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Hey Christopher Luxon when will that "downward pressure on rents" kick in again?

New paper out! Details in the thread below. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Hot take: Every new subdivision should be designed like a small town with minimal car use, have a central meeting house, tavern, coffee shop, grocery store, park, playground and postal kiosk.

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Our new paper on tropical cloud feedbacks is out in Nature Geoscience. We show that changes in high cloud area do not provide a negative feedback on climate change like previously thought. Instead, high clouds become thinner with warming, which acts as a... nature.com/articles/s4156…

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I genuinely don't understand why anyone expects a language model, with no constraint that it's output even be logically consistent, should be able to do math.

I will never understand why anyone would expect a language model, with no requirement that it even be logically consistent, to be able to do math.

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This method does not work long term: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

What a profound insight. Perhaps we could do a study comparing rural and urban stations over time to assess bias? agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… Or set up a pristine network of remote monitoring stations? agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… Or exclude urban locations from our analysis?

I will never understand why anyone expects a language model should be able to do math.

Out today in Nature, our new paper on the drivers of the extreme summertime heating of the North Atlantic during 2023. Temperatures across much of the basin warmed to record high levels in the space of just a few months. The impacts on climate and ecosystems were severe. A thread

Hey Spark NZ, what possible justification do you have for raising your broadband prices for the third time in less than 2 years? It’s gone from $90 when we signed up to $115 per the latest email. Your costs cannot have risen by 28% in that time. Just ridiculous.

One of the most essential tests of science is reproducibility. For this chart, I separated our weather station archive into 20 independent 5% samples and computed the global land average of each. The samples vary a bit, but each one paints a similar picture of warming.

*Actual* science (care of *real* climate scientist Ed Hawkins)👇

This does not, in fact, instantly and trivially fix the "climate problem" and does, in fact, have side effects.

Since 1975, when the top marginal tax rate was reduced from 70% to 37%, $79 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1%, according to that bastion of socialism the RAND Corporation. Trickle down economics is a total scam.