function to compute Hack's law, though, but it is straightforward to implement.

[Benoît Bovy @benbovy]

It took a long time, but finally I’m glad to announce a new release (re-written from scratch) of Fastscapelib: a core library for landscape evolution modelling

Some highlights 🧵 (1/8)

[Benoît Bovy @benbovy]

@opengeospatial @rabernat @pygeoapi Does the OGC API - Coverages supports selecting multiple points at once? In the draft specs I see that "subset" supports either one point or an interval, but I might be missing something?

[Benoît Bovy @benbovy]

Thanks to all contributors to this release!! @HSophiaDavies, Guillaume Cordonnier, @AdrienDelsalle and people at @QuantStack for their contribution and advice on the design of the library (also for #xtensor!)

It is supported by @GFZ_Potsdam (Jean Braun’s section @GFZ_SurfMod).

[Benoît Bovy @benbovy]

It took a long time, but finally I’m glad to announce a new release (re-written from scratch) of Fastscapelib: a core library for landscape evolution modelling

Some highlights 🧵 (1/8)