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by cultus 8y ago
It seems as if the onset of development is always coupled with horrible environmental problems. Another 20 years in the future, Africa will have more money to mitigate them.
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by cultus 8y ago
That's great with the psychedelics. It's a promising treatment from some stuff I've seen with PTSD patients. RE: cannabis. Most cannabis you buy is high in THC, which causes anxiety. You want the high CBD, low THC stuff. CBD
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by cultus 8y ago
Losing weight too fast is bad, but a 500 cal/day deficit is healthy and can drop a pound a week. It is important to exercise and preferably train with free weights to maintain muscle mass. It's actually possible for untrained men
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by cultus 8y ago
I wasn't a Brexit fan but the EU seems to make boneheaded decisions like this pretty often. It really does suggest some fundamental structural reform could be in order.
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by cultus 8y ago
I wear my arms out pretty fast rock climbing, but that's only a small proportion of the body. I kind of doubt it is a good replacement for strength training.
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by cultus 8y ago
Speaking as a former bike racer, cycling does not build muscles unless you are already wildly out of shape. Pedaling in a tall gear still isn't much resistance, typically less than body weight. Muscle is built only by getting near the
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by cultus 8y ago
He is quite far outside of the psychological mainstream. Many of the ideas in his books qualify as pseudoscience. He has only become popular because he says what far right individuals want to hear. It is all banal well-trodden ideas dressed
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by cultus 8y ago
There's always this bizarre obsession with moonshot technological solutions to problems that are social in origin.
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by cultus 8y ago
By the time it gets into these "garbage patches" it is already microscopic and distributed over the water column. What does make sense is to get fishermen to avoid losing gear. Also, trash collectors in bays and estuaries work ver
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by cultus 8y ago
I work in ocean conservation, and this thread makes me sad. Anyone in ocean conservation can tell you this is BS, but sadly people in the tech industry have a tendency to discount the knowledge and opinion of experts in other fields.
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by cultus 8y ago
It has some of the main criticisms. Here's another one. http://www.deepseanews.com/2016/06/the-ocean-cleanup-deploye... https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-05-30/two-proposals-clean-o..
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by cultus 8y ago
The thing is that this won't clean up anything. It is terrible for ecology, because it acts like a big net. It will kill plankton and other life. The long booms will (and have in testing) fail in storms. It also doesn't go deep en
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by cultus 8y ago
This project is not capable of collecting usable plastic. It is too degraded, too small. Everyone thinks there are big islands of garbage, but in fact it is distributed in small (often microscopic) particles throughout the first 100 meters
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by cultus 8y ago
It's not though. The ocean is big, it is violent. This won't work. https://www.kcet.org/redefine/6-reasons-that-floating-ocean-...
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by cultus 8y ago
Solutions to ocean trash are well known, we just need to do them. This absolutely will fail. There is no question about that. edit: https://www.kcet.org/redefine/6-reasons-that-floating-ocean-... https://inh
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by cultus 8y ago
This project is a borderline scam, as anyone in ocean conservation will tell you. It is completely unpractical and impossible for numerous reasons. It would also devastate ocean ecosystems. http://www.sciencemag.org/news&#x2
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by cultus 8y ago
My high school had the shop teacher (who was actually a very sharp guy) teach programming. It was actually billed as programming, not CS. We learned C++ (maybe not the best choice, but this was ~1999), and he basically learned whatever he w
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by cultus 8y ago
As a side note, KL divergence is actually symmetric to the second order: If you have a distribution "p" parameterized by x, the divergence between p|x_0 from a nearby value p|x_1 is approximately symmetric. This is useful because
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by cultus 8y ago
Hmm. In my experience as a former PhD student at a major research university, university bureaucracy only hindered my job at every opportunity. You even needed multiple levels of approval for a research proposal. You had to send it in weeks
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by cultus 8y ago
The term-rewriting paradigm of Mathematica is very cool, kind of like lisp rotated a few degrees. I'd really like to see a more mainstream language adopt that approach. My complaints are more about everything else. Insane scoping rules
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by cultus 8y ago
Number of github repos, which likely correlates to number of users. It also is probably a better gauge of the number of maintained, relevant libraries available. Clojure is used in production quite a bit nowadays, and there are excellent li
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by cultus 8y ago
Replying to your other comment >It's surprising to me that there isn't a good way to call Maxima from either Python/R/Julia or even a non-CL lisp. There's Sage, which integrates Scipy/Numpy, Maxima, and some
563.
by cultus 8y ago
As leephilips said, there's a package, but it's nowhere near what Mathematica can do symbolically. Julia was more intended as a numerical Matlab replacement. However, it could have a lot of potential here. It is a fully homoiconic
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by cultus 8y ago
>Also, how can Clojure be highly practical when it ties you to the JVM? The JVM allows you to use a ton of libraries, on a very performant platform. CL libraries just aren't anywhere near as feature-complete as in more popular langu
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by cultus 8y ago
Clojure multimethods actually can do more than CL multiple dispatch, because they can dispatch by value rather than just type.
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by cultus 8y ago
It's very possible. I use Clojure on a daily basis, and I only rarely need Java interop to use pretty obscure libraries. It's not that bad, it's not any worse than using Java directly.
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by cultus 8y ago
Clojure is really your better bet. It is highly practical with a good community and excellent Java interop. You never have to worry about finding a good library. The syntax is also a bit more easily parsable than CL. If you don't touch
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by cultus 8y ago
Try mega.nz. 50 Gb for free. It has a Linux client that works quite well.
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by cultus 8y ago
Actual meta-analyses and systematic replication are so rare as to basically not matter. In addition, many actual scientists are completely unaware of these fundamental issues in science. Not to mention scientist's statistical misconcep
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by cultus 8y ago
>And the 62% figure “certainly is consistent with there being a problem” in the field, he says. “It seems funny that there’s been a drift in standards to the point where 62% seems very respectable.” I'd sure say so. Statistics in sc

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