frontierkodiak

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   by frontierkodiak 4y ago

   Ezra Dyer is such a great car writer. I loved the Car & Drivers of yore, especially pre-2010ish. Ezra’s pieces are the only ones left that remind me of why I was so obsessed with hoarding and re-reading these mags as a kid. Even so, I m
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   by frontierkodiak 4y ago

   I'm working on a similar project for pollinators. We've got a bumblebee identification webapp up ( https://beemachine.ai/ ), and I'm working on a tool to automatically monitor pollination activity. Have been wo
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   by frontierkodiak 4y ago

   Oh, wow! I'm currently working on a sort of BirdNET for pollinators, and am super excited by the possibility of gamification for amping up participation in these citizen science projects. Strava, Pokemon Go, etc. provide an excellent m
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   by frontierkodiak 5y ago

   Not a mass-market product, but another fantastic anomaly in automotive engineering is the hydraulic system used to power the accessory systems in the Mercedes 600; the classic chariot of late-20th century despots and celebs. It ran on miner
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   by frontierkodiak 5y ago

   Go cats!
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   by frontierkodiak 5y ago

   Indiana’s deforestation has been pretty incredible. Historically about 90% of land-cover in IN was forest, that fell to something like 10% by 1900, but has since crawled upwards. Today, something like a quarter of IN is forested. Elsewhere