tomw2005

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by tomw2005 4y ago
We had a maths lecturer who got us to buy their text book. Turns out the text book was just copy pasted sections from other maths textbooks in one book. Cost 30 quid, had the old page numbers and was therefore a confusing mess throughout. M
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by tomw2005 8y ago
Information Commissioner's Office: https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/
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by tomw2005 8y ago
There's also Russell discussing it on the Material Podcast ( https://www.relay.fm/material/149 ). That gives me hope (but it is a shame to hear he won't be on the podcast as often).
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by tomw2005 9y ago
There's a very good book called E=mc^2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation written by David Bodanis. I think I read it at about 16 and it was very approachable.
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by tomw2005 9y ago
To quote my Physics of Electrical Power Generation lecturer from a few years ago: "Fusion is 15 years away, I think it will always be 15 years away."
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by tomw2005 9y ago
I agree. I was a longtime Nexus user and switched for the S8 as Pixels were in short supply (UK, not sure if that was the same in the US). We still don't have Oreo on EE over here and I am constantly trying to disable the annoying Sams
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by tomw2005 9y ago
Are you referring to meta analyses? They are often used to find p-hacking: [1] http://training.cochrane.org/resource/introduction-meta-anal... [2] http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10
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by tomw2005 9y ago
I think for most people it is portability. I can use my .md files in any Markdown editor and reasonably expect it to look the same. If there isn't an editor to hand it is easy enough to read as plain text.
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by tomw2005 9y ago
I recently analysed a load of my time tracking data.[1] I only managed to get up to 11h37m per day when I'm travelling for work. That includes flights as 'work'. It does seem pretty unlikely unless he's counting Networ
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by tomw2005 9y ago
The backup planet strategy is one I approve of. Backup solar system would be better.
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by tomw2005 9y ago
I was not meaning to equate ArXiv to Nature. I can see how I implied that though. As I've said in another comment it was used much more frequently during my undergrad years than at postgrad. Within Maths and Physics it is generally tru
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by tomw2005 9y ago
1) I was trying to talk in general terms. I understand that the peers doing the peer review are usually not paid but that there are other editors involved. I probably should have made that more clear. One of my fellow PhD students is now an
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by tomw2005 9y ago
> Publications should be judged on their content They are but it takes time to build that reputation. Also publishing houses with big pockets can hire good reviewers etc and get established quicker. If Nature churned out rubbish papers a
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by tomw2005 9y ago
I would argue that the species will be fine. If your definition of 'fine' is the species surviving. If 99% of the human race were wiped out by Global Warming we would still have 70 million humans on the planet (approx one UK). Tha
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by tomw2005 9y ago
> Then it went to unlimited storage for Office users, but then they stopped that for no good reason. That was brief and sadly disappeared. However OD is still cheaper than DropBox for 1TB of storage and comes with Office. I'd still
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by tomw2005 9y ago
While that is all true Amazon Fresh has completely blown that out of the water for me. Though it is only available in Greater London atm.
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by tomw2005 9y ago
They have Trusted Voice on Android[0]. Hopefully it is only a matter of time before it is on the Google Home. [0] https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/6093922 - last entry.
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by tomw2005 9y ago
Well in the UK they amended the law to exempt themselves: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...
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by tomw2005 9y ago
It has recently become the ease-of-use choice for our RPG group. Being a mixed group not everyone is used to configuring clients etc. so the out of the box usability is definitely what works for us. From the DM point of view he can still se
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by tomw2005 10y ago
Connected from UK with Chrome, language DE. Celsisus was default.
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by tomw2005 10y ago
> I fail to see a viable market or a satisfactory use case for such an oddly designed and artificially limited gaming device, and am confident that it will be yet another failure in a long line of Nintendo failures. It is a portable con
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by tomw2005 10y ago
> I would jump on this if I had more time to game. I'm getting it as I hope having a portable console will give me more time to game. It'll fit in my suitcase and plug into nearly all hotel TVs. That is pretty awesome.
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by tomw2005 10y ago
-Price: Exactly the same as the basic Wii U at launch. Comparing it to the PS4 is disingenuous as it is a 4 year old console [1], it is £100 cheaper than the PS4 Pro deals currently on Amazon. Who are 'most people'? This article i
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by tomw2005 10y ago
> I encourage old Opera fans to check it out as well. Did something happen to Opera to make it lose fans? I tried it a long time ago (pre-Chrome) and enjoyed it then but eventually ended up on Chrome. Are there any particular criticisms
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by tomw2005 10y ago
> Add on to this the customer support, marketing, warranties, legal expenses, returns and other typical overhead of production. This is often why startups and SMEs can sell at lower cost too. The overheads are lower. I work for a medical
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by tomw2005 10y ago
In our company we still us FORTH because the timing of each command is well known.
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by tomw2005 10y ago
I'd also add that arriving after 5pm is basically useless at any business address. That and they don't seem to be able to deal with pressing the buzzer for our office if the receptionist isn't there.
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by tomw2005 10y ago
My Physics of Electrical Power Generation lecturer told us pretty flatly that we should not expect or bank on fusion power in our lifetimes. He said we should concentrate on renewables (which seems to be the way most countries are going in
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by tomw2005 10y ago
While it is about management I would definitely recommend it to anyone who is interested in Pixar's history. The Audiobook is also very well done.
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by tomw2005 10y ago
My first Anker product was some USB cables. They were faulty. The excellent customer service though completely won me around and the replacements they sent have not failed yet (unlike many other usb cables I have owned).

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