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by jofer 5y ago
Refuelling satellites is currently a hot topic in the aerospace world. No matter how cheap launch gets (and there are some very real limits to how cheap it can get for orbits like what the JWT is in), the hardware itself is quite expensive
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by jofer 5y ago
How is working with figure and axes objects the one that makes less sense? Is it really that crazy do set up a figure, axes on that figure, and plot on the axes, returning an artist object for each plotting command?
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by jofer 5y ago
I started using python for data science-esque tasks back in late undergrad/early grad school before python had really caught on for scientific computing (i.e. ~2003-2005 back before numpy proper, when numeric and or numarray where the
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by jofer 5y ago
For what it's worth, that's just not true. You're gaining energy in combustion by going from CH4/etc + O2 and producing CO2 + H2O. The added energy comes from breaking those carbon-hydrogen bonds. You're then seques
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by jofer 5y ago
> "not the GIS thing" And now I'm imagining tons of people searching for "shx" and going "Well, a shapefile sounds like something that could be a font... How do I convert this?"
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by jofer 5y ago
Puerto Rico actually is on a plate boundary. Most of those earthquakes outline the Puerto Rico Trench -- a southward-dipping subduction zone at the edge of the Caribbean Plate (that wraps around to connect with both the strike-slip plate b
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by jofer 5y ago
Always interesting to see almost the exact same visualization independently appear and reappear over the decades. This is really similar to a standard teaching visualization back in the late 90's-early 2000's (complete with stereo
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by jofer 5y ago
And of course, as soon as I say that, I think to search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_art Satellite imagery makes for exceptionally pretty examples, though.
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by jofer 5y ago
I work for a satellite imaging company. We get a ton of very interesting glitch images. For both regulatory and business reasons I won't get into, those are usually difficult / impossible to share publicly. However, they're h
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by jofer 5y ago
One thing that might help: try linking the image instead of embedding it.
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by jofer 5y ago
In my experience, it doesn't help in terms of interviews/hiring. It's often rewarding on its own right, but you're not missing out on jobs, anyway. For context, I have a (now inactive) stackoverflow account with ~250,00
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by jofer 5y ago
Yeah, that's actually a key thing I miss from my previous bigcorp job many years ago. Pay was tied to numerical career grades. Everyone's numerical career grade was public information. Salary ranges (fairly broad and overlapping f
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by jofer 5y ago
I never would have believed that "filesystems are useful and good for organizing information" was a controversial statement until last year when I worked for a company where the CEO insisted that "files and folders are ruinin
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by jofer 5y ago
Ouch. This hits close to home. I _constantly_ get passed over for the interesting work, despite being _extremely_ qualified for it. (e.g. I keep getting told I don't "have a scientific background", so I'm not qualified
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by jofer 5y ago
Yeah, that's exactly it. (E.g. at my local bar the regulars can just add another tally on the sheet at the bar and grab a beer.) Dive bars / neighborhood bars are just a shared living room with beer. The catch is that something c
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by jofer 5y ago
Incidentally, I don't even mean to pick on that video specifically. I actually quite deeply respect the folks at Enthought. It's just that the equivalent functionality has been around and been being pushed for about 15 years now
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by jofer 5y ago
I work in machine learning these days. I'm not biased against it -- it's literally my profession. I'm biased against a specific category of applications that are being heavily pushed by people who don't actually understa
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by jofer 5y ago
"...because seismic interpretation isnt effectively a cartel..." I know some people who would disagree with you on that one! Seriously, though, you're making an excellent point that I hadn't considered. Healthcare has a
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by jofer 5y ago
Bluntly, they're useless except for a few niche cases. Anything they're capable of picking up _isn't_ what you're actually concerned about as an interpeter. Sure they're good at picking reflectors in the shallow po
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by jofer 5y ago
"There's not enough good data to train it on properly" Bingo: You're in _very_ data poor environment, compared to something like predicting a consumer's preferences in videos or identifying and segmenting a bicycle.
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by jofer 5y ago
Bluntly, no. There hasn't been an improvement. At all. We've been using machine learning in geology for far longer than it's been called that. Hell, we invented half the damn methods (seriously). Inverse theory is nothing
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by jofer 5y ago
Very different sort of seismic data, FWIW. You're referring to seismology and deciding whether something is a blast or a standard double-couple earthquake. That's fairly straightfoward, as it's mostly a matter of getting eno
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by jofer 5y ago
There are many parallels with seismic interpretation here. Many companies/etc keep promising to "revolutionize" interpretation and remove the need for the "tedious" work of a geologist/geophysicist. This is ve
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by jofer 6y ago
CA's restrictions on what IP assignment agreements can claim is a _huge_ win for employees. I _really_ wish we had similar legislation here in TX. I think that's a much more important issue than non-competes, personally.
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by jofer 6y ago
I live in this district. Supposedly, I have more in common with folks 50 miles away in Kingwood than I do with the folks two streets over. It's BS and leads to Crenshaw getting elected (who I didn't like but at least respected a
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by jofer 6y ago
Given the specific Texans I know that have had expat assignments in Stavanger, I can't imagine that helped erase the stereotype... We seem to send some crazy folks over there... Not to mention drillers... Drilling engineers are nuts.
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by jofer 6y ago
Last I checked, there are _tons_ of "liberal elites" here (speaking as one of those, I suppose). Let me check the public schools in my immediate neighborhood (I walk my dog past all of these)... We have two dual-language immersion
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by jofer 6y ago
I've used fortran, C/C++, matlab, and IDL for many years but primarily work in python these days. I really do think numpy gets the interface correct. Modern fortran is quite nice as well, but I'm a _big_ fan of the way nump
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by jofer 6y ago
We used to catch yellow/adult eels in the river at home fairly regularly growing up. Anytime you were after catfish, you'd occasionally catch them. They're quite tasty! I can definitely see why they'd be considered valua
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by jofer 6y ago
I think a lot of what folks see as a "Louisiana influence" in Houston is mostly "Gulf Coast TX" vs the rest of Texas. It's not that it's a Louisiana influence, it's that we're all on the gulf coast an

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