Aero bikes. Fat bikes. Gravel Bikes. Ebikes. Those are major new bike type trends that have affected the industry in the 2010’s. Most of these categories of bikes already existed, but then one frame design and marketing managed to overcome whatever the existing cons were, and suddenly every company had to be making and selling […]
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Driving sucks. It pollutes, it wastes time, and it is dangerous. Public transit takes forever- although you can multi-task. The main problem is it isn’t nearly as widely available as needed, especially in the US. Cycling is amazing. It is healthy, competitive training, and a great mental transitions between work and home. But it requires
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*This is really not meant for an introduction, although there is some, but rather a reference of links and reminder for people who already know some of the basics (ie me!). I have been busy researching high-dimensional forecasting, and this is part of the result. A time series is any series of numbers that occur
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Once upon a time, there was no valley, no ravine, no house, and no driveway. Between 30,000 and 15,000 years ago, glaciers reached their maximum extent covering much of North America. As the glaciers melted, they formed a massive lake around 13,000 years ago called Lake Agassiz. Over roughly the next three thousand years this
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View this post on Instagram Light and shadow around this beautiful ship, which I’ve waited years to see A post shared by Colin Catlin (@colin_catlin) on Jun 2, 2019 at 6:17am PDT I wandered into Stockholm’s old town (‘Gamla Stan’) today. I had been wondering where the true tourist hordes would be, and well, here
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What is paradise? I do believe paradise would have lots of bikes, and lots of people riding them. Paradise would also weather suitable for athletic activity, cool but not cold. The sun would shine. Flowers and greenery would be in abundance. Splendid monuments would rise. The place would bustle, but it wouldn’t be busy. People
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I am going to take a quick break from my busy work at the farm (of remote data science work, farm and garden work, packing for my trip, unpacking from moving, cycling things, and more!) to discuss my thoughts on Game of Thrones Season 8. To get things started, my overall impression was: hmmm, good.
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How I Think, Usually My brain spends most of its time play Sudoku. Obviously, not Sudoku exactly, because that game gets boring quickly enough, but such a game on a large scale. My brain is all about taking what I know, and recombining pieces of that to draw conclusions, and so on ever building my
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It’s pretty much undeniable that this phase of the trip is far more photogenic than the previous stops. I landed in Christchurch on the sixth of January, and spent three days there, two of which I was working remotely. I then drove down to a farmstay a bit south of Twizel, and then the next
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Australia, as experienced by me in Sydney and Melbourne was a friendly, but unremarkable (and too hot!) of a place overall. Nice, but nice enough to return anytime soon, given the long and expensive flight. That was, until I headed out to the Blue Mountains, a two hour train ride west of Sydney. As the
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