Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

Nodding every time the loss goes down, frowning every time it goes up, pursing my lips and making a note if it’s the same for two batches in a row.

Hard to believe it’s elk rendang season again.

I appreciate a discussion among a bunch of people who are all, so to speak, capable of flying space shuttles, yet understand why not every interface should look like the space shuttle cockpit. https://mstdn.social/@kissane/110300512767913104

This paper is 5 years old but I just happened across it and have been talking it up to like four different friend groups because it’s so fun. I particularly enjoyed the retrograde klimarübe (you know, the rutabaga that represents an idealized continent for climate delineation purposes … you know).

Mikolajewicz et al. (2018): “The climate of a retrograde rotating Earth” – https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/9/1191/2018/

I work in the field of remote sensing but the only thing the name “remote sensing” has going for it is that it sounds like something that a gutta-percha magnate established an as-yet–unclaimed £5,000 prize to prove the existence of in 1926.

I had these vegan shrimp from a crustpunk grocery popup near Ladd’s Division in like 2004 that still jump-scare me out of my own memory sometimes.

Extremely appreciated @kissane’s piece on Mastodon and Bluesky, but honestly everything past the first paragraph was a bit of a haze through some intense sense-memories from 1995: https://erinkissane.com/blue-skies-over-mastodon

My sleep was disturbed by dreams of a TV show about long-duration astronauts. The writers couldn’t stick to a tone, so sometimes it was “What We Do in the Shadows” but about intense, mentally tough pilots in a tiny shared space; other times, they were doing Sorkinesque float-and-talks and making Important Arguments. I would rather have dreamed about falling off a roof again.

I’m not a Mastodon partisan, but I do have a pretty strong preference for not providing free #content for a commercial venture unless I know exactly what the deal is. https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/110273442030673147

Just for my own sick amusement, here’s what happens if you white-balance off a cloud near totality and crop: https://xoc.s3.amazonaws.com/also/gk2a-2023-04-20-0400-crop.jpeg

To my great though trivial annoyance, their processing pipeline cuts off the limb. It does look great, though, as expected. This is from the 4/20 eclipse, which @dscovr_epic also got an excellent frame of. Link to a 30 megabyte 1 km/pixel version: https://xoc.s3.amazonaws.com/also/gk2a-2023-04-20-0400.jpeg

Amazing that I’m so good at spotting the hypocrisies, biases, and unhelpful fixations of others on social media when I have none of my own. How do I do it?

Someone’s going to be like “Ah, but this is more theoretically pure, because—” Oh, all right, hot shot, it is theoretically pure to use -100000000000000 to mean undefined? Is that what a physicist would do? No, please, let us know.

Next time I write a CV it’s going to have a line like “I relish learning new datasets and working to make sense of them” but it’s going to be a lie because here we see longitude stored in radians:

Very happy to see GK-2A* data posted for free as open data – I’ve been wanting to get my mitts on this for ages. I burnt out on the green band stuff I was working on but perhaps it’s time to restart.

https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-gk2a-pds/

* The South Korean member of the GOES-R and Himawari-8/9 family of geostationary weather satellites.

Public ownership of gray, stable, safety-of-life infrastructure that should not be run at a profit is clearly necessary. It does not follow that everything publicly owned should be boring and reliable.