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by jofer 13y ago
I believe the author meant that the app (or company, maybe) is one year old, not that there's only one person involved.
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by jofer 13y ago
As a geologist, the most astounding part of this is that humans have become a (and in some cases, "the") major player in a lot of natural processes. That's the basis for calling the industrialized era the Anthropocene. Human
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by jofer 13y ago
The way this article is written is very misleading. This is not in any form or fashion the "oldest body of seawater yet found" nor is it unusual to find ancient trapped seawater. "Connate water" is water trapped in sedim
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by jofer 13y ago
And another one of Ivo's set of dog paw questions randomly become popular! The guy has a knack for asking good questions and getting good answers.
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by jofer 13y ago
> ...I found it to be quite memory inefficient: data structures take up a lot of space... Just for whatever it's worth, this is the whole point of numpy. Lists, dicts, etc are not memory-efficient, but numpy arrays are. The main re
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by jofer 13y ago
As far as I know, Alaska's permanent fund pays to children too, as long as they're born in the state or have lived there long enough to be counted as residents (2 years, maybe? Can't remember.).
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by jofer 13y ago
No. Carbon dating is only reliable back to ~50ka (50,000 years before present), at most ~100ka. For older things, you're typically dating the formation of a mineral grain. Common methods are Potassium/Argon and Uranium/Lead
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by jofer 13y ago
> Would mining a thorium rich deposit have higher environmentally related costs? Yes, absolutely! > Isn't the thorium itself valuable as well? Not at present. It's basically a waste byproduct at the moment. If it becomes wi
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by jofer 13y ago
I wasn't aware of that! Thanks! (And thanks for everything you folks do, as well!)
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by jofer 13y ago
Spyder is great for people coming to python from matlab. I reccommend it a lot to complete beginners, as well. For those not aware, it's basically an offshoot of python(x,y), which is a really nice python distribution for windows. Per
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by jofer 13y ago
That has nothing to do with cartography. That's geology. Geology often uses cartography to display data and various spatial analysis methods to analyze data, but what you're describing is purely geology. Sorry if I sound snippy..
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by jofer 13y ago
Surprised to see that they're using basemap instead of cartopy. There's nothing wrong with using basemap, but it can be a bit clunky, i.m.o. Then again, cartopy is only a year or two old, so it doesn't have the traction that
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by jofer 13y ago
As a geologist, I assure you, it doesn't help. The fact that your great-great-great grandparents are basically the same age as you (penecontemporaneous with you, to use my favorite term) isn't exactly comforting. I'm kidding,
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by jofer 13y ago
Good point. Additionally, a lot of the liberal/conservative divide is actually urban vs. rural. Davidson Co. is certainly mostly urban. I think I just have a skewed perspective of things, as I interact almost entirely with people in t
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by jofer 13y ago
Ditto. (Though I mostly grew up a lot farther out in the sticks.) I think what they mean is "the area around Vandy and the recently-gentrified portions of East Nashville are liberalish". That having been said, the general feel of
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by jofer 13y ago
Matplotlib depends on freetype, libpng, and libjpeg as well. Numpy can be built without any external dependencies, but it will be a very slow installation. You're better off with an accelerated BLAS library (e.g. ATLAS/MKL/e
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by jofer 13y ago
The main problem is that they have system library dependencies that pip doesn't handle.
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by jofer 13y ago
Just FYI: This is just a wrapper around matplotlib, so it's not intended to replace it at all. Thus the non-pixel-to-pixel relationship with ggplot. Quite a nice project, though!
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by jofer 13y ago
Neat! I think this would be a great way to present a poster online, actually... This varies wildly by discipline, but at least in my specific field, a lot of the "meat" (and almost all of the discussion) at scientific conferences
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by jofer 13y ago
Very good points! I completely agree that there's a lot value in anonymity when reviewing, and I don't think it should go away. Blowback over disagreeing is very, very real, and I've experienced it myself (though it was from
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by jofer 13y ago
Very true, but he does go on to state: > If we had, instead, a system where the review process was transparent and persisted for the useful life of a work That is a very interesting idea. (Reviews are currently confidential and usually a
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by jofer 13y ago
Also see the Numfocus mailing list discussion on this for a touch more detail, if you're interested: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/numfocus/h8qfxqlFu0k/fGLxAgO...
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by jofer 13y ago
No, the plotting is all done in geographic. That's just the shape of TN's border. It's not a straight line in any coordinate system. (For example, have a look at google maps, which is in geographic. The northern border of t
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by jofer 13y ago
Actually, it's not as covered as you might think. Japan's relatively cold (in geothermal terms) due to its tectonic position. (It's counter-intuitive, but forearcs have relatively low geothermal gradients for such tectonicall
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by jofer 13y ago
Python isn't going to beat grep, but it beats awk in a lot of cases. (Cases that awk isn't well suited to, to be fair. Python doesn't beat awk for 99% of what people use awk for.) It's faster than people think it is. Es
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by jofer 13y ago
Good point! It has many of the same problems as wind and solar, though. They're great as a significant part of the energy input, but you still need something else for times when there's no wind/waves/sun.
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by jofer 13y ago
...Grumble, grumble... "Fault lines"... This has absolutely noting to do with your very astute point, but I really wish the term "fault line" hadn't somehow wound up in popular culture. Faults are never lines. They&
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by jofer 13y ago
Sure. That's exactly how it works, and I don't see any problem with that. My point was that postdoc salaries don't vary much by field.
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by jofer 13y ago
To be fair, I guess that's partly my political leanings showing through. Who else will fund it, though? As far as the non-profit angle, that's what I was implying by quasi in "quasi-governmental". I definitely could have
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by jofer 13y ago
My benefits (in terms of health care, pension, 401k, etc) in industry are _substantially_ better in industry than they would have been in academia. Industry has both better benefits and higher salary and shorter working hours. Academia has

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