“In summary, a zombie outbreak is likely to lead to the collapse of civilisation, unless it is dealt with quickly. While aggressive quarantine may contain the epidemic, or a cure may lead to coexistence of humans and zombies, the most effective way to contain the rise of the undead is to hit hard and hit often. As seen in the movies, it is imperative that zombies are dealt with quickly, or else we are all in a great deal of trouble.” (Munz, Hudea, Imad and Smith, Mathematical Modelling of a Zombie Infection, Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress, chapter 4, pp 135-156, Nova Press 2009)
“Science is the game we play with God to find out what His rules are.” (Cornelius Krasel)
“Some of my best friends are hydrogeologists.” (Adam Jarvis, el jefe de la HERO)
Written by Philip Bernstein, highly recommended as a classic, and found in PDF form on the network.
“Little-known literary fun fact: in Dante’s Inferno, the third circle of Hell is the home of those who use the mouse and cursor to point at things.” (Jonathan Shewchuk, on giving an academic talk)
Found it over here.
At the Open Text Book project.
Or at least, currently open access.
“Welcome to the Australian Soil Resource Information System.”
A useful dictionary of Units of Measurement, by Russ Rowlett. Something over a decade old, judging by the plaudits.
It finally occurred to me to google for hydrology wiki. This turned up the FloodRiskNet catalogue of methods, which deals with methods for uncertainty analysis in flooding risk estimation, the Experimental Hydrology wiki, and the Distributed Hydrological Modelling wiki by Ricardo Rigon and his crew at the University of Trento.
hydrology wiki
And they even appear to be live.
Ran across Scirus while reading blogs; it’s a search engine for the quantitative sciences including parts of the Deep Web, with fairly glowing reviews. Built by Elsevier, and yet open and free. Cool, huh?
Hat tip to the crew from PSE library at UQ.
Found the MITAB library which reads and writes MapInfo interchange format and TAB format. Once it’s in interchange format, ArcInfo can work with it, at least to the point of reading it as a layer, or converting it onward.
So, I’ve compiled up MITAB and stow’d it on selkie. Cool, huh?
The Geological Society of London has put up the Lyell Collection, named after Charles Lyell, to celebrate its 200th anniversary. Lots of good stuff in there.
…is the name of the Sabayon Linux box on my desk. It’s for light computational modelling and hacking on same. It needs tools.
I’m currently trying to install the dependencies for the Enthought tool suite on it and getting the rest of it up to date. An emerge –update world gave a listing of over two hundred packages.
And no-valid-ebuilds-unmasked messages on raidtools and systray4j. raidtools is obsolete according to the system package.mask, so I’ve uninstalled it and updated mdadm to compensate. Also, mplayer wants linux-headers–2.6.19.2-r2, and openvpn and raidutils want linux-headers-2.6.20-r2. For mplayer, that’s traceable back to the ivtv USE flag, so I’ve unemerged the ivtv package (drivers for Hauppage TV PCI cards, apparently) and removed ivtv from the system USE. Now I’m emerge –update’ing mplayer to see how well this works. Fourteen packages, starting from libsdl…
…that worked. The next issue in the emerge –update dependency graph is xorg-server; vnc wants xorg-server-1.2.0, most everything else that cares wants the current xorg-server-1.3.0. This is traceable to vnc being built with +server in its USE flags. So I’ve taken that out of /etc/portage/package.use and rebuilt vnc. It means I’ll not be able to run outbound VNC from kelpie, but I cannot envisage wanting to.
I’ve updated gcc now that there’s +fortran in the global USE flag, and now that there’s a gfortran, built lapack-reference, blas-reference, and scipy. The default support for the QT toolkit in VTK made the build break, prototype mismatches during compiling of some C++, but putting -qt -qt3 -qt4 into the package USE cleared that up.
-qt -qt3 -qt4
After putting the local proxy details into ~/.subversion/servers, I’ve checked out the latest Enthought tool suite from subversion and built it in place. Screensful of random non-fatal warnings notwithstanding, that was suspiciously easy. One last emerge –update world, I think. This time it indicates the current slib is unacceptable to gnucash. Since I won’t be doing cost accounting on this machine, gnucash goes.
Update: As my colleague Nicole would say, crap. Successful global update, used the box all day. Just rebooted. No X. ati-drivers refuses to grok the new x.org numbering system; since it’s all in modules now and the core went from 7.1.x back down to 1.3.0.0, the binary drivers for ATI chipsets released by Nvidia…freak. It’s most succinctly expressed in Gentoo bug 177503 and Debian bug 420306.
Found the eWater CRC, successor to the CRC for Catchment Hydrology, the CRC for Coal in Sustainable Development, the CRC for Water Quality and Treatment, and of course CSIRO Land and Water. I’m impressed that they managed to park the Water for a Healthy Country flagship program under CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences where it ought to be.
There’s Stuart Khan’s water recycling blog. But there’s no hydrology blogs. Anywhere.
PySCeS is a useful-looking project based on SciPy. I’m not doing simulation of biological systems, but some of the tools in their kit look interesting…
Update: oomph-lib has just hit the streets for its initial beta test. Two in one day!
Have been released under a Creative Commons licence at the ECSCW site.
Found the Bowen Basin Mining Communities Research Exchange.
“Things should be described as simply as possible, but no simpler.” (Albert Einstein)
InHM is an integrated surface/subsurface hydrology code, last worked on in 2004.
JKMetAccount is a metallurgical accounting code that can also be used to track water
