I recently came across a great Twitter thread by Michael Nielsen that compiled key climate change data points and trends that we should all be familiar with.
Inspired by its simplicity, I decided to build on it a bit more. My goal was to write something to help anyone understand the data behind statements like “climate change is real” or “it’s an existential threat to humanity.”
The data reviewed is broken down into 3 different questions:
- Is climate change real?
- It is caused by humans?
- Does it represent an imminent, existential threat to humanity?
I hope this helps.
Is the Earth Getting Warmer? — YES.
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UPDATE: Tensorflow now has [great instructions](https://www.tensorflow.org/install/gpu) on how to install CUDA with apt-get on Ubuntu 18.04. Follow those instead.
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If you’re into deep learning, you’ll have to setup your system to use your GPU instead of your CPU. I got a Nvidia 1080 Ti liquid cooled and there used to be a decent set of instructions out there on how to install Cuda + Tensorflow on Ubuntu with a Nvidia 1080 Ti GPU. Unfortunately, given new Nvidia drivers as well as new Ubuntu releases, a lot of that doc is now outdated…
A couple of weekends ago, I hacked together an airplane transponder data receiver. “Hack” is a bit of a stretch here since it’s really just plugging a bunch of pipes together — but nonetheless I wanted to write an end-to-end post on how to build this for anyone who might be interested.
First, there’s a flurry of websites out there that allow you to track aircrafts around the world based on their position, altitude, speed, direction, and more. Examples of such sites include Flightradar, FlightView and others. …
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