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• 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

• Trade Flows for Wood

  ༄> Worldbank’s World Integrated Trade Solution for wood.
  12 Jul, '24

• Having a peek at sheep breeding

  One of the cool things about Quantitative Genetics is that it works everywhere. As a forester, I work with trees…
  9 Jul, '24

• Questions while watching Netflix

  In 2022 28% of New Zealand’s total exports and 53% of the forestry exports (by value) went to China. China’s…
  7 Jul, '24

• There is value in better explanations

  I am often fascinated by people who can explain something that I already know but in a much better way.…
  30 Jun, '24

• Why are you complicating the analysis?

  Progeny trials (or progeny testing or genetic tests or whatever you call them) are a real money pit. They are…
  28 Jun, '24

• Have you visited the trials?

  I was having a chat with analysts that just had a project dumped on their lap. They were questioning previous…
  21 Jun, '24

• The AI House of Cards

  Many of the people pushing today for AI to be used in all organisations, particularly of the ChatGPT/LLM persuasion, were…
  20 Jun, '24