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
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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!
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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
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]
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Point: the machines will take over
Counterpoint: the algorithm thinks that I would like to buy a denim cape
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#Lightning can happen anywhere around the world, and I mean anywhere!
It is important to monitor lightning in the high #Arctic, because it can be an indicator of our changing #climate.
In 2021, nearly twice as much lightning was detected north of 80°N than the previous 9 years combined. In 2019, lightning was detected just 52 km from the North Pole!
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This will save me some points on my Calc assignment. I was unsure if I could have a normal line if I couldn’t have a defined slope but I guess that’s just what a vertical line is?
And like the perfect stack exchange answer it is perfectly seasoned with a bitter, salty reply 😂
Every now and then, friends & colleagues give me the side-eye about still using #perl... "Why don't you switch to #python?"
Well: "If the language does what you need it to do, and you're not waiting around for it to do its part, that's all that ultimately matters." — Dave Plummer (Retired MS engineer; Dave’s Garage on YT)
Tonight I'm busy writing an exam for my Extreme #Weather class tomorrow afternoon, and I decided to use Friday's (11/11) forecast weather map for a couple of questions. With a tropical system & heavy rainfall in FL, and a big cyclone and a strong cold front in the Midwest, there's lots to choose from!
Home: Bloomington, Indiana. Work: Atmospheric scientist and educator. Enjoy: Sports, computer ratings, and rain. Goals: Peace, quiet, and a T1 line.
Joined Nov 2022
