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by lnwlebjel 2y ago
"The post caught the attention of several sleuths who are now the authors of the JASIST article. We used a scientific search engine to look for articles citing the initial article. Google Scholar found none, but Crossref and Dimensions
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by lnwlebjel 2y ago
Thanks for this info. This is something I've been thinking about doing in a few years (once the kids are further along). Seems like a very cool thing to do.
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by lnwlebjel 2y ago
Is there a fitness test for SAR? Do you train to stay fit enough for it?
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by lnwlebjel 2y ago
https://ourworldindata.org
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by lnwlebjel 2y ago
In addition to the good suggestions here: - vigorous exercise the day of, prior to the talk - deep, yoga style breathing in the minutes before Your body can only sustain the adrenaline response for so long, so if you have an afternoon talk
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by lnwlebjel 2y ago
When you're retired, and don't need the funding, there are plenty of under- or un-funded research projects that can be done. The right professor would likely be open to collaboration/guiding work like this, particularly if yo
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by lnwlebjel 2y ago
That's only a 7% rate over 25 years. My money is on it being more expensive than that.
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by lnwlebjel 3y ago
When deciding where to do a PhD, I created a decision matrix out of the different things that I thought were important in considering my options, and how much weight to assign to each thing. So for different schools, important consideration
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by lnwlebjel 3y ago
This calculator might be of interest, since it does this, compares with renting and allows you to investigate other adjacent scenarios: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
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by lnwlebjel 3y ago
The podcast is also excellent: https://peterattiamd.com/podcast/ Why: He's a very skeptical, very good scientist, trained as a surgeon, and thinks like an engineer/mathematician, while also having been a life
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by lnwlebjel 3y ago
Second this, it's a great blog. I discovered it about 2 months ago and have been reading through the old posts ever since.
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by lnwlebjel 3y ago
The state of Maine is just over 22 million acres (22.6). Rhode Island is only about 988,000 according to this link: https://beef2live.com/story-ranking-states-total-acres-0-108...
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by lnwlebjel 3y ago
Here's the paper (paywall maybe?): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096014812... "The results show that the concept of heaving oscillator inside ship has no significantly adverse e
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by lnwlebjel 3y ago
To that point, similarly: "Being able to quantify uncertainty, and incorporate it into models, is what makes science quantitative, rather than qualitative. " - Lawrence M. Krauss From https://www.edge.org/response-
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by lnwlebjel 3y ago
"The Idea Factory" by Jon Gertner. It's a history of Bell Labs starting in the early 1900s. It pre-dates silicone valley and goes into a lot of detail behind how telecommunications came to be. Fascinating for anyone intereste
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by lnwlebjel 3y ago
As stated in Bill Gate's book [summary: 1], there are basically 5 issues to deal with: automobile transportation, energy (industrial/housing), airplanes, cement, and cows. All of these will require multifaceted, long term solution
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by lnwlebjel 3y ago
$100 per ton, so: "To get the atmosphere back to where it was before humans began to burn fossil fuels en masse would mean catching and storing more than 900 billion tons. Today’s approaches can capture only a tiny fraction of what’s n
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by lnwlebjel 3y ago
Second the use of overleaf.com. I find the fact that it's online as an upside, making it as easy to use as google docs (ie from any of my computers, and to share with collaborators). Given your use case, I'd suggest creating a tem
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by lnwlebjel 3y ago
I'm a huge fan of Peter Attia's the Drive podcast which I learned about on HN. Scan the archive for a topic of interest, they are almost all good. He's an MD, former surgeon, with a background in math and an appropriately ske
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by lnwlebjel 3y ago
I don't but Optimal Stopping Theory is interesting. However, and informed choice would have been better. Also, looking carefully at the family they come from because at first order that is close to what you'll get.
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The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox (2021)(a16z.com)
161 points by lnwlebjel 3y ago|149 comments
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by lnwlebjel 3y ago
Very good suggestions. Do you think it would be worth doing this on say, the comments at foxnews.com?
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by lnwlebjel 3y ago
Indeed, but this one is more specific, and alarming: "Americans (23%) agree that "because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country," " I don&
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by lnwlebjel 3y ago
Not studying the research on optimally finding a marriage partner, and practicing the skills required to maintain and keep a healthy marriage. It turns out this is incredibly important for happiness later in life. I've made this much m
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by lnwlebjel 3y ago
Perhaps we can discuss how this might be avoided, particularly, what can be done by citizens now, while keeping as off topic any discussion of the politics. Engagement across ideologies seems to be part of the solution but when, where and h
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More Americans say they support political violence ahead of the 2024 election(npr.org)
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by lnwlebjel 3y ago
Sort of related: the map at the top of this post understates the size of the shadow. One thing I did after the eclipse was look at the GOES images which show the shadow moving over the earth. It's huge and very cool to see: Here are a
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by lnwlebjel 3y ago
I'll add that you might go to a doctor to get various levels checked. Thyroid levels can cause something similar. You might just rule that out first. Otherwise, post pandemic I was in a similar situation. Some combination of time off,
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by lnwlebjel 3y ago
Plenty of war zones that would welcome you. But instead, join the peace corps, or Americorps, or do something that gives you a sense of pride and utility. Make something, make something that helps people, or in some way makes the world bett
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by lnwlebjel 3y ago
You need a compelling 'why'. What is your mission, how do you want to spend your precious time? Why do you want to do these things. This is the root of motivation.

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