geoalchimista

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by geoalchimista 3y ago
But it offers you one more language to communicate with people. Isn't that enough?
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by geoalchimista 4y ago
> Researchers want to be in specific locations because of their prestige. However, when all US-funded research is also available outside that location, the walled garden of prestige becomes rather porous. Especially since the reviewers t
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by geoalchimista 4y ago
> It’s mostly grunt work and whatever technical skills can be learned by a high school student over a summer. Who do you think is supervising the high school student? Where does the idea for the project come from? Where does the money su
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by geoalchimista 4y ago
It isn't remotely true. Corals have persisted through the geological past when atmospheric CO2 was many times today's level. It could be true that _some_ coral species would go extinct, but corals as a class are likely to persist.
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by geoalchimista 4y ago
pH could drop to 7.95 by mid-century, according to the latest projections: https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/17/3439/2020/ . The second part of the sentence seems fictional. I don't think there is a
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by geoalchimista 4y ago
Ugh, smells like crank. Someone discovered a climatology 101 fact and then made a big fuss about it. Just ... read an introductory textbook on climate science please. It's basically all speculation disguised as a "case study"
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by geoalchimista 4y ago
I think it depends on whether you use it for operations or for data analysis. Speed is only one concern and it may not always be the most relevant concern. A statistician/data scientist wrangling data and making plots would not have ca
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by geoalchimista 4y ago
I don't think you fully appreciate that what you talk about are several different aspects of the climate system and they are true at the same time. Which one is the more salient factor at play depends on the time scale you look at. &gt
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by geoalchimista 4y ago
Its peak flops performance seems on par with DOE's Summit and 15% of Frontier, according to the top 500 supercomputer list: https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2022/06/ .
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by geoalchimista 4y ago
The title seems to imply that this problem does not exist in languages not using Latin scripts. That's not true. Take Japanese for an example, when you have hiragana, katakana, and kanji to express the same idea (and not to mention a k
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by geoalchimista 4y ago
All statistical inferences are estimates, and carry standard errors with them. What is your point?
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by geoalchimista 4y ago
With hindsight, yes. It is difficult to predict which field/researcher may become the 10x and which may not. Even an expert panel may have difficulty in judging the prospect of completely novel research. Giving funds only to 10x resear
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by geoalchimista 4y ago
Most people pursuing a degree in physics would be more interested in core physics problems (quantum computing, particle physics, cosmology, etc.) than in climate change. Perhaps it is more difficult to motivate physics majors to turn to cli
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by geoalchimista 4y ago
Some journals have a proofreading stage before publication. But proofreading can't save bad writing. I blame the overemphasis on "critical thinking" in modern liberal arts education at the expense of fundamental writing skill
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by geoalchimista 5y ago
The worse thing is to let academia control conference funding.
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by geoalchimista 5y ago
The authors could have talked to a geologist or palaeontologist, which would've saved them the time spent on writing a speculative paper like this.
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by geoalchimista 5y ago
Just looking at Figure 1 on page 8 of the paper you mentioned, it can go either way because we haven't seen a reversal in any of the trends. That is hardly a prediction. For example, if one looks at the "Services per capita",
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by geoalchimista 5y ago
Not sure I understand the reason this kind of model keeps getting spawned every few years. Idealized models with no relevance to empirical observations are nowhere near predicting civilization collapse. They can't even explain the ob
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by geoalchimista 5y ago
So, these scholars think Meta has more state capacity than NHS to act in this area and can work wonders that NHS cannot?
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by geoalchimista 5y ago
What made you choose JAX over Julia? I'm interested in this question, because I have been thinking about transitioning to Julia but have always hesitated to make the move, since overall the Python ecosystem still seems way ahead in ter
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by geoalchimista 5y ago
Time is a scarce resource. If you want to solve something, the most straightforward path is to attack the core of the problem. In the time that an average person spent to understand what a monad is, another average person may have already f
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by geoalchimista 5y ago
Coal and oil, when not burned for energy, are raw materials for making a lot of essential chemicals.
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by geoalchimista 5y ago
Pretty sure few people would be enthusiastic about doing those "testing" jobs. A graduate student spending six years testing others' "high-impact ideas" would have no future on the cutthroat academic job market.
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by geoalchimista 5y ago
> America doesn’t have the patience to oversee Afghanistan like was done with Germany, South Korea, Japan, etc. In what way are a loose collection of tribesmen dwelling in the hill country in Afghanistan comparable to Germany, among whos
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by geoalchimista 5y ago
I've never seen this "uno" unit appearing in any scientific paper. Makes me wonder what the intended audience is, besides the committee that proposed it.
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by geoalchimista 5y ago
And it is the lawyers who never lose in this game
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by geoalchimista 5y ago
Anything that involves solving the Navier-Stokes equations, e.g., weather forecast, hurricane prediction
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by geoalchimista 6y ago
> It's a bit hard to imagine the domestic opinion in China supporting a hot war with Taiwan. Have you talked to any Chinese people who are not from Shanghai/Beijing and are not educated in an American university?
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by geoalchimista 6y ago
Not disagreeing with you, but from my perception of economics as a field, biodiversity is not a topic that attracts a lot of attention. Working on biodiversity topics does not lead to a top 5 journal publication or a job in a prestigious in
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by geoalchimista 6y ago
Leave it to ecologists and other biodiversity experts? Not everything warrants an opinion from economists.

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