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by jofer 13y ago
The listed postdoc salary is the same for fields where you have very applicable skills that industry is very willing to pay you 6 figures for.
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by jofer 13y ago
The problem is that corporations simply aren't going to fund pure research. Part of the role of government is to fund research that may not pay off for 20 years, or 50 years, or a century. Corporations do indeed do a large amount of R&
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by jofer 13y ago
A lot of folks are probably wondering "why the heck would they put a nuclear power plant there?". If you look at the distribution of Japan's nuclear power plants, they actually tried to put them in the safest areas: http:&#x
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by jofer 13y ago
To be fair, it's not like Japan has much of a choice. Nuclear really is their best option. Japan has only a couple of coal mines, and they've deliberately tried to avoid being entirely dependent on China for coal imports. This l
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by jofer 13y ago
I always order it, just because I like tomato juice. I didn't realize it was that common to order it on airplanes... That having been said, it does a really good job of coating and soothing your throat if it's dry/scratchy&#x
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by jofer 13y ago
For whatever it's worth, as someone who just finished, you're doing a PhD for all of the right reasons. You do it because you want to. Because you like getting to delve into a wide array of things. Because you want to focus more o
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by jofer 13y ago
This is sadly true. I currently live in Houston, and I've seen it first-hand. Bouncers will more-or-less throw out anyone who isn't white. (I avoid those places, but I live near several of them (midtown) and I've seen it happ
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by jofer 13y ago
Exactly. A huge portion of the global economy is currently based on cheap transport of goods. What happens when transport is no longer cheap?
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by jofer 13y ago
You misunderstood what I'm saying. It has nothing to do with economics or disruption. It has _absolutely everything_ to do with geology. The hydrocarbons that become economic at higher oil prices fundamentally cannot be produced as q
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by jofer 13y ago
Well, the debate often gets off track, but the definition of the term "peak oil" is "when production stops increasing due to market demands and starts decreasing due to geologic control". In other words, "when does
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by jofer 13y ago
The world is "awash" in oil at $110, but that oil simply can't be produced fast enough to meet demand. That's the fundamental problem.
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by jofer 13y ago
First off, 2011 was most definitely not "pre-fracking". The majors moved into unconventionals in a big way starting around 2006-2007, and the independents were doing it well before that. However, unconventional gas resources don&#
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by jofer 13y ago
As a geologist in the oil industry, this is one of the few articles I've seen on peak oil that absolutely nails the salient points. (And even gets the geology correct.) To quote: "Most simply, peak oil is about rates, not amounts
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by jofer 13y ago
Yep. You need a slope to get water to flow. The city is effectively at lake level. Having a storm sewer doesn't do you much good if the water can't go anywhere.
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by jofer 13y ago
There are lots of commercial packages. (e.g. The ArcScan extension to ArcGIS: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//0... ) A naive version is also fairly easy to build up
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by jofer 13y ago
Actually, you don't. A fortran compiler is optional, and used mostly for f2py and I think(?) for the LAPACK bindings. (The fortran bindings are more efficient than the C bindings for reasons I don't remember at the moment.) Numpy&
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by jofer 13y ago
> "...a willingness to try grand new ideas..." Sure, as long as they don't involve public transport. Texas is a big place with diverse local governments, but a lot of the state strongly frowns on public-infrastructure othe
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by jofer 13y ago
Just in case any of you aren't already aware of it, there's extensive evidence that the Mediterranean partially or completely "dried up" during the Miocene (~6 million years ago) and then rapidly flooded again. This is r
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by jofer 13y ago
On a side note, in the case you mentioned, it would probably be more intuitive to pass in "A.T" instead of "A", rather than using the "axis" keword.
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by jofer 13y ago
I don't understand the outrage over singular "they". I agree that it's not particularly logical, but what part of the English language is?? It sounds natural, at least. It's certainly widely used, and will likely
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by jofer 13y ago
Yes. That's what I was saying. The mosquitoes can be even worse in the extreme north of Alaska than they are in southeast Alaska.
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by jofer 13y ago
The mosquitoes are pretty rough up on the north slope. They're even worse than the Anchorage area (and bigger, too). Anywhere there's lots of standing fresh water, you'll have mosquitoes in the summer in Alaska. The wind does
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by jofer 13y ago
It's just a coding convention in python. All in-place operations in python are supposed to return None, as a way of explicitly signaling that the operation was done on the existing object. It's not always followed outside the sta
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by jofer 13y ago
It's important to note that in geologic terms, the Cambrian Explosion really refers to the proliferation of hard-bodied organisms. There's almost definitely a sudden increase in global biodiversity, but it's an increase in f
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by jofer 13y ago
Prepare yourself for an onslaught of comments about Myers-Briggs/eColors/etc. Personality-type classifications have their uses, but they're wildly over-used in the corporate world (or that's been my experience, anyway).
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by jofer 13y ago
I think OpenSUSE already ships with ruby by default, but I'm not 100% sure. (SUSE tends to be everything-and-the-kitchen-sink. It's certainly not a minimalist distro.) It certainly means it would now be required on even the most minimal S
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by jofer 13y ago
"Detect" and "resolve" are two different things when it comes to imaging. You can detect the lines on the court because they're bright white on dark background. However, you can't tell if it's one line or two parallel white lines less than
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by jofer 13y ago
Just to make to make what I'm saying more clear: I'm certainly not disagreeing that the highest zoom levels in major cities are aerial photographs. The city-block level imagery available globally is from satellite, though. For example, co
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by jofer 13y ago
That used to be the case, but these days it is mostly satellite data. The newer civilian satellites (a lot of them are dual-purpose military/civilian) are capable of resolutions below 1m. ~2m resolution satellite imagery has been available
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by jofer 13y ago
Because it wouldn't be fair to test python's built-in sum on a numpy array (it would be very slow compared to numpy.sum). Numba is mostly about optimizing operations on numpy arrays.

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