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Caiso: Northern CA Region Transmission Emergency Notice(caiso.com)
1 points by PLenz 4y ago|0 comments
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by PLenz 4y ago
I learned to code in isolation on QB back in the day - having interactive help right in the IDE was amazing in my pre-internet days. Later on I found the quickbasic version that let you compile executable (it may have been VB 1.0 IIRC) and
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by PLenz 4y ago
The correct number of bikes or bike thingies is always n+1
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by PLenz 4y ago
Musk hates public transit
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by PLenz 4y ago
Big data didn't lose. It became so common that now what was once big data is just data.
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by PLenz 4y ago
If a company has a terrible interview process it's probably a terrible company. Don't work for those companies.
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by PLenz 5y ago
The deals do exists - but at in person train shows and not online. But I overall agree with you and I see the increase in costs as coming along with the end of shake the box kits and the beginning of premade everything. A case of a market t
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by PLenz 5y ago
I would probably use h3 for this which each polygon being reduced to a list of hex ids.
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by PLenz 5y ago
Depends on where the land is and size and shape of the polygons are
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by PLenz 5y ago
As a geographer turned DS it is my duty to remind CS people that all geo methods are compromises. No system, s2, h3, mgrs, even lat lon are perfect for every project and you must think carefully about what you are doing and pick your geo re
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by PLenz 5y ago
Physically training the models isn't the hard part. It knowing why you using x method, how to interpret the result, and what dials to turn that's the hard part. And there's no automating that.
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by PLenz 5y ago
I just want to say that my brother and I played _the_hell_ out of Streets. So thanks for being a small part of our childhoods.
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by PLenz 5y ago
That's what locals are, the last mile (or hundred mile) trains that get made up out of cars that have moved long distances already. Railroads hate thise trains. The money is in unit trains, all one commodity going from one place to one
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by PLenz 5y ago
Exactly,slack is the space give to each car if the train to move before the next car has to. Starting cars rolling is the most energy expenssive thing the motive power has to do. So once you take the slack out on a single car it's pret
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by PLenz 5y ago
Trains are already crazy efficent both fuel and operational people wise - in fact this negates one of railroading great efficencies, slack (that 2 mile freight train already starts one car at a time). Also subtracting, cars are going to nee
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by PLenz 5y ago
"Resource Limit Is Reached" which is actually quite on-brand
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by PLenz 5y ago
Your algo can easily be parallelized by increasing the number of people firing.
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by PLenz 5y ago
Only wild if you assume that everyone has the same likelihood of having proximity to such an event. But people involved in smallpox research have a much increased chance because they have (physical) proximity to the places this can happen a
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by PLenz 5y ago
The last mile problem here is the jump to people's brains and it isn't easily solved by technical means. It goes beyond UX or UI and is really an empathy issue.
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by PLenz 5y ago
The great thing about mandates is that they work. Worse is better as applied to human behavior.
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by PLenz 5y ago
This stretch is owned by another rail network (ConnDot) that prioritizes other passenger trains (Metro North and Shoreline East)
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NanoPutian(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by PLenz 5y ago|0 comments
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by PLenz 5y ago
Near | Passadena, CA / Remote | Machine Learning Engineer | Full-time I'm hiring a Machine Learning Engineer to join the Data Science team at Near. This is a new, remote-friendly role that help the department to develop solutions
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Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways(mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov)
1 points by PLenz 5y ago|0 comments
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by PLenz 5y ago
Nothing new under the sun. Take a look at Central Park in New York. Almost everything you is is constructed. They dug the ponds and built up the hills. They didn't have geofoam but if they did they would have used it. Look a Tunnel Vie
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by PLenz 5y ago
Perhaps because I only work at companies where the data is the product but I have a hard time imagining a company without a Data Science Department reporting into the CEO
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by PLenz 5y ago
I've done email heavy companies and slack heavy ones and I infinitely prefer Email heavy any day of the week. Slack is just so needy and in your face - people can 'see' you typing(!). Email gives you a little distance. So now
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Treasury Calls for Crypto Transfers over $10k to Be Reported to IRS(bloomberg.com)
198 points by PLenz 5y ago|203 comments
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by PLenz 5y ago
This is just reinventing unions but without the employee's ability to input via collective bargaining.
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by PLenz 5y ago
NASA used contractors to build the equipment last time too

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