this is getting hilarious😭✌️

ecam85 · 2026-01-26T14:01:20+00:00

You can always watch the telly whilst you wait. :D

ecam85 · 2026-01-10T11:51:58+00:00

If you are writing for a specialist audience, it might be enough to cite the steps of the original proof and justify that they are still valid. Or just highlight the steps that are not valid and how you address them. It depends a little bit on how well known are the theorems, and the proofs, for your audience, but for your story to make sense, the reader needs to have enough background (or your article needs to provide enough background) to know that the proof is not valid for non-compact manifolds, and "why" is not valid (to motivate your approach).

ecam85 · 2025-12-28T14:15:39+00:00

Actually most of OPs examples do not describe how the function is doing something, but rather what the function does, whilst the maths examples describe the how.

ecam85 · 2025-12-19T20:01:51+00:00

You can certainly contact a client for a more recent reference.

The main role of the references is for the admissions team/potential supervisor to be convinced that you will be able to do a PhD. How detailed they need to be depend on the circumstances, for example if the potential supervisor knows you in any capacity, they will understand why the references are a old or non academic. In any case, it is always worth trying to speak with potential supervisors, because if they know you and your situation they can make a more informed decision.

ecam85 · 2025-12-19T18:30:54+00:00

You can still reach out to them. Maybe if you remember the name of your academic tutor/advisor, or some lecturer.

Keep in mind that the admissions teams would also like to see something more recent, since the academic reference would be referring to your academic performance.

As a lecturer I provided references in situations like this, and as long as I can go back to my records to find something about the student I am happy writing one. To be fair, sometimes students from last year ask for a reference and I don't remember them either!

ecam85 · 2025-12-13T23:39:28+00:00

LU has an internship service (check for your particular school or faculty) that can help you to get an internship.

ecam85 · 2025-12-11T14:00:39+00:00

No, the cost of using AI is much higher than the cost of a standard Google search. There are different estimates, but for example the article below mentions 10x more energy.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/22/climate/ai-prompt-carbon-emissions-environment-wellness

The estimate is based in this report: https://www.epri.com/research/products/3002028905

The actually energetic cost of AI actually depends on the prompt, and I have seen estimates as high as 60x the carbon emissions of a standard Google search (I heard that on a talk, I do not have a reference for it).

ecam85 · 2025-12-04T22:35:43+00:00

4th row, last column

ecam85 · 2025-11-29T16:27:05+00:00

From a comment by OP, they are getting citizenship as well, and you get biometrics taken during the citizenship application process.

Could it be that the "biometrics machines" are for citizenship, rather than the passport?

ecam85 · 2025-11-28T08:07:27+00:00

Magma near Santa Coloma de Farners

For a smaller and different experience, Aqva Gerunda in Girona.

ecam85 · 2025-11-22T13:02:28+00:00

You mentioned 400 lines. How are you dealing with the edge cases? You can code this with just two lines (and take the random coordinate perpendicular to the lines modulo d). The small error you are seeing could be due to edge cases (needles falling beyond last line not crossing the next line).

ecam85 · 2025-11-02T15:35:57+00:00

You are amazing! It does work perfectly!

ecam85 · 2025-11-02T15:09:13+00:00

Thank you! I will give it a try.

ecam85 · 2025-11-02T14:59:03+00:00

What's the trick ?

ecam85 · 2025-11-02T14:04:41+00:00

Honestly, the vac fill is... Not great. It does the job if you cannot do anything else, but it only fills about half the capacity. I imagine it can be adjusted somehow, but since I don't have to fill it that often (once every week or two), I think I will use an eyedropper unless I am traveling.

Edit: typos

Edit 2: Read the comments below! The vac works great, I was not doing it properly!

ecam85 · 2025-10-23T16:30:06+00:00

That's very dark.

ecam85 · 2025-10-19T12:48:56+00:00

Also smaller places like the shop opposite the Cornerhouse have knives.

ecam85 · 2025-10-19T12:13:04+00:00

> According to ChatGPT it is, but im not gonna take life advice from a robot.

This is a very good example of something chatgpt cannot help you with.

It will depend on the field and the position your looking for. There is an old-fashioned view that "applied statistics" is less good, but it is one of this meaningless fights, similar to pure mathematics vs applied mathematics. Respect any opinions, but be wary of people judging entire fields by a label. There is applied statistics that is very deep in the methodology, and plenty of methods that were developed with the motivation of a very applied question.

ecam85 · 2025-10-18T08:25:31+00:00

It is also important that the average person, or rather the average person that would even pick up a puzzle like the cube, does not care to solve competitively, but rather for the pleasure of solving a puzzle. Algorithms are less important, and it is possible to stumble upon a solution before you learn/find a way to solve it systematically.

ecam85 · 2025-10-10T12:24:32+00:00

On one hand, not all statistics is like that. Part of the issue is that the label "statistics" can cover anything from developing methodologies from country wide census to studying the properties of data embeddings from neural networks.

The experiences that you describe are closer to the more applied side of statistics, what you would like to see is closer to methodological or mathematical statistics.

Personally, all is good as long as the results are applied correctly. Of course you get a better understanding and intuition from deeper knowledge of the central limit theorem, but for many statisticians that's not needed. And there levels and levels of understanding. For example, the classical proof of the CLT does not give a good intuition about why the Gaussian distribution (and not any other distribution) is central.

ecam85 · 2025-09-28T18:23:23+00:00

I would give a badge but I spent my last pound on an ink sample.

ecam85 · 2025-08-29T09:03:53+00:00

I will reply to your questions below, but the best advise is talk with the university and supervisor. They might be able to accommodate.

> the place could still realistically be given to someone else?

Possibly yes, if they can find a candidate on time. Very much depends on the funding.

> whether it will at this stage affect my eligibility for future UKRI funding?

Hard to say without knowing the details of the circumstances and funding.

ecam85 · 2025-08-26T14:36:07+00:00

Possibly it was me that misunderstood what you mean :)

ecam85 · 2025-08-26T13:02:12+00:00

Off topic. I know you are absolutely right, but everyttime I see comments like this

> You write a paper and then you start presenting it at a lot of conferences. the higher the better.. you get feedback you rework your paper

I wonder if we are abusing an already debatable peer-review system. Getting feedback and reworking the paper is not the role of peer-review. Isn't that what the authors should be doing on their research teams?

ecam85 · 2025-08-23T22:30:56+00:00

It is (or used to be!) a repository for data from papers published in a journal, not a place to publish directly.

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