It seems like a good deal. Carleton is around 10k to 12k CA a year in fees. So let's say 40k total for the accelerated program. That leaves 120k for about 4500 hours, averaging out to about 27 an hour. Sure that's not competitive with top paying cs internships. But they get a free cs degree, come out with significant work experience, and get offered this with little to no programming experience.
I really wish articles written about studies like this, where all they found was a association between stuff, and not a causal relationship, would explicitly say so. Perhaps through a little box near the end of the article stating, in simple terms, "the authors found that X and Y are associated. This does not necessarily mean that doing X will cause Y"
I know the people who read the actual study in journal, entitled "Optimism is associated with ...", will notice the word "associated" and know what to make of the results. But Im pretty sure a good number of people who read pop-science articles like this dont know that "correlation doesnt imply causation". They will come to the wrong conclusion, and we cant blame them! Ive found this to be true in friends and family.
And in this case, you could easily imagine the arrow of causation pointing in the other way. If you have the good fortune of being generally healthy, and make enough income to have access to good healthcare, it's likely that you will live to 85. But these same factors also make you a likely optimist.
Just copy-pasting neonate's quote from the article, responding to a similar comment:
_That finding was independent of other factors thought to influence life's length — such as "socioeconomic status, health conditions, depression, social integration, and health behaviors"_
Literally the second paragraph on the article.
Read the article before posting comments, folks! :)
Here are more detailed papers that I found by way of the Guardian article about this company:
"Carbon emission avoidance and capture by producing in-reactor microbial biomass based food, feed and slow release fertilizer: Potentials and limitations"
Perhaps because as the article states, Pando is considered a keystone species, because of that, if Pando ceases to exist, it will take species dependent on it with it.
While as you say other organisms will fluorish, we must consider the change in biodiversity and not just abundance
Is there any kind of funky thing they could do to have it rotate slow enough to take an entire night to cross the sky? something like a lagrange point perhaps (stationary relative to sun?)
The Lagrange points are weird because they orbit two things at the same time. There should be more normal orbits somewhat lower than geostationary that cross slowly, but they would also be out of sight for a long time.
Then I suppose the idea would be to find an orbit where that long time is equal to one day - obviously, the length of one day on a given section of the planet keeps changing, so perhaps you only turn on the light after a certain amount of time or find some orbit that mimics whatever the sun is doing if thats at all possible
From https://devdegree.ca/pages/student-experience. It appears that you dont get paid 40k. 40k per year is the total they will expend on you, with tuition being part of that.