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Midsummer update: Lots of things going on here in science world. Mostly I’ve been working with PetroMod to create some basin history models of the Williston Basin, which is fun because I get to dig way into how PetroMod works and how different variables affect hydrocarbon generation and migration.
To import formation tops to Petra, your input file needs to be set up as one row per well, one column per formation top, and each value being the depth measurement. In the example below, I am trying to rough out the depths of formations in Wyoming using only the TD (total depth) and BOTFORM (formation at total depth). Not the most precise method of building structural maps, but it will work on a large scale.
Input file has one row per well, columns api_full, TD, and BOTFORM (at least).
Caution: I tried to run this on the full WY well dataset (111,000 rows) and R used all 36 GB of my RAM and then crashed. It’s advisable to subset first.
It does. And it can be hard. But that doesn’t mean that it needs to. What good are all these machines if we can’t use them to speed things up?
I’m not bored, so I won’t be today. Someone could, however, look at the early success of the Great Rides Fargo bikeshare program and compare:
That might be enough to start thinking seriously about bikeshare in other areas. Why not Grand Forks (another great hashtag)? Why not Winnipeg?
Sometimes, I read an article about awesome things happening somewhere else–usually in a smaller town in the northern midwest. At such times, I exclaim “come on, Grand Forks!”
This is one of those times. #comeongrandforks.
http://www.keloland.com/newsdetail.cfm/plans-released-for-pump-park-in-brookings/?id=177860
I wonder if this is fixed in 8 or 9?
To get the number of comments rendered on your node, you can add this to the template (e.g., node.tpl.php) for your theme.
<?php
echo "<a href='".$node_url."#comments'>";
print $node->comment_count;
if($node->comment_count==1) {
echo " comment ";}
else echo " comments ";
echo "</a>";
?>
When spammers sign up for your website, you get a lot of junk email addresses. If you then institute a newsletter module, you may get several hundred “mail delivery failed” messages.
In Apple mail, you can select all the individual messages and click “forward” to compile them into a single email. (If you use conversations, first do View->Expand All Conversations in order to select individual messages.) Then copy that, paste into http://eel.surf7.net.my/, and you’ll get a list of the email addresses that bounced, which you can then bulk unsubscribe. This works for me with the Drupal Simplenews module.
…without talking to them, of course. [Note: This has been sitting in my queue since September; I’m going to publish it as-is so it counts as “done.”]
Blogging is like talking to them, but what’s the impetus to get a blogging (internal or external) program going? The NSF problem: how do you know it will work (i.e., help everyone know what everyone else is good at) without doing it first? Blogging as a fun part of work, not as a chore.
Purpose:
Time commitments and return.
Personality of bloggers and readers–some people like to write, some like to read, some are a mix. Some would rather just talk to you.
Do some searching on this, maybe case studies are out there?
This is not what I am talking about (internal blogging for an external blog).
http://humancapitalist.com/the-future-of-corporate-learning-must-include-the-internal-blog/
Social media image for the Extreme North Dakota Sandhills Ultra Run Experience, produced by ENDracing.
Photo by Wes Peck.
Text by Matt Burton-Kelly.
Mostly for my own edification. I’ve been living in town for almost nine years, and the excess light is starting to get to me. I can’t be the only one. I will try to grow this resource as I read more.
Overview
Why Reduce Light Pollution?
Fixture Design Solutions
Behavioral/Policy Solutions
Philosophy