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by cossatot 11y ago
I agree with this. The most interesting thing I got out of Paula Stephan's How Economic Shapes Science is that a few years' back, the NIH basically doubled its research funding and all that happened was a post-doc bubble and uni
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by cossatot 11y ago
It's not necessarily the 'brokenness' of the system that forces people out but the consequence of producing PhDs faster than new positions are being created. "You don't have to go home but you can't stay here&q
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by cossatot 11y ago
I agree with the other people in this thread who have said it's expensive and with low prices, not necessarily worth it. That being said, it's worth noting that Shell's exploration was offshore, in the Arctic Ocean, though th
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by cossatot 11y ago
Here's the 35 page exective summary of the IPCC climate change report: https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/AR5_SYR_FI... If you want to know more about how realistic implementing subs
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by cossatot 11y ago
~85% of the US's energy usage comes from fossil fuels [1]. Despite the unfortunate reality of anthropogenic climate change, the really key thing to realize is that transitions to alternate forms of energy take decades because the scal
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Vaclav Smil: “Energy revolution? More like a crawl”(youtube.com)
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Trade within versus between nations(rodrik.typepad.com)
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by cossatot 11y ago
This isn't correct. The statistical power of n=5 humans is quite low. It is, however, a good example of the "law of small numbers" of Tversky and Kahneman, a cognitive bias in which people believe that the law of large numbe
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by cossatot 11y ago
The hypocenter (location underground where the earthquake started) is fairly deep (~26 km according to the USGS) so hopefully the rupture didn't reach the surface (it's ambiguous but maybe 30% likely for an earthquake of this size
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by cossatot 11y ago
For the record lava tubes can happen in flood basalts; I've been to some at Hell's Half Acre in Idaho, and I'm sure there are others. But these are not like karst-type cave systems; they're much shorter. It's really
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by cossatot 11y ago
There's a good chance a beacon would get stuck or lodged somewhere, even though the water itself would continue to pass through (think sand or very narrow fractures). Hydrogeologists use a variety of dyes or other water additives that
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by cossatot 11y ago
This site, like many others on the northeastern Mediterranean coast, is most likely submerged due to earthquake activity in the region. The site here is on the coast of the Argolic Gulf, which is a graben (down-dropped tectonic block). The
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A window into ancient economics(nytimes.com)
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by cossatot 11y ago
> It's my uninformed opinion that recursion is uninteresting and unintuitive. It's my informed opinion that I personally often find unintuitive things to be uninteresting, because thinking about them is less rewarding. I wouldn
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by cossatot 11y ago
Anecdotes aren't poor form at all unless you're asserting that a single instance characterizes the system. They're very helpful in giving context to data, and are commonly done by scientists etc. and called 'case studies
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by cossatot 11y ago
Dan Griffin, the scientist whose back of head is featured in this video, is the author of the study from this HN thread a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8708161
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One Way to Fight the California Drought: Study Trees [video](fivethirtyeight.com)
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by cossatot 11y ago
I have found it's important when emailing/texting in Spanish to put the tilde in 'año', when I normally wouldn't bother with an American keyboard.
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by cossatot 11y ago
Nature editors LOVE controversy though. In my experience they're not really interested in evaluating the long-term substance of a paper as much as if it causes (or pretends to end[1]) a fight right now. [1] It's really hard to en
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by cossatot 11y ago
> Few people can risk spending 10 years on something and have nothing to show for it. This is a common sentiment, and fortunately for scientists I don't think it's a very accurate description of the real problems we face. I rea
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A short course in superforecasting(edge.org)
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by cossatot 11y ago
Labs? (Although most real lab rats will admit that they can't always experiment like they want to because reagents and instrument time are often expensive and samples are often irreplaceable. Enter: computer modeling.)
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by cossatot 11y ago
I like the long-standing definitions of the words: the company is the entity composed of the workers in their official capacity as well as its other resources, legal rights and so forth, and the project is the work the company has underta
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by cossatot 11y ago
I agree. In my experience (PhD in geology actually, and decent modeling/statistics/etc.-type programmer but not 'expert' by HN standards), this sort of dual expertise is quite valuable, especially at a higher level: Not
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by cossatot 11y ago
An additional benefit of Conda is that building or installing packages that require a C/Fortran compiler can be done without using sudo. This is really nice when you're working on a cluster or other shared computer resources, and
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by cossatot 11y ago
A big part of Conda's usefulness is not system-wide package management a la apt or yum or whatever, but being able to have reproducible, isolated environments for scientific computing or other times when reproducibility is very importa
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by cossatot 11y ago
A few professors requiring it to be used in a class will certainly drive it up that high, combined with the limited printing done by academic publishers. It's pretty common and pretty unfortunate...
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White House Report on Occupational Licensing [pdf](whitehouse.gov)
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by cossatot 11y ago
International travel now has a new source of entertainment: On-the-spot generation of humorous mistranslations.
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The Greek Warrior (portrait of Y. Varoufakis)(newyorker.com)
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