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Cats are known to be the leading predator of birds in the U.S.A, killing somewhere between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds per year. It's a major problem.And there's a sense that it's a new one. The Scott Loss paper cited about came out in 2013, and seems to have marked a turning point in the discourse. "Did you say billion?" A growing number of people talk about the problem, and …

Dear All; and you are all very dear to me and I have been thinking of you a lot over the past many months. Some of you may have forgotten all about me, some may have been wondering where I had got to, others may already know what I have been doing. If you have been reading my blog for some time you will know that I am married to …

My book, The Monumental Andes—Geology, Geography, and Ancient Cultures of the Peruvian Andes, is hot off the presses! (Finally! Hooray!) Encompassing towering snow-covered volcanoes, elegant ruins of ancient civilizations, a wide variety of rock types and fossils, llamas and alpacas—there is so much about the central Andean region that fascinates. My book is one that I would have liked to read before traveling in Peru. In my blog posts, I …

DS106. Look I don’t mind telling you that DS105 was a trash fire. I set out to do a complex fluid simulation which a) took a long time and b) came out like total shit. And this is the truth of creativity. 90% of it is wasted but as long as you learn from your mistakes it was never truly a waste. Except for the computing and hard drive space …

Essays by Timothy D’Arch Smith Edited by Edwin Pouncey & Sandy Robertson £35 Available in a hardback edition of 500 copies only from SAP. 192 pp. | 133 x 203mm Illustrated, index Available mid January 2025 PRE-ORDER HERE In the long–awaited followup to his famed 1987 anthology, Books Of The Beast, writer, legendary bookseller and cricket enthusiast Timothy d’Arch Smith steps up to the crease with The Stammering Librarian, another …

0:00 /0:09 1× Flying south. Love. Communion. Reunion. Celebration. Blood family and found family. The husk of a person, still and silent in her pink floral casket. Soul taken flight. Lilies bowed as if in prayer. The finger-burning, salty abundance of fish & chips. Sandwich triangles with the crusts cut off. Sugary clouds filled with whipped cream.waitarere beach walk with my two sistersSandy feet. A shipwreck being devoured by sand …

There is a 2019 paper, in the journal Political Analysis (htm), with over 1000 Google cites, titled "How Much Should We Trust Estimates from Multiplicative Interaction Models? Simple Tools to Improve Empirical Practice". The paper is not just widely cited, but is also actually influential. Most political science papers estimating interactions now-a-days, seem to... The post [121] Dear Political Scientists: Don't Bin, GAM Instead appeared first on Data Colada.

A small guest cabin near Montauk, New York with all the fixings. Built on an existing foundation, this 12’ x 15’ footprint is smaller than a single car garage but packed out with the full functionality of a house four times its size. The small kitchen and storage zone is tucked in under the narrow stair. The flue of the teeny wood-burning fireplace extends from ground floor to roof line, …

Sean will be the Grand Marshall of Dothan’s 10th anniversary Mardi Gras parade! Come join the fun and watch the parade! Time and other details to be added…. The post Grand Marshall–Dothan, Alabama appeared first on Sean of the South.

I read Steven's blog post this morning about imposter syndrome and the feelings that arise about sharing one’s work. I embody those same sentiments. A lot of my friends and family don’t know I blog or make zines. This breaks my heart because I consider these creative pursuits a big part of my life. It’s what I spend the most time thinking about. Only recently have I nonchalantly told my …

I have a few gripes with most food/calorie/macro trackers: About half the stuff I eat on any given day is stuff I eat EVERY day and I don’t want to enter it manually every day. I don’t want to deal with macros. My checklist diet takes care of making sure I’m getting enough protein, which is the main thing I care about. Finding the exact product I ate and the …

Between this newsletter, my podcast, my books, and my New Yorker journalism, I offer a lot of advice and propose a lot of ideas about how the modern digital environment impacts our lives, both professionally and personally, and how we should respond. This techno-pontification covers everything from the nitty gritty details of producing good work in an office saturated with emails and Zoom, to heady decisions about shaping a meaningful …

The holiday season is a wonderful time to catch up with friends and family, who inevitably ask me what kind of woodworking I’ve been doing lately. With some chagrin, I have to say that I’ve been so busy that I’ve barely touched my hand planes and hand saws since this summer. I haven’t been doing any woodworking at all. But that’s not entirely true. In fact, this fall I’ve been …

Filtered sampling from sorted values with incremental binary search Published 2024-12-03 I had a problem recently that I solved badly. As is traditional, I figured out how to solve it well in the shower this morning. The solution is obvious in retrospect, but I thought I’d share it anyway as it’s an interesting algorithm that I’d not seen before. def filtered_sample(random, values, lower_bound, upper_bound): """Samples a random value `x` from …

Ok I’ll admit it, the title is a bit dramatic. Makefiles and shell scripts are here to stay, and that’s fine. I’m wouldn’t make the argument that any tool is the perfect tool for all tasks all the ...