Here’s what happened in the Underground this last week in February.
Rendezvous numéro trois – Matteo Ravasi’s Rendezvous was on Friday, but don’t worry, you can catch what you missed on YouTube. He showed off some of the amazing things in PyLops and in a talk entitled, Solving geophysical inverse problems on GPUs with PyLops+cupy. If you’re into signal processing, inverse problems, and data reconstruction, you need to check it out..
Conflicts to declare – Kieran’s shared his frustration about a semi-anonymous reviewer on a manuscipt complaining that the open-source tool that was the topic of the paper was not novel, because closed-source commercial software exists that does the same thing. The discussion that follows has some interesting opinions on bias, conflict of interest, and fishing for the science in the murky waters where commercial software lurks.
Seismic unrest in Iceland – The geology hosting those gorgeous pictures of the Blue Lagoon in your Instagram feed, could soon see a once-in-a-millennium eruption, based on its current unrest and its historical record. A swarm of earthquakes are happening on the Reykjanes Peninsula.
A license to work together – What do you get when a software vendor wants to contribute to some open source software… but doesn’t like the licence? Discussion here. One quote:
“Digging in over BSD-3 vs Apache 2 seems like refusing to volunteer at your local soup kitchen because they serve Hunt’s ketchup not Heinz.”