Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

I’ve always been a bit suspicious of the idea that ENSO doesn’t matter to the weather of the US’s west coast, but okay, in ERA5 anything beyond a small positive temperature correlation is lost in the noise: https://erikwkolstad.com/2023/06/21/an-atlas-of-seasonal-correlations-between-el-nino-and-la-nina-and-temperature-and-precipitation/

Just heard Ava DuVernay say in an interview that the reference she gave Bradford Young for “Selma” was Paul Fusco’s astonishing series of photos from RFK’s funeral train: https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/politics/paul-fusco-rfk-funeral-train/

I guess I’m glad YouTube shifted their comment algorithm to bring positive ones to the top, but it is slightly weird that everything I watch now has a first comment explaining that it’s the greatest human achievement and can never be surpassed.

Even fairly critical and intellectually ornery people sure do like saying things like “All the knowledge in the world is at our fingertips!” when I can’t, like, figure whether it’s reasonably ethical to buy coconut sugar without three hours of research deep enough that I start rolling my eyes when I see a certain author’s name come up. This isn’t even about LLMs or regular-style propaganda.

Fun to think of this from the perspective of a bit of information from a seismograph, which has a little window in which it can’t outrun the waves in the ground. https://everything.happens.horse/web/statuses/111310158612346614

Felt it in North Oakland.

“Vim is actually very easy to use if you have the intended input hardware” is an example of a low-effort, recognition-based joke that I would never stoop to make here. https://mastodon.online/@mwichary/111309075463188206

Okay, here we are: https://gist.github.com/celoyd/f163e6e582d87a50a6d37743e840dcb8

Posted while running out the door to carve pumpkins. There are probably a few TKs and such, and I didn’t spellcheck it. (Visual Studio Code doesn’t do that, apparently, at least on Ubuntu?)

Should I finish a devlog about this even though it’s getting a bit out of hand and probably makes errors about the math I had to learn?

They should make a kind of linear algebra that I can enjoy.

Very few people should implement all of ISO 8601 – it’s more complex than you might think – and I have reservations about recommending any standard that isn’t freely available anyway, but RFC 3339 is right there. Right there! And it’s really good!

Sometimes when I’m a joyless pedant about using SI units, formatting them in standard ways, etc., I’m dialing it up to 130% and making a little bit of fun of myself and others.

This time, I’m actually mad. Don’t do this kind of thing. https://mastodon.social/@lorentey/111263794546558934

The Seattle area at night, in color, from a stack of Landsat 9 scenes. Denoised with some clumsy FFT editing. I can’t imagine why you would use this for anything over one of many other options, but it’s neat that it works.

I say objectively overkill because Euler was computationally faster, even though it took a few more steps.

Also, there’s a really wide range of h parameters that are tied for optimality. Taken together, this makes me think that it’s the lumpiness of the topography that’s the main limit here. But I’m in way over my head mathematically, so I could easily be misimplementing or misinterpreting.

Anyway, this is easily the silliest thing I’ve ever done with ground control points.

Various fixes. It now uses fourth-order Runge–Kutta integration to place the labels, which is objectively overkill and also I probably put many bugs in it, but I had fun and that’s the important thing.