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I think that both this and what the paper says can hold true.

The paper is saying that from the point of view of the location, the distribution of effective distances traveled is invariant. So if you really like the 45min part of your city, then every one closer really loves it, so visit it much more than you do. Therefore the law holds true, even though on an individual basis you obviously go to the closer parts more frequently.

The fact that you might be prepared to go all the way to e.g. Disneyworld means that the people who live closer are massively more likely to go there to the point where people who live 5 miles from it go there all the time.

I was working in that space two years ago, and we estimated from triangulation of sources that they had around 10K paying users.

The hedge would have to be absolutely massive to hide the henge when you are heading West. The way the road dips down before you get to it means that you would easily see it over any normal size hedge. Even if the it's a fleeting glimpse, it doesn't solve the problem as people will still rubber neck. If anything it will make it worse.

And seeing the controversy is due to the fact that it's the whole landscape that is historic, arguing that you should put a massive a-historic hedge straight across it undermines the main argument against the other proposals.

Do you really think that the planners haven't thought of a hedge and discarded the idea?

I know at least 30 people who went to his school. Absolutely none of them are remotely like him. It is a schtick in that you can absolutely see him choosing to lean into it. And it's not ultra-poshness (in fact it's the opposite of posh), it's a form of dishonesty.

I keep on pointing it out, because people for some reason miss it: The person you know as Jacob Rees-Mogg is a schtick. It was developed by a weedy kid to combat bullying at school. He later found it was generally useful in life because people would 1). Remember him 2). laugh at him so he would gain a measure of acceptance. Those that hated him he could turn to his advantage, because he could play the laughers against the haters.

In Flaubert's dictionary of received ideas, the entry for Aristocracy is simply "Despise and envy it". Which is a much more succinct way of writing this article.

My supervisor had a student who apparently just said "no" as her answer to each critique, 38 times. She got the level of fail which is "never ever come back" - which apparently does exist.

General amps seek to diminish distortion. In particular: 1. Clipping - an overly amplified signal can have the peaks of its signal "clipped" off. 2. Cross-over distortion - because of the way most amplifiers work, one part of the circuit amplifies the positive signal, and one the negative (above and below the midpoint of the signal). Where the one part "crosses over" you can get a misalignment which results in distortion. 3. Harmonic distortion - for example the extent to which a 400Hz tone is translated into a certain amount of 800Hz, 1600Hz etc overtones.

All of these things can actually result in a cool guitar sound in the right proportions. Hard rock in particular has strongly distorted sounds created by tube amps (for the most part). But even sounds which we think of as cleaner have a significant amount of tube distortion (e.g. the intro to Sweet Home Alabama, or the main riff of Day Tripper). If you put an electric guitar into a regular amplifier, in general, it sounds flat and terrible.

Tube amplifiers are still where it's at for guitars. Still not beaten despite the attempts of digital signal processing. The reason is that the same thing that makes it a bad general amplifier makes it an excellent guitar amp.

It's a key which is not shown - if you click on the churches, most of them are labelled

Nonce

If your mission is to avoid offence and confusion and you're an international company, you should ban this one as its more offensive/emotive than 99.9% of the things on this list in UK English. But nope, it's OK apparently

Like I said, the number of deaths is not a good measure of contribution towards actual defeat. Sending punishment battalions to die in their hundreds of thousands was a Soviet choice, and not a good one. Allowing millions of men to be encircled in 1941 was Soviet incompetence. Likewise, sending men into battle unarmed was Soviet callousness.

Africa absolutely was a major theatre. The defeat of the Axis in Libya and Tunisia removed their dominance over the mediterranean, and allowed the Suez canal trade routes a level of safety and ultimately ensured allied economic dominance. Russia would not have received the same level of economic support if it was not clear.

The Germans had not lost the war in 1942. A less despotic leader could have strategically retreated 500 miles and stabilised after Stalingrad.

Also, if you're uncertain about the year when the landings in Normandy took place, perhaps your overall grasp on events is less than perfect?

> the US fighting was negligible.

This is either ignorant or dishonest. Just because the US wasn't insanely profligate with lives, doesn't mean they didn't make a huge contribution to defeating Germany. Multiple German armies were defeated by the Western allies in Africa, Italy, France, the low countries and subsequently Germany. Germany's war production was crippled by USAAF and RAF bombing, and its transport was almost totally destroyed. Perhaps most importantly, Germany's ability to fuel its vehicles was removed by the bombing campaign. Literally thousands of 88mm guns were kept in the Reich because of the bombing, and these would have been on the Eastern front shredding Russians otherwise. Without this contribution, the USSR could at best have reached a stalemate. Anyone who denies this has an agenda.

You assumed incorrectly :)

I don't have an account, but I'm fairly sure Facebook doesn't let you edit it once you've given it.

That's not what the Guardian is saying: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/06/facebook-...

If you change your DoB every year like I do, you'll be fine...

If the organisation is big enough and dysfunctional enough, your absence will not be noticed for long periods of time. Just make sure whenever you are seen you have the appearance of being in a huge rush.

You can do all of this and earn a high salary if you become an...

...agile coach

Read a few books, recycle stuff you find online, do a presentation on neurodiversity. It really is money for old rope. I knew of one who worked in a UK gov department who got £1250 a day, charged for 5 days, and only turned up for 4.5. Did it for years.

For the demographic in question, it's definitely not the food. Many of them refuse to eat "foreign muck". :|

I would have thought atmospheric data that you can't get elsewhere - you'd be able to learn things about pressure and wind at altitudes that rovers can't get to.

I'd be interested to see if the LGN of the turtle is performing distinct functions to those of mammals. LGN is a super interesting component of the visual system - e.g. iirc people with dyslexia have morphologically distinct LGNs.

https://classical.page/ Follow your favourite classical music composer or classical works, and Classical Page will email you when the relevant music is going to be played in concert near you. This means you can get in quick with tickets and never miss out.

Launched in New York and London, more cities coming soon.

I've used it as a testbed for trying out Google Cloud technologies - it works with Cloud Functions, Big Query and Cloud Run.

Cognitive psychology topics such as memory and reading have a strong paradigm, and established results. In general, their effects are much easier to replicate because you require far fewer participants. This is because you can validly make multiple observations of the same participant.

I decided not to pursue an academic career after completing a Ph.D in Experimental Psychology. My main issue with it was:

1. You shouldn't know a priori whether you will be able to reject your null hypothesis (otherwise what is the point of doing the experiment). So what you need is luck, luck that your hunch turned out to be true.

2. If careers live and die by published results, then those who are lucky with finding significant effects early on in their career will win out.

3. Running a well-controlled experiment at scale is difficult in a way that I haven't found matched in the tech fields I have been in since leaving academia. I mean mega-hassle difficult.

4. You therefore have an incredible amount riding on the outcome of that experiment, because of its enormous opportunity cost.

5. The likelihood of being caught faking data is low (especially if you are halfway-competent which this researcher clearly is not).

6. The penalties of being caught faking data (as set out in this article) are relatively low.

7. The payoff of getting away with faking data can include a lot, up to and including a high profile academic career and tenure.

8. So from a game theoretic perspective, it's almost inevitable that quite a few people at the top have faked their way there.

This is not to say that good work is not being done - there is some amazing work out there. I just think that like athletes taking steroids before they reach the big leagues, many academics succumbed to temptation to get an edge in order to get to the top.

See the Dutch Social Psychology scandal for more on this.

"Skip" is actually British English for "dumpster"

Many but not all :) - Some buddies of mine used to live in a student flat in Bristol that overlooked the TV Licensing Authority offices. My friends watched them go about their business over the top of their unlicensed TV for 2.5 years.

You mean St Mary's Battersea? You can't see that from Albert Bridge, but you can from Battersea Bridge. Also notable as the last resting place of Benedict Arnold.

Classical Page is an email notification service for classical music concerts. You add the works and composers you want to hear, and Classical Page will email you when it's going to be played in your city.

I made it because I got frustrated leafing through pages and pages of websites for venues trying to find concerts that I'm interested in. With Classical Page you just set your preferences, and it will let you know as soon as a new concert is listed, along with reminders 6 months out, 1 month and 1 week.

I made Classical Page using Google Cloud Platform, in particular Cloud Storage, Big Query, Cloud Functions and Neo4J. The frontend is a Svelte SPA hosted on Cloud Run. Emails via mailgun.

Launching in London and New York, with more cities to come very soon.

More info here:

https://www.classical.page/about and https://www.classical.page/blog/blastoff

It's not irrelevant though. I know someone who is 39, perfectly healthy and nearly died. He now has long covid. I'm sure all of the people under fifty who died would have loved to have had the vaccine.

100% this. Anonymised features remove any hint of lateral thinking that is the essence of science, and just focuses on the pure numbers. This is dangerous. One of my data scientists once ran up a $2000 bill on training a CNN on what was essentially a speed = distance/time calculation, and was really proud when he got 92% accuracy. A real facepalm moment.