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by timthorn 7y ago
This is a heritage charity and most certainly not a commercial operation. There are many old mills around the UK, many still in working order, of multiple types. Most are registered with the SPAB: https://www.spab.org.uk/mil
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by timthorn 7y ago
But it's not producing for the first time in 50 years - it's just producing full time, whereas previously it was milling on a demonstration basis.
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by timthorn 7y ago
To be fair, the announcement was posted to the R-announce mailing list, and it seems probable that subscribers would know what R is.
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NHS Digital Health Technology Standard Consultation(nhsx.nhs.uk)
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by timthorn 7y ago
The BBC has filmed several programmes where a group of historians relive life from different periods. One of these series was filmed there: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04sv5nc
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Makespace Visor(web.makespace.org)
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How to Run Rosetta@Home on Arm-Powered Devices(mininodes.com)
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Identifying properties and streets in government data(technology.blog.gov.uk)
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by timthorn 7y ago
As Fry Richardson wrote: "Big whorls have little whorls/ Which feed on their velocity,/ And little whorls have lesser whorls/ And so on to viscosity."
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by timthorn 7y ago
I understand that his method was rerun by the Met Office and when they excluded the bad source data they got the correct answer. https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/who/our-history/celebr...
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by timthorn 7y ago
Lewis Fry Richardson was the person who first attempted numerical modelling of the weather. He spent his free time on the front line of WWI as an ambulance driver trying to complete a single 6 hour forecast. Unfortunately his source data wa
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Self-isolation proves a boon to rainfall project(bbc.co.uk)
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by timthorn 7y ago
Zooniverse was a direct response to a PhD project that Chris Lintott was supervising. His student was tasked with classifying galaxies and in the end decided that the volume of data was just too great. There is a good supply of volunteers,
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by timthorn 7y ago
And that is the precise reason that the Raspberry Pi was born. Your age group was particularly unfortunate to be the first wave where the user interface of computers was being almost exclusively designed for non-technical users, so the deli
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by timthorn 7y ago
Or watch Chris Curry, Steve Furber and Hermann Hauser watching "Micro Men": http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/news/55409/
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by timthorn 7y ago
> the NHS is already struggling with waiting time up to 4 hours in hospitals Interestingly, my local hospital emailed today and said that "Emergency Department attendance figures have fallen by 130 cases per day, or around 40% as a
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How working from home has changed the traffic on the Janet Network(shapingthefutureofjanet.jiscinvolve.org)
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by timthorn 7y ago
It's certainty been in service on the network I use for many years. It is noticeable when I call another enabled endpoint.
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by timthorn 7y ago
Wideband AMR has been available for a decade on 3G, Eg https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11138503
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by timthorn 7y ago
The smaller stores are fine. It's only really the supermarkets where there are stock issues.
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by timthorn 7y ago
There are several support elements available to businesses. There has previously been the announcement of interest free loans, and grants to small businesses. Today they announced that the government will pay 80% of furloughed workers'
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Citizen science experiment predicts toll of flu pandemic on the UK (2018)(cam.ac.uk)
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by timthorn 7y ago
> focus their efforts on the actual hard stuff The trouble is, they (or at least, a good number of them) aren't doing so at the moment. This will get them to at least address the easy stuff.
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by timthorn 7y ago
This is a good point to remind citizens to keep an eye on the Government consultations that come out from time to time - at least in the UK, we all have the opportunity to contribute to this type of regulation through responding to the rele
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British government wants UK to acquire coronavirus 'herd immunity'(itv.com)
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Should be read in conjunction with https://web.archive.org/web/20080528221818/https://www.bytec...
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There are similar ghost trains in the UK: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150723-why-britain-has-...
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Galaxy Zoo continues for astronomical citizen science: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zookeeper/galaxy-zoo/
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South West (England) to host Europe's largest Arm supercomputer(bristol.ac.uk)
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by timthorn 7y ago
This is unrelated. The Met Office is going out for a new platform to run daily forecasts rather than climate models, as the current machine reaches end of life in 2022.

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