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by tony_cannistra 8y ago
Good question. The research done by these folks suggests the following (from the article): > "They found that if climate change is limited to 1.5 °C, the biomass of the top revenue-generating fish species will be on average 6.5% hig
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by tony_cannistra 8y ago
That's a good point, and totally worth questioning. If you're interested in a scientific analysis supporting that claim, there's a great research paper [1] (disclaimer: my advisor wrote it) on this subject. [1]: https:/
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Finally, my PhD research is relevant. This particular work doesn't, but other work in the land of organismal responses to climate change does. There's a good review of this [0] (disclaimer: written by my advisor). Here's [1]
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by tony_cannistra 8y ago
Yes, this. It's not even limited to "patent offices" (which I take to mean places of menial labor). I know people even in supposedly high-value intellectual workplaces (like academia, where I am) who don't find any value
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But, Sci-hub (which I use every day and am in full support of!) is a band-aid solution to the open-access problem. I wonder if the entire UC system going offline from Elsevier access is enough to stop other researchers from submitting to th
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by tony_cannistra 8y ago
Yowza. Lots to unpack here. > most large corporate entities have created more net good than a given forest or lake "net good?" Perhaps, avoiding the strictly philosophical, you intend to invoke an economic argument wherein the
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This is a commonly-held misunderstanding! Natural selection doesn't stop acting once you've reproduced. Characteristics ("traits") which are potentially not helpful for direct reproductive success but have an impact on t
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by tony_cannistra 8y ago
Not an economist, but it strikes me that perhaps a better way than "making producers pay for the clean-up" (short of regulating their production in the first place) is to make users pay for the cleanup. If some sort of "tax
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by tony_cannistra 8y ago
Yeah, that's the important takeaway regardless of the pedantic terminology of genetics for certain.
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was just writing this. assortative mating certainly doesn't change the genetics, just the care with which estimation of the genetics must be done.
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Not interested at all in derailing good conversation here but let's give a shoutout to the authors for bucking up the $1500 to Genetics [1] to make this article Open Access. It's fortunate that this work was funded by Calico and A
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by tony_cannistra 8y ago
Well, being precise here (sorry, biologist talking)––the whole point of this article is that the "shared environments between closely related persons" is precisely not heritability. The issue at stake here is that genetics pla
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by tony_cannistra 8y ago
there’s a relatively esoteric paradigm known as “literate programming” which has been around since Knuth (he wrote the book [0]) and that has some software tools associated, of which Jupyter is a particularly web-age example. [0]: https:&#
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by tony_cannistra 8y ago
I did a weird double-take when I asked why a sale (yellow-labeled) item didn't ring up as discounted and the cashier asked if I had Prime. He then asked me to search "whole foods QR code" on my Amazon app. I just ... didn&#x2
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by tony_cannistra 8y ago
cool analysis. curious about how many "negative influence" days are projected in the future after girlfriend sees her personal life widely disseminated...
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The psychology behind why you always want to sit in the same seat(qz.com)
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by tony_cannistra 8y ago
was the article flagged because of comments or because of content? op, don't want to step on toes.
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We’re headed for a future where only the wealthy can enjoy nature(thehill.com)
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by tony_cannistra 8y ago
Cool stuff. I'm disappointed to see that none of philosopher Dan Dennett's recent work [1] on this topic has come into these pages though. There's some overlap especially in the "thought experiment" realm, and it ge
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by tony_cannistra 9y ago
Appreciated the David Abram callout. His work is worth reading if you've explored the space of how our lives emerge from our environments. "Becoming Animal" is an interesting read.
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by tony_cannistra 9y ago
Planet does not image the ocean in its entirety due to the difficulty in geo-referencing (pre-user imagery processing pipelines use ground control points, usually just shiny objects with a known location, to locate the image on the earth, a
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by tony_cannistra 9y ago
My guess is likely Planet. https://www.planet.com/products/
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by tony_cannistra 9y ago
This is being done by many [ex. 1], but you've identified the challenge: often it's too late to catch offenders once the satellites have seen the damage. [1]: http://data.globalforestwatch.org/
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by tony_cannistra 9y ago
I know that the US National Park Service Natural Sounds/Night Skies division has an incredible about of environmental audio data that's begging for automated analysis. This could be of much use to them. They do analyse their dat
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by tony_cannistra 9y ago
This is a great story about a great man, but the post title / url slug "The Last Naturalist" really misses the point. Living close to nature is something that we must bring to the fore for those of us who have lost it. We rea
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by tony_cannistra 9y ago
cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YefHUe...
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I cannot even begin to explain how intensely I've been desiring this.
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I work with Jake (the author) at the eScience Institute at the University of Washington (though I'm merely a grad student) and can say that he is not only an extraordinary data scientist and educator but is a great guy as well. He work