costigan

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by costigan 1y ago
Could you say a bit more about your workflow? I'm used to having source code files open in emacs (or zemacs) and a lisp REPL in another buffer. I edit the source files directly and then recompile changes into the running lisp. The code
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by costigan 2y ago
The commenter's point was to disagree with the previous comment that "souls aren't real". Lack of evidence either way means we don't know. Occam's razor, while a good heuristic, is a heuristic, not a theorem.
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by costigan 2y ago
It hasn't been limited to probationary employees. Here's one example: https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-ban-renewing-sen... Agencies have also been directed to make plans for "significant
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by costigan 2y ago
It does. That's what the negotiation on overhead rates is for.
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by costigan 2y ago
Didn't the NIH freeze the review meetings in this year's proposal review process, putting all grant funding that would start next fiscal year in question? This is separate from the change to the overhead rate.
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by costigan 2y ago
Doesn't he own four private jets with another on order?
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by costigan 2y ago
Only if the organization with the money wants to do that. Flip it around. Do you think the sports program at any major university pays for physics research facilities (or any topic outside of sports medicine)?
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by costigan 2y ago
The federal workforce, as a percentage of all jobs in the U.S. was 4% in the 50's, decreased steadily to 2% in 2000 and has held roughly steady since then. (The source is https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-peo
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by costigan 2y ago
Let's take one example. The Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) is a two-year post-residency program that trains health professionals in applied epidemiology. These officers are crucial for on-the-ground investigations of disease out
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by costigan 2y ago
Research funding awarded to universities and to performers internal to NASA (back when there was a reasonable amount of that) had overhead rates that were similar to the NIH rates. When I worked at Xerox PARC, we would perform research for
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by costigan 2y ago
This equivalence between a company that provides one app that, if it were to disappear, would hurt no one, and a government that has thousands of functions, many of which are life-and-death in both the short and long run, is just ridiculous
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by costigan 2y ago
I don't know. Mark Hamill is a voice acting chameleon. James Earl Jones was himself, which was great for many roles and impossible to improve upon for some. Their strengths lie on different axes.
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by costigan 3y ago
My understanding is that they do need to follow the treaty requirements if they launch from a country that has signed it or, maybe, are incorporated in such a country.
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by costigan 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_protection From the article: Category II: Any mission to locations of significant interest for chemical evolution and the origin of life, but only a remote chance that spacecraft
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by costigan 3y ago
I was in the south bay, and walked and exercised outside frequently after about the first month. Santa Clara County had a similar policy concerning separation distance outside, and I never had an unpleasant experience. I'm sorry you
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by costigan 3y ago
Was it Twitter's policy or not? (Of course it was, as we see by how easily it was changed by the new owner.)
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by costigan 3y ago
I think you misread the article slightly. The 26% of zombie papers are inside the 44% of papers that contained at least some flawed data. Look at the figure just below this quote where the blue bar, indicating papers he thought were ok, c
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by costigan 4y ago
That may have been the purchaser's expectation, but their deal was with the seller (and bank), not the community in general. In none of the legal papers I signed when purchasing my home was any arrangement with the city constraining f
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by costigan 4y ago
> NIL is an empty list.... It isn't. It has none of the mechanics of an empty list in Python etc. I can see how NIL is confusing when coming from Python, but I think this comment has it backwards. The idea of lists as chains or tre
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by costigan 4y ago
Stolen is a vague word. If there's evidence she believes there was sufficient fraud to have changed the result, I would be interested. If she was referring to the stolen Podesta emails and Comey's statement right before the elec
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by costigan 4y ago
The excess deaths are quite possibly attributable to both the virus and the vaccines if, as one plausible but very unproven example, they're due to inflammation and/or micro-clotting caused by the spike protein. But in an environ
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by costigan 4y ago
The canonical references (e.g., http://www.ai.mit.edu/courses/6.834J-f01/Williams-remote-age... ) are pretty good. If you are interested in diving very deeply into the topic, I think you'd be better off going
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by costigan 4y ago
I think lisp is still used in various nooks and crannies of NASA. As a small example, I was the payload software engineer for the LCROSS mission (a robotic mission in 2009 that demonstrated there was water ice near the moon's south po
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by costigan 5y ago
You're certainly right but still missing the point. The 10 injuries were most likely not due to a vulnerable part of the sub. They were likely due to a sudden change in the sub's motion, which wouldn't have occurred had the
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by costigan 6y ago
Just to be completely clear, this was satire. The professor who wrote it is very well-regarded by his students.