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by steve_gh 8y ago
(UKian): How can they get records without judicial oversight. Why don't they need a warrant?
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by steve_gh 8y ago
26 trains an hour is pushing it hard. The London underground generally runs at about 24 TPH at rush hour on a single line (in each direction) If you go to a moving block signalling system you can push the system a bit harder, but the proble
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by steve_gh 8y ago
Transport hubs encourage development. In the UK look at all the satellite industries around Heathrow and Gatwick. Look at the offices being built close to Paddington and Kings Cross stations in London, or Reading. The sensible thing would b
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by steve_gh 8y ago
In the UK, many of our main passenger rail lines run 4-track in commuter areas - you can run a slow local stopping service and high speed intercity services simultaneously without problems.
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by steve_gh 8y ago
They are making a point. If Zuck had given evidence it would be in the public domain. He didn't, they have gained access to the documents, and are putting the bits they believe relevant to their inquiry into the public domain.
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by steve_gh 8y ago
Strictly, you may be right - it is not a criminal offence to ignore an invitation form a select committee. I believe (but may be wrong), that the committee can request Parliament to consider the matter, and at that point the Sargent at Arms
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by steve_gh 8y ago
Because she is funny. And possibly the bastard offspring of Hunter S Thompson and PJ O'Rourke.
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by steve_gh 8y ago
WRT doing business in the UK. You need to understand that this is a highly unusual situation. Part of the UK Parliamentary system is that there are "Select Committees"on MPs, whose job is to review and hold to account the perfor
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by steve_gh 8y ago
Might work under US law, but not under UK law. In the UK Parliament is sovereign. Yesterday, Parliament forced the Government to publish it's confidential legal advice on the impact of the proposed Brexit deal - they had previously pus
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by steve_gh 8y ago
Let alone "Little Bobby Tables" :-)
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by steve_gh 8y ago
Where I work we have a simple policy: Any trip to a coffee shop for multiple staff members is a business expense. The reason is to get people talking to each other across projects. The drop in productivity from going out for a coffee is mor
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by steve_gh 8y ago
So for (2). If my psychological state is manipulated by a targeted advertising campaign, based on Google-scale data, do I actually have Free Will in any meaningful sense?
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by steve_gh 8y ago
This is very interesting - to see this sort of thing in paleographic studies is very very cool I remember in my PhD days (studying AI), having long conversations, exploring what it was for an AI to be intelligent. One strand we considered w
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by steve_gh 8y ago
Can I also recommend Adam Nicolson's "The Might Dead: Why Homer Matters", as an excellent read, which explains how and why Homer is still relevant today.
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by steve_gh 8y ago
Many years ago, I had the privilege of having Prof Peter Saunders as my MSc adviser while at King's College London. Peter Saunders was (apart from being a great educationalist), the person who did the maths behind James Lovelock's
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by steve_gh 8y ago
Bristol, UK. Vibrant city, lots of tech and a good aviation engineering scene (Airbus), lovely countryside around. Reasonably affordable (compared to London). Good communication links to the rest of the UK and Europe (International Airport
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by steve_gh 8y ago
Glad to see a Hari Seldon (Asimov's Foundation) reference. The "phase transition" around a level of extreme opinion in a population is interesting, and I'd certainly like to find out more about this research
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by steve_gh 8y ago
Interesting. While I live in the UK, I had never really thought about the link between wealth and privacy, and the potential for the state to discriminate in this way. A thought-provoking read. Thanks for sharing
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by steve_gh 8y ago
vi (and vim) are still really relevant, if you have ever tried editing config files on IoT devices such as remote condition monitoring systems over a satellite link or a mobile link. From the article "you’ve got to remember that I was
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by steve_gh 8y ago
If you want a poetry anthology, can I recommend "Other Men's Flowers" by Lord Wavell - poetry that he momorized that saw him through WW1 and WW2. You won't like everything, but there is lots of good stuff in it.
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by steve_gh 8y ago
I'm involved in a rail transformation project. We're now using AR as part of the railway design process to ensure visibility of signals etc.
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by steve_gh 8y ago
Don Van Vliet and his bands were unique talents. Some of the music is challenging, some is surprisingly accessible. Some might even evoke the response "what's all the fuss about" - because it entered the consciousness of so m
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by steve_gh 8y ago
Generally the technical stuff is fairly easy, at least compared to understanding the business requirements! That said, probably 50% of my job is involved with interesting technical problems, combining cloud scale analytics and machine learn
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by steve_gh 8y ago
I'm a Brit currently in France Can't get cash from any ATM right now using my Visa Debit card
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by steve_gh 8y ago
I would also recommend any ancient history written by Tom Holland - "Persian Fire" about the Persian invasion of Greece is a good introduction to the era. Also, Adam Nicholson's "The Might Dead: Why Homer Matters" i
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by steve_gh 8y ago
Technical director in a specialist engineering data science consultancy group here. The problem we face is a gap between customer expectation of skills and costs. We have a brilliant high-skilled team (15% post-doc, pretty much everyone els
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by steve_gh 9y ago
I'm wondering whether GDPR is going to make this worse. It used to be that the GWR train Wifi would automatically log me in. But now that has changed, and it takes me to a pre-populated log-in screen, which requires me to untick the &q
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by steve_gh 9y ago
Mobile Telecoms standards are written by 3GPP, all BTSs and handsets (and for that matter, interfaces like 'A') are standard, and controlled by 3GPP. I believe they are open.
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by steve_gh 9y ago
About 10 years ago I was mentored by a guy who was an utter wizard at queuing theory, and who bugfixed a whole bunch of nasty issues in cellular telecoms hardware through his understanding of how queuing theory impacted code execution. TL:D
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by steve_gh 9y ago
To which, of course, the correct answer is "Unless you have good reason to believe the data is normally distributed, you should be using Mann-Whitney", then explain that :-)

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