Lots of exciting possibilities in here and good work by the authors previously but this one is a bit of "white paper" paper describing what could be done in the future if the money is there
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https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_...
Including interesting details of the over/under performance condition.
There is an enormous amount of incredible litigation behaviour by the post office in this case. The problem for them is: it all came to trial in the end and its there for everyone to read in painful detail.
Here is, for example, the post office trying to remove the judge in the case after it all started unraveling:
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2019/871.html
And in 929 of https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2019/3408.html the Judge writes of Post office senior officers refusal to accept to flaws of Horizon even very late in the game:
"This approach by the Post Office has amounted, in reality, to bare assertions and denials that ignore what has actually occurred, at least so far as the witnesses called before me in the Horizon Issues trial are concerned. It amounts to the 21st century equivalent of maintaining that the earth is flat. "
(Another at first surprising thing is that radiation received from celestial sources is only coherent because of their very small apparent size -- the sources themselves are not coherent at all, because their physical size is very large)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanbury_Brown_and_Twiss_effect
If you had £10 billion three years ago you'd be lucky to earn 100 million in interest. Today you can earn very near £600 million / year just in commercial paper on £10 billion of capital.
(Or if you retail, the UK government will pay 6.2% interest on up to £1million!)
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-to-acquire-arm-for...
The whole idea though probably makes more sense though on easy-access flat roofs rather than pitched roofs so why the tile?
(And why do we still make pitched roofs if we are doing energy efficiency? Much better to condense out as much of the internal moisture as you can to recover the heat from there)
If not maxima, then the old M-x calc will usually do the job
somewhere I read the a good addition to this:
"and those who do know history are doomed to watch it being repeated"
But there is also another good point in the post: scientist need to be full and frank in their scientific writing. Selectively reporting results creates a huge problem in the literature.
But unfortunately this creates rather less hype which is what even research institutions increasingly need to survive it seems
https://github.com/CObjectSystem/COS
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But, if you are writing an email to a person whose time is valuable, better not to do it quickly. Save a draft, come back to it tomorrow, read again, then send.
If you are writing a legal document, don't do it quickly. Write it, come back to it again to review. Is it still a good idea?
If you are doing something completely new, do it slowly and step by step -- if it is new you don't know if it is right without checking each step.
If you have an idea, read the literature, patents, see what is out there first.