Have you ever wanted to generate random but readable strings? Like for files or folders? Today's Friday #rstats fun is thanks to @rgfitzjohn for the ids package📦 and its wonderful `adjective_animal()` 😻function.
Made a new little playground this week: https://t.co/F46dRdVWVB: a version of Bartosz Ciechanowski’s great https://t.co/BQfYWbXL5j site, but for integers
let me know if you notice any bugs!
How neat. Researchers claim to have found, at long last, an "einstein" tile - a shape that tiles the plane in a pattern that never repeats. First two authors appear to have no academic affiliations. https://t.co/T4UB6Ei6Lo
We welcome the publication of the government’s Future of Compute report, which recognises that compute is critical to modern research and recommends a co-ordinated, long-term investment in UK compute capability. 1/2
https://t.co/gJbHsV7EP2
Bus socks on! Ready to roll!
I will be delay-tweeting my journey so you’ll see everywhere I go, just after I leave so I don’t get bombarded with route suggestions and, you know, safety and stuff. But time to catch some buses…
Any ideas on constructing a pilot #RSEng exchange programme that would allow RSEs to spend some time at different research or RSE Groups? Probably two week long exchanges. Any thoughts? Any thoughts on what it will need?
cc @ResearchSoftEng@SoftwareSaved
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It's Friday. Have some history.
So you know Hadrian's Wall? Well for over 1000 years everyone thought it was built by someone else.
Until, in 1840, John Hodgson, an unknown Northumbrian clergyman published the LONGEST footnote in history.
Read on... /1
Hot take, regex is a dominant language not because of its intrinsic qualities but because its programs are short enough to be conveniently pasted in any location
@b_rosen_baum If you're interested in discrete stochastic models, we've got a new backend for that https://t.co/lvkvWJJa9t via https://t.co/YKGaxZdJJJ - supports systems of 10's of thousands of equations and runs in parallel on CPU or GPU