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You can search on ASF's data discovery portal for SMAP: https://search.asf.alaska.edu/#/?maxResults=250&dataset=SMAP... This lets you bulk download the .h5 files once you have an E…

So it looks like someone next to Trump is actually taking foreign policy plans from Curtis Yarvin's essays: https://graymirror.substack.com/p/gaza-and-the-laws-of-war > Here is wha…

The inspector-gadget arm sticking out of the space shuttle does look pretty funny https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros/science/usgs-eros-archive-... I don't think the arm was related …

JPL releases some of their products of earthquakes/disasters world wide here: https://aria-share.jpl.nasa.gov/ Also a group a Leeds is trying to make a public portal: https://comet…

Hopefully the DLR will release the TanDEM-X dataset at some point in the future. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TanDEM-X It could be the best global DEM if it's released, but now th…

Non-technical summary here: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-12-lockdowns-flawed.html

It would still be a good takedown of the questionable parts of the NYT article, but no, I don't think it's "100% certainty" about the actual event, despite his YouTube title. It ju…

This is the best possible mundane explanation of a similar video, claiming it's camera glare. Good take down of the NYT story on the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Btns91W5…

this is a pretty good detailed explanation: https://fermatslibrary.com/s/how-airplanes-fly-a-physical-de... the summary being: - The vertical velocity of the diverted air is propor…

nope that was "SpaceX Starship is a very big deal", same author, same series https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/10/29/the-spacex-sta...

This is awesome! I was just about to ask if there were any resources pointing toward easy-to-recreate machine learning papers. Is there any way to add some kind of flag/sorting mec…

Yep, in the ipython REPL if you do %load_ext autoreload autoreload 2 it'll reload functions from any module you edit each time you run a new command.

For anyone that clicked through to his 1988 question on comp.lang.c ... what was causing what he was happening? I'm assuming something with an old version of gcc, but I can't repro…

They not only have better receivers than in our phones, they have an entirely separate signal they can use- P-code ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_signals#Precision_code ). It'…

How has Python suffered from this? They broke things going from 2 to 3... and it was still the fastest growing language from 2017. It clearly wasn't popular just because they remov…

I often read articles talking about the next big thing in the short term (2-4 years), but thinking about the Bill Gates 2-year-10-year quote* has me wondering about 10 years from n…

It possibly might have been scaled back along with the rest of their cuts to permissions in their Graph API in 2015: https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/28/facebook-api-shut-down/ You c…