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Balance. (And Bill Nye the Science Guy!)

Posted on 13 May 2014 by ecoquant
Posted in carbon dioxide, Carbon Tax, citizenship, civilization, climate, climate education, conservation, ecology, education, energy, energy reduction, environment, forecasting, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, physics, politics, rationality, reasonableness, risk, science | Tagged Bill Nye | Leave a comment
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    • John Cook's reasons to use Bayesian inference
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    • All about ENSO, and lunar tides (Paul Pukite) Historically, ENSO has been explained in terms of winds. But recently — and Dr Paul Pukite has insisted upon this for a long time — the oscillation of ENSO has been explained as a large-scale slosh due to lunar tidal forcing.
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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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