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by cossatot 9y ago
Always a good time to re-read Cosma Shalizi's classic "So You Think You Have a Power Law — Well Isn't That Special?" ( http://bactra.org/weblog/491.html )
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It's not just Americans. When I was working in Italy, some of my Italian colleagues would put an entire sugar packet into a single shot of espresso.
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I must be alone in thinking that times are pretty good and the US is not fracturing, and today is nothing like the late 1960s or 70s. Crime/violence: Both violent and property crime rates are way down [1]. My home region of the Ozarks
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From TFA: Unlike money-losing Snap, Dropbox will come to the table with annualized sales of more than $1 billion, Chief Executive Officer Drew Houston said in an interview last year. It’s also been profitable, excluding interest, taxes, de
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They are related phenomena. Basically, sand and mud have pore space in between the grains that is filled with fluids (water, oil or gas). When those fluids are extracted, the rock contracts because the pore pressure decreases, causing an in
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Geologist here: while overly managing of the Mississippi does make a difference, that only controls where new sediment gets deposited. Even if new sediment was deposited in sinking urban areas, it wouldn’t ameliorate the problem of subside
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Understanding the intangible economy: Classification systems(medium.com)
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I think an additional limit is data. Particularly for sciences with strong path dependence, such as ecology, cosmology, evolutionary biology and (my field) geosciences, time has simply erased nearly all of the record of previous events. T
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They have your phone number if anyone with an android phone has you in their contacts.
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Ok thanks to @temporal here is the diagram. It's a cross-section of a subduction zone, i.e. it's in a vertical plane (not map view). 0 0 depth (km) o->____====Δ== <-c -0 \
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Continents are basically rafts of granite. Like any raft, if you put more stuff on it, it sinks a bit.
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Quick explainer about intraslab/intraplate subduction zone events (a slab is a subducting plate): There are two major classifications of crust on earth: oceanic and continental. Oceanic crust (mostly basalt/gabro) is quite a bit m
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moonka is describing a theory called the 'elastic rebound theory' that has been the dominant theory of earthquake mechanics since it was proposed by Harry Reid in 1910 after studying the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It basically
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Census tracts are good because they're high resolution and still spatial polygons but are more or less sized by population, having ~2-10k people in each (so population density is factored out).
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Matlab's documentation is really good, except when you need to look at the algorithm and can't because it's closed-source...
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Julia is really fast but the DataFrames/DataTables package was kind of slow and feature-incomplete. Because Pandas is so optimized, Julia wasn't winning out over Python on the speed side of things, and was definitely losing on the
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by cossatot 9y ago
REI is a coop as well, with a somewhat similar dividend structure. However I doubt that all of the profits are fully distributed at the end of the year to members. I would bet that there are 'members' who are investors/owners
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Big Data Surveillance: The Case of Policing(journals.sagepub.com)
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Marge: "I brought you a tuna sandwich. They say it's brain food. I guess because there's so much dolphin in it, and you know how smart they are." It seems that a lot of what is discussed in the paper has to do with longe
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What is an example of an on-demand, app-mediated service that is actually profitable, regardless of whether labor is contract, etc.? Is any one in this space actually making money off customers?
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Fortunately the Trump administration (in partial continuation of Obama policies) is attempting to reduce FEMA subsidy for people living in floodplains[1]. It's a messy process to end an unhealthy subsidy that many depend on but with t
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Regardless of the politician in question... Let's quantify a once in a lifetime event just a little bit: Let's say it's a 'hundred-year' event which means that it has a 1% probability of happening in a given year. A
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Electricity isn't an energy source. Right now the US generates ~65% of electricity from burning coal and natural gas[1]. This is a common misconception with hydrogen fuel cells as well, which are chemical batteries, not energy sources
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Athletes need to start early because they peak early (20s for most sports). Architects do their best work very late in life. I personally wouldn't want a surgeon that started cutting into people at age 9.
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I think Butterick's treatment in Beautiful Racket is far more clear than TFA, especially for those less familiar with lisps and DSLs.
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I've read about the 10 Mythical Creatures of Baidu[0] a few times, and while my Mandarin is too poor to have gotten any of the jokes without explanation, it seems like it would have been quite funny to run across any in the wild. [0]:
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I can't speak for the middle management, but as I scientist I am very uninterested in AI based on neural nets because of the lack of explication. Success at prediction without a commensurate advancement in theory is pretty useless fo
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It can be extremely hard on someone if their parents don't approve of their spouse or vice versa, regardless of the amount of time everyone is in the same room. They can be emotionally torn apart, especially if either the spouse or a
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It's unlikely that the asteroid would have come so close (18,000 km is closer than GPS satellites) without being pulled to Earth because of the planet's gravitational field.
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I and many others use Airbnb for business travel (sole proprietorship or small non-profit in my case), because only by being able to cook my own food I can afford to make a week-long trip that may or may not pay off later. Comments like you

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