It's worth pointing out AEMO's demand is for the grid, and residential solar typically does not show up on the grid. OpenNEM[1] uses estimates of residential solar to approximate the full load.
Nice article, thanks. For anyone interested in the topic, I highly recommend Trefethen's Approximation Theory and Approximation Practice. It's approachable, intuitive, and fun while still covering a lot of technical detail.
This is exactly what is already done! On Earth at least. Radio telescopes around the world observe (mostly) quasars to perform geodesy. This is the main method used to measure the Earth Orientation Parameters which is need for keeping GPS/GNSS calibrated.
With it, you can measure distances of several thousand km with a precision on the order of a few millimetres. The problem is that it's really expensive compared to GPS: at each site you need a reasonably size telescope, atomic clock, some serious storage, and a way to ship all the data to a central cluster.
I think if he did have mental health problems, like many others in the field, it's now more than ever to raise the point. If he didn't it doesn't hurt to raise the issue, because it is genuine.
If you suffer from anxiety and/or depression, there is help. Talk to someone. You're not alone, and you don't need to suffer alone.
Since Python is an interpreter, it keeps a dictionary/hash table of the local and global variables. These can be accesses by the functions `locals()` and `globals()`.
`a = ... ` can be thought of as `locals()["a"] = ...`
(although you can should not actually modify the local variables this way)
The slight curve to usually straight letters like 'v' and 'k' reminds me a bit of of Inconsolata. I really like this touch and makes a monospaced font flow. Is it also using Spiro splines?
> Not at all! Happiness _is_ correlated to shorter door-to-door time, but higher speed does not equate to shorter times if the distance grows as well.
Exactly! This is also related to the The Fundamental Law of Road Congestion: building new roads just allows people drive more. (See Duranton and Turner.)
You can view this as an equilibrium. People will prefer uncongested roads until they become congested.
A problem I'd like to see a good solution to is selection bias. Unless there is some kind of reward, only people that really care are likely rate something
I think Netflix's move might help this. It certainly lowers the cost rating.
3D plots can useful when the data is intrinsically 3D. But forcing a 3D plot on 2D data, like a pie chart, makes it hard for a viewer to develop an intuition for the data.
DST varies by state in Australia. Western Australia (UTC+8) does not observe DST.