mturmon

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by mturmon 8y ago
To an extent, CART. But more classically, any structured statistical model with (eg) terms for variable interactions, measurement noise, and hierarchy.
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by mturmon 8y ago
If you look at the pollution reports at the sites in the Santa Monica Bay, it has gotten a lot cleaner in terms of bacteria (from storm drains) over the last 10-15 years. I don’t go often enough to comment on trash like that you mention, b
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by mturmon 8y ago
> ...Urban public schools seem to be a failure overall.... This is just not true. My kid, now 13, goes to an LAUSD school and it has worked for her and her classmates. (We left a higher-"rated" [and there's another topic
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by mturmon 8y ago
> ...the Democratic party which opposes school vouchers and funding increased choice in education for disadvantaged neighborhoods... Hmm, in my city (LA), one Republican (Riordan) and later Democratic mayors (Hahn and Villaraigosa) have
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by mturmon 8y ago
That syntax doesn't make sense. The {**d1, **d2} idiom is just a clever mashup of Python's dictionary construction literal {}, and * * unpacking. That's why it only works with string-valued keys (which is a major lim
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by mturmon 8y ago
There are by-the-hour day spas in LA that often serve this purpose. They seem to be used as meet spots for paid hookups, although they serve other uses as well.
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by mturmon 8y ago
Their monitoring in CA appears to be a lot denser than in (say) the midwestern US. In general, agriculture creates a lot of dust. You can certainly see some hot spots in their CA data due to fires, e.g. the PM2.5 of 200+ in Paradise, CA.
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by mturmon 8y ago
Agree 100%. From the paper: "Second, [the final training algorithm] adds Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) maps, which robots use at execution time, as a source for building the roadmaps. Because SLAM maps are noisy, this c
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by mturmon 8y ago
Just speculating, but might there be a business in e-recyclers downstream of collection points diverting networked gizmos, which could find their way to a specialized data recovery outfit, which compiles everything recovered into a database
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by mturmon 8y ago
The place to start would be: https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/10/ The key phrase you're looking for is: CO2 fertilization.
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by mturmon 8y ago
For me, the problem with your remark is that it's proposing some kind of alteration of message (lying, in essence) by "a group" which is not really identified, but might be "climate scientists" - but with no actual
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by mturmon 8y ago
This is a fun question, and as an occasional user of MODIS products, I've asked it (to myself) also. Although I've never asked anyone on the MODIS team, who I see from time to time. I have always supposed that they wanted to leav
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by mturmon 8y ago
There is sometimes a name for that too: a racial housing covenant. When the California legislature passed a law outlawing them in 1963, the initiative process was used the next year to pass Prop. 14, which specifically allowed racial covena
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by mturmon 8y ago
Your first sentence, of course, is not true, but I agree with the rest. Backyard gardeners all over the US grow tomatoes. And some areas close where they are farmed have really good market or farmers-market tomatoes. The good ones just d
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by mturmon 8y ago
Urine and feces are completely different from a bacterial point of view, so this is a completely different level of contamination. At a kiddie pool I visited sometimes, this happened and they drained the whole thing. Maybe there is a chlor
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by mturmon 8y ago
These same employers (famously) had a cartel that prohibited job hopping before - the Jobs/Schmidt email - so it’s not surprising that the system would trend toward the same equilibrium again.
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by mturmon 8y ago
Your quoted excerpt intrigued me. The quoted scholar is none other than Amartya Sen, the Bengali economist and intellectual (Nobel prize in Economics, now at Harvard). Born in 1933, Sen was 10 years old at the time of the famine and witnes
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by mturmon 8y ago
Respiratory diseases under the umbrella term COPD (which includes emphysema) are another large category represented in that table. And alas, in my family.
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by mturmon 8y ago
Amazon also got a lot of free, confidential data on growth prospects from midsize to large cities all across the US, which would be useful for planning other facilities like warehouses and retail outlets like Whole Foods.
950.
by mturmon 8y ago
The person answering doesn't really comment on deep space missions, but I think the conclusion you draw (no encrypted link) is almost certainly right for Spirit and Opportunity, which were launched in 2003. The thinking used to be that
951.
by mturmon 8y ago
Yes. For more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleaning_event and: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mer/images.cfm?id=1823 The second link shows about 18% power drop after 90 sols ~= 90 days.
952.
by mturmon 8y ago
You have been down voted, but I think this is a reasonable point and a reasonable question. It seems to me that the method of iterated transformation you suggest will indeed yield a random draw. My analogy is to Markov chain Monte Carlo.
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by mturmon 8y ago
Looks like Freeman Dyson was a co author. Interesting document — it challenges the notion (which is not realistic, but is still believed) that if the US had just been more ruthless, it could have bombed the North Vietnamese sufficiently to
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by mturmon 8y ago
Still do, but it’s a big place! Sometimes I get lucky and recognize someone, but your last name (just looked) makes that hard ;-).
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by mturmon 8y ago
The senior/principal distinction is relative, of course. At my org, there are two flavors of principal (when the justification memo is written — the final title is the same.) First, “state of the art”, with publications and recognition
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by mturmon 8y ago
This seems like a way to offload the blame onto the uploader, rather than the system that continually asks for contacts.
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by mturmon 8y ago
> ...in pretty much all states, property taxes fund schools in that district... Not in California. Public schools in CA get an essentially-uniform fee (from the state) based on attendance - about $40/day/child. This helps make
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by mturmon 8y ago
The small home with only the essentials is deeply American. Recall Henry David Thoreau's cabin: https://www.simplesolarhomesteading.com/thoreaucabin.htm
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by mturmon 8y ago
I also recommend this book. The series on “meta programming make” is also quite good: http://make.mad-scientist.net/category/metaprogramming/
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by mturmon 8y ago
Thirded - in a slightly different context. (See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5275313#5276744 ) I’m currently managing data reduction for a bunch of space mission simulations using make. A simulation dumps a b

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