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Forecasting earthquakes via ML should be possible but is very strongly limited by data. We have ~50 years of reasonably good seismological catalogs for most of the world. The seism…

>The system is what geologists call a fault-controlled non-volcanic geothermal feature. These are quite common. Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas is a notable example. Most of …

We're a century into it at least, even in nominal dollar terms, starting with Rockefeller as the first billionaire. I don't know whether John Arnold is spread too thin or not, but …

Maybe, just maybe, this is of obvious utility to the many people who have needs that are not yours? I very regularly need to interact with my work through a python interpreter. My …

I use both gvim on linux and macvim on mac for a lot of things--not 'real' coding, typically, but opening and editing scripts and config files, writing in markdown, etc; I'm usuall…

Thanks. I've got an OpenAI subscription and tried this in the past, and got a handful of results, but nothing comprehensive. Perhaps it is better now, or I could change the way I a…

I have a need for a comprehensive database of a certain type of event described in the scientific literature. For what it's worth, the event is a 'paleoearthquake', which is a hist…

Interesting... A few years later, the gravitational deflection of the Himalayas on a plumb line by Airy proved less than expected, which suggested that mountains have 'roots' that …

And wine glass stains are the only way to know your paper has been graded.

It does on my fedora KDE machine at least. It is probably in the top 5 usability improvements of linux over mac in my world.

Do you think desalinating 10% of the world's ocean water is feasible? What are the energy resources necessary to do that?

There were no alphabets in the Americas before European contact. Mayan had written mathematics and hieroglyphics, and some Quechuan speaking peoples had string that had symbolic kn…

They are so frequently intertwined

Rocks could be potential sources. Crystals that large are by no means rare, with feldspars being the most common on Earth and perhaps on most rocky planets (quartz is well known of…

Don't quote me on this but I think a lot of the change has to do with fire and flood suppression. Certainly on the Konza prairie and similar areas, small trees (post oaks and easte…

Because it's for your kid's bed. At 3 AM the previous night, they peed the bed, so you got the other one out and put it on, throwing this one in the laundry room. Then, today you w…

This is evident in his description of programming in his later years: Time and time again I would send my friend Dave Walker an email declaring that Javascript (or something else) …

Similar to the flood analysis others have mentioned, this can be used to create databases of buildings with the number of stories for each, which is important for understanding how…

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Having read Eric Berger's Reentry about SpaceX and having a few friends who work at Tesla, my impression is that those organizations are not too dissimilar. They are also populated…

This seems to have happened on 26 Feb 2023 as well: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/26/instage...

The cuts aren't performance based. They're based on the ease of dismissal. The voluntary resignations are what they are--I can't fault anyone for taking a good deal, and from what …

I wonder how much the Van Allen radiation belts are a contributor to the Fermi paradox, i.e. how much they contributed to providing a suitable place for life to originate and flour…

No, because the amount of money you have in a bank account accumulates linearly, so you can only pay up to what you have put in. With insurance, you can get a payout more than what…