HTTP/2 301 server: nginx date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 03:40:35 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 location: https://devoidofnulls.wordpress.com/comments/feed/ x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 03:40:35 GMT etag: "f78183c07e1c31f7d649b1e9af61fb4d" x-redirect-by: WordPress x-ac: 3.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=438.0 HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 03:40:36 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 vary: Accept-Encoding x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 03:40:36 GMT etag: W/"caf4b35e620d5a70abed6dea4800ddbc" content-encoding: gzip x-ac: 1.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=1017.0 https://devoidofnulls.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Mon, 27 Jun 2016 02:51:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.com/ https://devoidofnulls.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/be-cautious-using-price-indices/#comment-1478 Mon, 27 Jun 2016 02:51:31 +0000 https://devoidofnulls.wordpress.com/?p=486#comment-1478 An analogy I like to use with money is it’s often like the dye for an MRI or CAT scan. Boosting money supply will tell you the dynamics are, what takes it up fast, slow, or that it doesn’t event reach. It is very rare and unlikely that this injection also has a medicinal effect.

]]> https://devoidofnulls.wordpress.com/2013/11/25/temperature-data-internally-consistent-beliefs-and-data-bias/#comment-1381 Sun, 08 Nov 2015 09:18:49 +0000 https://devoidofnulls.wordpress.com/?p=365#comment-1381 […] In my previous post, I questioned the reliability of UAH’s revision of its dataset for its most recent version of the Lower Tropospheric Temperature anomaly. I never did hear back from Roy about the issues that I raised that made me think the new adjustments were resulting in a flawed product that was in fact inferior for accurate trend assessment over the long term to the previous version of the dataset. But a recent assessment I have done suggests to me I was perhaps too hasty in concluding UAH was now biased for trend assessment, at least over the long term. Specifically, I revisited an earlier analysis I did. […]

]]> https://devoidofnulls.wordpress.com/2015/05/03/has-uahs-new-method-made-v6-0-inferior/#comment-1380 Sun, 08 Nov 2015 09:18:46 +0000 https://devoidofnulls.wordpress.com/?p=492#comment-1380 […] Just another WordPress.com weblog « Has UAH’s new method made v6.0 inferior? […]

]]> https://devoidofnulls.wordpress.com/2014/01/13/the-curious-case-of-noaa-12/#comment-1338 Sun, 03 May 2015 00:53:10 +0000 https://devoidofnulls.wordpress.com/?p=434#comment-1338 […] previously discussed how RSS appears to have a serious drift problem associated with NOAA-12, and the period during […]

]]> https://devoidofnulls.wordpress.com/2013/11/25/temperature-data-internally-consistent-beliefs-and-data-bias/#comment-1320 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 21:09:36 +0000 https://devoidofnulls.wordpress.com/?p=365#comment-1320 This is a blog post I like – reconciling one set of data to another. In doing so, we can learn something.

]]> https://devoidofnulls.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/be-cautious-using-price-indices/#comment-1269 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 04:21:31 +0000 https://devoidofnulls.wordpress.com/?p=486#comment-1269 […] Using my estimates of the private economy and it’s deviation from it’s long term trend, accounting for mismeasured inflation during WWII, based on the relationship between the two: I chose a quadratic curve to prevent the formula from […]

]]> https://devoidofnulls.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/climate-cycle-meet-business-cycle-preliminaries/#comment-1268 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 04:21:29 +0000 https://devoidofnulls.wordpress.com/?p=482#comment-1268 […] of the unemployment rate during that period. I used such relationships with investment and the the private economy’s deviation from long term trend, to estimate, with a multiplicative adjustment, and an additive adjustment, what the unemployment […]

]]> https://devoidofnulls.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/climate-cycle-meet-business-cycle-preliminaries/#comment-439 Mon, 24 Mar 2014 15:39:54 +0000 https://devoidofnulls.wordpress.com/?p=482#comment-439 […] Just another WordPress.com weblog « Climate Cycle, Meet Business Cycle-Preliminaries […]

]]> https://devoidofnulls.wordpress.com/2013/11/07/can-you-isolate-a-volcanic-temperature-signal-in-the-temperature-data/#comment-407 Mon, 03 Mar 2014 20:51:39 +0000 https://devoidofnulls.wordpress.com/?p=332#comment-407 […] might conceivably represent a short term variation. So I want a highly aggressive filter. Oh say, I’ve got that. Specifically, I take the following steps: I take the growth rate year over year, for each year […]

]]> https://devoidofnulls.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/back-of-the-envelope-estimate-of-emissions-reduction-due-to-the-great-recession/#comment-406 Mon, 03 Mar 2014 20:51:37 +0000 https://devoidofnulls.wordpress.com/?p=373#comment-406 […] As before, I will use US GDP data, with the portion representing Government spending removed, to represent actual meaningful production. Except this time, I really want more data than just back to 1890, so I use simple method to estimate the state and local spending from the federal spending: from 1890-2013, there is a correlation between a change in federal spending as a fraction of GDP and a change in federal spending as a fraction of total spending-the correlation is better in later years, so one should be a little bit weary of extending it back in time. But let’s proceed with reckless abandon nonetheless. The main purpose is to properly restrict what are mostly war spikes to increases in federal spending. I can use this relationship to estimate how much of the total government spending before 1890 was made up of federal spending and how much state and local spending. One can then use the estimated fraction, federal/totgov, with the actual federal spending, to get an estimate of total government spending in years before 1890. Anyway, this is what that fraction looks like, with the estimated portion highlighted: […]

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