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by rflrob 15y ago
I think it's also worthwhile pointing out that a lot of the cost of these kinds of long trips don't grow a whole lot in comparison to relatively shorter trips. Flights are, in my experience, the largest single expense, and so will cost the
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Straight Talk About Grading(paw.princeton.edu)
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In the days not long after 9/11, they used to check the ID both at the screening checkpoint and the gate, but in the last several (5+), they don't check at the gate. I'd assume it's a time-saving measure, but it does totally defeat the poi
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by rflrob 15y ago
My friends and I play The Resistance ( http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41114/the-resistance ), which is along the same lines, with some traitors secretly mixed into the rest of the group. The difference is, unlike in Werewolf (or Mafia)
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by rflrob 15y ago
As a member of his lab, it's actually a point of pride that everything where he is the corresponding author is now published in OA journals. When collaborating with other labs, we strongly lobby for OA publication as well, but not all othe
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Congresswoman Maloney Wants to Deny Americans Access to Taxpayer Funded Research(michaeleisen.org)
9 points by rflrob 15y ago|1 comments
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This seems like a failure on the part of the publishers to collect all the money they could. There are large fixed costs to produce the first textbook, but relatively low marginal costs to produce the next million. If the publishers had so
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by rflrob 15y ago
> "pulling back rudder to gain altitude and avoid storm" This action is a case of things not doing what you think they should do. When I did flight training, I had it drilled into my head that the yoke isn't for controlling altitude an
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Foreign born faculty more productive than americans(muse.jhu.edu)
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BART Imaginary Diagram(jakecoolidgecartography.com)
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Go to the Exploratorium. It's a one-of-a-kind, hands-on science museum in San Francisco.
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>It's not that women are too timid, it's that they are making the optimal short-term choice. [...] I would also suggest that if enough women ignored the stigma associated with being labeled a bitch, they would move the line is drawn a b
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by rflrob 15y ago
> My point is people don't want to use multiple services. And the OP's point hinges on the idea that while a given person will want to use only one service, there's less likely to be a single service that everybody uses, with each consu
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Age dynamics in scientific creativity (paywalled)(pnas.org)
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> Sometimes you have to find the limit of your software/hardware. The point is that there does seem to be a software limit, but there shouldn't need to be a particular limit there. There's certainly not a hardware limit, since an iPa
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by rflrob 15y ago
"A third received their usual treatment from their GP, plus CNT" "This is the first demonstration that just targeting thinking style can be an effective means of tackling depression. " (emphasis mine) While I don't doubt it can be effecti
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by rflrob 15y ago
The bulk of attrition comes in engineering and among pre-med majors, who typically leave STEM fields if their hopes for medical school fade. I don't know that including pre-meds in the analysis is worthwhile. While medicine is certainly
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PV technology, as far as I know, works less efficiently at higher temperatures, so the heat storage might not be desirable. On the other hand, there's also concentrated solar power, which uses giant arrays of mirrors to heat up water for u
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by rflrob 15y ago
>But you have to get your work in front of a peer, and they have to understand your contribution. A very small (but growing) minority of journals, like PLoS One or , make no effort to understand or estimate the significance of the contr
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by rflrob 15y ago
I can't tell exactly what this "AUdACiOuS" project is trying to do exactly, but it sounds like a large part of it is coming up with (plain-old silicon-based) software to model the internal goings-on of a cell. While that will will certainly
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by rflrob 15y ago
Given the chain of connection between information, entropy, energy, and mass, is that 0.2 millionths of an ounce number the theoretical minimum amount information-mass of the internet, or is that the amount of mass our systems use to store
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by rflrob 15y ago
I'm blown away that UC Riverside is the second most predictive interest for Berkeley. I wonder if, somehow, UCR students are also showing up in the dataset, also bringing down the predictive power in the already "too large and diverse for
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by rflrob 15y ago
My intuition suggests that all of these documents being on lined paper would make the problem quite a bit easier, by providing clear features that have to line up between fragments. At any rate, it makes you wonder if most documents are on
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by rflrob 15y ago
> The problem is that as the non-hardware costs start to become material, the pressure mounts to show that they are actually related to hardware sales I think that implicit in Gruber's argument is the idea that just buying Apple's devic
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The first step on the road to recovery is admitting you have a problem. I think the fact that they're so honest and willing to do so bodes well for their likelihood of fixing whatever error caused this to happen.
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by rflrob 15y ago
My recollection is that Octave is significantly slower than Matlab, and some quick googling on benchmarks [1] suggests that it is (was?) as slow or slower than R. I've complained before that Octave is the wrong solution to the Matlab proble
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by rflrob 15y ago
It seems to me that Ramen Profitable is a narrow enough window that a given startup isn't likely to stay there for long. Either it will continue on to become Unqualified Profitable, or it will hover there for a few months (which isn't that
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Parody: UltraViolet Makes Honesty Almost Convenient(wired.com)
1 points by rflrob 15y ago|0 comments
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Any idea how reliable a single IQ score is? If you repeat the test a week or a month later, too soon for changes to reflect a significant change in cognitive abilities, but far enough away to get rid of effects like a poor night's sleep, s
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by rflrob 15y ago
> I think there's an argument, currently, for telling people "I could give you the code - but it'll only take you a couple of days to write your own code to replicate the results, and it'd be much better if you could do that" - but I'm

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