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Ian {∅, M} Banks was the Honorary President of the Heriot-Watt University Science Fiction society when I was there; this coincided with me trying to give it up. kicking myself

I posted this about the MH370 search strategy a week ago, after reading a book on Bayes statistics [0] [0] - https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/5733804/Bayesian_Methods_MH370... …

I loved these names the first time I read them. Hopefully with an increased launch cadence SpaceX will need more barges, one for each launch arena. The current two are names of GCUs from "The Pla…

Reading up about it, one of their tenents is for opensource software: https://github.com/alphagov

By "do" the NHS I meant the whole interactive system, not just providing information. User interaction, booking appointments, reading case notes etc, sharing data between medical staff, the …

Strange how it doesn't credit GDS

Makes me wonder if GDS is going to do the NHS

trouble was already taken

I love the idea but I have questions, questions, questions. Will it scale; how do you keep the village to 100 people? 100 seems to be small enough that you can have a social community, but people will…

I keep thinking about that article, working on a cruise ship. Here's a search of his blog about cruises, it looks like he stopped two years ago[༆] [༆] - http://tynan.com/?search=c…

Do you mean they're using an ice breaker as an ice breaker to start conversations? A rather impressive video [0] of RRS Sir Ernesto Shackleton being droned. [0] - https://www.youtube.c…

As I recall from a tour I went on of jet 30 years ago there are a large bank of flywheels which spin up over several minutes, these are then rapidly discharged to a bank of capacitors which are then u…

Is this similar to what happened to the electric in the USA with EV1? It looks like VW is doubling down on being the bad guy, I'm fed up of pollution alerts in London for diesel vehicles particul…

Also there's the silent renewals you don't know about until it's been paid, you quibble this and told that you were given notice which turns out to be at the very bottom of a dull email…

Is there an overview of all the Arctic explorations? They talk about there being many of them, but I've not heard of any others, surely others would have suffered lead poisoning too. This was one…

In her Volvo?

I found this on the much maligned Slashdot website. There's a market for launch control software? I owe it to myself; someone who learnt to count down from ten before I could count up to it to fi…

Can they go smaller?

trains A tad flummoxed by this. I know rail freight has diminished, and there is the issue with transferring load from rail to train, but surely with clogged roads that is a better idea.

Perhaps it was my poor grammar. "does" => "doesn't" does rather flip an argument doesn't it

An interesting article however where are the numbers? A few anecdotes of how it helped some people does really tell us that much.

I loved this. Then I thought how about if you could use words which appear in the shadow over the day. As ever someone had already had the same idea written the code to produce the OpenSCAD files for …