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Obama has a $100M plan to fill the tech talent shortage(wired.com)
4 points by cossatot 12y ago|2 comments
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by cossatot 12y ago
Federal benefits (esp. healthcare) are also quite nice.
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by cossatot 12y ago
It's definitely worth a try unless you've got a very hectic schedule, or some abusive tendencies. Pets can offer a steady, simple and pure kind of love and companionship, and it comes with relatively few downsides (not very expen
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by cossatot 12y ago
It doesn't sound like he made a real, good faith effort to open up to the dog and to love him like dogs expect loving humans to act, and to bring the bonding to a new level. I think this makes the experience fundamentally different, w
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by cossatot 12y ago
Agreed. Also, any given article also has about 10x more actual information than the 45 second TV news blip (or longer NPR segment for that matter).
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by cossatot 12y ago
Maybe you all shouldn't trade positions but contact info. In my experience, I'm much more productive if I'm collaborating or otherwise have obligations to someone. It sounds like the OP needs some human interaction, which is
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by cossatot 12y ago
It is a great way of framing the difference. However, in many (most?) instances, the data are also random in that they have uncertainties that hopefully you have some handle on. As the great geophysicist Peter Molnar said, 'If you do
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by cossatot 12y ago
I think it has to do with the name 'Arbor' [1] than the town itself, which has a fair amount of trees in the older neighborhoods but isn't excessively forested. [1]: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/d
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Killing the Golden Goose? The changing nature of corporate research, 1980-2007 [pdf](faculty.fuqua.duke.edu)
54 points by cossatot 12y ago|14 comments
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by cossatot 12y ago
In my experience, one thing that can make the path feel more progressive and monotonic is having a set of problems that need to be solved, with a wide range of difficulties. This provides consistent short-term gratification while also provi
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by cossatot 12y ago
The real science of evolution (i.e., paleontology and evolutionary biology) has an amazing wealth of evidence in the form of the fossil record, and there are basically zero viable alternatives to the hypothesis of evolution via natural sele
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by cossatot 12y ago
I wonder if this is the same mechanisms that releases smells from your hair when you first put your head in the shower and have some strong or notable scents in your hair. One of my favorite parts about coming home from camping trips is sh
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by cossatot 12y ago
I believe that Julia still uses a lot of C/FORTRAN packages that numpy relies on, like BLAS, so they're not really re-written in Julia (at least yet?).
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Encounter with the Infinite(believermag.com)
3 points by cossatot 12y ago|0 comments
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by cossatot 12y ago
I was there doing some geology this May, and one of the AK geol. survey guys mentioned that the previous summer, some of his colleagues were working directly across the fjord on the hillside on a clear, sunny day. A snowstorm sprang up pre
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by cossatot 12y ago
>So “art” itself may disappear: art as Art, that old high thing. Which—unless, like me, you think we need a vessel for our inner life—is nothing much to mourn. I think this essay would have been a lot more worthwhile if some effort was s
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by cossatot 12y ago
Although this isn't the same in all disciplines, in those that have significant fieldwork components, graduate school can offer some amazing experiences for young people that are difficult (though certainly not impossible) to get elsew
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by cossatot 12y ago
I'm simply objecting to the use of 'hipster' as a pejorative here, which I find tiresome (and I assume many others on a forum used largely by young technologists do as well). In this instance it's a strange term to use n
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by cossatot 12y ago
> Dr. Nick testified that if he had not given Elvis a large proportion of the drugs he demanded, other doctors would have... His defense was weakened substantially by evidence that he had prescribed an excessive amount of drugs to at lea
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by cossatot 12y ago
>cast iron is for hipsters Yes, and it would be foolish to use cooking utensils preferred by a group of people who likes simple, time-tested tools and methods to cook tasty, balanced meals using high-quality ingredients.
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by cossatot 12y ago
One interesting thing is really considering whether X and Y really are independent. Much of the software world has taken the position that if Y is too big, X will stay small. This is why open-source exists, basically. So there is a dependen
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by cossatot 12y ago
I haven't read "Average is Over" but I think that Cowen's "The Great Stagnation" covered a lot of the same ground. It was informative and reasonably persuasive, even if one doesn't share his prescriptions
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by cossatot 12y ago
"In our age, each individual is responsible for knowing that sometimes “N.S.A.” means “No Strings Attached” and sometimes it means “String City.” " I wasn't too hot on the whole thing, but this line is killer.
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by cossatot 12y ago
What is amazing to me, and a bit inspiring, is how late in the game this was. I was born a little afterward, but who here was in school when the plate tectonics revolution came about? Though many of the ideas of plate tectonics were severa
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by cossatot 12y ago
Because the slope of topography/bathymetry is so flat, relatively small changes in sea level (order of 10s-100s of meters) can dramatically change the connectivity of land (and oceans). This allows for both the migration and isolation
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by cossatot 12y ago
I think this is an under-appreciated point. Science is really concerned with inquiry into the world (broadly defined), while doctors and engineers are concerned with improving the world, typically by applying solutions that are based in sci
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Complexity, ‘fog and moonlight’, prediction, and politics I(dominiccummings.wordpress.com)
2 points by cossatot 12y ago|0 comments
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by cossatot 12y ago
I'm not an expert here, but I believe that the maximum possible efficiency of all heat engines is governed by the temperature difference between the heat source and the heat sink [1,2]. Increasing the water T/P to supercritical bo
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The Elderly Fear Their Future Robot Friends Will Corrupt Children(psmag.com)
2 points by cossatot 12y ago|0 comments
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by cossatot 13y ago
In my experience both as a learner and as a teacher in a variety of settings from teaching upper-undergrad level science courses to whitewater kayaking, the 'easy' vs 'hard' distinction is quite important on two fronts:

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