Chilling Effects
Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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A Graph of Deaths in New York City by Month
The cold deaths are centred in the warmest areas and vice versa. People are most likely to die of extreme cold in sub shar in africa, and most likely to died of extreme heat in greenland, norway and various very high ont ance. This has got to all be wrong, right? Ten % of africans freezing to death, a substantial number of greenlanders dying of the heat. The paper doesn't have any answers. It just presents its mathematical model and runs so what's going on? Two, when you're sceptical of complicated models, sometimes it helps to go back to the rawest data you can find. So hee's a graph of
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