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by cossatot 3y ago
The Cape Falcon plans are far more detailed so there is a lot less figuring out stuff by yourself, relative to getting written plans. It's definitely a much more efficient process and there is probably a lot less variance in the result
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by cossatot 3y ago
You guessed it, boats. I have built a stitch and glue (plywood) sea kayak[0], an Aleutian-style skin-on-frame sea kayak[1], and a skin-on-frame canoe[2]. All were fairly approachable and straightforward projects (I built the first two with
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The precursory phase of large earthquakes(science.org)
11 points by cossatot 3y ago|2 comments
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by cossatot 3y ago
True story: I was in a bar in Lawrence with a friend late one night, being chatted up by a student of mine. When we asked her where she was from, she said some town in extreme NW Kansas (Bird City maybe? Atwood?). "I've been there
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by cossatot 3y ago
The sneaky thing about the geography of Kansas is that it's longitudinally exponentially-scaled, with distances between stuff (people, raindrops, ...) exponentially increasing as you go west. No one tells you this, though, so when you&
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by cossatot 4y ago
I tried re-reading Sometimes a Great Notion by Kesey when I moved to Oregon a few years ago. I had read it 20 years ago and loved it, at a time when I plowed through fiction. This time, though, the passages that were clearly written when
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by cossatot 4y ago
How useful are these for workstation-class scientific computing, vs. a GPU? Not ML necessarily, but I do a lot of matrix multiplication for example when solving systems of equations.
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by cossatot 4y ago
Python has huge uptake outside of the ML domain. I can't see an AI winter affecting the many people using Numpy for non-ML purposes (i.e., scientists in academia, most of whom still deal with normal numerical and data analytical modeli
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by cossatot 4y ago
Or letting someone in to feed your cat.
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‘Spell-checker for statistics’ reduces errors in the psychology literature(nature.com)
3 points by cossatot 4y ago|0 comments
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by cossatot 4y ago
20 years ago I used to occasionally ship tens of thousands of dollars of geophysical surveying equipment from Arkansas to the office of INETER (Nicaraguan governmental earth sciences division). The address was something like "INETER, f
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by cossatot 4y ago
If we took the entire core to the surface (without collapsing the Earth which is impossible) we would cover the Earth with iron and nickel to a depth of hundreds of km.
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by cossatot 4y ago
I believe the apparent paradox is that the 'net force' is not the same thing as pressure; it's basically the vector sum of pressure. Pressure in the Earth is an isotropic distribution of stresses, so that in a north-east-up
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by cossatot 4y ago
It's been known for decades that the Earth's core (which is mostly iron and nickel, as opposed to the mantle which is made of silicates) has a liquid outer layer and a solid inner layer. This is apparent because seismic shear wave
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by cossatot 4y ago
I think he meant ‘quart’ rather than ‘gallon’ because the first reference is for ‘litre’
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by cossatot 4y ago
It's got a super weird text format for the input. If you're interested, email me at my user id at gmail and I can give you some jupyter notebooks that parse offset tables in excel to make the .hul file.
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by cossatot 4y ago
I use Wine on Linux for Carlson Hulls (Delftship and Freeship being not as useful for stitch-and-glue). I tried to install wine on macos recently, and I want to say it wasn't supported for the most recent versions, but I don't re
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by cossatot 4y ago
I thought this book was decent, and I don't know of any others better in the niche, but I wanted a bit more science than was presented. I think Casey got too intimidated by the scientists to really try to understand the models at all,
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by cossatot 4y ago
In the end, it is still a system for producing workers that fit in whatever the current regime needs, and I think there should be some space for "i dont want to be a part of this, there must be some other way to live" This is an
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by cossatot 4y ago
While I partially agree with your assessment, it's worth noting that much of the dynamic settlement of the US has been based on commodity booms, which really can't be considered perpetual parts of the economy. People had to leave
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by cossatot 4y ago
Little Rock AFB is a few tens of km north (34.9 deg lat) for what it's worth. There may be some others as well. The chances of getting a picture of the stars that clear in Arkansas is way lower than in the Mojave however...
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by cossatot 4y ago
It may be that the 21st century Turing test will be 'whether an AI can tell that content is AI generated". Otherwise it may be much harder to filter the AI-generated content.
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by cossatot 4y ago
Congrats, and (if you're in the US where I am), welcome!
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by cossatot 4y ago
Your exact quote was I hate it that people "buy and build a fair bit of real estate on the side". Their interpretation of your comments is quite straightforward.
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by cossatot 4y ago
I print once or twice a month--return labels, random home admin (taxes or city stuff), and I prefer paper boarding passes (w/ backup on my phone) because they're less fussy for a number of reasons than the phone. I also print doc
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by cossatot 4y ago
You can get used, earlier-edition college textbooks very cheaply. The question sets are changed each edition but the text is not meaningfully. I buy some for fun reading and some for reference.
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by cossatot 4y ago
OT: Are those books worth reading? I loved the Power Broker but the LBJ books are a whole lot to get through.
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by cossatot 4y ago
Ideally there would be a replacement of TeX that shares little of its non-math typesetting capabilities but retains (or only slightly modifies) the math syntax. The rest of the system is where the the problems lie, or at least where I waste
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by cossatot 4y ago
The western states are for sure the most fun to fly over, though.
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by cossatot 4y ago
Camping is also a great activity with kids, for what it’s worth. Backpacking 20 miles into the wilderness is not going to be an option at least until they are older, but car camping can still be pretty fun even when they are itty bitty esp

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