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Vinicius also created UnHub which helps you share your various web profiles from one place and 140it which helps people shrink their tweet to less than 140 characters.
Before Yipit, Vinicius was a private equity professional at Quadrangle Group where he helped the firm evaluate Internet investment opportunities.

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Hurricane Tracking FAIL

XTRP is one of the models used for Hurricane tracking.  While I agree projecting a hurricane’s future path is complicated, it seems like XTRP has thrown in the towel and just started drawing a line up and to the left.  (XTRP is the model with the black triangles and dotted lines).

Most recent models for Hannah:

Hannah Models

Most recent models for Ike:

Ike Models

Doing some further research it appears that XTRP is just the Hurricane’s most recent movements projected forward. In other words, a very simple model that takes no future variables into account.

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