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An Open Letter from U.S. Scientists Imploring President Biden to End the Fossil Fuel Era

Posted on 9 October 2021 by ecoquant

The following open letter was published on Thursday, 7th October 2021. Here is a link to the PDF original.

Posted in American Association for the Advancement of Science, being carbon dioxide, carbon dioxide, climate disruption, climate emergency | Tagged climatejustice, endfossilfuels, fridaysforfuture, solardemocracy, solarenergy, zero carbon energy | 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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