https://careers.kew.org/vacancy/rbg-kew-scientific-priority-leaders-x3-445385.html
Accelerated Taxonomy; Digital Revolution; Unlocking Properties
RBG Kew is seeking to hire three new Priority Leaders, each responsible for driving our scientific agenda within a major area of research in accordance with our new Science Strategy. Each Priority Leader will define, establish and deliver major initiatives within their priority area; manage 4-8 research teams (collectively comprising up to 60 staff) assigned to their priority; and participate in RBG Kew’s senior scientific leadership team. They will contribute to the overall direction of RBG Kew’s scientific work, and nurture a culture of excellence, innovation and openness within their team and across the organisation.
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew) is a leading plant science institute, UNESCO World Heritage Site, and major visitor attraction. Our mission is to understand and protect plants and fungi for the well-being of people and the future of all life on Earth.
We are working to end the unprecedented extinction crisis and to help create a world where nature is protected, valued by all and managed sustainably. We will achieve these goals by drawing on our leading scientific research, unrivalled collections of plants and fungi, global network of partners, inspirational gardens at Kew and Wakehurst, and our 260 years of history.
Join us on our journey as protectors of the world’s plants and fungi.
We are looking for individuals who are passionate about combating biodiversity loss, protecting ecosystems and promoting the sustainable and equitable use of plants and fungi – and bursting with ideas about how to deliver this. RBG Kew has unique assets – around 350 scientific staff, unparalleled scientific collections, active projects in more than 100 countries, and, through our gardens and reputation, an outstanding platform for communicating with society at large. Our Priority Leaders will mobilise these assets to maximise our scientific, environmental and societal impact, encouraging the development of our staff and shaping their ideas into a coherent programme of action and research.
Successful candidates will have outstanding scientific research credentials and a proven ability to deli
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Change Org - Scientific analysis for Doge's Smile vs. Mona Lisa’s Smile
Doge's Smile is so mysteriously attractive to people. Even the richest guy in the world (Elon Musk) cannot resist it.
People keep talking about Doge and Dogecoin on Twitter, Youtube, and the news. People made Doge on the billboard, on the rocket engines, and keep requesting to send it to the moon.
The impact will soon be equivalent to Mona Lisa’s Smile. There should be scientific research for Doge's Smile, to help us understand what's going on here.
It should be the top priority for the Doge fans and Dogecoin community.
We need to colonize the moon.
"But the moon is just a ball of useless concrete floating in space!"
Correct, but the technology we would develop (and already are developing) to install a lunar colony would advance us into the next Age. Let me state my reasoning on why I think this should be the most important focus in the near future.
First and foremost, I believe it would indirectly combat climate change by making it profitable (goshdurn capitalism) to mass produce and implement new, green technologies on both Earth and the moon. From things like the Blue Diversion Toilet that could provide waste recycling and fertilization for farming both on the moon and Earth to inflatable habitats that can provide affordable shelter to space colonizers and segue into green, affordable housing for the poor and homeless. We could use that knowledge to turn these dumbass skyscrapers into space-saving, efficient complexes for dense, high yield indoor farming. It would make solar energy more profitable as we could collect and store it on the moon and install Lunar Solar Power arrays or even find a way to transfer it through microwave beaming. The energy could be used to power "robots" or things like ice excavators to provide water for life support, oxygen, and fuel. It would further incentivize companies like SpaceX to research and develop more efficient ways of not only space travel, but terrestrial transportation as well. Besides the initial transportation of materials to the moon, we could essentially 3D print everything else on-site for more efficiency to build easily maintained and repairable lunar equipment.
Secondly, we need a practice run before we straight up blast ourselves to Mars. We need to learn how to live, farm, research, and just exist in general in a self sustaining habitat on the moon before we even think about Mars.
Thirdly, I believe it would be a great unifier. By Space Race, I don't mean one country against another. I mean human civilization against the "end of days." Whether you believe that new doomsday clock or not, Earth is finite. We need to start making a major, unified push toward extending our lifespan as a species. We've become so divided over the minutia of everyday life that we seem to be taking life itself for granted. This is it. This is all we have. We need a concerted effort to make the most of it.
In short, space colonization is the mo
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As far as I know, when using the GitHub's Web UI to do stuff, your name will be used as the author_name, while the committer_date and _name will be those of GitHub's.
So does the fact that GitHub commits your changes prove you really have made them at the specified date? Does GitHub sign your commits or something like that? Or can this information be tampered with?
This is not a GitHub specific question, it has more to do with Git.
[edit] After reading some of these other posts, I'll add these forewords:
This is not a homework question, and I have full creative control over the DB and can completely revamp the structure if there's a more suitable solution.
Hi there, new to this subreddit and I have a specific problem I'm trying to solve.
I have a schema that looks like this. Each of these property tables contains calculated properties for the rows in MainTable, and since MainTable has ~100M rows, each of these other tables has ~100M rows
> MainTable
> id
> name > PropertyTable1
> main_id
> property1
> property2
> PropertyTable2
> main_id
> property3
> property4
I'm keeping these tables logically separated by source right now because the data in these tables is constantly being updated/refined and it's easier to copy the data around, etc. when it's separated out by data source.
I have a UI that lets you essentially build a search query, ex: "name = 'name1' AND property2 < 100" where these property tables are dynamically joined in as required in the application. Despite this inefficient schema, properly indexed the application is working okay so far.
Now, I need to add another table that contains experimental properties that basically trump the values from these other tables if they exist. These properties can come from tons of different sources so they're being stored in a single table as key value pairs:
> ExperimentalPropertyTable
> main_id
> name
> value
> source
Ex: 'property3', 5
This table has ~100K - 1M rows.
To me the obvious correct choice is to create a single table that contains all of the properties that I want to be searchable, and replace lower priority values with higher priority. My problem is, as mentioned earlier all of these tables are constantly changing, and each time a table changes I'd have to update this denormalized table which takes hours to days to complete each time.
Plus, I have more than 4 properties as listed here, so I'm already dancing around row length limits in the DB when I try to combine tables.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated as I've been trying to deal with this problem for a while now.
