Learning how to process decades of daily NOAA gridded global sea temperature data myself (as a teaching exercise for my data wrangling class) so I can make a version of this distressing graph you’ve probably seen already. The netCDF data format is quite neat, I’ll focus on that.
It’s remarkable that there’s more than forty years of daily global data on sea surface temperatures just right there, well-documented, free to download and analyze using other free tools. This is why all my data classes are constantly in danger of turning into my theory classes, and vice versa.
It is of course essential to the future of the university that academics fully and unquestioningly incorporate LLMs into their teaching and research practice.
A late dinner—prepared on time but neglected in favor of a computer game—led my son to be victimized by the remark “Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it”.
Honestly I’m surprised he hasn’t simply smothered me in my sleep by now.
Median Street Tree diameter vs Median Household Income for New York City’s NTA-level neighborhoods. The relationship is strongest in the Bronx; in Manhattan you have rich tree-lined UES and UWS neighborhoods, but also wealthy mid- and lower-Manhattan neighborhoods where planting isn’t possible.
Sidenote: Drawing faceted plots of NYC would be a lot more elegant if there were six boroughs instead of five. Please consider splitting Queens in two. Or actually, even better, just eliminate Staten Island.
Been fighting with them to resolve a duplicate order (from their website crashing) since Black Friday. They've had the return since January 4. I still don't have a refund. (Just filed a chargeback. I hate doing that.)
I've lost HOURS to this. I've never seen a company with such poor basic service.
This weekend, I coined the phrase, "Timothée Chalametnia," and no, I have not made any attempt to discover who might have already said this many years ago.
Research is not the kind of thing a serious Chalametniac does.
I can’t be the only person reading stories like this who feels caught in a pincer where one side is creepy panopticon-peddling tech solutionists and the other is pious scolds insisting that chronically distracted students are either a myth or real but personally my fault entirely.
@jamesthomson@siracusa Clustering is one of those methods where there are a million ways to do it but yes, you two are consistently peas in a pod across a range of ways of clustering answer similarity.
@jamesthomson@siracusa 😂Obviously you need to pitch a TV show where ye drive around Britain like the Two Fat Ladies and try using other people's computers.
The thing about Dún Aonghasa on the Aran Islands is that it really exemplifies “commitment to the bit” in the sense of “We’re gonna hold out here on the far Western edge of Europe and if it doesn’t work out, well, you can jump in the feckin’ Atlantic I suppose.”
An absolutely mortifying read. Really classic case of what happens once a person gets successfully snagged by the initial implausible hook, and everything after is like a cascade of mutually-confirming events, right up to the end when suddenly you realize you’ve been totally conned. https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-warrants.html
