Mike Mahoney
Helped build NYS's Forest Carbon Assessment. Currently helping build public water data infrastructure. PhD in Environmental Science.
#rstats, ML, Boston and spatial data.
Opinions my own. RTs imply causation.
https://mm218.dev
github.com/mikemahoney218
- Reposted by Mike MahoneyI’m not sure what we’re expecting to happen when we don’t provide financial support to what are effectively small businesses w 80% fixed costs which have lost much of their customer base, and don’t have other revenue sources.
- Small water companies in Altadena are struggling financially after the fire, which left costly damage and sharply cut the revenues they are collecting from customers. One utility plans a new "fire recovery fee" to stave off financial failure. www.latimes.com/environment/... @myungchun.bsky.social
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- E175 -> CRJ900
- wild to me that people use any of these as search engines
- anyways if you live anywhere it snows you don't need tire research just buy Michelin CrossClimate 2s and thank me later
- where do you live that you don't even need 4-season tires, except for when you go into Oklahoma
- I think ~everyone should have a personal website, but especially if you're a relatively new grad it's a great idea. There's been multiple people I've Googled recently where the only web presence I can find is their college sports record - a website lets you control your first impression much more!
- fifth level subdomain, the fourth level subdomain 404s, I would LOVE to hear the story of how this URL scheme got decided
- If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
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- apologies in advance
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- Reposted by Mike MahoneyThe retirement of the MetroCard at midnight tonight is bittersweet for me. In 1983, as a young lawyer, I took a year's leave of absence from my law firm to serve as special counsel to Richard Ravitch, chairman of the NY MTA. He gave me the task of leading a study ...
- I think my new pedantic hobbyhorse is that "analysis ready data" does not, and should not, mean "any data that's been cleaned" At least in geosciences (and ESPECIALLY Earth observation), the term has a very specific standard definition! It's not a trivial distinction! ceos.org/ard/
- I want everyone who lives near the Northeast Corridor to know I appreciate their Christmas lights, even when passing by on Amtrak at 120mph
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- put a handful of minor #AGU25 thoughts up on the blog very happy to have seen everyone I saw -- very sorry to miss everyone I missed!! www.mm218.dev/posts/2025-1...
- in case anyone missed it, a terrifying harlequin has appeared at the end of the #AGU25 convention center
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- Heading out now for #AGU25 🧪! I should plug my talks, "Introducing the Next Generation of USGS Water Data APIs": eppro01.ativ.me/appinfo.php?... Plus "Building the Next Generation of USGS Water Data APIs": eppro01.ativ.me/appinfo.php?... Who do I know in New Orleans this week?
- maybe someone who follows me knows the answer to this -- my gut feeling is that network latency would make space based data centers impractical, to say nothing of any other challenges. Are satellite transmissions just way faster than I give them credit for?
- max carry-on sizes should be determined by height
- as I'm writing my #AGU25 talks I'm reminded of my favorite hobbyhorse: you should not ask for questions after giving a talk! End by saying "thanks" so people know when to clap. The moderator will let you know if there's any time for questions after! You're just stealing your own applause.
- if I were a better statistician this would be a paper, but: one of the best parts of moving to predictive modeling is completely sidestepping arguments around significance and threshold values "What was the MAE" and "is that good enough for applications" are much easier to reason about
- Reposted by Mike Mahoney#30daymapchallenge · Jour 30 · Relooking 🌍 Europe · Europa · Ευρώπη · Європа 🔍 Zoomez pour découvrir les villes d'Europe dans leur langue. 🔽 L'ancienne carte, en commentaire, utilisait un texte de substitution, réalisée pour le #30daymapchallenge 2024. #cartographie #map #europe #europa
- gotta be honest, pretty excited to go back to looking at the Bad Screen tomorrow
