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Special Drawing Right (SDR)

The SDR is an international reserve asset, created by the IMF in 1969 to supplement its member countries’ official reserves. So far SDR 204.2 billion (equivalent to about US$281 billion) have been allocated to members, including SDR 182. Read more

Exploring Hearing Aid Integration in iOS

Last year I got my first hearing devices. For some time I had noticed that I turned up the TV much louder than my wife did, and I had problems following discussions with larger groups of people. Read more

A Jupyter kernel for SQLite

While it is well known in the Python scientific computing community, Jupyter is in fact a language-agnostic development environment. High-quality language kernels exist for the main languages of data sciences, such as Python, C++, R or Julia. Read more

Biohacking Lite

Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew that you’re supposed to get some exercise and eat vegetables or something, but it stopped at that (“mom said”-) level of abstraction. Read more

Argentina Defaults on Sovereign Debt Amid Coronavirus Crisis

Argentina defaulted on sovereign debt for the ninth time in its history, as Latin America’s third-biggest economy grapples with a new cycle of economic contraction, runaway inflation and a hard-currency squeeze exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Read more

Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring networks

The faculty job market plays a fundamental role in shaping research priorities, educational outcomes, and career trajectories among scientists and institutions. However, a quantitative understanding of faculty hiring as a system is lacking. Read more