Nice. And, when doing US state level data viz, consider using a shortcut like plotly_express instead of a true GIS -- allows inclusion of Alaska and Hawaii, and uses a nice conical projection instead of Mercator or unprojected cylindrical. https://link.medium.com/8C9QYeO96xb

Yep! A hundred years ago people noticed that meteorites were easy to find in Kansas - flat land with deep soil and without any rocks, so if you did find one, it was probably a meteorite. Museums sent out people to do their collecting there. It became a joke - the gods hate Kansas. There's a pulp novel with that title

Sydney McLaughlin is the greatest, most dominant, gold medal winning athlete you've never heard of.

Just remember, it's not the warmest summer/winter/spring/fall in history, it's the coolest one of the rest of our lives.

Scatterplot the two vars and do a Pearson's rho (on day z the price of bitcoin was $x and the search count on Google was y, for each day in T)

I feel like you're trying to re-invent regression residuals analysis in a NN setting? Where you're comparing your data points to the predicted values or class? There are a lot of tools on the regression diagnostics side, most of which are looking for things that don't really matter in an arbitrary non-linear curve fitting process like NN. So depends on what your need is for the error analysis.

The shelter on 2nd and D? I'm guessing it depends on the dog.

Note that with blood transfusion, the recipient ends up with some white blood cells for a few days with the donors DNA. WBCs don't reproduce and die off pretty quickly, so it might seem like the DNA from the transfused blood changed, but really it's just gone. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/donor-blood-transfustion

All I've discovered is that people have really strong opinions on this.

Also, just a reminder, the winter is Standard Time that tries to match local noon (when the sun is highest in the sky, halfway btwn sunrise and sunset) as best as it can to 12 on the clock. The summer is Daylight Saving Time, which is an hour off from local noon. More or less.

Any state can remove DST at any time and use Standard Time always (see Hawaii, Arizona. How this would work for the District I dunno, probably can't). But Congress has to act to shift everyone to DST and eliminate Standard Time.

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Monarch butterflies do this too -- the migration from Mexico to the US and back takes multiple generations. It's the great grandkids that show up in the same forest in Mexico each year. Genetically encoded somehow.

Love that piece! The great mystery of Atlantic eel reproduction.