Mike Mahoney

@mikemahoney218.com

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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

Beliefs in Islam Like Judaism and Christianity, to which it is related, Islam is a monotheistic religion
Wikipedia article for BUFR The Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data (BUFR) is a binary data format maintained by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The latest version is BUFR Edition 4. BUFR Edition 3 is also considered current for operational use. BUFR was created in 1988 with the goal of replacing the WMO's dozens of character-based, position-driven meteorological codes, such as SYNOP (surface observations), TEMP (upper air soundings) and CLIMAT (monthly climatological data). BUFR was designed to be portable, compact, and universal. Any kind of data can be represented, along with its specific spatial/temporal context and any other associated metadata. In the WMO terminology, BUFR belongs to the category of table-driven code forms, where the meaning of data elements is determined by referring to a set of tables that are kept and maintained separately from the message itself. BUFR is a complex format that can be difficult to use [1] and it presents some weaknesses.[2] The introduction of BUFR format led to data "disparition" and many formatting errors.[3][4][5]
A "playbill" for Black Swan held up in the usual way at the American Repertory Theater
The release of Microsoft Outlook is now closer to the Moon landing than to today.
the "angry jenkins" emoji; the jenkins ci logo edited to be a flaming ogre
bag of coffee beans (from Broadsheet in Somerville), Kingrinder K6 burr grinder, and aeropress in front of a hotel Keurig used to boil water
A still from It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
a beautiful sunny view of Boston from MGH
Interior passenger cabin of an Embraer 175, from the back looking towards the nose
Google search for "where are the Olympics this year". Google AI has helpfully replied (and highlighted!) "there are no Olympic games this year"
The MBTA red line
your 2026 word: out of pocket
A terrifying harlequin. It's about 8' tall
Weather radar over Boston. It's all snow, everywhere, forever
GeoJSON normatively supports WGS 84 (without height: CRS84; with ellipsoidal height: CRS84h), but the "prior arrangement" provision allows other coordinate systems to be used. Requirement 14 /req/crs/geojson Servers that implement this extension plus the GeoJSON requirements class and clients that use this extension SHALL be subject to the prior arrangement provision in the second paragraph of section 4 of the GeoJSON standard. An explicit request by a client with a query parameter crs establishes a prior arrangement. It is the responsibility of the client that submits the request to handle the coordinates in the response correctly. In particular, clients should not make the GeoJSON document available to others unless they are aware of the prior arrangement. This standard does not specify any standardized approach to encoding coordinate reference system information in a GeoJSON document.
The room for poll worker training for Boston's city elections
A screenshot of the blue bikes app with 100% of stations visited
A black and white image of a storefront. Provolone and Acenelino are both labeled price per lb, while pecorino romano is labeled per bl
The Boston skyline as seen from the MGH platform
Section 13. A person nominated as a candidate for any state, city or town office may withdraw his name from nomination by a request signed and duly acknowledged by him before a notary public, and filed with the officer with whom the nomination was filed, within the time prescribed by section eleven for filing objections to certificates of nomination and nomination papers and no such requests for withdrawals shall be received after such time has expired. A person nominated at a city or town preliminary election may withdraw his name from nomination in the same manner, within six days succeeding five o'clock in the afternoon of the day of holding such preliminary election. Unless otherwise provided by the city or town charter, such nominee shall be replaced by the candidate with the next highest number of votes in said preliminary, if such candidate receives a number of votes at least equal to the number of signatures required by law to place his name on the preliminary election ballot.
Because Kraft dropped out within six days of the preliminary, under Massachusetts state law, the next highest vote-getter could be moved onto the ballot for the general election. In this case, that would be longtime community activist Domingos DaRosa, who earned just 2.6 percent of the vote.
An "I Voted" sticker on a nalgene water bottle
But Roosevelt had this wrestling mat installed in the governor's office - the governor's mansion in Albany, and when Pinchot would come up to see him, he'd unroll the mat, and they'd go at it. And Pinchot, in his memoir, described how one of the highlights of his life was boxing with Roosevelt and knocking him on his butt. So Roosevelt becomes president, Pinchot's his top aide, and together they try to do something audacious. They do create the idea of conservation. Now, John Muir's the third character in this, but he's off stroking his beard and making wonderful statements and living in his vineyard north of San Francisco.
a screenshot (...phone image) of a slide from the GDAL 3.11 webinar, showing the new GDAL vsi command
Changes in carbon from 2005 to 2019 across both sets of allometrics, and then comparing the two. The new maps seem to be accumulating less carbon over time
Two maps of forest carbon in New York State. Top map shows that most areas have more carbon under the new allometrics, bottom map shows the change in which places have "the most" carbon. Mountainous landscapes are the losers!
same domino meme, small one is "Obama gets interested in environmental policy after losing his congressional majority" and big domino is "Biden passes the IRA and BIL"
the domino meme; the small domino is "Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring" and the big one is "the USA establishes the EPA and passes the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and Endangered Species Act within 20 years"
Note: Reductions in force (RIF) furlough regulations and SES competitive furlough requirements are not applicable to emergency shutdown furloughs because the ultimate duration of an emergency shutdown furlough is unknown at the outset and is dependent entirely on Congressional action, rather than agency action. The RIF furlough regulations and SES competitive furlough requirements, on the other hand, contemplate planned, foreseeable, money-saving furloughs that, at the outset, are planned to exceed 30 days
a pixelated version of the parsnip hex logo, with a black bar that reads "censored" slapped over the package name
A photo of the main reception hall at AGU. There's a large Christmas tree in the center of the image; a few people are milling about, but the hall is largely empty
A conference room, with slides about the national water model in the front
The IRA and the climate policy it contains wouldn’t have passed the Senate on Sunday without the enormous amount of work put in by the people who feel most ambivalent about the devil’s bargain struck to get it. The environmentalists and other organizers who made this bill possible are painfully aware of the awful policies it contains, including a big new giveaway of public lands over to drilling, and a prospective overhaul of the laws that govern where and how fossil fuel infrastructure gets built. Without these organizers, the well-heeled set of politicians and pundits who remain thrilled about this bill might still be debating the finer points of hypothetical carbon taxes. And so, despite their eagerness to celebrate, establishment Democrats might be wise to listen a little more closely to those with mixed feelings—especially given how much remains to be seen about how the IRA will be implemented in the coming years. Skeptics’ instincts have been right before. In 2015—just after the Paris Agreement was brokered—Democratic leaders and renewables lobbyists got on board with another trade-off between clean and fossil energy. In exchange for a five-year extension of tax credits for wind and solar, that year’s must-pass spending bill repealed a longstanding ban on crude oil exports. The ban reversal was also, as Bill McKibben wrote at the time, framed as a bargaining chip for the Paris Agreement itself. Senior administration officials reportedly told activists they would “have to swallow” the change. “This is the biggest deal for addressing climate change that we are going to see,” Senator Martin Heinrich said of the deal, pushed in the Senate by oil state politicians, Lisa Murkowski and Heidi Heitkamp. In a Dear Colleagues letter, Nancy Pelosi wrote that, “while lifting the oil export ban remains atrocious policy, the wind and solar tax credits in the Omnibus will eliminate around ten times more carbon pollution than the exports of oil will add,” declining to provid…
skeet from me on January 10 2024: Casey Newton has consistently been one of the most credulous enablers of the platforms he claims to shine light on; I am frankly confused why he has the audience he does. I'm still stuck on him not disclosing his crypto investments while putting out some of the rosiest articles about the industry!
The North face Himalayan suit
Five options for shuttles around Logan airport: Route 11 All Terminals: A, B, C, E (9:00 AM to 10:00 PM daily) Route 22 Terminals A, B MBTA Airport Station (Blue Line) Rental Car Center (9:00 AM to 10:00 PM daily) Route 33 Terminals C, E MBTA Airport Station (Blue Line) Rental Car Center (9:00 AM to 10:00 PM daily) Route 55 All Terminals: A, B, C, E MBTA Airport Station (Blue Line) Rental Car Center (During early morning and late evening off-peak hours) Route 66 All Terminals: A, B, C, E MBTA Airport Station (Blue Line) Logan Office Center Water Transportation Dock (Water Ferry and Water Taxis) (5:00 AM to 11:00 PM daily) Route 88 All Terminals: A, B, C, E Economy Parking Garage MBTA Airport Station (Blue Line, inbound to terminals) (24 hours)
the R latest feed in the "discover new feeds" menu
library(ggplot2) library(patchwork) split(Orange, Orange$Tree) |> lapply( \(x) qplot(x$age, x$circumference) + labs(title = unique(x$Tree)) ) |> Reduce(f = "/")
The squares of Cambridge and Somerville: none of them are squares
Postcard to me, reading: Hi Michael! Thank you for being a voter! Who you vote for is private, but whether you vote is public record. Please vote in the Tues Nov 5 election! Maureen.
A view of the Boston skyline over a pink-purple sky taken from the Charles MGH station
An ad for Explore Somerville announces "it takes all shapes to make a square"
The developers of the new Hunters Point community, Pearl Homes, billed the property as the first “net-zero” single-family home development in the US, meaning residents produce more energy from solar panels than they need, with the excess energy either being stored or sold back to the grid – in a state where most electricity is generated by burning natural gas, a planet-warming fossil fuel.
I was user 160,268 on Bluesky, and the app made me a nice shareable card to prove it
Mike Mahoney spelled out in landsat imagery
daylist: power ballad coastal cowgirl Tuesday morning You listened to 160 bpm and rage on Tuesdays in the morning. Here's some: power ballad, coastal cowgirl, 2020s, indie sleaze, happy indie and aftermath
data <- c(4, -1, 5) pmax(data, 0) #> [1] 4 0 5 pmax(matrix(data), 0) #> [,1] #> [1,] 4 #> [2,] 0 #> [3,] 5 pmax(data.frame(data), 0) #> data #> 1 4 #> 2 NA #> 3 5
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Before: Mike Mahoney
> Whenever you cite papers just because you're "politically supposed to", even though you don't think it's really intellectually useful for anyone to be aware of the cited paper, you're making the citations less useful for everybody. The audacity of deciding on behalf of readers whether information is valuable to them when publishing an academic paper is quite an interesting concept to me. I'm not published in journals, but I do have a "professional" writing background. There's only a few ways I can imagine to read into your statement. Either you think you're above citation, or so much smarter than the reader you're qualified to decide on their behalf whether it's relevant, or simply hiding it for nefarious reasons.
A table: Four factors of developer thriving: Agency: A developer is: 1) able to voice disagreement with team definitions of success 2) has a voice in how their contributions are measured Motivation & Self-Efficacy: A developer is: 1) motivated when working on code at work 2) can see tangible progress most of the time 3) is working on the type of code work they want to work on 4) is confident that even when working in code is unexpectedly difficult, they will solve their problems Learning Culture A developer is: 1) learning new skills as a developer 2) able to share the things they learn at work Support & Belonging A developer is: 1) supported to grow, learn, and make mistakes by their team 2) agrees they are accepted for who they are by their team
Spotify daylist: hipster chin-stroking Friday morning You listened to hipster and songwriting on Friday mornings. Here's some: hipster, chin-stroking, cancon, whale song, folksy, and obscure
DA SHARE ZONE meme: a running skeleton captioned "JUST WALK OUT! you can leave!!! work social thing movies home class dentist clothes shoppi too fancy weed store cops if your quick friend ships IF IT SUCKS... HIT DA BRICKS!! real winners quit"
The goal of rsi is to address several **r**epeated **s**patial **i**nfelicities, by providing utility functions that save you typing and help avoid **r**epetitive **s**tress **i**njuries. Specifically, rsi provides: - An interface to the **R**some – excuse me, [*Awesome* Spectral Indices project](https://github.com/awesome-spectral-indices/awesome-spectral-indices), providing the list of indices directly in R as a friendly tibble, - A method for efficiently *calculating* those awesome spectral indices using local rasters, enabling **r**apid **s**pectral **i**nference, - A method for downloading STAC data – excuse me, **r**etriving **S**TAC **i**nformation – from any STAC server, with additional helpers for downloading Landsat, Sentinel-1, and Sentinel-2 data from free and public STAC servers providing **r**apid **s**atellite **i**magery, - A **r**aster **s**tack **i**ntegration method for combining multiple rasters containing distinct data sets into a single raster stack
Art covering an entire wall: A humanoid figure, wreathed in feathers and with a fiery flower for a head, pounds the ground and summons a wave.
Found if() conditions comparing class() to string: File ‘rsi/R/download.R’: if (class(aoi) != "bbox") ... Use inherits() (or maybe is()) instead.
Hi Michael, ‌ We’re writing to remind you that after April 2, 2024, you will no longer be able to listen to podcasts in Google Podcasts. You still have through July 29th, 2024, to migrate your podcast show subscriptions to YouTube Music, or to download a file of your show subscriptions so that you can upload to an app that supports their import.
Syracuse's Landmark Theater against a blue sky
A linkedin post that starts "Observable framework 1.1 is now out! This release includes:" Linkedin has added buttons below that include the question "what are the new features in Observable"
Lucy prepping the football for Charlie Brown. Charlie is labeled "Me", the football "Ecological forecasting with complex models"