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Watching out for those investments: A bubble in companies reliant upon fossil fuels for their business

Posted on 15 April 2021 by ecoquant
Posted in American Petroleum Institute, American Solar Energy Society, an ignorant American public, an uncaring American public, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, bridge to somewhere, Carbon Tax, Carbon Worshipers, climate activism, climate business, Climate Interactive | Leave a comment

A SimCity for the Climate

Posted on 27 April 2020 by ecoquant

SimCity is/was a classic simulation game teaching basics of public policy, energy management, and environmental regulation. My kids played it a lot. Heck, I played it a lot. Now, Climate Interactive, Tom Fiddaman of Ventana Systems, Prof John Sterman of … Continue reading →

Posted in Bloomberg, Bloomberg Green, climate activism, climate business, climate change, climate data, climate disruption, climate economics, climate education, Climate Interactive, climate models, climate policy, global warming, science | Leave a comment
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  • Kalman filtering and smoothing; dynamic linear models



    Also, see datasets and R examples to accompany this excellent text.





    I have used dlm almost exclusively, except when extreme efficiency was required. Since Jouni Helske's KFAS was rewritten, though, I'm increasingly drawn to it, because the noise sources it supports are more diverse than dlm's. KFAS uses the notation and approaches of Durbin, Koopman, and Harvey.

    ``The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.''
    Professor Donald Knuth, 1974
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