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> To help improve Daft, we collect non-identifiable data.

> To disable this behavior, set the following environment variable: DAFT_ANALYTICS_ENABLED=0

> [0] In short, we collect the following:

> On import, we track system information such as the runner being used, version of Daft, OS, Python version, etc.

> On calls of public methods on the DataFrame object, we track metadata about the execution: the name of the method, the walltime for execution and the class of error raised (if any). Function parameters and stacktraces are not logged, ensuring that user data remains private.

Is this telemetry really necessary?

[0] https://www.getdaft.io/projects/docs/en/latest/faq/telemetry...

For those wanting to see it in action [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV9P0w8vZi8

And a beautiful little extension [0] (I use the Firefox one) to click when you visit a page that you want to Archive.is or Wayback.

[0] https://github.com/dessant/web-archives

From the NatGeo link, I particularly liked:

> As for Geronimo, Heter reported that he had a “priority reservation on the first ship into the hinterland,” accompanied by a harem of three young females.

I assume you mean the explosive [0] not the plants [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-4_(explosive)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_C4_plants

When I was finishing my PhD thesis, the suggestion was to insert some low-hanging fruit for the reviewers who would be doing only a cursory review but would need to find their "duck". Didn't do it because my committee was excellent and didn't want to show any disrespect.

Stineman interpolation [0] is an alternative that is quick and "dirty" imputer for missing values. Of course there are monotonic-preserving versions [1] of splines that are excellent as well.

For my uses, cubic interpolation is simply not of value when I have noisy points and/or unpredictable behaviour between points --- Kalman smoothers or Gaussian process/Kriging gives me both a good mean estimate between points and a sense of the error associated with the interpolation.

[0] https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1980-07/page/n...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone_cubic_interpolation

I think they're waiting on the fall-out of the Online News Act legislation (C-18) and perhaps the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (C-27).

Was curious so checked Canada but it isn't available [0]. I think it is due to the Online News Act legislation (C-18) and perhaps the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (C-27).

[0] https://support.google.com/bard/answer/13575153?hl=en

An interesting impact of an immediate stop of fossil fuel emissions is a rapid temperature increase over a few years due to an unmasking impact. i.e. the aerosols that are continually being produced due to fossil fuel burning drop out within days, weeks, months, increasing the solar radiation reaching the surface [0,1].

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01372-y (paywall)

[1] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/188408/6/Dvorak_Armouretal_r... (pdf pre-print)

A good review paper on "global dimming" and changes in surface shortwave radiation is by Wild [0].

[0] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/200...

People do not like to be fooled. As others have said, first listen. Then respond by planting seeds about where they are getting their science and facts. The seed that gets people out of cults is when they realize they've been duped. Unfortunately emotional wins over rational every time.

Did you store the tube of ice?

At approximately the same depth drilled, Antarctica e.g. EPICA @ Dome C yields 8 interglacials [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Project_for_Ice_Corin...

You mean like a Newfie [0]?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_dog

Sir Terry is on record as using "Brewers's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable". You can see the seeds of inspiration throughout his books.

You could do both: use DDG but preface search with !brave as needed.

> ... so emissions are the first derivative of this graph

Not exactly. There is a net sink of emissions every year into the land & ocean, so d(CO2)/dt = emissions minus the net sinks, roughly. See the graph on CO2 partitioning [0]. A lot of research goes into whether these sinks continue at their current rate of removal.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_carbon_cycle#Anthr...

Thanks for this resource. It also serves as a LaTeX math example --- the source for the book is provided.

When I saw the NaNs, my first thought was the example was going to be predict the NaN values, not drop them.

Coriolis. There are timescales set up by two big mechanisms: one is westward-propagating oceanic Rossby [0] waves just to the north and south of the equator and the other is eastward-propagating Kelvin [1] waves along the equator which hit the Peruvian coast, split in two and flow north and south bouncing along the coast. Sloshing back and forth.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossby_wave

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_wave

Remember that global averages include lots of ocean. Over land we have much faster rates of warming. e.g. Central Park has been rising on average 0.5F per decade [0].

[0] https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-gla...

Funny, as I scrolled down reading, a pop-up window appeared that obscured the content, advertising a "FREE Trial!". This has almost the same impact for me as a cookie banner --- something that diverts attention. They have a big red button to press versus a smaller X to kill.

Perhaps tangential, but there is a Pandoc marco [0] for this program to DOCX via RTF. But I agree, I can do all sorts of things but eventually I am often required to get a document in DOCX. Love Pandoc.

[0] https://github.com/taviso/wpunix/issues/17

Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_of_the_Calling_of_an_En...

I know zero about how containers are tied down but the gust forces on the sails that I saw in the video are going to be enormous. Have there been some simple checks on the righting moments on the container and how it transmitted to the containers below and finally to the deck? One benefit of the design is that you can "reef" in bad conditions (hopefully really, really quickly) and perhaps still get some benefit.

Have you done any weather routing calcs to see what the angle of attack for the big ship lanes? Perhaps an integrated trip cost-benefit?

Also, you might not want to use the WASP acronym and stick with just "wind-assisted propulsion". The wind industry will immediately think of the WAsP software [0].

[0] https://www.wasp.dk/

I'd love if this was filterable on country, which looks like the data is available.

i.e. I was looking for the lowest ranked Canadian bank... which seems to be Equitable Bank... which tends to offer some of the higher high-interest-rate saving accounts.

You probably already know about this wired keyboard by Lenovo [0] that features the TrackPoint.

[0] https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/p/accessories-and-software/keyb...

Stick a pony in me pocket

I'll fetch the suitcase from the van

'Cos if you want the best ones

But you don't ask questions

Then brother, I'm your man

- Fools & Horses Theme

Exactly. Water surfaces or solar panels near airports or buildings near expensive cars [0].

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-23930675