Viewing profile — agtech_andy

For those reading this and wanting to pick nettle, it is important to pick young leaves, and not from plants that are in flower. Once the leaves are older, there are all sorts of o…

Zip codes are great for anything with delivery logistics. Anything else is a loose correlation at best, that will likely change over time.

I was once in a fast-growing startup, where the CEO told us in a company all-hands that we had 18 months of runway and that our future was looking great! Some of us devs booked lon…

No, but it is related to alıç. That family spread around the world. Yeni dünya (loquat in English, which comes from Chinese) is a completely different thing.

I used to get very frustrated that others could not intuit information the way I could. I have a lot of experience trying to express quantities to leaders and policymakers. At the …

There was a graduate statistics seminar program in Pyongyang for a bit. https://community.amstat.org/sspa/communityblogs/blogviewer?... http://www.the-psi.org/psi-in-the-news.html

Someone recorded a few car journeys and put them on Mapillary. Here is one that anyone interested can check out. https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=1680771775466497&lat=39.... Pro…

One of the major uses of graph databases is to sell companies on the need to use graph databases.

100% agree. It is a race to the bottom that Americans will never win. Americans who want a normal wage and life are never going to be able to compete on price with someone in South…

It is all a house of cards. A bunch of people in the city became dangerously levered bagholders, and the city is pushing people to come unnecessarily. It is a huge amount of waste …

I lived in Turkey for over 3 years. It is really sad how taxis were by far the worst part. When Uber came to Ankara, it was a massive improvement in my quality of life. In Istanbul…

There has been a massive (but slow) sell off of natural diamonds. People in the industry have known this time was coming for a while. It is very much a bag holder problem. In some …

I have had a lot of success using BoundaryML ( https://www.boundaryml.com/ ) for this. They have also been super responsive for any of my questions.

Yes. They just have to pay a few thousand per month to places that do it as a service.

It is a very compelling article and nice to read about the Liberian farmer entreprenuer, but the South also had tea, tobacco, and yaupon (black drink) which are all stimulants.

If you think this way, you should be covering up the camera lenses on all of your devices. It is happening everywhere already.

This is a completely unfair and unfactual assumption you made. I entered Saudi Arabia just this morning with a star of David necklace on my neck (yes it was under my shirt, but it …

I am someone with a computational physics background who is coupled with someone who is training to be a surgeon. We lived together during much of her medical school, and thus, are…

While American chestnuts are often more flavorful, they are almost always smaller than the commercial Chinese and Japanese varieties.

What will become clear over the next 5 years is the extent to which the worldwide environment is polluted with PFAS. Given how much PFAS has been found in remote corners of the wor…

Only someone with a PhD could come up with a take this bad. The article essentially boils down to a plea to let people grow hard drugs instead of the food they need to eat. "Money"…

I wish this was the case in Turkey, where I am currently living. But it seems like QR menus are one way to handle inflation and changing prices for the restaurants. I hate QR menus…

The reality is that US regulatory agencies have been extremely permissive for many years. Many other nations piggy back on their findings. We need a massive increase in enforcement…

An example of a gambling dystopia is Serbia. There are gambling places everywhere, even in small towns or next to otherwise scenic places. It is terribly depressing to be constantl…

I do agriculture stuff in Turkey. This has been a useful heuristic. I estimate that 90% of the people I have faced who get angry or make a big deal about this are bureaucrats who d…