Andrew Peterson

@JesseJenkins Room temperature is 25.3 meV

What is the oddest/most obscure conversion factor you have memorized because it is handy in your line of work (and why)? Mine: 1 kilowatt-hour (kWh) = 3,412 British thermal units (Btus), because for some reason we Americans discuss fuel costs in $/million Btus & power plant heat rates in Btu/kWh.

@amymrusso The solution for too much traffic bypassing I195 through our crowded city is... to encourage more cars to pass through this crowded point? I love how much more pedestrian-friendly the area around the pedestrian bridge is since South Water Street stopped feeling like a highway.

Mayor says cost to remove South Water bike path and implement raised crosswalk at James St. will be $750k. Mayor says the bike path was “ill conceived” from the start.

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The last 30 days in carbon removal have been insane! In case you missed it:

@NAM28NACS That's gottta be Cthulhu... nytimes.com/2016/08/14/tra…

We can neither confirm or deny a session on Kraken-based catalysis. But you know what RI does have that you can always try to visit, sunken submarines: uri.edu/news/2018/11/n…

New math-heavy preprint on how susceptibility variation can lead to variation in infectious disease dynamics @cnmirose, @medford_group, @cfgoldsmith, @TVegge, and @AndyAPeterson: "Population Susceptibility Variation and Its Effect on Contagion Dynamics" arxiv.org/abs/2009.09150

This thread is on #Covid19, heterogeneity, herd immunity, and the roots of SIR models; why mathematical choices we often take for granted have profound effects on interpreting unfolding epidemics. @arxiv manuscript: arxiv.org/abs/2005.04704 Code: github.com/aapeterson/pow… 1/n