joeroe

ArchaeoIain, 11 days ago to random

I have been warned by the Mastodon moderators that some of my posts will be marked sensitive. This was a direct result of a post which sought to show the direct consequences of book burning as has been reported in Gaza on this platform.

joeroe, 25 days ago (edited 25 days ago) to stackoverflow

Initially I was sad about #StackOverflow's collapse, not so much because I've contributed a lot to it (and as a #Wikipedian, I've already resigned myself to big tech trying to sell my own words back to me), but because I learned a lot of programming and statistics from it; it gave me focused answers to specific problems. It already bothered me that my students were turning to AI for that purpose, and now what I was telling them to use instead is turning into AI slop... (1/2)

joeroe, 25 days ago to Archaeology

How do you review a paper (in its second revision) where the authors have made an honest attempt to make their analysis (computationally) reproducible, but not quite got there? Given that the field is #archaeology, where reproducibility is still a niche concern and lots of work is published with no regard to it.

joeroe, 28 days ago to ai

Got multiple 500 Internal Server Error responses when trying to download scientific data files from the Harvard Dataverse today... but funnily enough the totally unasked-for (and totally useless) #AI summary of their contents works fine every time :/

#opendata

joeroe, 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago) to Archaeology

Does anyone know of a paper or dataset that compiles the earliest known dates of agriculture in a given region? Globally, ideally, but I'd settle for a continent or two...

(I know there are several options for the European Neolithic, but beyond that?)

#archaeology #opendata