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There is actually an energy cost to evaporation which takes some of that energy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy_of_vaporization So, this, as well as ocean mixing is how the…

Not a dumb question at all! The main reason is because there is much more land mass in the northern hemisphere than in the southern, and land tends to heat up more than ocean. You …

Yes, absolutely. Most climate models run on supercomputers, same with molecular dynamics, large scale fluid dynamics, energy systems simulations and of course a whole lot of weapon…

Related I also gotta recommend "Uncommon Carriers" by John McPhee. It's got a chapter that follows a barge operator on the Illinois river that's pretty great.

I love a good cynical take as much as the next HN reader, but as a researcher working in the environmental/climate space many of us are using these words because the are true . Sur…

Also worth reading, and considerably more up to date, is Science Be Dammed. https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/science-be-dammed

Just adding to this, not far south of Las Vegas the Central Arizona Project is a rather large canal (so not exactly a pipeline but close enough) which transports Colorado River wat…

My guess is if you're posting here you're not necessarily the target market for this product. You might be better with just a Sawyer squeeze or other off the shelf filter. If you'r…

You can get a copy at the lead author's website: http://www.jasechko.com/papers.html Edit: Or, here's the direct link: http://science.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/372/6540/418?.…

Scientific computing is what I would be interested in for these types of hardware.

I'm a little bit curious here. My understanding is that the wave function has complex values and the "state" is described by the wave function times its complex conjugate. Couldn't…

Posting this verbatim from my reddit comment, but I ran a few quick fits and the (arbitrarily scaled) Planck distribution looks better than standard fits of some other distribution…

Aha! As far as persisting calculations, this makes sense. I guess in my head I was thinking "pure" data where everything opened was precomputed. Forgive my ignorance about database…

You're blowing my mind here a little bit. I don't use MySQL but do use Excel and the R/Python data science stacks quite a bit. I regularly open data with tens or even hundreds of t…

I hope this capability gets to maturity. It consistently seems like anything I want in a language is in progress in Julia; new scientists in 15 years are going to be very spoiled i…

I'm curious about your last statement. I guess I'd be considered a night owl by most people, and certainly have poor sleep hygiene in the eyes of early birds, but I find myself mos…

Primarily I'm interested in making things like Bret Victor and Nicky Case, but with an emphasis in my area of work. My background is in computational Earth sciences, and I mostly u…

Not really. The point of the Ng quote is essentially: We don't have the technology to populate Mars -> We can't overpopulate Mars. and We don't have the technology to create sentie…

I wish I could find the source for this, but I remember reading that Gauss idolized Newton for his style. From what Gauss (and a tiny bit of Newton) I have read, it seems like he d…

> I don't know how anybody can take models like this seriously. It's about as valid as any of these economists models. Hell, it is partly an economic model. There is a huge variety…

I've used his differential-line repo to make some wall art for my apartment, it's some beautiful stuff: http://imgur.com/a/BoKdy Repo at: https://github.com/inconvergent/differenti…

I think one of the hard things about academia (by ways of "pure research"), is measuring impacts. In some positions there are metrics which are more representative of real progress…

Good call on going pure python. To take this a bit further I made your changes and used numba with @jit(nopython=True, cache=True), for some interesting results. If I do include th…

Masakage knives: http://masakageknives.com/ There are many other makers of kitchen knives that are comparable to Masakage knives, but if someone who was serious about cooking asked…

I wrote up a small script to test this out for python (at bottom of this post). The results on my laptop are about 8.0 seconds for unsorted and 7.6 seconds for the sorted version. …