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Do you know of any research about the accuracy of forecasts as a function of sensor data input? I.e. what kind of an improvement will we see if some number of Android users install…

Note that your code still forces python to read the entire file! If all you want is the last line of a file, use the UNIX tail: tail -n 1 $f Tail seeks backwards so it will only re…

> There may be a market opportunity for an economist to write a big Piketty-style book on climate change. Yale economist Bill Nordhaus' Climate Casino is that book. And his researc…

Interesting. Thanks!

Offtopic: It's funny that an article about polyglottism has a grammatical error in the title and a misspelling in the first sentence.

Why not? Unless I'm missing something, constructive interference is still additive and power loss is still inverse square. Of course batteries also have power transmission ineffici…

How hard would it be to solve this deterministically? Can someone comment on the game's physics? I am assuming: - constant horizontal velocity - gravity - flapping implemented via …

Interesting, I'd never thought about this before. In case you (or anyone else) are still wondering... If an A3 sheet is X units by Y units (with X the long side) and A4 is 2Y units…

P.S. I agree this is pointless. The best solution in my opinion is simply ssh and [h]top or glances.

Of course! ssh -X. Obviously requires conky (and a minimal X server) on the server.

Cool. Not a lawyer but I think that if you are not copying the main content (just the metadata) AND putting the source in your bibliography you should be okay. Also one simple way …

Great site design. A couple ideas off the top of my head: - Let hikes to include GPS route(s) to display on the map. - Link to the USGS topo map that covers a given hike: http://st…