if you build the LEGO container ship in the US is it technically Jones Act compliant?
Joey Politano🏳️🌈
New preprint 📑 Fast inference in HMMs with latent Gaussian fields (via SPDE approach + RTMB) ⚡️
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2603.17469
We modify the forward algorithm to recover a sparse Hessian ➡️ Fast automatic Laplace approximation
Case studies: 1) Detecting stellar flares 2) Lion movement w spatial field
That's a lot of random images. How about poking through the 78 images tagged of "mural"?
https://yesterdays.maprva.org/subjects/mural
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q219423
another banner day for "if you didn't know sports were real, ESPN headlines would be crazy"
Jan-Ole Fischer
Great reporting by Graham Moomaw: he filed a FOIA request for the financial data Richmond, Virginia was supposed to be publishing online, by law.
City officials claimed it would cost $5.7K+, & only released a scrubbed payees & procurements.
The kicker: Richmond stopped publishing the data… in 2019.
I'm writing a talk on the current problems with scientific publishing. It's getting harder and harder to avoid just screaming at the computer. Here's a typical slide 🧪
ID: /-#V.74.83.98
The Old Sport
Date: Late 19th century - Early 20th century
Artist: Liebler and Maass
https://valentine.rediscoverysoftware.com/MADetailB.aspx?rID=/-#V.74.83.98&db=biblio&dir=VALARCH
The Yesterdays Bot
"I’m not surprised that the city is proud to have published a payment register that omits the names of the payees, but frankly — it’s embarrassing,' [3rd District Councilmember Kenya] Gibson said. 'The Richmonders I know won’t be fooled to believe that this is what being transparent looks like.'"
UWA Oceans Institute
Valentine Collection Bot
Pete Volk
Alexander Howard
Rob Knell
Dave Infante
Dominion Energy says its Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project has generated its first power, marking a major milestone for what’s set to become the nation’s largest offshore wind farm once completed.
virginiamercury.com/briefs/domin...
Virginia Mercury
The city said it would cost at least $5.7K for a copy of its payment register that's supposed to be available online.
Richmond officials charge $5.7K FOIA fee for financial info city is required to publish
The Richmonder
Dominion Energy’s major Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project is now sending power to the grid, after its first commercial turbine was switched on Monday
