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by b_emery 11y ago
There's a weather buoy there: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=13010 Must be a hell of a crossing party associated with maintaining that.
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Nate Silver's "The signal and the noise" had an excellent chapter on it. Did a good job getting to the core of the argument, putting it into non-specialist terms, and evaluating the results skeptically, but with scientific ri
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How to play Powerball so you don’t have to share the jackpot(washingtonpost.com)
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by b_emery 11y ago
It actually is good advice to keep your hands visible at all times. It's a step in the right direction of keeping the officer at ease.
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As a man, I respectfully disagree. The link has much value if you're concerned with keeping kids safe, and it's relevant as a direct consequence of the fact that most crimes are committed by men. Your statement about men has it ba
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by b_emery 11y ago
Between 1980 and 2008 "Males committed the vast majority of homicides in the United States at that time, representing 90.5% of the total number of offenders" [1]. Men are much more dangerous. A general rule for a lost child is to
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by b_emery 11y ago
But they are so good! We lived in Sardinia for a few months and would buy tomatoes by the several kilo every week. The seller often commented about the number of guests we must have had (none!). We always ate them with fresh bread, cheese a
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by b_emery 11y ago
Yes indeed. Apparently, he was the hardest working player in the league [1], to which the book attributes to his greatness, and longevity. [1] http://thegameology.blogspot.com/2010/11/game-training-compi...
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by b_emery 11y ago
Someone posted a pdf here: https://analizamatematicampt.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/tal...
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by b_emery 11y ago
How to get good at anything (cribbed from the excellent Talent is overratted) 1) Practice just above your level (enough to be difficult and stretch, but not demoralizingly hard). Get a coach to help you find this range. Do this as many hour
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by b_emery 11y ago
Very interesting, particularly the Challenges section: "Differences between the behavior of MATLAB and Julia’s core linear algebra libraries led to many roadblocks in the development of DSGE.jl. Julia uses multithreaded BLAS functions
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The Coming Era of Unlimited and Free Clean Energy(washingtonpost.com)
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Paris’ Day Sans Cars(wired.com)
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Paris’ Day Sans Cars(wired.com)
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by b_emery 11y ago
> If you are a typical HN reader, you likely have less than 3,000 marbles left. Quote of the week!
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Google matching refugee relief donations(onetoday.google.com)
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> I personally employee two 60+ folks on my team, and they're great resources. I wish other companies would view them in this way. It seems there is something which could be done...even if it's a company which distinguishes its
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by b_emery 11y ago
This is incredible! Thanks
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This is a good idea. Cal Newport has a similar suggestion, and often writes about thus under the heading "the psychology of impressiveness": http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/03/26/how-to-get-into
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by b_emery 11y ago
Reminds me of one of my favorite things to do in Rome: track down high water marks: http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/waters/flood_markers.html
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by b_emery 11y ago
The article is pretty old. Do the books, or other articles address the criticisms? eg: " "I have seen no evidence that large numbers of people ever lived in the Beni," says Betty J. Meggers, of the Smithsonian Institution. &q
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by b_emery 11y ago
I do have papers. I recently wrote a paper where we used backscatter from container ships to calibrate our radars. I'll try to email it to you, but here it is: http://euler.msi.ucsb.edu/papers/2014_emery_apm_from_s
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by b_emery 11y ago
I'm not familiar with SAR, but it seems like they could use more than just 2 antennas to produce a more directional receive array. I work with HF radars (2-30 MHz) and this is basically what we do. There is a lot of clever engineering
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by b_emery 11y ago
I use tiddlywiki, a single file javascript app accessed with a browser and stored in dropbox (tiddlywiki.com). Supports some version of markdown, and importantly for me, has many plugins including one for Latex. I think the search and taggi
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Ocean drift simulation(adrift.org.au)
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Here's a really cool site that simulates the drift of plastics in the ocean: http://adrift.org.au When I pick points in the eastern indian ocean, they all end up hitting africa!
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Here's a pdf of a poster where someone did basically that, using computer simulations of course. Their figure 5 shows debris zones [edit: actually garbage patches] that are pretty close to Reunion http://www.researchgate.net
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by b_emery 11y ago
Couple months ago, I was looking out the window on approach to LAX and spotted a metallic helium balloon, maybe 200-400 meters past the end of the wing. As far as I can tell it was not a threat, and I've not been able to find an instan
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Sleeping Schedules of Geniuses(nymag.com)
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by b_emery 11y ago
Here's a good place to start: ftp://ftp.cdc.noaa.gov/Datasets/20thC_ReanV2c/Monthlies/gaussian/monolevel/air.sfc.mon.mean.nc It's netcdf global monthly mean air temps. Pick some grid points

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