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by wycx 10y ago
I am writing a grant proposal right now. The success rate is ~19%. Personnel (i.e. publication record) of the team is weighted at 40% of the proposal. If you don't have an H-index of >50, there is no incentive to share with other th
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by wycx 10y ago
The way you get funded is by being able to do things that others can't do, or by being better at some technique than everyone else. Giving away all your hard won tricks by putting all of them in a methods section takes away your advant
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by wycx 10y ago
Why is it that journals find it impossible to append the pdf supplement to the pdf of the paper? I recall seeing only a couple of journals than manage to do this for errata.
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by wycx 10y ago
Most studies are done by people who need high impact publications to secure funding to do more studies to produce high impact publications to secure funding to do more studies... Not having a permanent job just serves as additional motivati
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by wycx 10y ago
That is exactly how science works. Methods sections include just enough information to get a good sense of how the experiment was done, not enough information to replicate it exactly. Some disciplines are worse than others. People could als
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by wycx 10y ago
> Of course, in academia paraphrasing is still plagiarism, but it is likely no longer copyright infringement especially in this case. That seems an odd thing to say. A significant portion of academic writing is paraphrasing, with attribu
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by wycx 10y ago
Even better, you could layout with Inkscape AND typeset the text with LaTeX using textext: https://bitbucket.org/pitgarbe/textext
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by wycx 10y ago
I like the idea from the CP Grey video on automation: Better technology did not make more better jobs for horses. Horses are still around, but the population peaked around the turn of the century (19th-20th). How good does automation have t
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by wycx 10y ago
Note that a high purity Germanium detector requires LN cooling to operate, and judging by the size of the dewar on his detector, would need filling maybe once a week to keep it cool all the time. That is a bit onerous if you only play with
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by wycx 10y ago
Portrait orientation 24" Dell Ultrasharp monitor, with the page fit to screen. I find viewing at >100% scale makes a difference. Zotero + Zotfile + Dropbox keeps my papers synced across all devices. PDF X-change is such a good PDF e
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by wycx 10y ago
I can't say anything about Channel 7, but during the Foxtel coverage, during every pre-match, and Friday and Saturday post-matches they have to cross to a man from the betting company to give them the odds for other games in the round
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by wycx 10y ago
I would rather see an end to sports betting advertising before alcohol. At least the alcohol advertising is not integrated into sports tv coverage.
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by wycx 10y ago
What is the org-mode plugin? I went looking but I could not find it.
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700 years of Western inequality, in one chart(vox.com)
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by wycx 10y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabham_BT46#Brabham_BT46B.C2....
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by wycx 10y ago
It is done all the time via depreciation calculations.
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by wycx 10y ago
You can see a similar reaction in action when you work with MgO. When preparing starting materials for high P high T experiments on basaltic liquids we typically make mechanical mixtures of simple oxides. MgO is the usual magnesium source,
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by wycx 10y ago
Remember that Foxconn is from Taiwan, not PRC.
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by wycx 10y ago
That's why you also have to tax away all capital gains associated with land (not structures) value appreciation beyond the real inflation rate. Land (outside of reclamation edge case) is not created by humans, and when land becomes pri
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by wycx 10y ago
You still need heat, but you can make fiber from basalt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basalt_fiber Among other things its used to make a type of rebar.
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by wycx 10y ago
Indeed. I imagine a system where all capital gains associated with land (not the structures on the land) outside of the real inflation rate were captured via capital gains tax.
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by wycx 10y ago
If your use case is for a low power server, something that many people seem to do, then a Raspberry Pi is suboptimal. Something based on the Allwinner A20 makes a good choice as the SoC has an integrated ethernet (10/100) and SATA cont
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by wycx 10y ago
Are you a chronic pain sufferer?
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by wycx 10y ago
Allwinner itself might not be the best example of open source support, but Allwinners products are well supported in the mainline kernel by the outstanding work of the linux sunxi team. See their progress here: http://linux-sunxi
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by wycx 10y ago
Others would disagree that libertarianism is absent, and that its absence is a shame, e.g. [1]. Indeed, they say that the influence of libertarianism is responsible for some of Australia's governmental problems, most conspicuously on d
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by wycx 10y ago
There is so much good machining stuff there. I remember reading all the posts when I discovered frets. I am going to see if there are any new posts right now...looks like all the machining content has moved to http://www.frets.co
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by wycx 10y ago
I use dropbox with Zotero almost every day. You can get them to play together relatively easily, using Dropbox for syncing pdfs, and your Zotero account for syncing the references. This was my initial motivation for using Zotero, as other r
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by wycx 10y ago
Centrelink has been speculatively invoicing people to recover undeserved welfare payments based on crude data matching with income tax datasets. How nice it would be if they did some data matching to determine who was actually living in a p
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by wycx 10y ago
Keep in mind that the poor Australian GDP growth is also whilst we are running record levels of immigration. GDP per capita, and perhaps more importantly, real net national disposable income (RNNDI, [1]) per capita have both performed poorl
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by wycx 10y ago
Thanks for pointing out the Curtis interview. If you cannot handle the ~3 hour running time of Hypernormalisation, Curtis was able to concisely summarise the message in the interview. I don't quite know how to feel about that.

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