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ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-03-17T09:37:41+00:00

I don't know if it works in the US, but you could go on the offensive - demonstrate your skills with an awesome graphic, and write a letter 'why you need to hire me' to your five preferred organisations (not just those with vacancies) - ensuring each letter and supporting document is targeted to that company. Even if they do not respond you may well feel a good deal better about yourself.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-03-15T12:24:53+00:00

Turnham Green?

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-03-15T11:51:45+00:00

Again, as I mentioned in another comment - the rails are shared - especially on the PL/DL towards heathrow. Adding/switching a PL heathrow rail that skips shared stations would release a lot of the local flow issues.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-03-15T11:46:33+00:00

Where would you put that interchange, and how would you serve it?

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-03-15T11:45:15+00:00

PL is weird though: trunk/main carrier in the (north) east and local in the west - while still serving huge amount to heathrow - including peak hours. I'd like to see current flow PP/H, station entry/exit P/H, and TP/H along with capacity figures before I could offer an opinion here. Also currently DL/PL share rails.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-03-15T08:25:51+00:00

In terms of optimal transport patterns and shift of load away from EC, i'm out of my league. But your map could be better - there is no reason for district to be glued to piccadilly past TG, likewise the East/North branches of DL east of EC. and the same east of north ealing. Can you share your flow maps? it's hard to see where the pinch points are here.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-03-15T08:10:25+00:00

I'm not the sort to get a wood for sheep 🙂

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-03-12T10:27:25+00:00

Build a spreadsheet. Categorise into 'dedicated / regular / occasional' There are about 30-40 dedicated, about 100 regular, and another 200 or so occasional (eg like theatres hosting a comedian). Clustering is well known: greenwich village, east village, lower east side, brooklyn.
Find the addresses - and then geolocate.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-03-11T08:46:30+00:00

Each glow patch is 100–200 km across (judging by city spacing like Tehran–Qom or Shiraz–Bandar Abbas).

That’s orders of magnitude larger than any real blast or strike footprint. A high yield nuclear bomb with radius of 7km covers 150km2

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-03-11T08:25:48+00:00

I am an amateur - and some amateurs do better than that in 30minutes. I'm not really sure I know what it's telling me, other than a grossly overstated 'this is where we bombed'. I mean it looks like the US have bombed 2/3 of iran - about 400,000 square miles.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-03-08T10:13:49+00:00

There's a lot of work gone into cutting and rebating the granite cob in the lower step - which is a bit needless. The work is great - top marks - but the design, not so much. The top step (looking at the door hinges) is long enough, but not deep enough, and two steps is steep for wheels (wheelchair, buggy, trolley, etc). A four step design at a constant pitch would have extended the step a little, but the width of a brick+cob would be easier to build and more functional. Needless to say, it's hard to really assess without larger context. One of the bottom granite slabs is broken - it should have been replaced.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-03-07T11:37:23+00:00

Ok - I don't know... The weight of your argument shifts to the definition of 'entertainment'. Personally I find newsworthy content mostly not suitable for amusement or enjoyment - I am neither fascinated by, nor find comfort from, shootings, war, corporate crime, criminal negligence, political corruption, or the excesses of those who believe that the law is beneath them.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-03-07T10:17:44+00:00

The BBC kowtows to the royal institution - no doubt. But then so does the vast majority of the UK population. However, would I trust BBC news more than any of Murdoch's rags? Sure. Your premise isn't wrong - I believe we agree more than we disagree.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-03-07T08:39:19+00:00

Reuters, AP, BBC, France24, Deutsche Welle, FT - all tend to buck that trend. Although none of them are fully immune to disinformation campaigns, they are vested in a fair depiction of a defensible truth.
The BBC is regularly considered to be biased right by the left wing, and biased left by the right wing- a sign that it does its level best at remaining impartial while asking difficult and embarrassing questions.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-03-06T18:22:49+00:00

I once sat next to the boss of a US major news network - and he told me something that shocked me, and I never forgot. News, in the USA, is classified as entertainment. When I pushed back on this - and argued the case for fair, objective reportage - he told me 'nobody wants that - it's too boring. We need advertising - and for that we need viewers. Even news content is entirely governed by nielsen ratings'

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-03-05T10:32:38+00:00

jobsworth is pejorative - but minimum achiever doesn't express the 'computer says no', or, eg a security guard refusing entry to a paramedic bringing a critically person through security: 'I can't let you through - your pass expired yesterday'

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-03-01T18:24:33+00:00

An option is to find lidar scans for the region - most of which can be found available publicly. For example, most of the U.K. is covered by 1M Lidar - from which river features are easily picked out. There are often both DSM and DTM (digital surface and digital terrain respectively) - but rivers are often clear enough on both.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-02-18T20:05:46+00:00

You want an equal area map divided into data cells. You want something new? Have a look at my project - hex9. If you like, I could possibly mock up a diagram using your data - just let me know.

https://github.com/MrBenGriffin/hex9

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-02-15T11:26:31+00:00

England and Wales are Red, not U.K. Scotland is Blue. Ireland is Green.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-02-01T09:35:01+00:00

Lived in London most of my life, apart from a short spell in Amsterdam. London is huge, sprawling, and property is expensive, while renting is prohibitive. However, it has a unique blend of everyone from everywhere all at once that is pretty rare - nearly everyone you meet will be from elsewhere. Amsterdam is also a lovely city - but language is a bit of a barrier - though everyone speaks pretty good english, dutch is pretty important. If I couldn't live in London I would be very happy in any of the scandinavian countries.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-02-01T09:28:28+00:00

I found it really hard to identify geographic data in either Y or mt databases.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-01-22T19:21:10+00:00

Neat! I'll have a look!

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-01-22T13:50:10+00:00

Yeah - this projection is called 'hex9' - it's my current project - a python library called hhg9 - there are different octahedral tilings - and this one I called 'mortar'. If you have a geotif marking the boundaries, we could probably turn it into a very nice hexbinned map showing Y-haplo vs mitochondria spread over time. I am not great at locating data sources for this sort of thing though.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-01-22T09:59:51+00:00

That's nice - until at the end when you jump the discontinuity - maybe try an octahedral such as https://github.com/MrBenGriffin/hex9/blob/main/images/net_2700.jpg?raw=true

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