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Helped build NYS's Forest Carbon Assessment. Currently helping build public water data infrastructure. PhD in Environmental Science. #rstats, ML, Boston and spatial data. Opinions my own. RTs imply causation. https://mm218.dev github.com/mikemahoney218
this train got in around 2 or 3am something like 4 hours later than anticipated
I once landed on 91 in Connecticut only to learn that **4 of 5 lanes** were closed for non-existent construction for the length of the state
we only have bad options but the train ranks high!
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I've had so many disasters on odd hours Acelas **but** never anything bad enough that would make me interested in driving in NYC or -- God forbid -- Connecticut
personally had decent success with ganttrify, though I just read in an Excel file in the right format and made a plot, didn't try to do any in R processing
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
Ban cars
entire room genuinely started booing for coinbase
at least three!
1/3 of Boston & Cambridge households are car-free—among the highest rates for major US cities
Those households are concentrated near T stations, especially downtown, along the Heath St & Boston College branches of the Green Line, and in parts of Cambridge served by the Red Line
I’m not sure what we’re expecting to happen when we don’t provide financial support to what are effectively small businesses w 80% fixed costs which have lost much of their customer base, and don’t have other revenue sources.
Boston friends:
Happy "large boulder the size of a small boulder" day!
AFGE is the largest federal union, representing hundreds of thousands of employees including Alex Pretti
Not entirely sure the comparison is apt
GEV backlog numbers - added 34 GW over the course of last year
*GE VERNOVA GAS TURBINE BACKLOG WAS 80GW AT END OF 2025
*GE VERNOVA GAS TURBINE BACKLOG GREW FROM 46GW AT START OF 2025
it's fine but I'm spoiled by largely flying JetBlue's Airbus lines, which are ABSOLUTELY nicer
on the way back I get an A319 instead of the E175 which I think makes for a crappy plane hat trick
Interior passenger cabin of an Embraer 175, from the back looking towards the nose
Interior passenger cabin of a Bombardier CRJ900, from the back looking towards the nose
E175 -> CRJ900
Google search for "where are the Olympics this year". Google AI has helpfully replied (and highlighted!) "there are no Olympic games this year"
wild to me that people use any of these as search engines
The MBTA red line
of course these days I don't need tires, my wheels are 711mm of solid steel
anyways if you live anywhere it snows you don't need tire research just buy Michelin CrossClimate 2s and thank me later
I absolutely relate to "forgetting the license plate number you've had for 7 years" though
I'm just really baffled by the Google Photos mention here. Did you forget that you sometimes leave your home? Did the idea that "weather happens" really require a computer vision algorithm?
where do you live that you don't even need 4-season tires, except for when you go into Oklahoma
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I still think that's a better introduction than your sophomore year track times, though
I think ~everyone should have a personal website, but especially if you're a relatively new grad it's a great idea.
There's been multiple people I've Googled recently where the only web presence I can find is their college sports record - a website lets you control your first impression much more!
Massachusetts state agencies, personally. The MBTA and DOT in particular only post alerts on Twitter!
fifth level subdomain, the fourth level subdomain 404s, I would LOVE to hear the story of how this URL scheme got decided
i do think LeCun is right here
apologies in advance