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PLoS banking huge profits(storify.com)
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by cossatot 11y ago
Discoverability is a big part of it as well, at least at the user end. I find out about new papers from email alerts of subject matter and tables of contents of the new issue of the journals I keep up with. (Obviously when I need to look
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by cossatot 11y ago
Probably because bioRxiv.org, where these folks submitted their work, will be more widely read by biologists than arxiv.org.
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by cossatot 11y ago
Often by abstracting the algorithmic implementation details from the system organization and logic. Then the individual algorithms can be interchanged or modified during optimization. There is of course some scale dependence to the use of
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by cossatot 11y ago
>to try and win internet arguments is pretty much the antithesis of >to avoid wasting time.
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by cossatot 11y ago
It does occasionally get standing water during winter/spring rainstorms. I remember hearing about someone windsurfing there in 2005.
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by cossatot 11y ago
It's too long because he likes to write, lives to write, and writes to live.
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by cossatot 11y ago
Don't you like rabbit holes? Chasing the weird or subtle or ill-defined phenomena that no one else cares about and will probably lead nowhere but just smells so damn good ?
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by cossatot 11y ago
Have you looked into SBIR[1] grants for developing your product? You might have to do a little leg work to set yourself up to receive Federal funding but if you'd like to commercialize any technology you'll probably have to do th
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by cossatot 11y ago
I agree. I'm not particularly worried about mistrusting an accountant with my business's money, but I absolutely think that understanding where my money goes is really important. I am not sure how many small businesses really di
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by cossatot 11y ago
I use Moneydance for my business, and I like it quite a bit. It's geared towards personal finance more than small business, and the double-entry accounting stays out of the way if you want it to, though it was a selling point for me.
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by cossatot 11y ago
I'm not sure if one exists (in US or Canada) but some sort of particulate matter tax would also be nice, and in some cases preferable to regulations. A major political benefit is that particulates are a much more local problem than CO2
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by cossatot 11y ago
Who says no one is afraid of these? Furthermore, who says that switching over to nuclear for a large chunk of domestic energy production (which I am not opposed to, mind you) will do anything to lessen the production of any of this chemica
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Does a carbon tax work? Ask British Columbia(nytimes.com)
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I was thinking the same thing, and that it was part of the reason it was 'engulfed in flames'.
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I'm not sure what the HN crowd finds useful as a group, but I personally use a couple of different techniques in my work (geophysics). One of them is finite difference and finite element methods. I have a book called 'Introductio
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Data Journal – The journal for negative, null or inconclusive results(data-journal.science)
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Stanford scientists develop 'Shazam for earthquakes'(news.stanford.edu)
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Duncan Watts: How small is the world, really?(medium.com)
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A free-market plan to save the American west from drought(theatlantic.com)
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How to change someone's mind, according to science(washingtonpost.com)
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Computational HR and power strugglees at world's largest hedge fund(bloombergview.com)
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by cossatot 11y ago
It helped those in coastal Asiatic cities walk to North America, so there was some upside as well...
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by cossatot 11y ago
One of the cooler things about old trees is that the oldest ones tend to be puny, pathetic looking, twisted little individuals, because they grow very slowly and are often weather-beaten. The slow growth is because they tend to be located
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Seattle tech leaders scuffle over proposed change to non-compete clauses(seattletimes.com)
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by cossatot 11y ago
Doesn't seem to work on IPython Notebooks, unfortunately (maybe those fields aren't TEXTAREAs?).
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by cossatot 11y ago
I agree about the former, but not with the last two sentences. China and to a lesser extent India have massive incentives to get clean energy ASAP. The pollution in China is out of control, and is a major toll on public health, tourism, a
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by cossatot 11y ago
I don't understand why this isn't "the market". It's a fund by private individuals and institutions (granted with enough clout to get gov'ts to fund as well) that will be investing in new technologies. From th
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by cossatot 11y ago
We do do geothermal, just not much of it. There are two main categories, power generation and heating/cooling using a heat pump. Power generation requires a power plant, while heat pumps can work extremely efficiently on a building-by
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The way this works is that the melting 'point' for basalt is actually a sloping line in pressure-temperature space[0]. At a constant temperature, the solid-liquid phase transition[1] is such that above a certain pressure, basalt i

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