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Creativity isn't painting a photographic self-portrait. Creativity is, like, painting your own self over the course of your disease and so painting the disease.

Monarchs have a multi-generation migration. That is beautiful and mysterious.

>> ways to understand NN's are useful, if for nothing other than debugging, but I don't think the community agrees at all over whether explainability is necessary to use it. I have…

It means that if you are using your phone while driving, you are at just as much increased risk of incurring an accident as if you had not slept the previous night. Right, folks?

Evidence accumulates, it does not spring into existence.

No. Buzzwords have a short shelf-life and it has passed for OLAP and SSAS [actually, maybe not -- no idea what that is]. I don't know the term for expired buzzwords, though! They d…

He is well-known for long, grammatically correct sentences and abundant footnotes. Some of it was fitting in as an academic? I find some of the writing tough (i.e. impossible to re…

I'm not sure all of the opposition to nuclear research is about dangerous byproducts from the typical situation(s). It is about the improbable problematic situation which lead to e…

Please read Freeman Dysons's "Disturbing The Universe". This book is autobiographical and Dyson explains his arc of passion for nuclear propulsion and Orion. His strongest statemen…

This is a tour de force in data science style computational geometry. I really loved the story. And very nice maps. Wow. :)

It was a statistics class where I learned a linear time median algorithm. But that was pretty lucky, I admit. 95% of undergraduate statistics education is focused on formal inferen…

You are simplifying to wage garnishing. Probably the parent comment is intimating things like loss of socioeconomic position due to the divorce. If marriages are financially unequa…

This is really nice art and data visualization too. It's common to scale the elevation of a topographic map to exaggerate features [1], even non-linearly [2]. If you try to 3d prin…

You don't have to leave engineering to research plants or rocks. You just have to leave some urban center. Remote work is difficult to negotiate at times, but for some of us it is …

R is great for fitting models and so on as explained by others. Most R functions expect a 2d matrix or table-like input. SQL is great for choosing which columns to get out of multi…