Monday, June 21, 2010

learning to use Gnome in ubuntu

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I'm a crusty old unix user, and I have been using nice old twm as my window-manager for ages (since about 1991). Everything worked nice...
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Friday, June 4, 2010

Add word to dictionary (fix instructions)

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In my new job I have been forced to use Microsoft Office for the first time. One of the minor painful issues has been the impossibility of a...
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Friday, May 21, 2010

'Artificial Shakespeare' breakthrough announced by scientists

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Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first synthetic Shakespeare. The researchers constructed a Shakespeare play by assembl...
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Sunday, May 9, 2010

Electoral systems

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I've been reading up on voting systems and "proportional representation". The BBC has a nice article on what other countries d...
Monday, February 8, 2010

How to make an animated gif with small file-size

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I wanted to make an animation showing the evolution of global temperature and the number of sunspots over the last 129 years. I used gnuplot...
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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Bayes' theorem makes it into the BBC

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This article about false positives seems quite well done. The BBC article links to an animation on the Understanding uncertainty website. ...
Sunday, June 28, 2009

How to handle copyright forms from dinosaur journal-publishers

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If you want to publish an article with a dinosaur journal that says "you can't publish your academic work on the internet any more;...
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