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• Thinking of my diet and climate

  I like food. I mean well beyond eating to survive: I do enjoy flavours. Thai is my favourite cuisine but…
  25 Aug, '24

• When heritability is high but the phenotype is dominated by the environment

  I was reading a LinkedIn post that said “heritability is the extent to which differences in observed phenotypes can be…
  23 Aug, '24

• Suggested books

  ༄> I was asking about introductory Forest Mensuration and Forest Growth books and got:
  19 Aug, '24

• DevOps for data science

  ༄> It looks like a handy book: DevOps for data science
  17 Aug, '24

• You realise that New Zealand is small when…

  I was chatting with a colleague (Salvador Gezan) in April about teaching, learning and books, and he suggested “have a…
  13 Aug, '24

• The best part of LinkedIn

  After “professional Twitter’s” demise I joined LinkedIn (less than a year ago) to keep in touch with colleagues. Overall, I…
  1 Aug, '24

• Breeding trade-offs

  On one side, it is obvious what we should do: increase any of the values in the numerator (selection intensity,…
  25 Jul, '24

• Start with the programming language and statistical approach used by your community

  I have been very busy with the start of the semester, teaching regression modelling. The craziest thing was that the…
  22 Jul, '24

• The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID)

  This is a popular* dictum by systems theorist Stafford Beer, pointing out that the self-described purpose of a system (or…
  18 Jul, '24

• Overinvesting on Artificial Intelligence

  ༄> Goldman Sachs Report Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit?
  12 Jul, '24