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by jointpdf 6y ago
I was going to add that consulting a nonprofit (like the Nature Conservancy) would be a good idea as well. But why either or? If I were undertaking a project as large as reforesting several hundred acres of land, I’d want to consult as many
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by jointpdf 6y ago
The best option might be to get in touch with your local university forestry extension, for example: https://forestry.wsu.edu/ Another resource would be your local USDA office. The NRCS should be available to provide free s
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by jointpdf 6y ago
What about inorganic physical objects, like a shower head?
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by jointpdf 6y ago
Mildly interesting fact: the USDA issues grants for broadband development (in the US, obviously): https://www.usda.gov/reconnect
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by jointpdf 6y ago
It’s a simple probabilistic argument: P(other alien civilizations exist | we exist) > P(other alien civilizations exist | we do not exist). Our existence is statistical evidence in favor of other civilizations existing elsewhere. Similar
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by jointpdf 6y ago
You and I are evidence. We are part of an advanced (or at least, spacefaring) technological civilization, and we are alien to everything else in the universe. Therefore, we know other alien civilizations are possible. One is much greater th
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by jointpdf 6y ago
Also, don’t miss Turing’s paper describing how to build a chess engine from scratch. The link to the .pdf is at the bottom of this contextual blurb: https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3905
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by jointpdf 6y ago
Possibilities: - stress/anxiety/depression - sleep deprivation/disruption - high-speed internet access (—> overuse of porn)
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by jointpdf 6y ago
My dad was pretty attached to his 1984 Macintosh when I accidentally destroyed it about 25 years ago. He instructed me to always put the dust cover on it when it was not in use. I interpreted that too literally, so this particular Mac suffo
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by jointpdf 6y ago
Krugman was being sardonic here, along the lines of “assume a spherical cow”. The whole introduction is dripping with sarcasm. The paper was partially intended as a satire.
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by jointpdf 6y ago
Remote = far to drive for essentially everyone (farther than Mammoth/Tahoe, even coming from Reno). Hitchhiking is not the best option to rely on. Once you’re in, you’re also the farther from help than anywhere else in the Sierra. Duck
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by jointpdf 6y ago
+1 on the Sierra recommendation generally, but a couple things: - Bears: You still need to be disciplined about food/smellables. Bear canisters are required for most of the Sierra—not bringing one is a recipe for a fine or getting esco
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by jointpdf 6y ago
This is (roughly) the same course but the lectures are from 2018. The audio/video quality is quite a a bit better: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqYmG7hTraZBKeNJ-JE_eyJHZ...
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by jointpdf 6y ago
I personally have a similar problem with the Spotify generated playlists, but I have persnickety preferences in electronic music so it often whiffs. But on the spectrum of recommendation engines it is on the side of honest effort (whereas N
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by jointpdf 6y ago
It’s not a home run for me, but I think Spotify recommendations are quite good. They clearly use some form of content based recommendation (extracting features from the music itself) blended with other methods. It seems to make an honest at
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by jointpdf 6y ago
If you’ve never seen the prints of Ernst Haeckel, they are highly worth perusing (personally I think they are masterpieces): https://archive.org/details/KunstformenDerNaturErnstHaeckel/...
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by jointpdf 6y ago
Good points, #1 can become especially loopy for me (my fight or flight response is jacked up to 11) to the point of being bothersome. When I notice it veering into unhealthy territory, I try to use mindfulness techniques to reel it in. Stil
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by jointpdf 6y ago
Yes, what you described is normal. I do it quite a lot myself, especially if I am... - replaying some sort of argument/confrontation or other high-stakes conversation from earlier in the day (simulating ways the conversation could have
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by jointpdf 6y ago
And one more that addresses broad research funding priorities rather than specific opportunities. Get used reading these sorts of dry documents if you get involved in this space: https://www.arl.army.mil/wp-content/uplo
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by jointpdf 6y ago
Have at it: https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/opportunities
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by jointpdf 6y ago
Imagine that this were a time series graph of your body temperature over the last week. With the Y-axis set at (min_temp, max_temp) or similar, the graph would clearly show a mean of about 98.6F and consistent trends based on the hour of th
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by jointpdf 6y ago
Y-axis starting at zero is essential for bar charts, but not necessarily time series / line charts. Insisting on a zero axis can crunch the data and obscure the trends and is unnatural for some data sets (e.g. the mortality time series
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by jointpdf 6y ago
Nice try, squid robot from The Matrix . "Harvesting" humans (or human ingredients) is for dystopias.
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by jointpdf 6y ago
2019: "This millenial is a baby ." 2020: This baby is a millenial.
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by jointpdf 6y ago
Yes, this. I can feel a nice cloud of moisture coming off runners that pass too close on the trails. I think the key difference with the outdoors is that aerosols don’t accumulate easily, not that you couldn’t infect someone by blasting the
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by jointpdf 6y ago
How about rockwool? It seems like it has a lot of advantages: soundproofing, termite resistance, hydrophobic, fire resistance, recycled content, inexpensive. What am I missing?
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by jointpdf 6y ago
Ah, so we’re a 6.5 for 7 match on those (I guess all of our visas to the universe are temporary). I would add Earth/nature/life, music/art/knowledge, and consciousness/existence to the list. These are almost univers
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What are some things you do have that you appreciate?
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Maybe he thinks, “I wish this large baby would speak my language.”?
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Data science, which I think makes this harder for me because a) things move so fast that you’re out of date within months and b) there is so much surface area of knowledge (math, stats, programming, visualization, ...) that impostor syndrom

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