Derek Colley @hangableautobulb@qoto.org

My newest paper - preprint available.

An improved method of delta summation for faster current value selection across filtered subsets of interval and temporal relational data.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05896

Less hideously dull than it sounds. (I hope).

Calling out IEEE BigData 2022 as this week's shitty conference. No contact information for organisers, extortionate submission fees way out of whack with IEEE guidelines, and zero communication on the status of your paper (which I've waited 3 months to have considered, let alone peer-reviewed).

I'm flinging it up on ArXiV instead, link to follow next week and I've withdrawn it. Bollocks to them.

@freemo Serves me right for not reading the info in the link properly! I retract my comments... I'll look through it more carefully :)

@freemo Looks interesting but fundamentally owned and operated by somebody else. Honestly, I might do that write up because hosting your own isn't as scary as it sounds. I think I typed five install commands and edited a configuration file, that's all. But thanks for the link anyhow.

@freemo The argument for a private VPN for all grows. I have one in S America courtesy of an EC2 on AWS. Costs about £10/month to run, completely mine, OpenVPN configuration that means it's one click to connect from my laptop. Useful for scihub and torrents since the UK gov have seen fit to mandate all ISPs block certain sites. Took about a hour to sort out, I'll write up the process one of these days.