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2026-03-12 08:15 UTC
@steko@scholar.social @nfrerebeau@archaeo.social I don’t know of any existing work in R or Python that really grapples with timescales as we or earth scientists use them. I also hoped to find it in NetCDF at some point, but it’s still quite cursory.
I have a very early-stage draft of paper—which I also promised to share with Nicolas but haven’t got around to it yet!—on concepts of “deep” as opposed to calendric time and its implementation in R. Maybe it would be worth expanding it to look at the Python ecosystem too?
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@steko@scholar.social 2026-03-12 09:28
@joeroe@archaeo.social @nfrerebeau@archaeo.social the problem I see with with radiocarbon in particular is that it goes from ~53.000 years BP to the present, and post-bomb calibration treats years as decimal numbers. So "deep" is important but doesn't cover the whole range. It would require a collaborative effort of some sort ...