Thinking out loud...

In the geosciences, one must be comfortable changing coordinate systems often. One new coordinate system I learned about is the Natural coordinate system, which essentially... [Read More]

The SYNMAP dataset by Martin Jung is a land-cover dataset with a horizontal resolution of about 1 km. It can be used, for example, to... [Read More]

I’m going through the paper Shaping regularization in geophysical estimation problems, and in particular the conjugate gradient program to estimate the shaping-regularized solutions. I struggled... [Read More]

Conspiracy theories & cognitive dissonance Conspiracy theories are on the rise. The Corona virus, 5G, vaccinations, pizzagate, Q-anon, election fraud, wall street, modern medicine…it’s a... [Read More]

The intuitive mind How happy are you these days? As remarked in Thinking, Fast and Slow, this is a hard question! It tells us that... [Read More]