gullywhumper

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by gullywhumper 6y ago
I live about 3/4 mile up river from a nest along the Mississippi River. My office overlooks the river and I keep a log of every time I see one flying by. You can walk almost under the nest, and when they're home you can get a sens
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by gullywhumper 6y ago
The housing market is bonkers in Minneapolis. This Saturday we put an offer in on home that went on the market Thursday. There were 31 other offers. We offered 20% over asking, but didn't get it. That was our fourth unsuccessful offer
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by gullywhumper 6y ago
The latest Google street view shows utility trucks in front of the tunnels along 75. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1285304,-84.533603,3a,75y,14...
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by gullywhumper 6y ago
Car-free or significantly car-limited communities. Cars that are safer for pedestrians (not just for occupants in cars). Better traffic safety enforcement. Automobiles kill ~6k pedestrians and almost 140k are sent to the ER in the US - many
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by gullywhumper 6y ago
Discussed here a couple weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25024011
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Hunting the Caspian Monster (The Ekranoplan)(youtube.com)
1 points by gullywhumper 6y ago|1 comments
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by gullywhumper 6y ago
Here's a view of it on Google Maps before it was moved: https://goo.gl/maps/uCV3K5kU14y99hCYA
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by gullywhumper 6y ago
Christopher Browning's Ordinary Men is about a specific unit of German special police used to round up and massacre Jews. It's been 15+ years since I read it, but I think the conclusion was these otherwise ordinary men (not ardent
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by gullywhumper 6y ago
Step 1 reminds me of one of my favorites from the Onion: According to a Gallup report published Tuesday, over 95 percent of the nation’s grandfathers began their careers by walking straight into a place of business, saying “I’m the man for
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Moving Away from ‘Peak Car’(over-view.com)
2 points by gullywhumper 7y ago|0 comments
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by gullywhumper 7y ago
Maybe a naive question from someone with only passing familiarity, but does gender stay the same? Maybe not the best example, but does le metro stay le trome?
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by gullywhumper 7y ago
The last couple seasons were difficult for me to listen to Marty calling games because I thought he came across as very negative and embittered, but then his final season (this last season) was so much fun as he seemed to be enjoying it aga
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by gullywhumper 7y ago
Grew up listening to the Reds on WLW - it's current slogan is "The Big One" and it used to call itself "The Nation's Station".
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Boom Plans ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ Graphic Novel in 2020(publishersweekly.com)
2 points by gullywhumper 7y ago|0 comments
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by gullywhumper 7y ago
Here's another article about crow intelligence and crows in Seattle [1]. Some interesting topics from the article include crows have 'funerals', they can recognize individual humans, individual crows commute to the same speci
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Player Vectors: Characterizing Soccer Players' Playing Style(dtai.cs.kuleuven.be)
3 points by gullywhumper 7y ago|0 comments
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by gullywhumper 7y ago
> - Smartphone usage among pedestrians and drivers
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by gullywhumper 7y ago
The two features I probably find most valuable with my Apple Watch are that it's usually easier look at my wrist to see if I'm getting an important call rather than having to dig into my pocket, jacket, or bag to find the phone, a
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by gullywhumper 7y ago
I was amazed how quickly all the riders reacted and also recognized it wasn’t going to be easy to get out - “we’re not going to stop that with camelbacks”!
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by gullywhumper 7y ago
Only if you’re in one - otherwise that oversized pickup is designed to just plow on through puny humans in their path -crosswalks and bike lanes are no match!
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by gullywhumper 7y ago
The Atlantic had a photo essay about a riding club in North Philadelphia a couple years back. I don't know if they race, but it's still pretty crazy to see people riding horses in Philadelphia: https://www.theatlantic.c
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by gullywhumper 8y ago
The WSJ had a recent article about how sleeper trains are making a comeback (might be paywalled): https://www.wsj.com/articles/dream-vacations-the-new-age-of-... ?
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by gullywhumper 8y ago
Here's a Simpson's reference to Japan taking over: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dacPpadOS1A Longer clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq7wnMvLYg4
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by gullywhumper 8y ago
Here's a collection of a lot of resources including different libraries, tutorials, datasets, and languages: https://github.com/keon/awesome-nlp
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by gullywhumper 8y ago
It sucks, but bus routes are being reduced because people just aren't using them: http://www.startribune.com/declining-metro-transit-ridership...