jgamman

Orange Guy is the official mascot for NZ elections.

IIRC Wolfram had a blog post about how everything is developing a data/computational angle - he called it Computational X a few years ago now. Fitting they would call this Computational Astronomy.

weird - can't find anything from an australian source about this

niels bohr dissolved the nobel prize medals of colleagues in it and left it on his office shelf during wwII - the committee recast them after the war https://www.aip.org/history-programs/news/invisible-prize

Awesome - this is the website of the Te Awamutu space centre. "The Space Centre is a privately-funded project run by Dave Owen (Space Dave) and his family." Te Awamutu is a town with ~13,000 people. Live your best life Dave! kia kaha ;-)

it's a nice human scale unit - a bit like some countries still cling to inches as a length measure.

yes - i'm not a programmer but i need to translate business rules for my contractors to build. it helps us 'meet in the middle' when discussing abstract things.

moreon chem: https://www.understanding-cement.com/zero-carbon-cement.html

currently use a lot of rare metals like platinum. inc vol of fuel cells will drive up price of fairly inelastic supply of rare metals. or require step change in anode/cathode catalysts to cheaper metals

silica dessicant. chemists use it in their dessicators to keep things dry - pink is dry, blue is 'full' (i think, it's been 25 years...). i think it's a low level cobalt doping and as the silica matrix swells with water absorption it changes the UV absorption and the colour changes. or something like that.

you want to turn coal into gasoline? i think most people consider use of FT fuels as an approx. neutral carbon emissions assuming clean energy source. >>The process involves the hydroliquefication of brown coal, also known as lignite, into crude oil.

made me smile: 95% of 5% == 5% of 95% - so no change in absolute numbers right?

MIT's Herbert Gross Calculus - done with a chalkboard and a camera. classic.

https://www.openculture.com/2011/01/vintage_mit_calculus_les...

I don't see the problem - food gardens are banned in NZ: https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/18-06-2016/new-zealands-absur...

ha! nz's fluf mentioned. reviewed here:https://thespinoff.co.nz/irl/16-02-2022/inside-the-exclusive...

i read your comment as 'conflate our way out' and thought hhmmm sounds about right

perhaps "IT dept" still conflates infrastructure with application. if you are entirely cloud with a SLA for support, then "application" just means allowing depts to develop the tech they need to solve problems -> as the articles says 'any picture you like, but only using this canvas/paint/brush stack'. i've got a lot of sympathy for this view.

Full disclosure: The second author started a new math- ematics software system in 2005 called SAGE

even easier to just use the free online version - standard freemium model

ssshhhh https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/05/all-the-m...

I am not against business education. A knowledge of accounting, finance, business law, and the like can be of value in a business environment. What I do believe is harmful is the impression often created by those who teach management that one will be able to manage any job by applying certain management techniques together with some simple academic rules of how to manage people and situations. ©1982 H.G. Rickover

"there are hardly any" would understate the problem. today i achieved the (almost) impossible and i've just finished breakfast.

the crystals that form and bind the aggregate together are a hydrolysis reaction (water using). Water is the main reactant not CO2.

'It's hard to find maintainers' (that will work for free)

Note to chemists: PCB is a printed circuit board not a polychlorinated biphenyl. i know i came for the wonder of atomic scale printers but still, printing circuits is cool too.

"your earlier book, “Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All” "

yeah, nah.

"As for the acidifying ocean, NOAA proposes two methods of attack: Reducing our overall carbon footprint to reduce the carbon dioxide absorbed by the sea, or teach wildlife and the people who rely on it to adapt to how the sea will change."

teach wildlife to adapt - GLWT

i think 'onboard' might refer to the wider context of using a tool in say, a research group. it's not just you learning the tool, it's about how the group uses the tool and the historical developments in place.

I know you're using "money shot" as slang for "key take-away" or tl:dr but it's origin is intertwined with porn - you might want to re-consider keeping it as a goto phrase online and in the real.

more meta-analysis literature, open, N=350,000: To What Extent and Under Which Circumstances Are Growth Mind-Sets Important to Academic Achievement? Two Meta-Analyses Victoria F. Sisk1, Alexander P. Burgoyne2, Jingze Sun1, Jennifer L. Butler1, and Brooke N. Macnamara1