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by batbomb 11y ago
There are actually places in the US where the speed limit is 80 and 85. That's not 100, but it's quite a bit more than 65.
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by batbomb 11y ago
How many researchers are going to give people the honest truth and say "well the initial effect of 2.5 sigma just vanished after $500k of upgrades, sorry folks". The corresponding backlash will be swift and brutal, and science as
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by batbomb 11y ago
> That's what it's like when a phenomenon is near the noise threshold. That's not really noise level, that's just unknown systematic errors.
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by batbomb 11y ago
* ROOT files still have terrible documentation. Rene throws up his arms in protest anytime people say this (I've personally witnessed this) * Physicists still don't like pyroot interfaces, otherwise rootpy wouldn't exist. * a
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by batbomb 11y ago
A good chunk of it's libraries are re-exported open source libraries exporting alternate/C++ interfaces though! For example, GSL, FFTW3, and more than a few others. I will say that it is nice that it has most any math function you
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by batbomb 11y ago
I work with RHL.
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by batbomb 11y ago
ROOT was the product of Fons and Rene porting PAW from Fortran, learning C++, OO, flirting with Taligent coding styles, and a bunch of other things all at the same time. It was okay for a time, but that's time has long passed.
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by batbomb 11y ago
There is quite a lot I could say about ROOT, ROOT files, CINT, but I won't. There's better options. Don't use it unless you are in HEP.
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by batbomb 11y ago
margins
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by batbomb 11y ago
Wrong, Uber and Lyft will be the operators. You think Google really wants to get into fleet management?
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by batbomb 11y ago
Again, neither of these articles, nor anything in here ( http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/1282246/err162.pdf ), supports the preposterous claim that organic farming is leads to the use of more herbicides and insectic
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by batbomb 11y ago
Did you even read the blog? (also note, it's a blog) None of that blog actually supports the claim: > A modern GMO actually lets you use LESS herbicides and insecticides, and often far less dangerous ones than many that are OK for l
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by batbomb 11y ago
> A modern GMO actually lets you use LESS herbicides and insecticides, and often far less dangerous ones than many that are OK for labeled organic crops, and happen to be far more toxic. Citation needed.
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by batbomb 11y ago
Views and WITH statements help out quite a bit for this, though it does depend on the database. In general, basic views are well-supported across all RDBMS. If your database supports it, Materialized Views are amazing for the caching of cer
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by batbomb 11y ago
Usually (close to) universal answer is something like is: "If you've used any employing entity resources, even incidentally, your employing entity owns it, especially if the project is directly related to the business" Some p
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by batbomb 11y ago
I'm not saying this is your motivation, but when it's a proposal to the housing problem is framed as "Let's Fix San Francisco" it feels like the proposer believes they must live in San Francisco, especially when t
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by batbomb 11y ago
Many (most?) people can get into whatever the main land grant/public research university that exists in their respective state, even more so after a year of community college. In general, almost all of these schools offer a good qualit
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by batbomb 11y ago
> The Golden Gate Bridge actually has a railway line below it that hasn't been used. No it doesn't. You might have some memories crossed, but there's definitely no railway.
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by batbomb 11y ago
GPL is discouraged in government software (speaking from DOE/NSF experience) but BSD or similar is encouraged. The path of least resistance is private/closed source, followed by open source BSD/MIT/Apache, followed by GP
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by batbomb 11y ago
Can Citus handle geospatial sharding?
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by batbomb 11y ago
No, security professionals should find adequate solutions to a changing technological (and the corresponding sociological) landscape. Just saying "No" without investigating alternative solutions to satisfy the spirit of the reques
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by batbomb 11y ago
Just because it's a fixed location doesn't mean employees in that fixed locations should be fixtures.
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by batbomb 11y ago
That's not necessarily an immutable fact of arxiv.org though, otherwise there wouldn't even be computational biology on there. It's probably more likely due to a lack of demand. There's only about 4k articles on all of b
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by batbomb 11y ago
It used to be only particle physics, then only physics, but my impression is they expand to fit whatever. I'm sure they wouldn't mind expanding, but probably some of it is they don't have experts/money to help out with s
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by batbomb 11y ago
biorxiv reeks of NIH (No pun intended)
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by batbomb 11y ago
Why not just use arxiv.org?
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by batbomb 11y ago
Thanks! I was looking for ece.utah.edu, I knew there was another domain involved.
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by batbomb 11y ago
Interesting. I think he must be the son of the physics professor of the same name at the U (My BS was in Applied Physics at the U) I think some of the links historically were also under ece.utah.edu. I might be able to find some other direc
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by batbomb 11y ago
I was in 2002, the last class I think. In fact, I can't find any reference anymore to the later classes. It used to be maintained, but it's disappeared. I also recently noticed that websites historically hosted on home.utah.edu we
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by batbomb 11y ago
When I was in high school the U had a summer school where you would use their alpha_1 software for graphics modeling. alpha_1 was a system going back to the 1980 designed specifically for modeling with NURBS: https://www.cs.utah.

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