Viewing profile — bengebre

Yeah that's definitely a day-of-week/reporting dump effect making that spike. The 7 day rolling data for deaths shows CA is only 6% below the most recent peak: https://www.deptofnu…

15 days ago was a different universe of testing capacity. Oregon had done less than 500 tests then and was still using the initial (semi-flawed) CDC tests. We've done almost 13,000…

Kudos to NYT, but I think the COVID Tracking Project data is probably better because it attempts to measures total testing as well (positives and negatives). I've been using it to …

Detecting moving objects (asteroids, TNOs) in TESS data: https://www.benengebreth.org/dynamic-sky/TESS/sedna/

As someone with an High Deductible Healthcare Plan, I pay most medical costs out of pocket up to an annual limit. It's crazy that for such expensive services I NEVER know what my b…

First I've seen on completion stats for the Stanford online courses: "Besides the Artificial Intelligence course, Stanford offered two other MOOCs last semester — Machine Learning …

I see the title "Delete profile and Google+ features" but no link to an actual action when I visit here: https://www.google.com/settings/general My guess is it's going away for eve…

The "Delete profile and Google+ features" link in the Google "Account Overview" has also been removed, so it looks like you can no longer get rid of your Google+ account after the …

Have any of you signed up for the service yet? It looks quite slick. I've tipped a couple of people as well as verified my own website so that I can claim tips that people leave fo…

Having just listened to the "When Patents Attack!" podcast today ( http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/26/138576167/when-pat... ), I question how this addresses what I saw as th…

The BLS doesn't report the data monthly, but it does occasionally break out the unemployment rate for higher levels of education. http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm In short, …

Here's the unemployment rate data by education level in chart form: http://www.deptofnumbers.com/unemployment/demographics/ It's interesting to observe the structural nature of the…

This stood out to me: "a spectacular last hurrah for Fermilab’s Tevatron, once the world’s most powerful particle accelerator and now slated to go dark forever in September or earl…

Boy, there are certainly much easier ways around it than this. The thing is, I'd really like to not have to use them. I'd love to give the Times $5 a month for access to something …

A lot of us New Yorkers use the Freelancers Union for health insurance. It solved this exact problem for me. They're more of a service platform for independent workers than a union…

I'm always amazed by how many people claim to have learned so little in college. It's not that I don't believe them; I just had the complete opposite experience. Perhaps I'm just s…

It kinda makes you long for the days where the exit was a speculative IPO. At least some of the resources went to founders that way and they often retained a sizable chunk of equit…