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Same here. After a year or so i got tired of actually 'vi ~/worklog.txt' and made an alias. The alias opens up that txt file in VI, goes to end of the file, and starts a newline in insert mode haha. LOVE IT

Yeah USDA NASS is the spot for your ag statistics. even then NASS is not 100% accurate but pretty solid. Drones, meh. nobody wants pictures of their farm bud. What do you do with pictures of your farm? Nothing. I've been working with farmers for 6+ years and only a handful of them like the drones mostly because it's a fun toy. Sure tell me that you can get AI imagery and machine learning non-sense from your farm pictures.

The only thing i agree with you on is genetic engineering. And that is not startup space really. That is like giant bio-tech companies breeding corn seeds in a lab. You need a phD for that shit you dont just build a startup that 'disrupts' seed genetics.

To be fair forecasting snow is hard. I'm just generally against certain companies that 'sell' products that are garbage. If you want helpful weather forecasts go to your local government weather office forecast page. Dont trust some giant global company trying to make money selling ad space on their webpage

Hi. first i'm asking you a question about why you posted climacell, not sure you answered it? Feel free to answer it or not.

To answer your question, if you want to obtain raw sensor data our government (and some volunteers) maintains a network of thousands of weather stations. Many are automated, many are people doing manual obs. If you know how to write code you can programmatically obtain these data.

However you might be confused... climacell does forecasts and you asked about finding station data? They are completely different things. I have no insight into what climacell does but i am a knowledge person in industry. I can tell you that nobody has some groudnbreaking 'AI' machine learning algorithm that is amazingly great at forecasting weather. If such a thing did exist, that person would have zillions of dollars because they can accurately predict weather better then anyone else.

good advice. Although running WRF locally, what are you a madman?

I would suggest looking into simple predictions. One of the first ones you learn in school is just basically just repeat what happened today. So if today was sunny, tomorrow sunny. Stupid, simple but decently effective. Except during transition periods between air-masses (when weather is changing).

Howdy, seen you posting before. I would be warey of any crowd sourced data. So now we have average american Joe running a weather station that feeds directly into our state of the art GFS model? What if joe forgets to maintain his station? How do you assert quality control?

I just am skeptical about this all. cant trust users phones to provide input for mission critical weather forecast models (GFS). Peoples lives depend on this information!

Hi geoff - seems like you are pretty knowledgeable here. I have to disagree with "seems forecasting actual rain is not very hard if you have enough current data on the state of the atmosphere" ... Who told you that? accuweather meteologists?

Rain is not easy predict, especially long in advance. Just taking things with a grain of salt here. If you truly believe that forecasting actual rain is not very hard, please start a new weather forecasting company and give it all you got! However i'll tell you, it's not that easy. Just because a computer model 'runs' does not mean it correctly modeled the atmosphere. All models are imperfect bud and those imperfections get amplified by 10x when trying to simulate earth+atmosphere systems

Accuweather? Lol please give me that 45 day daily forecast! All apps use the same fucking forecasts that our government puts out. The problem i think is with people's expectations. They dont understand weather and think it's easy to predict like some other things. They dont understand that it is a dynamic, chaotic, non linear system where repeating the same process 1000x will always yield slightly diff results

Why is it relevant? Do you know what they use for forecasts? I work in industry and have built weather applications for 5+ years now. Let me tell you, everyone uses the same source data. Machine learning is not going to help predict weather. If it was that simple, someone would have machine learned the weather already and they would be making zillions of dollars with their accurate AI weather predictions. Do you post climacell just because they say AI and weather?

OP i hate to break it to you. but a weather station wont tell you the right clothes to wear for the day. IT will tell you if it's raining outside currently. Consider this, station says it's raining and cold. You wear lots of clothes, umbrella etc. The rain storm is out of area by 9am and rest of day is hot and sunny.

I think there is a documentary out now about how that whole thing was gang controlled haha. Havent watched, not sure if i believe, but wouldnt be that far fetched.

I am a stoner, decent weed tolerance and smoking just about daily. Took shrooms twice. one time was shwag shroomers that did nothing. Next time i ate one single shroom (not a big one either) . My buddy was there all fucked up like dude keep eating. Well i tripped balls for 6 hours including a phone call back home to my wife to get myself grounded haha.

Nothing can replace the sound, sweat, booze and energy of live rock shows. I miss em dearly!

Cool read thanks for sharing. Probably just bias but my experience with some games man the NPCs really make the game tick. Two quick examples, hollow knight, dark souls (or all soulsborne-kiro). Both are big on exploration etc. NPC interactions are so memorable. Will never forget certain times playing, making progress, finding crazy ass new hilarious NPC.

Fromsoft has plenty of these memorable NPCs from demon souls to sekiro!

Cool thanks for sharing. My work from home setup has a legal marijuano vaporizer within reaching distance to help deal with the bullshit from managers & other bumbos in our digital corp.

I sing so much randomly around the house my wife has to tell me "GET A NEW SONG". Just about once a day. Songs are usually some weird mix of jams that daddy likes, and the theme songs from my 1.5yr old daughters disney junior cartoons. Fuck those little songs get stuck in your head. Currently on one from 'mira royal detective'.

for indie games yup... been rocking mostly indie, rogue like, single player , 2D type stuff. 2013 mac air still going strong!! 500+ hours of darkest dungeon, slay the spire, isaac... serious bang for buck getting hundreds of hours from 3 games totaling like $60 dollars

Ya boy is lucky he found a partner back in squallage in early 2010s. Since then my life has been much better. This quarantine has been crap , but without my wife and daughter it would be lonely as fuck. Granted, sometimes i wish i had some alone time , but i love having my buds around me all day. Feeling bad for my sister who is alone on west coast in a small house apartment by herself.

"voices of experience pointing out that most decisions are made based on the best information available at the time."

funny in my experience with digital and particularly larger corporate jabronis. The people who makes decisions are fucking McKinsey consultants who know nothing about the actual project, are only contracted for 6 months, then they are gone. Rinse and repeat, maybe one out of every 3 or 4 attempts somebody actually gets it right and the project doesnt completely fail.

pretty true. I was shopping on the e-store for some stuff to play with my wife and was surprised seeing all the games for full price. Fuckin narcs.

This is happening across the pond as well. My wife's best friend was texting her saying she was going on a first date with a dude. She was asking for date ideas , in corona virus season. We are just like, paige shut the fuck up. This was 7 days ago. Just yesterday she texts my wife again saying she went to the mall with her friend. She says wow all the stores are mostly closed and the fitting rooms for trying clothes are not open...

this person is a fucking doctor. A DOCTOR. and she cant comprehend the severity of the situation.

Dont go hollow skeleton! Yeah it's an idea from dark souls, another fromsoft game that you hopefully have heard of and spent 100s of hours playing.

But david this is a perfect application for a noSQL db.

I have family in the industry (digital ads, bidding for ads) and some of the stuff they have explained to me is pretty gnarly. One cousin was explaining an idea he had for a new business and it was essentially just about collecting as much personal data as possible. Imagine a simple DB table with 'user_id' as primary key. Then you just start adding data on top of data with new columns or joins. After a while you have hundreds (thousands) of datapoints per person, then you start selling that data.

So i want to help my family out b/c i have the tech skills and building some prototypes would be easy. But i'm also not sure i want to feed the advertising beast. Shit is whack right now man they listen to you talking to your wife through your phone about buying a mattress, going to a concert, taking a trip somewhere. Next time you open the browser you are bombarded with relevant ads. too creepy no thanks!

The app is cool man good work! old school boy here made an vi alias to my journal.txt file and have been using it for 5+ years. alias opens the file in edit mode on a newline at the bottom. VI search lets me find whatever i need quickly all from the keyboard!

This whole 'email yourself as diary' seems like overkill to me when you could just write something yourself. Unless you are cool with sharing your diary with 3rd party services. Anyways it's still a cool little thing, just throwin my two cents.

Personally i would say this is just a fun project and novelty factor of receiving a transmission from the satellite. If you actually want to get your hands on weather data and do useful stuff with it let NOAA do the heavy lifting. I can wager that most of us here probably dont want to write the code to seam together satellite images and clean them up. However i wont stop anyone, have at it friends.

my little sister is (or wants to be) one of these, my wife watches them on instagram. I heard one woman talking about 'instagram brows' and she was just so fucking excited about how great her face and eyebrows looked. Here is this lady with the face (i've never heard it coined like in the article but I know it) and she has (tens?) of thousands of folks staring at her reinforcing the vicous cycle. More views, more facial contours, more stimuli, more ads, more money, more searches, more ads, more views

I have just accepted this as part of my daily routine now alongside other great staples such as daily standup, email checking, checking logs, slack, etc.

Yeah i am totally with you. AI can mean linear regressions and often does.

"look Ma i'm writing my own AI algorithm!!!" ... "writes linear regression by hand in python"

smart. nobody questions it. corporate spends millions making shitty ADs that basically say AI will make our farmers better and therefore help the world. I love when someone asks me about AI and i'm like yeah it's a pile of shit that nobody understands but sells like hot garbage. Now before any hardcode deep learning bros get at me, sure there are cutting edge AI applications and science stuff going on. But i'm talking about commercialized shit that sells AI like a feature. It's just a pile of poop but people gobble it up.

hilariously and non-ironically i complained about this to my co-workers today. I was like yo did slack change their shit or am i going crazy? Now i'm on here seeing 800 comments and i'm laughing my butt off at how upset people are.

i get it, i typed a couple snippets already with backticks and it did weird stuff. took 5 minutes and guess what dont care