Arik Tashie

Vast amounts of data being removed again. Does anybody know of any concerted efforts to compile and save at least some of these datasets?

#science

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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

Oh cool, I'll need to check thay out, thanks!

Combining and processing a bunch of netcdfs. There is probably a more efficient way of chunking in Python than I applied (I'm more of an R guy) but then again I applied a pretty brute force approach in Julia and haven't implemented threading yet, so the inefficiencies are equally distributed

Surprisingly, it seems completely, totally, absolutely open source and available via hugging face or direct download (in addition to the typical api)

Finally got around to converting a major Python/R project to Julia #julialang... just wow. I've had a program running for almost 10 days now, converted the code to Julia yesterday (3 hrs) and it finished running overnight. The Python and R code are still chugging away..

I really enjoyed What Moves the Dead, a retelling of the Fall of the House of Usher by a North Carolinian author who also lives in a blue dot :)

Choke

It is still a fun-ish read, but I kinda cringe at the moments I know I would have reveled in years ago

Reading a Palahniuk for the first time in 20 years. Gotta say, middle-aged-me is not impressed with teenaged-me's literary obsessions #booksky

It's not the value of the coin at any given moment. It's ability to take massive bribes directly. Watch for big purchases by whales whenever a trade deal is being negotiated.

a pikachu with a surprised look on his face . ALT: a pikachu with a surprised look on his face .

Shocking to see this coming from an heiress to apartheid emerald mines who espouses white replacement theory and openly supports limiting government participation to "high value males"

Currently only big institutional investors have access to those data for $$$$$. I think it is cool that agentic AI is making it possible to share those data more widely

Not every piece of software is inherently evil. Some friends and I are processing high resolution climate projections (droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, etc.) and plan to make them available to NGOs for free.

Fair point wrt the Palisades specifically, but there are other exburbs being impacted that are totally relevant. The article also explicity describes many other contributing factors (e.g., controlled burn policy, insurance), they just focus on zoning as one factor for this particular article

How so? Do you disagree that zoning restrictions on high density housing result in sprawl? Or that low income folks benefit from higher density zoning while the wealthy benefit from increased property values when housing supply is artificially constrained?

Totally agree that AI will put a ton of downward pressure on early-to-mid-level tech and creative jobs. A potential silver lining is that AI(agents) lower the barrier to entry in the start-up world, such that there is a real alternative to the incestuous tech-bro Silicon Valley venture capital route

What is this cold white substance accumulating on my lawn, should I be afraid?? #NC

Does anybody know where to recycle or properly dispose of small non-phone and non-computer electronics (e.g., electric toothbrush) in #chapelhill #orangecounty #nc #northcarolina?

LLMs have mostly replaced my jr data scientists (not my choice, but I managed ok after they were downsized and not replaced). IMO, folks with deep subject matter expertise will remain safe for a while. But the world is already very scary for jr folks - which bodes poorly for career development

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Wild so many people are reflexively saying "Good." Any civilian would be jailed for what Hunter did. Yes Trump has committed and pardoned many more and many worse crimes, but that doesn't change the facts of Hunter's case.

Though any libertarian would love to change some of those laws...

Thanks for the rec, kids had a blast. The sorcerer went down a few times but the kids were rolling rocks and everyone survived

Lol, same. But probably for the best since it keeps people from misleading by stealthily editing their old comments. Still annoying though

I feel personally attacked

(but yeah)

OSU gets embarrassed on the field, instigates a fight, but then Michigan players get pepper sprayed??

I think the rationale against mandating a rate cap is that lenders are likely to lose money lending to high risk borrowers at a lower rate, and therefore are likely to simply stop lending to high risk borrowers (e.g., the working poor) who would then have no options at all for short term loans

Recognition of one of the largest tribes in NC is long overdue. Not holding my breath, but cautiously optimistic as this seems to have bipartisan buy-in

Thanksgiving miracle: an unseasonably late NC strawberry "harvest" for 2024 #gardening

GMing a holiday Pathfinder 2e one-shot for a small group, Kindergarten to 2nd grade. Any recommendations?
#pf2e #pathfinder

Soft?? Before she aged out, he drove his girl to the bar exam in the snow. In. The. Snow.