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by mturmon 8y ago
For a peer reviewer of a proposal to send it to anyone else is both unethical and against the basic black-letter rules. Anyone doing peer reviews of proposals will be asked to ensure confidentiality of proposals under review. ( https:&#x2
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by mturmon 8y ago
The OP makes a related mistake (although for their data, it worked out OK). It uses this grid: x_grid=np.arange(x_min-h,x_max+h,grid_size) y_grid=np.arange(y_min-h,y_max+h,grid_size) where h is a small constant, and the range ends
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by mturmon 8y ago
It sounds like the Verge writer is trying to demonstrate that he has a perspective wider than any of the principals like Systrom and the FB management team, and is thereby entitled to judge them. (Systrom is effete, and the FB team is ru
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by mturmon 8y ago
Thank you for this link. The accompanying Nature article is [1]. As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the study linked in the OP has been in conflict with other measurements. The article you reference is one attempt to synthesize th
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by mturmon 8y ago
This is a several-years old study that has been controversial. Other results using independent observations from mass-observing missions have come to very different conclusions [1] [2]. One thing people should understand is that the method
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by mturmon 8y ago
More on the technical aspects from a former firefighter: https://twitter.com/GreggFavre/status/1117847726786371585
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by mturmon 8y ago
In addition to the good points raised nearby: The data rate from radio telescopes is enormous.
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by mturmon 8y ago
The overweening pride is hubris. The retribution for such is nemesis.
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by mturmon 8y ago
This is my understanding as well. Supporting data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in... Note that fatalities per 100M population has not just been trending up, but it is doing so after trend
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by mturmon 8y ago
It's pretty clear that the 2018 heat event was indeed an exceptional event, especially in Northern Europe. This is not "a dramatic situation that isn't". Of course articles in the popular press are going to use differen
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by mturmon 8y ago
There is a notable difference between the images you link. Apparently [1] the drought/heat wave in Belgium started on July 13 2018 (and ended on 7 August), so the image-pair you link was near the beginning of the event. The data on
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by mturmon 8y ago
That's the opening stanza from Leaves of Grass , the Ur-text of American poetry. The opening stanza doesn't convey Whitman's break with convention fully, but it stands in for the rest, which does. And certainly these lines
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by mturmon 8y ago
Craig Thibodeau is a well-known woodworker, in San Diego, who specializes in high-end marquetry and inlay, and who has increasingly been drawn to puzzle furniture. He's a former mechanical engineer. See: https://ctfinefurni
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by mturmon 8y ago
Manager for several years here. A few months ago, a direct report of mine got a promotion. I casually asked him to stop by my office. I had forgotten that there was some turbulence elsewhere in the organization, and it turned out that he t
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by mturmon 8y ago
I don't disagree with this observation, but I wanted to mention a counterpoint. Eno's "Music for Airports" famously uses a system of multiple tape loops that produce sequences of different periods. As you listen, you ca
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by mturmon 8y ago
On the other hand, one would not want to oscillate between breezy "no problem" claims, and engineering jargon. Because jargon is likewise not convincing. It might be helpful to just link to the reliability assessment. The docum
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by mturmon 8y ago
I agree with this. I found the Rough Guides another good antidote to Froddors/Michelin - and in fact, a better guidebook than ETTBD. I don't think I remember LP guides for Europe being helpful - I thought their main forte was
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by mturmon 8y ago
It's the breeziness and imprecision of "almost all" and "no problem" that gives a bad impression about how far these words can be trusted. What does such a claim actually mean?
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by mturmon 8y ago
"So your fuel and clad[ding] stay intact in almost all scenarios." With that much "no problem", it seems like something may have been overlooked in your summary above.
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by mturmon 8y ago
I read his book Europe through the back door before my second trip to Europe, around 1992. What a refreshing book, especially in a category that was (and is) dominated by publications and institutions that are invested in making you want
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by mturmon 8y ago
I appreciate your sources and depth of knowledge. Thanks for the reply. Perhaps it would also be worthwhile to go in the opposite direction: because of the design limitations of TeX, LaTeX has almost completely replaced TeX as the input la
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by mturmon 8y ago
One would expect that Knuth's first cut would be a good one. My point is that the thing we know as TeX is not the first implementation, and that TeX is not a counterexample. Even in the tech note you reference, at the end, Knuth is
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by mturmon 8y ago
No, TeX was a second try. From the TeXBook: "The \TeX\ language described in this book is similar to the author's first attempt at a document formatting language, but the new system differs from the old~one in literally thousands
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by mturmon 8y ago
No, no, no. I just picked a couple of numbers of relevant research-related agencies as a general comparative. ("This is is the kind of league NASA is in.") Other comparatives might be DOE, NOAA, USGS, NIST. The federal budget i
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by mturmon 8y ago
A study team looked at space-based and ground-based visible and IR options. Their 2017 report is: https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/doc/2017_neo_sdt_final_e-version.... (long PDF) The cost estimate for development, launch, a
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by mturmon 8y ago
NASA 2018 budget is $20.7B. It is not in any way "second after military". NIH 2018 budget is $37B, NSF is $7.8B. DOD budget just for R&D and test/evaluation is $88B.
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by mturmon 8y ago
> ...any laptop is just a big step down from a real machine... A friend (age ~30) works on very large-scale climate model comparisons. He directs his model runs (done on a remote supercomputer, which is his version of a "real machi
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by mturmon 8y ago
This is true - Lisp is making / left-associative. But this observation does not change my point: that the parent comment is saying "Lisp already has the ability to do + on lists", but the reason "+ on lists" makes s
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by mturmon 8y ago
Your comment is begging the question. The reason that Lisp “+” can accept a list of arbitrary length, rather than a pair, is that the underlying addition operator is associative.
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by mturmon 8y ago
Snow is really important. It is quantified as “SWE” or snow water equivalent, the amount of water that would be released when the snow melts. SWE is monitored by satellites, aircraft, and by in situ measurements like from snow pillows. In

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