A Suggestion to Rain-Makers

A Suggestion on Suggestion

A Nearest Neighbor Approach to Contextual Suggestion

The School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNCSILS) submitted two runs to the Contextual Suggestion Track. Given a geographical context, both our runs (UNCSILS BASE and UNCSILS PARAM) scored venues from the same candidate set gathered using the Yelp API. Our baseline run (UNCSILS BASE) followed a nearest neighbor approach. For a given profi...

Rain Heights Over the Oceans: Relation to Rain Rates

Rain over the oceans causes attenuation of communication and radar signals for satellites and backscatter to satellite radars. To determine the attenuation and backscatter, one must know the height of the rain in a storm, and must be able to find it from a satellite measurement likely to be available. Microwave radiometers on satellites can provide estimates of rain rates, and therefore relatin...

A suggestion for the stimulus.

fter directing nearly a trillion dollars towards our ail-ing banks, insurance companies, and auto industry, the Obama administration has now pushed through a bill to spend just short of a trillion dollars to jump-start the rest of the economy. I am all for this. This recession has been devastating, and the sooner we get Americans back to work the better. But before all this money is allocated, ...

Advanced Suggestion

an unthought-of pinnacle of success and his system beats all other methods of treatment by suggestion or indeed anything else clean out of the field. Nine-tenths of his book is taken up with illustrative cases of cures, and we read with wonder of chronic eczemas, diabetes, disorders of menstruation, and even new growths disappearing at the word of command. Nor is surgery forgotten, for haemorrh...