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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 Earthdata account (https://urs.earthdata.nasa.gov/home )

or you can use the libraries if you'd like, https://github.com/nsidc/earthaccess or https://github.com/asfadmin/Discovery-asf_search

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 what the Israelis would do: cut off food, power and water to Gaza, do their best to give everyone a safe way to walk out unarmed, house them in spartan but livable conditions, and send the Gazans to another country—preferably one in which they speak the language.

> ... And the site will be ready for development. Did I hear someone say “beachfront?”

> .. [Israel] could collectively grant them a slice of equity in the new Gaza. The new Gaza—developed, of course, by Jared Kushner—is the LA of the Mediterranean, an entirely new charter city on humanity’s oldest ocean, sublime real estate with an absolutely perfect, Apple-quality government

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 to anything with intelligence- they just needed some way to have a second radar slightly moved away from the main one on the Shuttle. The further away it is, the more accurate they could measure elevation, so they stuck it way out on a pole.

But I think you're right that it's possibly one of the most widely used GIS datasets. Some applications obviously need finer resolution than 30 meters, and lidar is more accurate for the small areas that it can cover, but it's still cool that they could cover most of the globe at 30 meter resolution

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.nerc.ac.uk/COMET-LiCS-portal/

Neither place seems to have the recent Nevada earthquakes though.

There's a bunch of effort to make InSAR more available/accessible. Even though plenty of SAR data is available through ASF (https://search.asf.alaska.edu/#/), it takes a bunch more processing beyond the SAR images to get useful ground deformation.

ASF has also started to try providing some interferograms (single InSAR images) but without averaging a bunch over an area, or doing more advanced stuff, they often look like mostly noise on a given day.

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 they're still charging for it. Maybe in a few years as new DLR satellites come on line.

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 just has the benefit of having a strong prior than the UFO theory

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=4Btns91W5J8

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 proportional to the speed of the wing and the angle of attack.

- The lift is proportional to the amount of air diverted times the vertical velocity of the air

it also debunks the myth of "air flows faster on the top side of the wing, causing lift"

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 mechanism on this for code that requires massive GPUs/ computing power to reproduce?

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 reprocue it- I get the correct result using both cc and gcc.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/comp.lang.c/spols...

Are you allowed to use getchar() twice? (seems like a silly question? read on!)

---------------------------------------------------- kangaroo% cat test.c #include <stdio.h>

main() { int c; c=getchar(); putchar(c); c=getchar(); putchar(c); putchar('\n'); } kangaroo% gcc test.c kangaroo% echo "Hi" | a.out H^@ kangaroo% cc test.c kangaroo% echo "Hi" | a.out Hi ---------------------------------- Anybody know what's going on?

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's encrypted, so it's not for civilian use, and the ability to look at two signals of different frequency at the same time means that they have been able to have much more robust GPS than civilians for awhile.

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 removed features, but you can't say that removing things is fatal to adoption.

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 could check how that changed over time: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog

Not sure if they are the same, but it might be along the same lines of "We don't want to give everyone access to everything".