Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 12/04/2025TFW an author has done just enough research to get things spectacularly wrong. 000
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 08/04/2025Either yesterday or this morning. Who can remember that far back these days? 010
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 04/02/2025One of these is a real textbook and the other is a gag gift that came hollowed out with a flask of whisky in it. 000
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 04/02/2025I have such a hard time getting rid of old textbooks. They cost me a fortune. An who knows when you'll need to look up something on the empirical stability rules for atomic nuclei, reflectometer theory or stellerator equilibria :-/ 110
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 03/02/2025Thanks for this, it's really great! One apparent typo: the "key findings" in section 9.2 appear to have gone missing. 000
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 02/02/2025It feels like 2000 was a dividing line. Maybe a lot of people were disappointed about the lack of hoverboards and flying cars and started looking back? 010
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 01/02/2025As someone who came of age in the 80s, I don't recall much nostalgia for the 70s (bellbottoms, disco!) or the 60s (war, weird!) 110
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 08/01/2025Same data again, but in a new Elastic projection I've been experimenting with that avoids disintegrating Australia. 111
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 07/01/2025Fans of koalas, poisonous snakes, the Divynils or other Antipodean stereotypes will be pleased to hear I'm working on a projection that is similar, but doesn't disintegrate Australia. 020
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 07/01/2025@paulwoods.io I put together some code at github.com/GlobalFishin... that should be fairly self contained.github.comGitHub - GlobalFishingWatch/spilhausContribute to GlobalFishingWatch/spilhaus development by creating an account on GitHub. 110
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 03/01/2025You always have to sacrifice something when you make a world map. In this case, it's Australia. 100
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 03/01/2025It got ripped in half and smeared along the edge. You can see that better in this map where they show the land: kunimune.blog/wp-content/u...kunimune.blog 100
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 03/01/2025It turns out that the Spilhaus projection exaggerates the size of the Chinese coastline quite a bit. There is a similar projectioin, called Elastic-2, which is better in this regard. See: bsky.app/profile/tim.... 100
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 03/01/2025Same data, but now plotted in the Elastic-2 projection described at kunimune.blog/2023/12/29/i.... This reportedly has less area inflation around the East China Sea, and we do see that the vessel traffic in Asia appears less dramatic. 130
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 03/01/2025I need to do a little clean up on the repo I'm using before I open it up–I'll try to do that in the next few days–but in the meantime, I used the projection code from github.com/rtlemos/spil... to do most of the work. My main contribution was convincing Matplotlib to do backgrounds in a way I liked.github.comspilhaus/spilhaus.py at main · rtlemos/spilhausProject your maritime dataset onto the World Ocean. - rtlemos/spilhaus 020
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 02/01/2025@paulwoods.io @davidkroodsma.bsky.social I played around with this over break and managed to map vessel presence in the Spilhaus projection. It really shows how little vessel traffic the southern oceans have. It's also a good candidate for a black light poster with this color scheme. 282
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 25/12/2024I just completed all 25 days of Advent of Code 2024! #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com Ugh! Day 24 was kind of brutal, but finally saw the trick of it.adventofcode.comAdvent of Code 2024 040
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 23/12/2024I've completed "LAN Party" - Day 23 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/23 I was handicapped by a complete failure to follow instructions, but eventually–after taking a break to shovel a few tons of gravel–saw the light.adventofcode.comDay 23 - Advent of Code 2024 040
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 20/12/2024I've completed "Race Condition" - Day 20 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/20 This one was fun and had a closer to uniform difficulty between the parts. My solution was more general than it needed to be, but still ended up running decently fast.adventofcode.comDay 20 - Advent of Code 2024 030
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 15/12/2024I've completed "Warehouse Woes" - Day 15 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/15 Today was nice and straightforward, softening us up for some gruesome puzzle tomorrow I imagine.adventofcode.comDay 15 - Advent of Code 2024 030
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 15/12/2024I just got $10 in the Equifax settlement⁉️ As paltry as that sum is, I suspect that this may be the high point of data breach settlements and it's all downhill from here. 010
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 14/12/2024Are you good at cursing? The borrow checker requires a constant stream of profanity to make it work. 151
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 14/12/2024I've completed "Restroom Redoubt" - Day 14 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/14 🥶 That involved more ad hoc fiddling that I prefer, but hey, it's done.adventofcode.comDay 14 - Advent of Code 2024 020
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 13/12/2024I've completed "Claw Contraption" - Day 13 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/13 Ugh! This was the first day where I really wandered off on the wrong track. I kept thinking about doing it the right way, but was continually seduced by a flashier, but wrong, approach.adventofcode.comDay 13 - Advent of Code 2024 060
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 11/12/2024Blasting "Operation: Mindcrime" while reviewing code: good idea or the worst idea? 010
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 07/12/2024I've completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2 In UIUA (uiua.org), which was interesting, but probably not something I need to do again.adventofcode.comDay 2 - Advent of Code 2024 020
Reposted by TimDavid Kroodsma @davidkroodsma.bsky.social · 06/12/2024🚨🚨Job Alert!🚨🚨 We are looking for a senior scientist to help my team at Global Fishing Watch drive impact. This is an opportunity to build relationships that apply our technology to help make change. Please share! job-boards.greenhouse.io/globalfishin...job-boards.greenhouse.ioJob Application for Senior Scientist, Head of Research Impact at Global Fishing Watch 03329
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 03/12/2024I've completed "Mull It Over" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/3 The portion of advent of code where you still think you've learned all the lessons from the previous years and that this year will be easy.adventofcode.comDay 3 - Advent of Code 2024 040
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 03/12/2024That’s cool that you can host it on github pages! I wouldn’t have thought of that. 000
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 22/11/2024Nope, my parents did a bunch of different jobs (photography, picture framing, custom jewelry, construction, mail delivery, bookkeeping, teaching, ...) but none that would be considered tech. 010
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 21/11/2024😬 I used to live in the purple area up in the mountains and winter rainfall was kind of crazy even in normal years. Be careful out there! 000
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 19/11/2024media.tenor.coma man with horns and a beard has the words there are some who call meAlt: a man with horns and a beard saying "there are some who call me...Tim" 010
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 18/11/2024Beautiful! The one bobcat I've run into in the wild was accompanied by a house cat sized "baby" which was both super cute and terrifying since I figured she was likely to be extra aggro. 000
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 13/11/2024Old Pixies song just popped up in my playlist and man the Pixies were great. 000
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 11/11/2024Lots of stuff going down in the world, but GDAL is still a huge pain to install, so at least some things haven't changed. #dataBS 340
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 27/10/2024I first read the repo name as data-we-bring, which, really, works just as well. 110
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 03/10/2024Just got my Ignore All Previous Instructions sticker in the mail and it's glorious. 010
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 02/10/2024It seems like tasting bad would just be an integral part of weed soda. Also, weed soda?! 000
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 18/09/2024An edited version of this has shown up at my work for people who have to be cheerful early in the morning. 010
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 11/09/2024Probably one of the old ones -- it seemed pretty beat up. I'm glad they're updating them! 010
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 11/09/2024Have they oiled the wheels on BART yet though? The last couple of times I was in the bay and rode BART (admittedly a few years back now) my ears bled! 100
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 06/09/2024Very little chance the cat will go through the floor when the inevitable collapse occurs given that you're in CA and probably don't have a basement. 020
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 04/09/2024Yeah, last summer was brutal, even the creosote bushes looked fried by the end. This summer seemed pretty typical. 000
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 01/09/2024People keep posting things like, "LLMS, can't even spell" or "LLMS are credulously reposting obvious nonsense" as if this makes them seem less like humans. Have these people payed attention to the last 30 years of the internet? [For the record, LLMs are clearly dumb as rocks though] 000
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 28/08/2024Derek Lowe, pulling no punches on RFK Jr: "We have enough cynical, manipulative bullshit artists in politics already, and Robert F. Kennedy's record in this area is utterly, totally disqualifying to him and to anyone who works with him." From: www.science.org/content/blog...science.orgA Note on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 000
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 26/08/2024Coffee roastery down the street is roasting. It smells good, but also like something might be on fire. 000
Tim @tim.hochberg.io · 23/08/2024Today's project: trying to convince the skunk camping on my back deck to move by making it listen to talk radio. 000
