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Institutional and community resistance shouldn’t be underestimated. Until about a decade ago, it could be really hard to get papers accepted in my scientific field (geosciences, particularly geology) that used Bayesian methods because senio
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While I don't know if there's much you can skip, if you're going for a degree at a typical US state school, I'd recommend taking as much of your general education/ non-major requirements at a community college. It&
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by cossatot 5y ago
So the definition of homeless is that it’s ‘not the kind of place a university graduate lives in’? This is absurd.
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Yeah I remember being thrilled seeing them while canoeing on the Gasconade when I was a kid in the 90s. I believe that we saw one refueling behind a KC-10 in the air as well.
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The effects of the 1918 influenza epidemic were large and persisted for decades, as well. Marginal Revolution has a good summary[1]. Fetal exposure seems to have been a major factor[2], money quote here: Fetal health is found to affect
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The article is from the Canadian Journal of Respiratory Therapy and is about Canada.
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I'm curious what an example use case is for scientific computing on an embedded device. Is this for real-time analysis on a data logger or something? Many of us think of clusters as high-performance scientific computing, which are abo
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This also looks great, thanks a ton!
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Thanks! This looks awesome.
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I agree completely. I made a big push to switch from vim to spacemacs so that I could use org-mode for note taking and reduce my dependence on paper notebooks, but the lack of ability to easily sketch really killed it. I'm a geologist
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I tried to cancel my NYT subscription a few weeks ago after my heavily discounted rate went up to normal, and the second web page in the process offered to cut the price by half, which was acceptable to me. Although it is still a pain to ca
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I've long thought that postmodernist critical theory offered an array of very useful tools and positions for epistemic inquiry, but that due to various internal and external conditions of the literature/arts/sociology departm
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Graeber's posts on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=davidgraeber
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You've got to look at the scholarly work rather than their faculty web pages. Campos has written a number of recent papers in the broad area of higher ed economics (particularly law school), but in the grand tradition of American law
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When I worked as a bike mechanic in my late teens, we referred to this approach as 'shade tree mechanic work'. I loved it, because of the creativity involved. However, I grew to have a great respect for the work of other mechanic
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9 months go by fast For the father at least... Congrats!
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A simple look at the time series shows that this is not the case in many places (e.g., Oregon, where I live): https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/oregon-covid-cas...
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Vaccination is in large part about beating the epidemic , i.e. the population-scale prevalence of the pathogen, by preventing most of the infections and therefore disease transmission. This pill is about treating disease symptoms, but whi
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Following Kenji Lopez-Alt, I’ve put it in Bolognese sauce where it does surreptitiously add a bit of umami and body.
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Fur exports from North America to China were the major reason for the European exploration of western North America in the 17th and 18th centuries, and into the earliest 19th century. The Chinese elite used fur pelts to line their robes. S
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Most of it is. The higher parts of the coast ranges and the bulk of the Sierra Nevada are not covered.
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I'm a geologist who has worked a little in Enhanced Geothermal Systems and (independently) in volcanology though I am a specialist in neither (I mostly work on earthquakes, and probabilistic seismic hazard analysis). I think this paper
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by cossatot 5y ago
I like having gvim or macvim as the default text editor to open files when the are clicked from Dolphin/Finder/etc so that I can read and edit the file with vim and my config, rather than whatever the OS default low power GUI text
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Some forms of environmental pollution or toxicity, like bacteria, can result in an infection that makes you sick, or not. Other forms, like heavy metals (common in industrial sites), can cause serious chronic problems through prolonged or r
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by cossatot 5y ago
As discussed in the comments it looks like the Cisco VPN client (when I zoom in I think it's that and not Thunderbird, too): https://twitter.com/andrewheumann/status/745332192457396224
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The slip patch (where the two tectonic plates slip past each other) of the earthquake did not reach the sea floor, so it didn't generate a big tsunami [0]. If the purple colors in the finite fault map (indicating >2 m slip) reached
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(Geologist here, although not an ore expert.) This is neither literally true nor particularly accurate. You are more correct in that it is related more broadly to magma (by definition not released by volcanoes, as it would then be lava;
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Maize is a cultigen and can’t reproduce without human intervention so it cannot get to be invasive.
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Usually the IP goes to the employer (i.e. the university) rather than the individual researcher.
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This is an interesting and well-reasoned post. In addition to that, I was pleasantly surprised to see some interactive Python functionality towards the end, to calculate the total tax rates by major tech companies after modifying the tax sc

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