White House issues new dire climate report: Scientists: Extreme weather will worsen if pollutants aren't curbed

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This thread needs a few more pictures to illustrate the very deep points being made.. don't you think?

This thread need some sheep.

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I just want to know if you nerds can build a better beer bong? Cuz that would so awesome, dude.

ummm why are the guys looking the other way?

They are waiting in line for the ride in the next room.

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I just want to know if you nerds can build a better beer bong? Cuz that would so awesome, dude.

ummm why are the guys looking the other way?

ghey nerds.

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This is becoming the First VJ Nerd Symposium.

And yes... Scandal... I'm not sure what parts you call home... but around here I actually needed coffee by 1PM to remind myself not to fall asleep due to lack of light. Today its another story though- although all the excess rain closed the beaches- can you believe that!!

I wish I were more versed in the mathematics of atmospheric dynamics. Lots of my friends work on biological computational models so the transformations are not all alien to me, but given the correct assumptions we're talking about quite a few parallel models. Naturally... things have their limits.

I live in the near-western burbs. I work downtown in the Loop. I commute on the Metra UP-West line. You're on the south side, I gather?

My son is entering his high school senior year, and is brilliant. He's doing AP level classes in calculus and physics, and finds them boring. He wants to do either physics or math in college, which I'm encouraging him to do. Down the line as he thinks about a career, I'm trying to get him to see the light -- that the best way I know of to combine a love for mathematical models and numerical solutions, with a very lucrative career and comfortable lifestyle, is to be a quant. Had I known 20 years ago, what I know today, I would have aspired to be a quant on Wall St. As it is, I rub shoulders with the guys in our Research division who build our trading models. But I am but a lowly peon Project Manager, who spends his time building Gantt charts and defining schedules and priorities.

I figure anyone who can grok N-S can certainly build binomial trees for Black Scholes models. Option theory is comparatively easy. The tricky part is not the model or the math I think, it's the need to constantly recalculate solutions quickly in real-time to adjust theoretical values as market conditions change, and underlying price and volatility change. To do that you need fast, parallel numerical techniques, great hardware multicore processors, DMA NICs, and low-latency market data systems snd execution venues. I like working at a trading firm, you get to play with lots of neat toys and really really smart people. And they're all focused on making $$$!!

I see. I lived in Wheaton for a couple of years. Pretty... but the people seemed to be all cut out of the same plastic mold. In terms of western suburbs I am more favorable to Oak Park, River Forest, La Grange, Brookfield, etc. But yes right now I am technically a South Sider. With a Cubs hat. A rough life indeed.

Remember that your son will have to learn these things on his own. Had I listened to mom I'd be a chemical engineer but noooooo... I had to want to get into marine biology as an undergrad (in retrospect all the beach bunnies would not have been so conducive to me actually spending much time under water) that turned into a few years using technology and analysis for a certain uniformed organization, but the love of science overtook me and placed me in the graduate field, bench science, and I am there ever since. Its all about love of art more than anything. But sometimes I wonder what I could have done if I'd done the chemical engineer thing.

This thread needs a few more pictures to illustrate the very deep points being made.. don't you think?

I love science.