Learning about fun data problems
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Happy July 4th! Made a "Big Sort" for big data (animated algorithm) to celebrate.
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Apt title, @WSJ :-)
U.S. Chess Grandmaster ‘Likely Cheated’ More Than 100 Times, Probe Finds
The American teenager in the chess cheating scandal likely received illegal assistance in more than 100 games, an investigation by Chess.com has found on.wsj.com/3CuRt1B
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How will CDC pick vaccines (for virus variants) for Fall? Fascinating tradeoffs!
I get lots of questions about what vaccines are coming & when and how they will work against BA.4 and 5, the newest variants.
This episode explores thanks to @dr_kkjetelina & @apoorva_nyc. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Raincircles!
Rainbows are actually... circles
The centre is directly opposite the position of the sun in the sky, this is called the antisolar point
A full circle is visible from a higher vantage point, usually a plane and is sometimes called a ‘glory’ 1/🧵
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Most fun as an engineer? Got water leak sensor to 0%!
Quite zen to track and fix big leaks in heaters, crawl space, and flaps. TIL, water leaks are too common, esp with the temperature changes.
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Iowa Liquor Sales dataset wins! Ultra-popular this year for cs145.stanford.edu final projects, especially with JOINs on demographics.
Should I be worried? In the past years, students picked COVID, CMS, climate change, and genetics data sets.
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Excited to write about WarpFlow, a fast system to analyze petabytes of GPS data in maps and commuter apps ai.google/research/pubs/pub4…
Peek into how the world works. Stories from cs145.stanford data class medium.com/@nshivakumar/a-pe… …
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Take the blue pill nitter.gq/atroyn/status/10149740…
Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union:
- waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it's of poor workmanship and quality
- promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day out
Popup train stations nitter.gq/kimmaicutler/status/95…
A train station started at 6 p.m. and completed by 3:30 a.m. in Southwestern China.
A Bus Rapid Transit line down Van Ness. First studied by San Francisco planners in 2001. Recently delayed by two years until 2020. sfexaminer.com/two-mile-long… nitter.gq/SCMP_News/status/95640…
Soon the desk, wall and laptop will disappear nitter.gq/waitbutwhy/status/9500…
Impressive legacy, from a mapping leader nitter.gq/mhelft/status/94437069…
In Largest Ever Gift To Nature Conservancy, Esri CEO Jack Dangermond preserves Pristine Stretch Of California Coast via @forbes forbes.com/sites/miguelhelft…
Finding planets with AI!
qz.com/1157236/google-and-na…
