dannyfraser

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by dannyfraser 1y ago
This is correct. What's important for industry is understanding the energy balance, i.e. entries and exits to and from the grid. "Generation" is a catch-all term for grid entries.
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by dannyfraser 1y ago
Generation in this instance means power generation to meet consumption demand. Typically withdrawals from storage are counted as a source of supply to meet that demand regardless of the original source of the power in storage.
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by dannyfraser 1y ago
A bit of digging in the T&Cs, Companies House, and LinkedIn pointed me to an individual working for the NHS who has put this together as a side project. I work in this space ( https://www.woodmac.com/ ), mostly with natur
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The Analytics Development Lifecycle(getdbt.com)
3 points by dannyfraser 2y ago|0 comments
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by dannyfraser 2y ago
I find it really weird that a discussion on the state of SQL right now doesn't include any mention of Snowflake or dbt. SQL is _everywhere_ in the data engineering world right now.
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by dannyfraser 2y ago
The Open University runs a Master's program in systems thinking (which I'm currently studying). There's a free primer course called 'Mastering systems Thinking in Practice' that gives a good overview and is full of
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by dannyfraser 3y ago
I visited Boston from the UK last year and was struck by the lower level of traffic noise. I attributed it to there being far fewer diesel cars and more EVs & hybrids. In the UK we have diesel powered buses and taxis everywhere as well
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by dannyfraser 4y ago
It's called a monopsony.
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by dannyfraser 4y ago
No radar, auto-aim off, license to kill, pistols, go!
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by dannyfraser 4y ago
Oh that last point! My friends and I used to just strafe along every single wall and all you could see was the wall texture until it was time to shoot. We knew all the levels so well that just the changes in lighting, or sometimes how quick
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by dannyfraser 5y ago
The all-Europe equivalent is ENTSO-E[1], which has down to 15-minute granularity (depending on operator I think) data for every generation unit in Europe. There's a similar platform for the gas network too[2] - only daily data but it d
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by dannyfraser 5y ago
Agreed. I read the Mistborn books a few years ago and just found them very... sanitised, especially compared to other prominent fantasy novels by the likes of Scott Lynch or the brilliantly sweary Joe Abercrombie.
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Diagrams of panoramas from various peaks around the world(viewfinderpanoramas.org)
1 points by dannyfraser 5y ago|1 comments
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by dannyfraser 5y ago
This is a great use of digital elevation data to generate images of what's visible from various places. It appears to be a real labour of love from the author.
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by dannyfraser 6y ago
My favourite kind of web scraping is when you have to pick apart some undocumented API that serves up data to an SPA, then figure out how to tidy up the response(s) into a single pandas dataframe. Always a satisfying feeling to solve one of
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by dannyfraser 6y ago
I don't think that's a fair comparison. The New Yorker is a magazine that curates and publishes articles by people who write for a living and stakes its reputation on only publishing pieces of a high quality. The distinction here
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by dannyfraser 6y ago
> “Oh this person just throws stuff on Medium? Probably not worth my time.” This is just the worst attitude. Someone's not worth your time because they don't have the knowledge or time to stand up a website on their own domain?
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by dannyfraser 7y ago
Martin Gardner came up with a somewhat contrived but still brilliant extension to this: "Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been
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by dannyfraser 7y ago
Containers or environment management solve this problem quite easily. All of my major projects have a conda environment alongside them, and I expect I'll be shifting things over to Docker containers as my org starts shifting things to
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Checking-Driven Development (For Data Analysis)(third-bit.com)
1 points by dannyfraser 7y ago|0 comments
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by dannyfraser 8y ago
As far as I know they build up a graph of the cell execution order, so recursive loops are quite easy to find.
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by dannyfraser 8y ago
There was a good read on this in the most recent issue of Wired UK as well: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/cavendish-banana-extinction-...
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by dannyfraser 8y ago
Malcolm Gladwell's podcast had a good summary of the issue, including the pedal confusion. http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/08-blame-game
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by dannyfraser 9y ago
One red, one black.