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The anarchists vs. the Islamic State(rollingstone.com)
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by cossatot 10y ago
Amazonian earthworks such as these are discussed quite a bit in Charles Mann's 1491 , mostly in the context of dual hypotheses that the Amazon (and much of N. and S. America) was both far more heavily populated, and far more ecologica
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by cossatot 10y ago
At least not in a pair of Tom's.
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by cossatot 10y ago
Some good alternatives, for when you just want quick and easy parallelization: Joblib[0]: 'Embarrassingly parallel for loops'. Basically just write a generator and get multicore processing on it. Pretty straightforward. Multiproc
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Whitey on Mars: Elon Musk and the Rise of Silicon Valley's Trickle-Down Science(aeon.co)
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by cossatot 10y ago
Seconded. The slightly better option, if you can get away with it, is working it into a project at work (rather than a side project) so you can devote a few of your fresh-brained 9-5 hours to it each week and not feel too guilty.
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by cossatot 10y ago
See also Paul Graham and 'startup'.
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by cossatot 10y ago
Kinda makes you wonder if people will stop using Google search if it keeps them within the walled garden of other Google services. It wouldn't surprise me if Google is the next AOL in a decade or two, for reasons including this one.
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Unrecognised simplicities of effective action(dominiccummings.wordpress.com)
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by cossatot 10y ago
The other strength of Python (as I'm sure you're aware) is its ecosystem. It's not clear to me to what extent imports work with Lambdascript but access to them (including the scientific stack) seems to be an explicit goal of,
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by cossatot 10y ago
One of the amazing things about software that we all write is how well it integrates with many other aspects of life, particularly (though without a doubt not exclusively) intellectual pursuits. This is, of course, why it pays what it does:
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by cossatot 10y ago
I notice a moderate effect on my cognitive ability due to weekly or monthly alcohol consumption (longer term than the hangover cycle). There have been a few times in my life (such as when studying for my PhD comprehensive exams) that I quit
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by cossatot 10y ago
Note for comments-first readers: this shows differences in corn metabolism, not in humans or other animals that have consumed the corn. However they reference studies where rats had worse health after eating GMO corn vs normal corn.
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by cossatot 10y ago
We routinely turn petrochemicals into corn, so it's nice to occasionally return the favor. ( https://store.extension.iastate.edu/Product/Energy-consumpti... )
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by cossatot 10y ago
Desktop GUI Gis programs like QGIS are pretty fun and there are tons of resources for learning the basics. You can download elevation raster data and highway vector data for the area around your city or somewhere more topographically inter
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by cossatot 10y ago
I don't know a huge amount about neurology (or neural nets), but... Adult humans seem to learn faster when there is some combination of theory, examples, and experience (aka feedback). I'm a scientist and I have very little intere
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by cossatot 10y ago
Humans are a very tiny part of the biosphere. Evolution is certainly ongoing in all of the world's organisms. Humanity's biggest role in this is of course our outsized environmental impacts which place new selection pressures on l
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by cossatot 10y ago
They're not mutually exclusive. For example, I've done consulting work for a private geothermal energy LLC (AltaRock) that does a fair amount of R&D funded by the DOE (and maybe NSF?) and other public sources, though I believe
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by cossatot 10y ago
The JMA is top notch, no argument here. I didn't 'disregard' their warning, I just made a claim that the tsunami was unlikely to be major. This probably wasn't evident when the JMA's warning was made because it take
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by cossatot 10y ago
Accroding to the USGS's page (linked to by civilian), the earthquake was a strike-slip earthquake, where two blocks of crust slide laterally relative to eachother on a vertical fault, with no real uplift of subsidence of the seafloor.
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by cossatot 10y ago
What mathematical functionality do you find in Octave that's lacking in the Python ecosystem?
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What is the expected return on a stock? [pdf](personal.lse.ac.uk)
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The shame of work(newramblerreview.com)
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by cossatot 10y ago
Are you calling actual jihadists left wing? Or are you calling SJWs jihadists?
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by cossatot 10y ago
This project would probably involve a few construction and maintenance jobs.
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by cossatot 10y ago
http://www.globalcmt.org/ Scroll to the bottom and look at the chart of cumulative energy (moment) release over time. This is probably the easiest visualization what you're looking for without going to scientific pape
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by cossatot 10y ago
Thanks for the Musgrave reference, I'll check it out. As far as your geological questions: 1) Silted up seas and canyon-filled mountains aren't actually that inaccurate. Mountains as we think of them are highly eroded, basically j
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by cossatot 10y ago
This is a good reference, thanks.
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by cossatot 10y ago
This is cool, thanks for posting. I especially like how there are several styles of coastlines. I'm really interested in algorithmic generation of topography, probably by first creating fractal stream networks (either from the coast&#x
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by cossatot 10y ago
It'd be really interesting to get to see this happen on a wide scale sometime soon. It'd be better not to have to, as well...

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