thewopr

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by thewopr 10y ago
Yeah, absolutely. We make that argument often. In fact, the software we open-source is technically supposed to be released as public domain (as in, no license applied) and often is if people are doing things right. But that doesn't mea
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by thewopr 10y ago
Full disclosure, I'm in a federal department that has been pushing for more open source for a while. This is a great move by the White House. While there are a lot of groups that are trying to push for more openness and release of soft
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by thewopr 10y ago
Myself and a fellow researcher have been emailing about this essay today. Despite the author spending shockingly little time there, it's definitely spot-on McMurdo. > McMurdo looks like a series of shipwrecks that people have tried
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by thewopr 11y ago
Are you thinking about the NY times article? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/automobiles/stalled-on-the...
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by thewopr 11y ago
Oxides of nitrogen, soot and various other pollutants come out of burning diesel, even if it's just carbon we pulled out of the air. It would be carbon neutral, but not pollution neutral.
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by thewopr 11y ago
This article is really thin and potentially misleading. The pictures only somewhat line up with the text, which leads to the some of the confusion in these comments. I think this article tries to lump everything together, making the issues
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by thewopr 12y ago
Oh sure, but at least my limitation in the future will be Git being able to process and handle large files (and maybe the cost of storage) and not Github's file and repo limit.
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by thewopr 12y ago
I like the look of this. Thanks. Will investigate
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by thewopr 12y ago
Not for their hosted version management solution, I assume.
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by thewopr 12y ago
What if your data are formatting in text? Why would branching be any more expensive for data than for code then?
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by thewopr 12y ago
No, but I don't understand what this is. Java git? Bound to eclipse? I don't really understand how this would be different than me storing a .git repo locally and replicating it to S3.
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by thewopr 12y ago
Yeah, but their system is super simplistic and doesn't support half of the diverse and robust operations that Git and Github do. Can I see version history? Are changes compressed into diffs for text files? etc, etc.
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by thewopr 12y ago
I've had no trouble with non-github git repos handling text files well into the hundreds of megabytes. I haven't pushed the limit on this yet, but for me, personally, my datasets are often many hundreds to thousands of individual
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by thewopr 12y ago
Here's why I'm excited about this: Data Versioning Github is awesome for science. But my code and workflows often are just as reliant on the data I have as the code I've written. With Github, I always have to treat my data se
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by thewopr 12y ago
I wonder where the de minimis line gets drawn. I suppose it's like pornography, "I know it when I see it" kind of thing.
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by thewopr 12y ago
Yeah, I would tend to agree with this. These data are derived from work originally done by the U.S. federal government. If they had chosen to make it freely available without a FOIA, public domain would have applied. I don't think havi
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by thewopr 12y ago
Quick question, is the apache license really the most relevant for a dataset? Does that license apply? I ask only because I'm planning on doing something similar.
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by thewopr 12y ago
Well technically, there would be no multiplicative factor for those who don't admit bias, because zero times anything would be zero. Your point is nonetheless a good one.
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by thewopr 13y ago
Yeah, considering the number of people working on this, I can't imagine anything was left to chance. Did the comments have some connotation that was lost to time, was it just joking around, or is there something that the developers ser
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by thewopr 13y ago
https://code.google.com/p/virtualagc/source/browse/trunk/Lum... That article calls out this line (among others). I wonder what the actual story behind this comment was. I'm sure it's not a
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by thewopr 13y ago
A Mathematician's Lament is a good document to read when thinking about this. Link for the lazy http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/devlin/LockhartsL...
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by thewopr 13y ago
I absolutely agree. There is a huge, amazing array of concepts that never gets touched upon because it is important that students learn to divide large numbers by hand. They were designed for an era where "computers" were people a
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by thewopr 13y ago
The problem here is not the method the students are learning. The problem here is that they are learning long division at all. Does ANYBODY care the method by which children learn to divide large numbers? I would be willing to bet that behi
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by thewopr 13y ago
I find this indicative of poor teaching in general, not what standards they are trying to teach. Common core doesn't hurt or help with this issue. Being rigid with methods and not aiming for understanding is the problem.
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by thewopr 13y ago
There is a bit of two-way extremism going on here. On one side, Rob says this can replace food. On the other, this guy, Greg, says you can't replace food because of metabolism differences in humans. Whatever, it doesn't matter. So