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ltrg

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About ltrg

I'm Head of Research at datadesk.eco, where I use commercial and open source data to model and investigate the global fossil fuel industry.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49102474

    Got tired of wiring up those gates

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    Comment #48675965

    It would be super interesting to see if HN mentions serve as a leading indicator of company performance/valuations -- I wouldn't be surprised.

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    Comment #48603379

    Not sure the parenthesis was required but I laughed.

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    Comment #48567073

    > This vaguely-nationalist world view around tech that’s emerging in Europe is dangerous, man. It’s a response to the actually-nationalist practice of the United States. I can unde…

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    Comment #48466285

    Fable seems very good at finding bugs (unsurprising given Mythos lineage), so this seems a pretty smart strategy. Once you see the bugs it finds in your existing Opus code, it's go…

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    Comment #48335897

    Really cool stuff. Nitpick: it failed to grab an OSM ID for my house and fell back to postcode centroid, but then still reported LIDAR-derived shading at quite high precision. I'm …

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    Comment #48335474

    I used it to output my doctoral thesis in LaTeX from Markdown 10 years ago, and similarly for going back and forth between my supervisor's Word documents and the main thesis text. …

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    Comment #48206935

    "foundation model" a somewhat confusing phrase in the title here, given the majority of HN front page.

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    Comment #47772267

    Just noticed this in my inbox from earlier. Seems to only affect a subset of feature-flagged users.

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    Comment #47208020

    This only covers container ships btw. For full coverage of all vessels, try the 'vessel presence' layer in Global Fishing Watch's interactive map, based on a feed from Spire: https…

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    Comment #47002393

    Laughed at the default text value. What track's that from?

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    Comment #46540007

    A similar but much more up-to-date and interactive version of this can be accessed via the Global Fishing Watch map: https://globalfishingwatch.org/map Turn on the `Vessel presence…

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    Comment #44255861

    I'm English (RP) and it gave me a Yorkshire accent and Scottish accent in turn.

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