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monalisauzi

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monalisauzi··on eBird: A crowdsourced bird sighting database
Does anyone else struggle with counting individual birds? I talk myself out of submitting a checklist to the "Great Backyard Bird Count" like every year because I worry I'm double counting birds and will mess up their data. When you have a bunch of feeders and live halfway in the woods it becomes an issue of: are there 20 mourning doves or 30? 40 finches or 50?
monalisauzi··on The history of wildfire modeling
Cool, thanks for sharing! Yeah, there are also issues reconciling the different scales of weather data (hundreds of meters to kilometers resolution), fuel data (~30 m) , and fire dynamics (sub-centimeter). It's still pretty amazing what they've been able to do with what they have, and weather forecasting has gotten so much better in the last decade! It's a pretty exciting time for the field.
monalisauzi··on Bongo Cat
Just what I needed to jump-start my productivity today!
monalisauzi··on Show HN: Memory Pill
Ah, I hadn't even thought of that, but it makes sense. It certainly can't hurt!
monalisauzi··on Show HN: Memory Pill
Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not even sure how blister packs help protect against accidental overdose beyond the protection you'd get from just counting the pills in the bottle. In either case, you could accidentally skip a day and double dose later on based on the number of pills remaining, especially if you aren't sure what day you started taking the medication. I can definitely see the benefit of a product that doesn't rely on user reporting to track doses.
monalisauzi··on He Predicted Trump’s Win in 2016. Now He’s Ready to Call 2020
Biden, sorry. Meant to add a comment to that effect immediately because I totally agree! But it was close. Biden 7 keys and Trump 6, largely attributed to COVID-related economic downturns, political unrest, and Trump's lack of universal charisma.