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The Inside Story of How a Food Startup Cracked(buzzfeed.com)
7 points by cwal37 11y ago|1 comments
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by cwal37 11y ago
I had to change the title a bit to fit it within the character limit, which led to some personal editorializing of Wired's title, but I wouldn't classify any Pentagon project as rogue, even if they were able to skip a number of bu
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How Techies Armed the Predator, Nearly Stopped 9/11, and Invented Remote War(wired.com)
1 points by cwal37 11y ago|1 comments
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by cwal37 11y ago
My personal economist-on-twitter of choice to tune into around fed and other news is Justin Wolfers[1]. Your mileage may vary, but he's certainly willing to express an opinion in what I consider a pretty clear manner (not to say he isn
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by cwal37 11y ago
I was actually thinking about this yesterday when the first draft of a graph I was making looked nifty, so I removed the numbers and saved a clean copy[1]. There are plenty of issues data-wise: the colors repeat, lines appear and disappear
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by cwal37 11y ago
This quote really jumped out at me as almost a caricature of the disconnect between Silicon Valley internet/communication disruption and "disruption" in something like medical services. "While Draper isn’t a board member
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Conversion via Twitter(newyorker.com)
1 points by cwal37 11y ago|0 comments
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by cwal37 11y ago
Oh cool, I was out there for a summer in grad school making Sankey diagrams and working on some conceptual stuff for cities research. I definitely miss the bay area. Haha, I figured at the very least you'd be in contact with some peopl
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by cwal37 11y ago
ORNL? Maybe we could get lunch sometime, I've been curious about the computational climate stuff since I got here.
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What the turn from polls to data science means for democracy(newyorker.com)
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Out from under(metrotimes.com)
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Blood Ties(newyorker.com)
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by cwal37 11y ago
For not being a citizen you have some strong opinions about his alignment being "nonsense." Basically, republicans have utilized the increasingly deregulated campaign financing (via Super PACs) to a much later extent than Democrat
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by cwal37 11y ago
Not modern doesn't have to mean difficult to parse, it depends on your personal outlook. You can also download individually customized csv files if you want, which my original link led to. csv and txt files seem eminently reasonable to
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by cwal37 11y ago
Um, maybe to use it in an commercial setting? I've literally no idea what you're talking about as I've never come across that before. I've always just pulled down the station stuff I need by hand (since you can get all t
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by cwal37 11y ago
Hey buddy, I use this resource[1] all the time (and they're actually housed into the building next to me here at work). It's the long-term climate records from monitoring stations across the country, the United States Historical C
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by cwal37 11y ago
"But if this offseason is any indication, max players are the bargains once again. Forgive me for sounding like a bad Internet headline — but you are not going to believe how underpaid Kawhi Leonard is, despite his new max contract. Th
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The Rocket Man Who Wants To Beat the Billionaires(popularmechanics.com)
159 points by cwal37 11y ago|19 comments
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by cwal37 11y ago
If you're interested in LiDAR data from the United states, you should have a look at this wikipedia page and its corresponding links[0]. Most states have some kind of data freely available from the most recent survey, although it'
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In St. Louis, Fears Rise as a Landfill Fire Nears a Radioactive Waste Site(citylab.com)
2 points by cwal37 11y ago|0 comments
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The opening, if you don't feel like clicking through, but want the gist: "They are overwhelmingly white, rich, older and male, in a nation that is being remade by the young, by women, and by black and brown voters. Across a sprawl
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How Spotify’s Discover Weekly cracked human curation at internet scale(theverge.com)
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The Siege of Herbalife(fortune.com)
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The Lawyer Who Defended Dzhokhar Tsarnaev(newyorker.com)
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The Economies Getting Hit by Low Oil Prices(theatlantic.com)
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The Comeback of the Great Lakes States(forbes.com)
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by cwal37 11y ago
I hope you noticed your quote specifically says correlated. Also, you're presenting an argument that has actually been looked at for decades in the literature, which would be evident from a leisurely google scholar search of terms such
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Emails Reveal Israeli and Italian Companies’ Role in Government Spying(buzzfeed.com)
2 points by cwal37 11y ago|0 comments
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Have you happened across this[1] (which ars sums up here[3]) in your comprehensive research on the topic? It's almost entirely about exactly what seems to be your big sticking point, that we're bad at measuring temperature, and th
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Living in the Disneyland Version of Startup Life(buzzfeed.com)
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