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by MooMooMilkParty 3y ago
There is actually an energy cost to evaporation which takes some of that energy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy_of_vaporization So, this, as well as ocean mixing is how the surface temperature is "moderate
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by MooMooMilkParty 3y ago
Not a dumb question at all! The main reason is because there is much more land mass in the northern hemisphere than in the southern, and land tends to heat up more than ocean. You can actually see how this effect balances out on this site:
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by MooMooMilkParty 3y ago
Yes, absolutely. Most climate models run on supercomputers, same with molecular dynamics, large scale fluid dynamics, energy systems simulations and of course a whole lot of weapons research.
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by MooMooMilkParty 4y ago
Related I also gotta recommend "Uncommon Carriers" by John McPhee. It's got a chapter that follows a barge operator on the Illinois river that's pretty great.
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by MooMooMilkParty 4y ago
I love a good cynical take as much as the next HN reader, but as a researcher working in the environmental/climate space many of us are using these words because the are true . Sure there are some folks I consider full of buzzwords an
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by MooMooMilkParty 4y ago
Also worth reading, and considerably more up to date, is Science Be Dammed. https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/science-be-dammed
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by MooMooMilkParty 4y ago
Just adding to this, not far south of Las Vegas the Central Arizona Project is a rather large canal (so not exactly a pipeline but close enough) which transports Colorado River water to Phoenix and Tucson. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by MooMooMilkParty 5y ago
My guess is if you're posting here you're not necessarily the target market for this product. You might be better with just a Sawyer squeeze or other off the shelf filter. If you're looking for clarifying turbid water you cou
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by MooMooMilkParty 5y ago
You can get a copy at the lead author's website: http://www.jasechko.com/papers.html Edit: Or, here's the direct link: http://science.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/372/6540&#x
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by MooMooMilkParty 6y ago
Scientific computing is what I would be interested in for these types of hardware.
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by MooMooMilkParty 6y ago
I'm a little bit curious here. My understanding is that the wave function has complex values and the "state" is described by the wave function times its complex conjugate. Couldn't they have meant the factor of -1 to be
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by MooMooMilkParty 6y ago
Posting this verbatim from my reddit comment, but I ran a few quick fits and the (arbitrarily scaled) Planck distribution looks better than standard fits of some other distributions. Of course I ran absolutely no statistics on these or trie
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by MooMooMilkParty 7y ago
Aha! As far as persisting calculations, this makes sense. I guess in my head I was thinking "pure" data where everything opened was precomputed. Forgive my ignorance about database solutions, but do they not implement something si
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by MooMooMilkParty 7y ago
You're blowing my mind here a little bit. I don't use MySQL but do use Excel and the R/Python data science stacks quite a bit. I regularly open data with tens or even hundreds of thousands of columns in the latter by using la
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by MooMooMilkParty 9y ago
I hope this capability gets to maturity. It consistently seems like anything I want in a language is in progress in Julia; new scientists in 15 years are going to be very spoiled if Julia becomes mainstream.
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by MooMooMilkParty 9y ago
I'm curious about your last statement. I guess I'd be considered a night owl by most people, and certainly have poor sleep hygiene in the eyes of early birds, but I find myself most motivated to do really "intellectual"
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Ask HN: What tools should I learn to make explorable explanations?
2 points by MooMooMilkParty 9y ago|2 comments
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by MooMooMilkParty 9y ago
Not really. The point of the Ng quote is essentially: We don't have the technology to populate Mars -> We can't overpopulate Mars. and We don't have the technology to create sentient computations -> robots won't d
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by MooMooMilkParty 9y ago
I wish I could find the source for this, but I remember reading that Gauss idolized Newton for his style. From what Gauss (and a tiny bit of Newton) I have read, it seems like he didn't like to provide any sorts of motivation or expos
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by MooMooMilkParty 9y ago
> I don't know how anybody can take models like this seriously. It's about as valid as any of these economists models. Hell, it is partly an economic model. There is a huge variety of models spanning the gamut of complexity. Th
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by MooMooMilkParty 9y ago
I've used his differential-line repo to make some wall art for my apartment, it's some beautiful stuff: http://imgur.com/a/BoKdy Repo at: https://github.com/inconvergent/differential-line
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by MooMooMilkParty 10y ago
I think one of the hard things about academia (by ways of "pure research"), is measuring impacts. In some positions there are metrics which are more representative of real progress than others. My belief is that measuring an acade
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by MooMooMilkParty 10y ago
Good call on going pure python. To take this a bit further I made your changes and used numba with @jit(nopython=True, cache=True), for some interesting results. If I do include the sorting into the timing: Unsorted execution time:
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by MooMooMilkParty 10y ago
Masakage knives: http://masakageknives.com/ There are many other makers of kitchen knives that are comparable to Masakage knives, but if someone who was serious about cooking asked me for a single recommendation of which kn
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by MooMooMilkParty 10y ago
I wrote up a small script to test this out for python (at bottom of this post). The results on my laptop are about 8.0 seconds for unsorted and 7.6 seconds for the sorted version. I'm assuming that the discrepancy for python is much
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by MooMooMilkParty 10y ago
The one thing I'd love to see, as a vim user and a scientist, is something like Matlab/RStudio/Spyder where you can explore variables that exist within a session. Maybe it could hook up to an ipython session and you could di
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by MooMooMilkParty 10y ago
You could always just use a bowl and a whisk - or even a fork if you're really a minimalist. Made a batch of bourbon vanilla whipped cream last night.
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by MooMooMilkParty 10y ago
Lorenz's Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow is the earliest work on the topic that I can think of. It's relatively accessible too. http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/1520-0469(1963)0...
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by MooMooMilkParty 10y ago
This is a great read. If I were closer to the area I'd definitely have spent some time trying to recreate the investigation and check out the site. Also, got to plug the story of the search for the lost German tourists in Death Valley
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by MooMooMilkParty 11y ago
While you are correct that methane is quite potent, when discussing climatological effects it's not as important as CO2. Especially when discussing ice sheets and sea level rise, the long term (1000+ year) effects are what's like

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