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by jofer 11y ago
Given the timing and who's involved, I'd guess it's probably Fledermaus. ArcScene is another possibility, but at that time, it struggled heavily with high quality output. These days, there are a number of other options.(Fled
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They're referring to spatial resolution, not vertical resolution. In other words, they're taking about the size of the pixels.
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I can't imagine that most state universities accept less than 50% of their applicatants. For example, my undergrad has an acceptance rate of ~95%, but it's still a regionally very well-respected school. State schools, particularly
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That's basically what pyinstaller is. It's not quite the same (extracts files to the temp directory), but it's the same general idea. A lot of Python applications on Windows are distributed this way.
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We do know how to make the bedrock.
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Placer deposits are secondary in nature. I was referring to the original source of the gold, not later erosion and deposition. Most major gold deposits are related to orogenic events (mountain building). A significant subset of these are r
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Completely off topic, but as a geologist, phrases like this are a bit like nails on a chalkboard: >> "Gold is still rare, but it's also everywhere, roughly speaking. It's geologically distributed like this because it le
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There's a limit to how high you can pile a narrow line of a puree. Mashed potatoes will probably do a bit better, but you're still not going to get any "true" 3D design out of something that isn't solid. There&#x27
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What does that have to do with typesetting a publication?
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I'm not 100% sure on this, but my understanding is that commercial canned tomatoes are more likely to be picked ripe. The reason is that canned tomatoes usually come from the leftovers and blemishes. When they pick a field of tomatoes
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In addition to being bred for yield, there's shippability. One of the biggest reasons tomatoes from the store taste so bad is that they're picked completely green. The second is that the commercial varieties are bred to have a pa
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Wow! As a casual (and very bad) go player, this is astounding! Winning 5 games in a row at even strength against a 2-dan professional really is huge. This is not something that I was under the impression would be technically achievable fo
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Inside the vault: A rare glimpse of NASA’s otherworldly treasures(arstechnica.com)
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No geologist would ever (or likely will ever) say that we "really know how the Earth works". I say this as a geologist, and I can't imagine any other geologist disagreeing. The natural sciences are incredibly complex. You&#
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Most of the moving measurements aren't gravimeters. They're gradiometers. You don't actually get the same data out, and you can't use it in the same way. The key part isn't just the acceleration due to motion. It&#
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We've been doing gravity surveys for over a century. All you need is to 1) know the elevation precisely, and 2) have a very well calibrated spring. In fact, the really old Lacoste & Rhomberg style gravimeters are often thought to
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It has the same average density, but doesn't produce the same gravity anomaly. If the submarine were a perfect spherical shell of denser and lighter sub-shells, everything would cancel out. However, they're not. They're ess
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In a nutshell, everyone has already bought all of the cheap oil they can store. There's a very small amount of storage globally compared to the size of the surplus. (It's not a small amount in absolute terms, it's just that
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Whoever wrote this seems to be predicting the present while having no awareness of how the petroleum industry works. Yes, they've outlined what most majors are doing to different degrees in different areas. However, you're stupi
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For what it's worth, the majority of public US institutions are similar in cost. The outlandish prices are either private schools or out-of-state tuition rates. It's been ten years, but my undergraduate tuition at a modestly well
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It depends on the journal, but usually there will be subtle edits. In my experience, the edits usually make the article less readable, but they are common for major journals, at least in my field. One of the major journals in my field has a
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by jofer 11y ago
The problem with Tennessee Whiskey is that the style is almost extinct. Until recently, in the TN state constitution, only three counties were allowed to have distilleries. Therefore, we have Jack Daniels (which is honestly awful), Dickle
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That's all very true, but for that particular picture, the lack of vegetation is because the area was covered by ice only a few years before. Note the lack of soil in the older photo. There's only rocks and silt.
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Changes in landscape and colonization by various plants as glaciers retreat is a very, very well-documented process. The vegetation changes in the picture shown are unambiguously due to the retreat of the glacier. Global changes aside, it
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Oil is low op-ex compared to its cap-ex. I don't have numbers to back it up, but I'd argue software companies' op-ex is still far cheaper than oil's. Oil production and infrastructure maintenance aren't cheap. It&#
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If software is the new oil, be prepared for a wild ride. The oil industry is notorious for decade-scale cycles of over-hiring and then layoffs and under-hiring, rinse-lather-repeat. Regardless, it's a good analogy, but be careful how
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A PhD isn't so much about learning the material as it is about learning to manage and complete projects. Your job is to identify unsolved problems, come up with ideas to solve them, and carry it through to a few completed research pro
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> In my field (geoscience) there are boundless slopes of fresh, trackless powder in the mountains of computational geoscience just waiting to get skied. I need to steal that quote from you...
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On a side note, this is common in academia (particularly for married couples), and often seen as a negative thing there. The downside is that employers often expect two full-time employees for the price of one. My wife and I both have simil
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...You'll hear only the constant drone of mosquitoes and your own screams as they slowly devour you... Seriously, though, it is a fantastic place. Quetico (the Canadian side) is even more remote and beautiful, i.m.o.

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