potash

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by potash 12y ago
Do you know of any research about the accuracy of forecasts as a function of sensor data input? I.e. what kind of an improvement will we see if some number of Android users install PressureNet?
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by potash 12y ago
Note that your code still forces python to read the entire file! If all you want is the last line of a file, use the UNIX tail: tail -n 1 $f Tail seeks backwards so it will only read the one line. Of course, this won't give you
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by potash 12y ago
> There may be a market opportunity for an economist to write a big Piketty-style book on climate change. Yale economist Bill Nordhaus' Climate Casino is that book. And his research with integrated assessment models concluded: >
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by potash 13y ago
Interesting. Thanks!
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by potash 13y ago
Offtopic: It's funny that an article about polyglottism has a grammatical error in the title and a misspelling in the first sentence.
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by potash 13y ago
Why not? Unless I'm missing something, constructive interference is still additive and power loss is still inverse square. Of course batteries also have power transmission inefficiencies. My intuition though is that wireless power has
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by potash 13y ago
How hard would it be to solve this deterministically? Can someone comment on the game's physics? I am assuming: - constant horizontal velocity - gravity - flapping implemented via impulse - collisions are handled with boundin
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by potash 13y ago
Interesting, I'd never thought about this before. In case you (or anyone else) are still wondering... If an A3 sheet is X units by Y units (with X the long side) and A4 is 2Y units by X units then their ratios are X/Y and 2Y/
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by potash 13y ago
P.S. I agree this is pointless. The best solution in my opinion is simply ssh and [h]top or glances.
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by potash 13y ago
Of course! ssh -X. Obviously requires conky (and a minimal X server) on the server.
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by potash 13y ago
Cool. Not a lawyer but I think that if you are not copying the main content (just the metadata) AND putting the source in your bibliography you should be okay. Also one simple way to try to raise money for the site is to use affiliate links
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by potash 13y ago
Great site design. A couple ideas off the top of my head: - Let hikes to include GPS route(s) to display on the map. - Link to the USGS topo map that covers a given hike: http://store.usgs.gov/b2c_usgs/usgs/maploca