@thyngkm

Oceanography, Python, and Plots. Maker of cmocean colormaps. Former research professor in oceanography at Texas A&M. Now at Axiom Data Science.

 Bryan, TX
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Joined December 2012
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Lyft
@lyft27 Oct 2022
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Here's the link: lyft.com/lyftup/jobs-access/… Sponsored by Goodwill and United Way
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New paper in @SpringerNature @ScientificData presenting the @IPCC_CH #AR6 Atlas repository, a resource implementing the #FAIRprinciples of #Data management and stewardship in the #InteractiveAtlas @IFCA_CSIC_UC
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Joel Walsh@ThankUBayesGod10 Oct 2022
TIL that Cholesky was a military officer who died on the battlefield in WW1 and his famous matrix decomposition was discovered posthumously, from a journal?!
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The MAGA right talks about Black Lives Matter as if it’s some sort of equivalency for 1/6. These talking points have a way of spreading. Let’s correct them every single time. 📚Researchers at Harvard gathered statistics from 7,305 BLM events. Here’s what they found:
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All this Christian theocracy, anti-abortion, anti-contraception, anti-LGBTQ sentiment has me thinking about this rant today.
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Jon Engelsman@engelsjk6 Oct 2022
Here's a visualization tool I've been working on to explore the global swath coverage of 1+ million declassified spy satellite images. keyhole.engelsjk.com 🧵

KEYHOLE

An experimental visualization of ground swaths from declassified spy satellite imagery.

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D@ffdb3_325 Aug 2022
Replying to @AkilahObviously
I say it all the time… More people make more money & pay less taxes in CA than in TX
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Are there videos from scipy this year? I haven’t seen anything come out! @jkru
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Beto O'Rourke
@BetoORourke11 Jul 2022
Instead of hoping the power grid holds up, let’s fix the grid so we know it'll hold up.
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Mini rant: Every time an organisation says it's going to hire more diverse staff, someone replies "but surely you should hire the best candidates regardless of background!" And every time, what they think is a counterpoint is actually an argument *for* a diverse hiring policy.
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Submit an abstract to SciPy!!
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I’m Ben Chou, the person who created drive thru voting in Texas — causing Republicans to lose their minds and pass a bill outlawing drive thru voting. Now I’m running for office in Texas to flip a seat blue. Can you RT and help me fight back against voter suppression? – at Houston, TX
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My alma mater, Whitman College, is hiring professors in both CS and statistics. Whitman is a great community and you should apply! Two computer scientist positions: whitman.bamboohr.com/jobs/vi… Stats position: whitman.bamboohr.com/jobs/vi…

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Take a look at the current openings at Whitman College

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20y ago today, as a failing physics grad student I posted @IPythonDev 0.2.0. This opened the door to an incredible community: @ellisonbg, @minrk, @Mbussonn, the late John Hunter... who made @ProjectJupyter & scientific python possible. Too many to name.. mail.python.org/pipermail/py…
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With @wirecutter/@nytimes management refusing to come to the table to reach a deal, 100% of our unit will be striking from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday. The best way you can support us is by boycotting @wirecutter from 11/25-11/29: wirecutterunion.com/support-…
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Tim Hopper
@tdhopper2 Nov 2021
A thread about a simple tool that has been transformative for my teams data science work: I provide engineering and infra support for a small data science team who work in Python.
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Seeing all the great climate discussions last night gave us hope! Here's a piece from @JimmyKimmelLive with @KHayhoe. Amazing! *chef's kiss* 🤌👏
Jimmy Kimmel Live
@JimmyKimmelLive23 Sep 2021
Dr. @KHayhoe teaches us how to talk to someone who doesn’t believe in climate change…
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Callum Rollo@callum_rollo15 Sep 2021
Job opportunity for seagoing nerds: Linux comfortable troubleshooter to support UHDAS ADCP acquisition and processing software. Both on ship and post-cruise. Based in Hawaii! rcuh.com/work/application-in… >> Job postings Job id 221481 Closes 4th October
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That's a wrap for the conference agenda for #SciPy2021, so a huge THANK YOU to all the @SciPyConf organizers who made it happen this year! scipy2021.scipy.org/organize… They did an amazing job. Hope to see lots of people at the sprints starting tomorrow! :)
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Matt Craig@astronomatty14 Jul 2021
Factoid from #SciPy2021 - there are 200k @mybinderteam instances launched per week 😮🎉🙏
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