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Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves
Tweet Splendid food fights have broken out at the Weasel’s , Willard Tony’s and Jo Nova’s about Junior Rocket Scientist David Evans New Notch Delay Solar Theory. Eli will let David summarize this We assume the system from solar radiation (TSI) to surface temperature is linear and invariant, so we use sinusoids and frequencies to do the analysis.
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Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional.
Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes PNAS 2014 : 1402786111v1-201402786. Eli’s POV is that this was pitched to the freakonomics crowd masquerading as journalists who were happy to roll with it. There are, as they say, issues, and Eli will simply outsource those to Jeremy Freese , Andrew  Gelman , Harold Brooks and Bob  O’Hara . Bottom line, as Brooks points out is that these clowns are building a model for a fictitious, but churn baiting effect. Why churn
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Tweet Haven’t done a Bay Area Local post in a while, and thought I’d also make it an open thread for any comment. Here in Santa Clara County elections (and San Mateo County), the good issue on the ballot is Measure AA , a bond measure funding open space protection in two counties for the Mid-Peninsula Regional Open Space District