The web app uses parsed headlines from the most highly rated Florida Man subreddit posts of all time. — For almost a decade, “Florida Man” has been a mainstay antihero of internet culture. Headlines like “Florida man too fat for jail” and “Florida man steals dinosaur bones” are easy fodder for meme-ification. In early 2013, “Florida Man” was canonized on Twitter with @_FloridaMan and on Reddit with the r/FloridaMan…

How a simple three-dimensional structure reduces error, outcompetes more complex models, and doubles savings. — In early 2019, we built a deep learning model that predicted electric consumption on an hour-by-hour basis. Because the smallest error can cost an electric utility tens of thousands of dollars, we explored a number of more complex forecasters. …

The Weakest Link, a British TV quiz show, ran its last episode in 2017. Did players miss their chance to make the most money possible? — The rules for The Weakest Link are simple: A group of people answer questions in a circle. For each correct answer, the team goes up the totem pole of values they can “bank.” After one correct answer they can bank £250, after two correct answers they can bank £500, and…

In some departments, the number is as high as 85 percent. — Almost every Princeton graduate — from Senator Ted Cruz to Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, actress Brooke Shields to Chair of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell — has written a senior thesis. All these graduates have also used a titular idiom that plagues nearly half of Princeton theses: the colon. …

The third-party Twitter apps aren’t built to be used on accounts with millions of followers. Of course, that’s what users did anyway. — Fake-follower calculators, especially a platform called Twitter Audit, have been cited by a number of news outlets, including The Telegraph, Vanity Fair, and the Columbia Journalism Review. But these platforms’ statistical techniques are far from rigorous for large accounts.

Research in coordination with the Open Modeling Framework. Forecasting technology has given utilities an opportunity to flatten their load curves, raising a whole new family of questions. Below are solutions to important questions that can save utilities a good deal of money by reducing capital and operating expenses from peaking…

How one 19th-century physics equation can increase electric utilities’ savings by more than 60% — Research in partnership with the Open Modeling Framework. This is the third in a three-part series about peak shaving with neural networks. Consider checking out the other two: An electric utility's 3-part guide to peak shaving with neural networks. Electricity distributors stand to save hundreds of thousands of dollars by decreasing their peak demand charge. Some…www.brownanalytics.com