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Where I live (western EU) it's simple. If the speed is limited to 25 km/h it's an e-bike. Above it's a speed pedelec and requires registration plate + insurance.

Academia is very broken. That's it actually. It's a long time that the incentive and job structure make universities a very toxic environment. Professors are basically running a 40…

I played the blog post game (using chatgpt). Prompt: "The text of the blog article is copy-pasted below. Please summarize it in one parargaph." Result: "The blog article explores t…

EUMETSAT publishes data as CC-BY 4.0 past a timeliness of 1 hour https://www.eumetsat.int/data-policy/eumetsat-data-policy.pd... Look for your dataset here https://data.eumetsat.in…

See also https://www.econtrail.com/

It's not specifically about logic. It is possible to model and measure the radiative effect of contrails.

The EU also has regulations, but somehow it does not make insulin as expensive as in the US. Maybe the existence of a regulation is not the issue here.

Agree on that (that AI should not be in the loop and that humans are ultimately to blame).

The end result is the same to be honest.

Welcome to the world. A PhD guarantees nothing, tenured position barely exist anymore. Weird that economists did not realize this yet...

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NOAA/NASA (USA), EUMETSAT (European organization), JMA (Japan), KMA (Korea), and CMA (China) all have a geostationary satellite (one or more actually). So, northern hemisphere coun…

In meteorology, you also have ecmwf.int (the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts).

If the question is about satellite vs ground instrument: the geographic coverage from the satellite is much greater. Geostationary instruments over Europe cover the Atlantic Ocean,…

NumPy allowed a PEP for the in-memory representation of arrays in Python. This is tremendous useful for making APIs.

NumPy allows a lot of science to happen. Grievance is fine but a little respect is as well. NumPy is the lingua franca for storing and passing arrays in memory in Python. Thank you…

A file-based password manager ils something you have (the file) and something you know (the master password) provided you have a timeout on the password manager and a safe screensa…

I can't test (no computer right now) but can't include directives achieve what you want?

The author of the article, Philip Ball, wrote an excellent book on order almost 20 years ago: Critical Mass https://philipball.co.uk/critical-mass-how-one-thing-leads-t... He also …