Categoria: Free Software
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Install iosacal with conda
Starting today, you can install iosacal with conda. This adds to the existing installation procedure with pip. Conda is a good fit for complex projects and has better tooling for reproducibility. Installing iosacal can be achieved by adding conda-forge to your channels with: conda config –add channels conda-forge conda config –set channel_priority strict Once the…
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IOSACal in Google Colab
Google Colab is a popular notebook service that you can run directly from your browser. Python is natively supported and it’s fairly easy to run a Jupyter notebook, even with custom dependencies like Numpy and Matplotlib. You can run IOSACal in Google Colab! I have added a new short how-to guide in the official documentation.…
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Research papers and case studies using iosacal
I have updated the documentation of iosacal with a new page that lists all research papers and case studies where the software gets a mention for being used. The list is at https://iosacal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/literature.html and it’s longer than I thought, with 6 papers ranging from Norway to Antarctica, from the Last Glacial Maximum to the European…
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Gli atti del workshop Archeofoss 2022 sono stati pubblicati
Gli atti del workshop Archeofoss 2022 sono stati pubblicati in open access su Archeologia e Calcolatori. Li trovate qui http://www.archcalc.cnr.it/journal/idyear.php?IDyear=2023-07-26 come numero 34.1 della rivista. Ho curato insieme a Julian Bogdani l’edizione di questo volume ed è quindi motivo di soddisfazione, anche per i tempi rapidi con cui siamo arrivati alla pubblicazione grazie al lavoro…
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Harris Matrix Data Package: version 2022 of the hmdp tool with new features for the creation of stratigraphy data packages
A few weeks ago I presented a new version of the hmdp tool at the ARCHEOFOSS conference in Rome. You can find the archived presentation on Zenodo. Harris Matrix Data Package is a proposal for a standardised digital format of archaeological stratigraphy datasets in CSV format, following the table schema developed by Thomas S. Dye…
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IOSACal 0.6 released with new features for simulation and quantiles
I’m happy to announce that IOSACal version 0.6 was released on October 1st, 2022. IOSACal 0.6 brings new features for simulating radiocarbon dates and obtaining quantiles, added respectively by Hythem Sidky and Roger Creel, who both contributed to IOSACal for the first time. I want to thank both for their efforts to share improvements to…
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IOSACal 0.5, featuring IntCal20 and more
After three years of slow paced development, IOSACal 0.5 is here. The DOI of the latest release is https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.630455 As before, the preferred installation method is with pip in a virtual environment. The documentation is at https://iosacal.readthedocs.io/ This release brings the new IntCal20 calibration data and several improvements for different use cases, plus one important…
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La villa romana di Bussana, una diretta streaming
Lo scorso 12 dicembre ho organizzato e presentato un evento in diretta streaming dedicato alla villa romana di Bussana, uno dei siti archeologici più conosciuti di Sanremo. Non mi sono mai occupato nello specifico di questo sito quindi ho pensato di coinvolgere altri colleghi, persone che hanno svolto ricerche e scavi, che hanno lavorato nel…
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Fedora 33: recover disk space from swap partitions, and other tips for upgrading
As described in detail by Andy Grover in the article Upgrading to Fedora 33: Removing Your Old Swap File on EFI Machine, Fedora 33 defaults to using a compressed-memory-based swap device using zram. There is no swap partition any more! It’s time to reclaim that disk space. If you follow the guide in the linked…
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All my source code repositories are now on Codeberg
I have moved all my personal source code to Codeberg! Codeberg is the free home for your free projects. Because free and open source software deserves a free and open source platform.