Cody K. @codykirkp@qoto.org
Home: Bloomington, Indiana. Work: Atmospheric scientist and educator. Enjoy: Sports, computer ratings, and rain. Goals: Peace, quiet, and a T1 line.
Joined Nov 2022
@indianaclimate Oh nice. I did find a copy of version 3.5 for DOS thanks to #winworldpc -- yep, command line, but when you plotted a graphic it went to full screen mode temporarily. I didn't start using it regularly until grad school either (2007a, I think it was).
Hey @indianaclimate , I’ve been meaning to ask you, what’s the first version of #matlab you used? I recently got 4 working on an old machine. Seems like you had to write almost everything yourself back then!
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I always have mixed feelings about trans awareness week and trans day of visibility, because most cis people who talk about it go exclusively for the "you are valid" angle instead of the "trans healthcare has collapsed entirely and we need to do something about that" angle. Like I appreciate the first one, don't get me wrong, but sometimes it reads as a little shallow when you don't also talk about the second. You get me?
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Part of my "slightly better versions of the kinds of pictures of local attractions you find in hotel rooms" series, here's the Lincoln Memorial, on a quiet evening.
Embarrassingly high resolution version available at https://flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/50402933763/
Today was a fun day in #e144 Extreme Weather (for those new: it's a first year university science course, for non-majors, where we learn about everything from hurricanes to blizzards). I showed several "tornado lookalikes" to help students distinguish between fakes and the real thing. Answer to this one is in the alt tag.
A photogenic 2.5 inches of snow fell in Bloomington this morning. Yesterday’s models indicated only a dusting, but expected totals went up over most of Indiana in evening model runs.
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Hey, I never did an #introduction!
I'm a climate scientist and geographer at Indiana University, Bloomington. When left to my own devices, I do research on climate-change detection and impacts. I often work on developing new statistical approaches for analyzing large-scale climate processes. I also have an amazing network of collaborators that brings me into the worlds of dendroclimatology, hydrology, landscape ecology, food studies, and more.
Happy to be here, learning from all of you!
@chattwjonathan I think "rainfall radar" is probably closer to its intended purpose, too. One thing they do, that I truly wish we could get people to do here in the US, is to stop displaying reflectivity and just state it as the rainfall rate. Seems like that would be more helpful to end users.
(Easier said than done, since the conversion is very different for stratiform, t'storms, hurricanes...)
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When I teach this, I usually call it "rainfall radar" like they do in the UK (am not from there, I just think the name is clearer to students). Seems to help them differentiate it from satellite imagery, which we use to detect clouds.
Tonight's national weather radar is full of activity. What's left of #HurricaneNicole is spinning in the southeast; rain along the cold front from Wisconsin to Oklahoma; heavy snow in North Dakota and Minnesota. And the appearance of nighttime bugs, bats, and other flyers across the southeast, too!
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*Amazing* sunset tonight… My camera was having trouble with the dynamic range. This picture *almost* does it justice 😊
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If you download your Twitter archive it arrives wrapped as a static HTML page, which is not very useful for doing anything with, and worse: it requires the original account to be still active to do useful things like enlarge the images since they use t.co links.
So here's a Python script to convert a Twitter archive to markdown or other formats: https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser
Now you can archive your tweets in any way you want.
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Over my 15 years of #teaching and #marking it is only in the last 3 that I have moved from alphabetised "whole paper" to "question by question" marking. Got to say that the latter really is the superior method. I have not done an official "which is faster" investigation, but I feel it is definitely fairer. #edutoot #edutooter #IBchemistry
@Pat Hi Pat -- the line "Peace, quiet, and a T1 line" was an advertising slogan for Laptop Lane, a series of pop-up business centers in airports back in the early 2000s. I've sort of adopted it as my life philosophy...but definitely prefer faster connections nowadays! 😀
@bwbeach Greetings! I am much more teaching now, but grad school included a lot of code (numerical weather prediction & models of thunderstorms). Many of our big codes still run in Fortran; visualization has shifted from niche packages to Python for many folks though. Also a proud Backblaze customer.
Every time I hear people talk about pronunciation in English, it makes me think of this classic Ricky Ricardo skit. 😆 #ILoveLucy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZV40f0cXF4
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I'm really not worried about Mastodon scaling issues at all.
When I left Twitter in 2008, we had roughly twice as many users as the current combined Mastodon network, all running on one MySQL server that had the same specs as a high-end 2013 MacBook Pro, plus roughly 10 web servers and 5 queue servers.
To be fair, growth wasn't as rapid, and we had local-infra advantages over federated systems, but these problems are solvable and I have no doubt will be fixed soon.
*Hugops to all admins!*
Today was a gorgeous day on campus. (Hodiaŭ estis belega tago en kampuso. #esperanto)
I downloaded an old piece of software (as in 1993 old!), and it had a tiny little text editor program included with it. When I went to search for info on the editor, what popped up? An article from PC Magazine in 1988 showing... the original assembly language code. Oh my. [insert old emoji]
Home: Bloomington, Indiana. Work: Atmospheric scientist and educator. Enjoy: Sports, computer ratings, and rain. Goals: Peace, quiet, and a T1 line.
Joined Nov 2022
