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by b_emery 12y ago
Since the author of the post is here, I'll note that I can see the missing references in the worldcat.org database - in book form. I think these links will work, though they might screen by IP: http://ucsb.worldcat.org/
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Being in my early 40's a lot of this article resonates with my thinking as it was a few months ago. The piling up of setbacks, aches, the 'is this all there is?'. One day, I was on the porch, trying to wrestle my kids into th
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Ideo Imagines the Future of Self Driving Cars(wired.com)
4 points by b_emery 12y ago|0 comments
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So it seems safe to say that a 'landslide' will not occur (as suggested by one of the captions). Instead, a boulder might break off and float away? The whole thing must be held together by the chemical bonds inherent to the materi
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Here's a list: http://ghgcorp.applicantpro.com/jobs/ You might also consider volunteering with a research group. Though they tend to select from pools of grad students, I would think that someone with technical sk
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This ideal situation won't last forever. Figure out what is next, and start training for it. (Otherwise you become one of the old admins clinging to your way of doing things, and slowly becoming obsolete).
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If people in academia were that driven by money, they wouldn't be in academia.
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Find five scientist doing great work and give them $1 Million each, no strings attached. For inspiration, listen to this story about the development of the birth control pill, and how it happened only because a wealthy donor made it possibl
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> I can tell you academic publishing is completely f*cked with no hope. Care to elaborate? Because in my experience (non-bio, non-med), this is not true. It's certainly not perfect, but overall the peer-review system (again, based o
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I'd really like to see this kind of map for scientific publications. That is, instead of users linked by likes and such, a map of publications linked by citations. It seems this would make it easy to find the big papers in a given subj
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*catabolism: the breakdown of complex molecules in living organisms to form simpler ones, together with the release of energy; destructive metabolism. Incredible.
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I like to think that we're genetically predisposed to enjoy sitting around campfires. The reason being that all of our ancestors that didn't enjoy it, and were instead walking around the forest at night, didn't survive long
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> impact that killed the dinosaurs I once saw a talk about this at a scientific meeting, so the papers are out there. All I can remember from it is that they estimated the ejecta at "about the mass of the Sierra Nevada". This w
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The $1 Millon Beyond the Box Digitization Competition(beyondthebox.aibs.org)
1 points by b_emery 12y ago|1 comments
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From wikipedia: "The only thing that tells you that you're moving is that occasionally when you're flying over the subsonic aeroplanes you can see all these 747s 20,000 feet below you almost appearing to go backwards, I mean
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Not mentioned in the article, but you'd think an animal like this would need to be semi-immersed, such that the water would support much of its weight. A blue whale is about 170 tons for example.
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This quote is pretty classic: > According to the paper, the vendor responsible stated that it "has followed the accepted industry standard and it is that standard which does not include security." Clearly, the 'vendor&#x27
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A general policy of mine is to avoid people who are frequently bad-mouthing other people. I think this is your key indicator of his character, and yes it does make for a hostile, and corrosive, work environment.
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Just change the and ("— and Microsoft") to "but Microsoft", and you get the true meaning.
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I had a similar issue using Mnemosyne. Then I read "Moonwalking with Einstein" and I'm pretty convinced that spaced repetition is a solution to an adjacent problem. More important is the vividness of the memory, and the use o
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Some great comments here. I'll add a few favorite quotes that I think are relevant: On doing great things: "It turns out that for all their diversity, the strikingly successful groups in America today share three traits that, toge
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Here's a project that used a passive listening device on a wave glider: http://www.fondriest.com/news/wave-glider-robots-listening-t... The whale monitoring I'm familiar with is all passive listening as well.
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Interesting idea. Compared to a submarine yes, but what this would more likely be up against, from the perspective of cost is a panga boat: http://www.independent.com/news/2012/jul/26/13-people-arrest...
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If it's directional, you can get one direction. Which disproves the N-1 meme that is in so many papers.
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A belated thanks. Much appreciated.
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Crazy and technically capable are not mutually exclusive characteristics. Nor does a single joke somehow 'erase' a career. I'm not sure why you would think that. I think it would be irresponsible to not consider a person&#x
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Well that is interesting to know! You have to ask though, why someone would continue, even in 2013 to joke about mass murdering students? I'm separating that fact from his long and distinguished career. I dont know the man. Why does he
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Agreed. Joking about this in 1994 is one thing, but in 2013 I think we have to take it as a shot across the bow. Maybe I'm being a bit sensitive due to the fact that I live near Isla Vista and had to walk by memorials for several weeks
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Good god! Even if he wasn't serious you'd have to question his mental stability. It would be very foolish to be the student of someone who jokes about killing his students. Stay far away. I hope they take his guns away.
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While traveling through Africa I read A Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela. Reading about the history while being there makes it all very real. I also just read A Primate's Memoir by Robert Sapolsky, which has some of the wildest t

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