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by cozzyd 2y ago
Try asking your GPS for the Western blue line stop on the Chicago L. (There are two of them and it will randomly pick one)
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by cozzyd 2y ago
Without someone telling me, I wouldn't have necessarily assumed this was unconstitutional.
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by cozzyd 2y ago
There are other factors, like the quality of your peers, facilities and colloquia, security of funding, teaching load, culture, etc. And a high reputation school will help in grant applications and so on, where you don't get to include
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by cozzyd 2y ago
QGIS has a plug-in for this. I've toyed with writing my plug-in for a colorful 3D format for 3D printing purposes though.
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by cozzyd 2y ago
Ah, I clearly just had to keep clicking! I see now that the DEMs are credited in the rendering, which I didn't notice before.
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by cozzyd 2y ago
very interesting... on SRTM the example I checked (Pyramid Lake) is all at one altitude (albeit, only with 1 m resolution), while on MERIT-DEM, the lake surface differs by more than 1 m across the lake. Here is a difference map between the
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by cozzyd 2y ago
That may be true now... when I was an undergrad *checks notes* nearly 20 years ago, plenty of Stanford grad students lived in the city.
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by cozzyd 2y ago
In the limited context of a Physics PhD, to people within the physics community, the reputations are essentially identical, and also essentially identical to MIT (though that may be different between the asker's specific subfield, whic
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by cozzyd 2y ago
Speaking of catchment, lakes behave in a strange way to me. Is this an artifact of them somehow being divided up into river catchment zones? This sliver of Lake Michigan shows only the Chicago River (and it's wrong anyway, since the Ch
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by cozzyd 2y ago
yes, Antarctica is slightly complicated by the need to use a different coordinate system to get reasonable results.
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by cozzyd 2y ago
The school does matter in a lot of ways, but Stanford and Berkeley are going to be roughly equivalent in those ways.
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by cozzyd 2y ago
Both schools have excellent reputations, so the PI is going to be the most important thing (and, perhaps, variety of PI's if you're not sure you want to stick with a specific one). After that you would consider things like course
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by cozzyd 2y ago
Which DEM are you using? MERIT-DEM? It seems to exceed SRTM's coverage, but be smaller than ASTER's coverage (except it does include the Northernmost island in Greenlan which I think falls outside 83 N). You might consider adding
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by cozzyd 2y ago
I think this can happen easily if some of the wires become unconnected due to the melting of the first pin, resulting in more current in the remaining pins, that the remaining connector cannot handle. Likewise, a short on the far connector
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by cozzyd 2y ago
The double entendre of DC is amusing here
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by cozzyd 2y ago
Well, other countries can only absorb so many scientists. It's basically a complete disaster for many research fields (and also research universities in general).
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NSF confronts potentially massive layoffs and budget cuts(science.org)
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by cozzyd 2y ago
Internal APIs break all the time, which is why out of tree drivers are so annoying
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by cozzyd 2y ago
if arxiv detects that it's a latex-generated PDF, it will reject it. Though it's probably possible to launder the latex-generated PDF through ghostscript or something to evade detection (I haven't tried...)
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by cozzyd 2y ago
Some of those are redundant (arxiv will complain if there are unused files, must commonly by accidentally adding the .bib file). My make arxiv target on papers usually just calls latexpand to cull comments and modifies all image includes to
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by cozzyd 2y ago
Well my last successful NSF award certainly uses the word polarization... In the context of electromagnetic fields....
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by cozzyd 2y ago
I can't imagine something like this is expensive to host, minus perhaps the text messages. But presumably they could charge for those (and make a little off the top).
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by cozzyd 2y ago
The parent's chat group for my toddler's school is WhatsApp. There was nobody who didn't have it installed (and it's about 50/50 android/iPhone).
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by cozzyd 2y ago
Yes, it's always tricky when the sources are anonymous (to be clear, they're likely not anonymous to the journalist), but you can imagine not too many people would want their names to be public under the circumstances.
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by cozzyd 2y ago
Don't worry, the purely regulatory (according to Elon) barriers to FSD will soon be deleted by some SpaceX intern.
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by cozzyd 2y ago
I suspect the vast majority is in the DoD, which, strangely, isn't the target here.
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by cozzyd 2y ago
This evidence is circumstantial but Elez's GitHub account recently removed the profile picture. Anyway, I don't know anything about the Wired reporters but I trust Josh Marshall to not make shit up.
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by cozzyd 2y ago
I thought he famously couldn't get the top level of clearance and has to sit out of certain spacex activity
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by cozzyd 2y ago
Someone has to reimburse SpaceX for all the free labor in the treasury department!
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by cozzyd 2y ago
If you approve of this, perhaps Marko Elez can find some efficiencies within the payroll system of your employer?

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