acadien

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by acadien 13y ago
How about when you click on a spot it pulls up a graph of that particular location's temperature over time? Maybe add a slider for windowed average to smooth things out?
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by acadien 13y ago
I've never noticed a correlation between school prestige and paper citation in my field, of course that doesn't mean there isn't one. I'm curious if you have anything to back up this statement or if its just anecdotal?
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by acadien 13y ago
What is the advantage over dropbox? My dropbox app already automagically uploads photos taken from my phone. Am I missing something?
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by acadien 13y ago
As someone who TAs hundreds of students a semester and has thousands of emails to/from students, not to mention half a dozen mailing lists with thousands of emails and senders/recievers... I am terrified to see how this connectivi
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by acadien 13y ago
Honest question: what is the advantage of Git over something like Dropbox or remote centralized storage accessed via ssh? The only possible answer I can think of is you get a revision history, but this doesn't seem terribly useful. If
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by acadien 13y ago
>With complete transparency comes little ability for security. Terrorist attempts become more frequent. Crime becomes more rampant and life become more unstable. I understand how it can seem that way, and I'm not criticizing, but is
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by acadien 13y ago
In addition to the absurdity of the scale, I can't imagine you could maintain any amount of secrecy with the number of people required to tackle the technical challenges. Unless the NSA happens to employ 1000 network engineers at the
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by acadien 13y ago
Something almost identical to this was posted 2 or 3 days ago. I can't seem find to it now, but if I do I'll be sure to link it since maybe you and the other author would be interested in chatting.
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by acadien 13y ago
It sounds like the 5 institutes mentioned at the top are able to put in proposals for projects that oriented towards the goal of each of the 3 individual institutes. Also there's this: "Federal funds will be matched by industry co-investme
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by acadien 13y ago
Are you arguing that patents should have as long a lifetime as copyright?? Also what country has a 24 year patent protection?
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by acadien 13y ago
You can often tell how much research a prof does by the size of their group. If they have 2 grad students and no post docs, they're probably active in a lot of research. If they have 45 grad students and 15 post docs, they're probably sit
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by acadien 13y ago
Embarrassingly enough I expected this to be an article about chicken's eggs.
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by acadien 14y ago
I'm a graduate student finishing up a PhD, I think I'm at the other end of the tunnel from you. I started meds about a decade ago and I have slowly been weaning myself off of them for the past 6 months. Once you're hooked (taking a daily
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by acadien 14y ago
That's beside the point. The graphs are misleading. If the author simply let the data speak for itself, instead of biasing the visuals, it would be much more effective.
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by acadien 14y ago
>but normals have no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes. Normals? Really? Yeesh. Anyways "normals" care no more about how facebook works or what it does than they do about how Intel's chips work, Ford's engines, or NASA's Mars rover. H
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by acadien 14y ago
According to the American Physical Society the same is true for Physics PhDs. Sure we're tiny relative to the life sciences, but we've got 4% unemployment one year after graduation (data from 2010, 2012 isn't available yet). http://www.ai