msaharia

Exactly - I can tell you an example from India. India has the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) precipitation dataset. Even if your estimates are more accurate, no company will use your dataset to design/validate a civil engineering design. This has to do with liability of using a dataset from a "non-official" source. Right now, you are stuck in the middle where it is not viable for non-US companies to use it, while US companies will mostly rely on NOAA Atlas. If this is to become a public-facing product, then the current pricing is too high, and might have to develop an alternative business model. Maybe people are interested in checking the floodplain zonation/xrain before buying a house, for example. But no SAAS in that case.

How flexible is your codebase to incorporate regional datasets? I think you will have to regional merging.

What are your current costs of running the setup? Any possibility/plans of white-labeling the codebase?

The UI is fantastic . I don't think there is anything wrong with the website. The reason you are not making a sale has probably nothing to do with UI. I think you should concentrate on sales and filling an important gap in user requirement. Who needs this data? There are already many websites where you can get extreme precipitation data for free.

P.S. I am a hydroclimate scientist/professor. Happy to discuss further.

Edit - Looks like we have almost the same background in academics. :)

They couldn’t come because of any number of reasons: there wasn’t enough time to apply for visa because you issued the letter 1 month before the meeting, didn’t get visa, didn’t get visa on time, visa got approved but passport didn’t arrive on time etc. You also can’t get reimbursed in India without showing actual receipts of conference, hotel etc.

You seem to think that your letter is a guarantee of visa. It’s not.

Source: I’m an academic with both US and Indian experience.

Dragon speech? I used it quite a bit 10 years ago!

So, this is like netCDF format?

Would you tell us more how that training translates in business/management? Are there good training materials we could look at online?

UPI exists in India. And m-Pesa in Kenya. Neither are small countries or lightly regulated. At this point, US digital infrastructure is just objectively behind everyone else.

How about a control function on human population? (For nature as a system, it might as well count as a benefit)

I think this article is confusing the discovery of an inscription of zero to the concept of zero. The latter would predate the former.

You should definitely read about Ancient Indian drink Soma. Soma had a cognate Haoma in Persian as well. And psychoactive sources have a long association with gods such as Shiva. This continues till modern day among his most ardent followers. You will find wide variation in what ancient humans would consider taboo.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_(drink)

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20170307-the-intoxicating...

I returned to India after close to a decade in the US, during which I got a PhD. Loved living there and was fully integrated. But felt like I could make a much bigger impact in India. So, joined IIT Delhi. Good to know about your journey. Drop me an email (in my profile) if you want to catch up over coffee. :)

Hi, is there a wordpress theme with this design system that we could drop in an existing website and benefit from it?

Not a lot of people would realize that Hadley is a minor celebrity in many scientific fields due to Tidyverse! Thanks for all the work.

This is perfect for a Desktop Wallpaper. Thanks for sharing!

Looks cool! What kind of models are you using? I would have thought this is a very tight space. Did you develop the models yourself?

Can you link me to that book?

P.S. I used to work in NASA Goddard. Very brand conscious agency.

What a blast from the past! I used runasdate to run a Neural Network software using time-lagged RNNs beyond the trial period. In my defense, I was a poor undergrad and couldn't afford the license fee of the software (Circa 2010).

That is awesome. I work in flood forecasting and previously worked in NCAR/NASA. If you would be so kind, feel free to share any white papers, links etc to the project you are referring to.

msaharia[a]iitd.ac.in

Hi, I am a hydrologist. Would love to hear about what you have done using TimeScaleDB

Would you be publishing your research or data or both? Would you be interested in sharing it privately? I would love to know more!

This system has tremendously impacted my academic research productivity. Thank you.

EdTech in India is a predatory environment midwived by unscrupulous VCs. Please raise your against it if you can. And this is not an Indian problem. These companies are making their way to US and worldwide.

No worries. I meant in the Indic language family, not Dravidian. The Tamil version definitely preceded that.

Assamese is NOT a dialect of Bengali. It is older than Bengali and infact the first non-Sanskrit language to which Ramayana was translated to. The Assamese script itself is in a continuous development since 5th century.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umachal_rock_inscription

Interesting! Thank you. It would be nice if we had good onboarding material available online in the form of a course.

I have updated my question to clarify.

I talk to my (Indian) parents every day, even if it is a 1-min courtesy call. Started when I went off to college in a different city. And it's also a rather common thing among everyone I know regardless of social status. So, I guess what is typical is dependent on country or culture.