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by cossatot 4y ago
Lichen are. (Lycan are werewolves I think.)
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by cossatot 4y ago
It’s the Langrangian vs Eulerian specification of fiction
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Oh, and we need more people to stand up for their local airports. Corrupt local politicians, developers, and fake-NIMBY land speculators are all arrayed to destroy our nation's aviation infrastructure for personal profit. Even airline
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by cossatot 4y ago
I work for an Italian nonprofit from the US, after I moved back from Italy for family reasons. I'm a full-time contractor. I (or my 'employer') have to prove to the Italian government that I am a US taxpayer, but beyond that
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by cossatot 4y ago
For those of us whose CS background doesn't go this deep, what about ARM makes it more performant than x86? Is it something at a theoretical level, or does it have to do with CPU manufacturing constraints/tradeoffs, or a simpler&#
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by cossatot 4y ago
This isn't 'the place the moon hit', it's material from the colliding object (Theia) that has been added to the Earth's mantle. The mantle convects, and this material is a little more dense, and has pooled up at th
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by cossatot 4y ago
>Or maybe I'm just not understanding that "theory" well enough From what you've written, I think you are misinterpreting the standard theory, which is much more like 'your idea' (the second paragraph) than y
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by cossatot 4y ago
He posts on here sometimes: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MatthiasWandel
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by cossatot 4y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recipe-filter...
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by cossatot 4y ago
I see a lot of appeals to "fund people, not projects", but the main issue I have with it is that I think it strongly biases people to select "super stars" who have impressive credentials / come from high status org
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Will these ancient trees survive a drying West?(nytimes.com)
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by cossatot 4y ago
This book is about learning how to entertain yourself alone during your free time, not mandating that you only recreate alone, much less disconnecting yourself from society altogether.
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by cossatot 4y ago
Do you still have the video?
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by cossatot 4y ago
My own website: https://rocksandwater.net I started out with Wordpress circa 2011 but I switched to Pelican/AWS once the plugins became available to use Jupyter notebooks in the blogs (I'm a geoscientist so I like to s
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by cossatot 4y ago
Matlab and SciPy both have ‘cumtrapz’ for trapezoidal integration.
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by cossatot 4y ago
The greatest Simpsons car-and-measurement-unit bit is of course this one: "She'll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene" which maybe makes sense if you're plowing a field... Part of a pretty amazing 20 second bit.
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by cossatot 4y ago
Although I didn't read the article, from my personal experience, weightlifting during the week helps me focus, and in a way that cardio does not. In weeks in which I lift 2-3 days, at the moderate level that I do (say 45 min of using
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by cossatot 4y ago
While unemployed, I feel competent, I make progress on hard problems nobody else in the world is working on, and I feel good. If those problems are important, is there a way to work on them for pay? Like through a nonprofit, for example?
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by cossatot 4y ago
If it's just a collection of essays, what about a static site? You can set one up on Github Pages or Gitlab Pages with a minimum of coding. There are also virtually no security concerns and maintenance is minimal. You'd have to t
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by cossatot 5y ago
Agate is silica (quartz) and is harder than steel, or any common metal or alloy that pre-modern people would have had. A few common minerals are harder, such as feldspar and hornblende, and modern ceramic is (but not all fired clay). I thi
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by cossatot 5y ago
I think this works effectively in many situations (particularly keynotes), but I frequently give presentations that are (1) meant to inform more than persuade or entertain, (2) are often given to an audience with a substantial fraction of n
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by cossatot 5y ago
Although the nature our work varies quite a bit, here are some things that I have found in my domain (earthquake-related science broadly, with a large computational component) that I think generalize fairly well: 1. Tightening feedback loop
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by cossatot 5y ago
Parsons was for years a county sheriff of a rural county in Missouri (Polk County, current population ~30,000), so he was head of the Highway Patrol in the county. I suspect that as Governor he has strong relations with the Highway Patrol
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by cossatot 5y ago
I am one of those who had to put it down; after losing interest in TV and movies for a decade and becoming resensitized to violence (finally growing up and developing some empathy during adulthood also contributed), I just couldn't tak
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by cossatot 5y ago
Plus 20 years of intensive training after that 9 months... Or maybe your newborn is more capable than mine!
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by cossatot 5y ago
FOX and CNN are constantly accused of spreading misinformation by huge swaths of the populace (but not necessarily the same swath for both networks).
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by cossatot 5y ago
This is just for open access, not for publication. I haven't published with Nature since it was owned by Macmillan (rather than Springer Nature, the current owner) and I think the publication fees were ~$1500. My experience was that t
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by cossatot 5y ago
I've never had anyone at NSF question OA fees in grant proposals. This might vary program by program.
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by cossatot 5y ago
Like the rest of the comments say, this is a fee that the authors pay to publish, not a commission that is paid to the authors. However, if they're Chinese, the authors may get paid quite a bit (~$50-100,000) as a reward for publishing
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by cossatot 5y ago
Nature pays their editors, unlike most society journals. But they are a for-profit business, and are clearly just looking for more profit. The expected lifetime value of any article in Nature Neuroscience for the authors is well above $1

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