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by cossatot 13y ago
The Wasatch fault zone does pose a significant seismic hazard but earthquakes on the WFZ are not nearly as regular as on the San Andreas. On this page [1] (second picture, left side) is a figure showing the instances of known earthquakes a
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That's a fair question. I think the biggest benefit would be the recognition of commitment, both by the partners, their families, coworkers, etc., zooming out ad infinitum. It can make a lot of things easier, from a practical perspecti
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Something that has become clear to me fairly late in life is how sensitive many women are to feeling sexually threatened, and I've noticed this even in my wife, who is an incredibly adventurous person (e.g. she has lead multiple months
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I seriously hope you consider rethinking this position. There are a tremendous number of incredible women in the world, and most of them are not looking for a sugar daddy. Many women also work hard for their careers, passions, or some comb
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by cossatot 13y ago
I'm a postdoc in fault mechanics and earthquake physics. I can say that while the narrative does jump around a bit, the geologic content is fairly solid; coseismic stress changes on faults really do cause substantial changes to the st
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by cossatot 13y ago
For anyone more interested in this, here are some resources: Unified California Earthquake Rupture Forecast (UCERF): http://www.scec.org/ucerf2/ The seminal paper on Coulomb stress change work, by GCP King, Ross Stein,
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by cossatot 13y ago
Actually, all earthquakes are ruptures in the sense that they represent slip (displacement) on a surface. Oftentimes, though, geologists and geophysicists will refer to ruptures as the surface break of an earthquake (where the slip on a fau
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Markov Models of Social Change (Part 1)(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
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If you learn about Bayes from crazy people, what is the likelihood that you will think Bayesian reasoning is always used in crazy ways? Last week I did some Bayesian (!!) work on finding a pdf for the direction of a certain quantity. My pr
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by cossatot 13y ago
This is cool! But the important question of what mantle convection, and therefore tectonics, looks like on a toroidal earth is not addressed... for the 'donut' earth where surface gravity varies by a factor of 3 on the surface, on
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by cossatot 13y ago
A good essay on this topic is here: http://pgbovine.net/tech-privilege.htm
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Of course many Americans number in the 3.5 billion most poor people on earth. A lot of the homeless people I see everyday have about zero wealth. Hopefully many of them have something but I don't know what it would be. Also, many m
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by cossatot 13y ago
I think it's the status; there are a fair amount of people on HN who have PhDs (I have no idea what the actual fraction is; ~5-10%?) and a lot more equally smart people who don't have one. And some (surely small) fraction of thos
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by cossatot 13y ago
Depends on the school. Even in the same discipline (I'm also in the geosciences like jofer) some departments don't accept grad students as MS students except in certain circumstances, such as U. Michigan, my current employer. Mos
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by cossatot 13y ago
Disclaimer: I haven't been exposed to the 'learn to code' movement in great detail; seen headlines but not read the content. That being said... I think the article misses the point (it's possible that the much rhetoric
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Furthermore, with scientific computing, it's important that code you publish in a journal (fossilizing it) can still be at least near-usable to others over time horizons of years to decades.
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I think that the combination of directed coursework and self-study is what a formal education is really about. There is no way a set curriculum can teach you everything that you may need in a dynamic world; you have to learn the curriculum
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Only going to share 1, it was so good: ''' Down syndrome reversed in 2011 '''
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Although they wouldn't be categorized as 'news sites', both marginalrevolution.com and thebrowser.com consistently have great links (some of which are culled from HN, I think). The actual blogging at marginalrevolution can b
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by cossatot 13y ago
While I certainly agree with much of the factual content presented both in the article and in the comments, I think that science already has a lot of self-correction mechanisms built in. None are perfect individually, but the big, messy sy
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by cossatot 13y ago
This is an excellent idea for a graduate course; it could be more collaborative for bigger projects, or one-offs for smaller ones, dependent on the field and type of study, as you've mentioned. I think students should get course credit
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by cossatot 13y ago
Fortunately, there are a couple examples of serious researchers who are also excellent (though maybe not as well known) popularizers. Daniel Kahneman (Thinking Fast and Slow) and Steven Strogatz (Sync, etc.) come immediately to mind, becau
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by cossatot 13y ago
I worked in a dendrochronology/dendroclimatology lab[1] for several years and can assure you that the researchers involved are well aware of the issue of multiple influences on tree ring growth. There are a couple of ways that they go
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Successful research strategies typically involve working on what is funded, and simultaneously bootstrapping what isn't until the early results are sufficient to get funding or at least collaborators on board. It's maybe tougher
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Disclaimer: I am in geoscience, not CS, so my situation isn't the same as the blogger's. But much of the important things should still apply. There are a lot of sacrifices to be made, it's really not for everyone, and timin
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by cossatot 13y ago
I sympathize a lot with the frustration here and can agree on some of the points (especially the rankings/h-index/etc mania), however... Much of what is bemoaned here is simply a consequence of the fact that science is done by hum