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You're right about this. In practice, geologists are very used to providing asymmetrical or one-sided bounds on many estimates (not only time estimates; also estimates of quantities like the thickness of a rock layer before the top wa
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> In the end, who really cares if someone is black, white, Korean, or half Vietnamese? Yale, in this case.
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This is false. In the case of the original Hyperloop idea which crosses the San Andreas Fault, a major earthquake on that fault in line with the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco should produce accelerations the ground surface within 10 km o
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Yes, lots of explosions and other events are filtered out. It's pretty easy to classify large explosions vs. earthquakes both by the depth (earthquakes are rarely so shallow; even a big earthquake that breaks the surface will have most
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> And 2/3 of the things all academics hate the most are the things that involve having to work closely with others and bureaucratic organizations (faculty meetings/service and grant writing. The third, incidentally, is grading
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by cossatot 6y ago
Yeah I am with you on this. In my current role, I can do R in as much as it links with D. But really I spend a lot of time building that ampersand rather than R or D specifically: constructing a framework to translate research results into
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by cossatot 6y ago
> Lack of respect for traditional authority, entrenched interests, and boundaries would be my take. Forgiveness > permission mindset, with a healthy risk tolerance above baseline. This is an interesting take. A lot of researchers are
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I'd love to hear a bit more about the differences. I've spent my adult life in research environments (academic, nonprofit and industrial R&D) and while much of the activity seems entrepreneurial (particularly grant writing), t
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On Performative Entrepreneurship(papers.ssrn.com)
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I think a larger issue is the focus on video as opposed to audio. Audio may be less sexy but it is far and away more important for most interpersonal communication (I'm not discussing gaming or streaming or whatever, but teleconferenc
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by cossatot 6y ago
The author has a lot of interesting projects on his page: https://lingdong.works/ though I haven't checked all of them out (I have no desire to watch anyone's face decay). As a geologist, I happen to think that al
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by cossatot 6y ago
I thought Paw Patrol had already covered this: "‘Paw Patrol’ Writers Defend Episode Where German Shepherd Cop Shoots Unarmed Black Lab 17 Times In Back"[1] [1]: https://entertainment.theonion.com/paw-patrol-writers
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Malice and stupidity are not mutually exclusive.
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Horses are pretty dangerous too.
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We could perhaps modify the theory, thinking of the mechanics of research. Progress is made by an individual in the niches where others have not managed yet. Therefore the advantage in geometry for a blind mathematician may be in a differe
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by cossatot 7y ago
In the geosciences there has been a bit of research in the past 10 years using Structure from Motion techniques on images collected from normal cameras suspended from balloons, if a drone isn't available. Both of these papers discuss m
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by cossatot 7y ago
Another component to the disappointment with GoPros is that the camera perspective and flattening reduces the dramatic impact of what may have in fact been a challenging endeavor. I've seen footage of hard mountain bike trails and clas
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by cossatot 7y ago
Some related things about tectonic plate motions might be of interest to the HN crowd: The surface of the Earth is tesselated into irregular tectonic plates that (mostly) move rigidly, with little internal deformation. Plate boundaries are
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by cossatot 7y ago
This statement is proportionally more common in fields where it's challenging to sort truth from bullshit. If it's easy to see that a piece of output (a paper, code library, machine learning model, whatever) or a job candidate is
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by cossatot 7y ago
A sad fact of Kansas trails is that most of them wind through narrow stands of trees ringing artificial lakes, instead of traversing the prairies that actually make Kansas unique and cool instead of a lame Ozarks knockoff. Going through tr
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by cossatot 7y ago
Internal migration is much more common within the US than within the EU, and societal norms are much more accepting of intra-US relocation. Based on the data I can gather from a brief search, it looks like in 2017, 58% of Americans live in
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by cossatot 7y ago
A similar article by another author, though a bit shorter, for anyone interested: "The Metrics of Backpacks" by Victoria Gannon https://www.artpractical.com/column/the-metrics-of-backpacks...
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by cossatot 7y ago
> Kent, a Canadian Game & Fisheries warden, tells the story of one hapless grizzly attempting to swim a channel. The distance was, perhaps, less than a mile. Mr. Bear was beavering away at the swim. Up the channel, the dorsal fins o
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Some earthquake researchers I know have started using neural net approximations of PDEs for doing viscoelastic calculations [1] (simulating how the Earth's crust and upper mantle responds during and after an earthquake). The have foun
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by cossatot 7y ago
I use both vim and vscode, and I find that the vim keybindings in vscode are lacking. I particularly run into problems with substitutions, for example in vim I can do :sno... when I want to change brackets or something whereas that doesn&#x
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Geology PhD here, caveat emptor: If you don't find research compelling, then don't go for a PhD. It's not worth it on any front--you'll be broke, stressed and miserable for years and then quite possibly quit with little
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by cossatot 7y ago
It depends on the discipline. In the geosciences, MSc degrees are the typical 'working degree'. If you want a job, you basically need one, therefore lots of schools offer them. Most people spend 2-3 years on an MSc and then hopefu
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by cossatot 7y ago
I used to go kayaking on the Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie (on I-90 east of Seattle) instead of the far superior Skykomish run on Highway 2 just because of the Popeye's at the Tanner exit of 90, right by the Snoqualmie run.
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A similar episode was the basis for the historical novel "Killing Mister Watson" by Peter Mattheissen, which is one of my favorite books. A ruthless man named Edgar Watson, who had purportedly killed several people in Oklahoma and
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by cossatot 7y ago
In my experience doing lots of computational science, the analytical/symbolic part of the problem solving is typically done separately, as it really needs to be done once, and (mostly) by hand so that you understand the problem and sol

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