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Comment · 6 days ago
Soil data seems to sharply follow boundaries of many countries. This shows how fragmented this data is. This is in contrast with eg. orography which one can just get from satellites.
Comment · 1 month ago
What a waste of time.
Comment · 1 month ago
A frozen fridge is a good thing no?
Comment · 2 months ago
You can have a 1 GB ram VPN for $20 per year.

https://mikr.us/

But on a shared IPv4 as that what makes up much of the cost.

Comment · 4 months ago
No it's not enough eg for dense grid data you find in numerical simulations.
Comment · 9 months ago
That's a great business in being paid to show ads by advertisers and not show ads by users.
Comment · 9 months ago
One thing I can say about the Wolfram language is that is actually Lisp with syntax that looks weird at first sight.

However when you look at rule processing, it's like pattern matching on steroids that I haven't seen in lisp world. It looks quite powerful and applies throughout the language (eg the "Query" book).

Too bad the whole language is closed and so heavily licensed .

Comment · 11 months ago
Nice tool!

BTW, you can use duckdb with their ui plugin to have an interactive view of your data, not only parquet.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I use Kagi as well and, from my experiments, deepseek gives me answers I like the most.
Comment · 1 year ago
The FBI tracks active shooting cases-where individuals attempt to kill people in public places, excluding those tied to robberies or gang violence. This study is the first to systematically compare how uniformed police and civilians with concealed handgun permits perform in stopping these attacks. Civilians with permits stopped the attacks more frequently and faced a lower risk of being killed or injured than police. Officers who intervened during the attacks were far more likely to be killed or injured than those who apprehended the attackers later.

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