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Humans age dramatically at two key points in their life, study finds | CNN

August 20, 2024

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/20/health/dramatic-human-aging-scli-intl-wellness/index.html

Angel of the Morning – Wikipedia

August 19, 2024

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_of_the_Morning

How We’ll Reach a 1 Trillion Transistor GPU – IEEE Spectrum

August 19, 2024

https://spectrum.ieee.org/trillion-transistor-gpu

Nice scaling graphs

Would You Clone Your Dog? | The New Yorker

August 18, 2024

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/01/would-you-clone-your-dog

Onward and Upward with the Sciences

Would You Clone Your Dog?

We love our dogs for their individual characters—and yet cloning implies that we also believe their unique, unreproducible selves can, in fact, be reproduced.
By Alexandra Horowitz

Alice & Jack – Wikipedia

August 17, 2024

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_%26_Jack

Rooms | French Fairytale Hilltop Chateau de Rouffillac

August 15, 2024

https://www.chateauderouffillac.com/rooms/

oneline programming learning and playground

August 15, 2024

recommend three sites for kids or adult coding learning. All of them have coding playgrounds for testing.

https://www.w3schools.com/ (for most of programming languages) https://javascript.info/ (just javascript, with more interesting advanced projects)
https://www.freecodecamp.org/ (many coding course, with certificate)

Chatbots in science: What can ChatGPT do for you?

August 15, 2024

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02630-z

Annotated References on ARIMA

August 12, 2024

I had to consult many references to really understand ARIMA. These are listed below.

Main Text: Forte, R. M. (2015). Mastering Predictive Analytics with R. Packt Publishing. ISBN-13: 978-1783982806, ISBN-10: 1783982802.

Suggested: Dalinina, R. (2017). Introduction to Forecasting with ARIMA
in R. https://blogs.oracle.com/ai-and-datascience/post/introduction-to-forecasting-with-arima-in-r

Nice discussion of direct and indirect effect in relation to ACF: Rajbhoj, A. (2021, December 11). ARIMA Simplified. Towards Data Science. Medium.
https://towardsdatascience.com/arima-simplified-b63315f27cbc

Fantastic intuition on MA processes: Sosna, M. (2021). A Deep Dive on ARIMA Models. https://mattsosna.com/ARIMA-deep-dive/#ma-moving-average Very good on the technical details of how exponential smoothing relates to ARIMA:

Nau, R. Introduction to ARIMA Models. Fuqua School of Business. https://people.duke.edu/~rnau/411arim.htm

Other stuff: Ariton, L. (2021, December 27). A Thorough Introduction to ARIMA Models. Analytics Vidhya – Medium.
https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/a-thorough-introduction-to-arima-models-987a24e9ff71

Other stuff #2: Li, R. (2024, February 7). Prediction: Time Series Forecasting vs Regression. Richard Li – Medium.
https://medium.com/@rdli/prediction-time-series-forecasting-vs-regression-b4ce3159b3f2

Eton pupils to swap their smartphones for offline Nokias from next term | Evening Standard

August 11, 2024

Eton pupils to swap their smartphones for offline Nokias from next term | Evening Standard

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/education/eton-pupils-told-to-swap-their-iphones-for-nokia-from-next-term-b1169336.html