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But it offers you one more language to communicate with people. Isn't that enough?

> Researchers want to be in specific locations because of their prestige. However, when all US-funded research is also available outside that location, the walled garden of prestig…

> It’s mostly grunt work and whatever technical skills can be learned by a high school student over a summer. Who do you think is supervising the high school student? Where does th…

It isn't remotely true. Corals have persisted through the geological past when atmospheric CO2 was many times today's level. It could be true that _some_ coral species would go ext…

pH could drop to 7.95 by mid-century, according to the latest projections: https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/17/3439/2020/ . The second part of the sentence seems fictional. I don…

Ugh, smells like crank. Someone discovered a climatology 101 fact and then made a big fuss about it. Just ... read an introductory textbook on climate science please. It's basicall…

I think it depends on whether you use it for operations or for data analysis. Speed is only one concern and it may not always be the most relevant concern. A statistician/data scie…

I don't think you fully appreciate that what you talk about are several different aspects of the climate system and they are true at the same time. Which one is the more salient fa…

Its peak flops performance seems on par with DOE's Summit and 15% of Frontier, according to the top 500 supercomputer list: https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2022/06/ .

The title seems to imply that this problem does not exist in languages not using Latin scripts. That's not true. Take Japanese for an example, when you have hiragana, katakana, and…

All statistical inferences are estimates, and carry standard errors with them. What is your point?

With hindsight, yes. It is difficult to predict which field/researcher may become the 10x and which may not. Even an expert panel may have difficulty in judging the prospect of com…

Most people pursuing a degree in physics would be more interested in core physics problems (quantum computing, particle physics, cosmology, etc.) than in climate change. Perhaps it…

Some journals have a proofreading stage before publication. But proofreading can't save bad writing. I blame the overemphasis on "critical thinking" in modern liberal arts educatio…

The worse thing is to let academia control conference funding.

The authors could have talked to a geologist or palaeontologist, which would've saved them the time spent on writing a speculative paper like this.

Just looking at Figure 1 on page 8 of the paper you mentioned, it can go either way because we haven't seen a reversal in any of the trends. That is hardly a prediction. For exampl…

Not sure I understand the reason this kind of model keeps getting spawned every few years. Idealized models with no relevance to empirical observations are nowhere near predicting …

So, these scholars think Meta has more state capacity than NHS to act in this area and can work wonders that NHS cannot?

What made you choose JAX over Julia? I'm interested in this question, because I have been thinking about transitioning to Julia but have always hesitated to make the move, since ov…

Time is a scarce resource. If you want to solve something, the most straightforward path is to attack the core of the problem. In the time that an average person spent to understan…

Coal and oil, when not burned for energy, are raw materials for making a lot of essential chemicals.

Pretty sure few people would be enthusiastic about doing those "testing" jobs. A graduate student spending six years testing others' "high-impact ideas" would have no future on the…

> America doesn’t have the patience to oversee Afghanistan like was done with Germany, South Korea, Japan, etc. In what way are a loose collection of tribesmen dwelling in the hill…

I've never seen this "uno" unit appearing in any scientific paper. Makes me wonder what the intended audience is, besides the committee that proposed it.