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• Old dog, etc

  Yesterday I attended an introduction to “Artificial Intelligence in Forestry”* workshop at the School of Forestry, University of Canterbury. There…
  12 Feb, '24

• More than heritability 🎶

  It is easy to get obsessed with heritabilities when you start working in breeding and genetics. The idea that a…
  5 Feb, '24

• Lecture on enshitification

  Cory Doctorow’s My McLuhan lecture on enshittification. How we got to the current dystopia and how we can fix it.…
  30 Jan, '24

• Python not suitable platform for reproducible research

  While [Active Papers] has achieved its mission of demonstrating that unifying computational reproducibility and provenance tracking is doable and useful,…
  28 Jan, '24

• The collapse of Eucalyptus globulus or future-proofing nonsense

  I cringe every time I hear the term “future proofing”. It can be read as doing something to avoid facing…
  27 Jan, '24

• Fascinated by change

  The last 2 months or so I have been revisiting the Chilean forest sector and mentally comparing values with other…
  24 Jan, '24

• We all stopped expanding our forest estate

  A few days ago I was comparing afforestation figures—planting in area that didn’t have trees before—across New Zealand, Chile and…
  13 Jan, '24

• New plantations in AU, NZ and CL

  Looking at new forest plantations areas in Chile (data from INFOR), Australia (ABARES) and New Zealand (MPI) since 1994, as…
  3 Jan, '24

• Jetsam 73: blind musician

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  29 Dec, '23

• Collaborative competition

  I was reading Peter Amer’s Pre-competitive collaboration in which he discusses the interaction between private and public sectors in research…
  23 Dec, '23