Feb 28, 2018
Full-Spectrum Technology for Climate Change
I was in a meeting yesterday with Christina Pikas and several others. I and the others all had our laptops out. Christina had a notebook and pen. I said, something about not…
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Feb 19, 2018
Data Science Overhype
I've been concerned for some time that we are deep in an overhype cycle with data science. It keeps appearing on hottest job lists and everyone seems to think data science can…
Feb 16, 2018
Cyanobacteria on the Early Earth
Now that we have established that life is nearly likely to arise given the right circumstances, we want to know what kinds of microorganisms would have survived the early Earth. The early…
Feb 14, 2018
Phonics in JOSS, version 1.0.0 released
Today, I received news that phonics and its associated metapaper were published in the Journal of Open Source Software ( JOSS ). At the culmination of nearly three years of off-and-on and…
Feb 14, 2018
Life, the Universe, and Everything
The origin of life on Earth is a complicated question. The first thing we need to understand is that we don't really know the answer. But we have some ideas about how…
Feb 12, 2018
Flood Insurance Renewed...Again
So there's good news and bad news here. First, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has been extended as part of Friday's budget deal: ::embed{href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2018/02/09/266882/budget-deal-extends-flood-insurance-program-again/"} The bad news here is that the…
Feb 10, 2018
Cybersecurity for Business via Coursera
I've been working on some cybersecurity issues lately. While I was a network jockey a couple of lifetimes ago, it has been 15 years. While the methods have changed, the motivations have…
Feb 8, 2018
Elected Chairperson of the Board of Appeals
So I have been elected Chairperson of the Board of Appeals for Howard County. I have a bit of a web page describing the things the Board of Appeals does, and why…
Feb 7, 2018
Three Reasons to Buy Flood Insurance
Holly Johnson of The Simple Dollar has an article on why should buy flood insurance: ::embed{href="https://www.thesimpledollar.com/three-reasons-everyone-should-consider-buying-flood-insurance/"} In this article, I tell the story of how Hamilton, Ohio experienced severe flooding only a…
Feb 5, 2018
Climate Change and Business
This article from Friday's Wall Street Journal caught might attention because of the link between municipal bonds (an old hobby of mine) and climate change. The gist of the article is that…
Feb 2, 2018
Postponing American Elections Doesn't Work
Jason Kottke has one of the oldest blogs and recently posted a curious bit called "What does living in a dictatorship feel like?" This post explores what many I know on the…