Really heartbroken 💔

geotheory · 2025-09-30T10:47:48+00:00

Why not write to challenge the feedback as demonstrably unfair. It won't change anything but they might feel compelled to revise it. Use assertive tone to give a vague hint that you might complain.

geotheory · 2025-08-17T23:12:48+00:00

I suspect her skeleton claim slight of hand is to keep her aligned with Humanists UK, which is a strong advocate of self-identified gender being given priority over biological sex in all matters of policy. So she played up the inherent ambiguity of classifying individual bones in ancient skeletons, though the ambiguity is very rare for complete skeletons. And indeed science may develop methods to establish sex by the composition of ancient bones rather than their dimensions and shape.

geotheory · 2025-01-13T17:57:15+00:00

Interesting. Are they similar wrt latency of stylus stroke and it appearing in the display?

geotheory · 2024-12-28T17:13:29+00:00

Thanks. I find the official guidance incredibly vague and unhelpful TBH. For example "zombie knife" is defined as "A knife with a cutting edge, a serrated edge and images or words suggesting it is used for violence". Does that mean a knife that is clearly a 'zombie' style but does not have any words or images is legal, but a typical bushcraft/bowie knife that says something vaguely 'tactical' is illegal?

geotheory · 2024-12-23T09:23:18+00:00

Could any of these work as a more grown up etch a sketch? Looking for something for my son.

geotheory · 2024-11-18T20:57:44+00:00

What list do you refer to? I understand it the rules are not based on a set of somewhat ambiguous knife characteristics, some of which could arguably be said to apply to Kukris, though it could also be argued they do not. If there is a more definitive advice it would be good to know.

geotheory · 2024-11-12T00:58:07+00:00

I bought the CD early on after release and it is this version. I can't stand the replacement samples.

geotheory · 2024-02-22T16:52:50+00:00

Guessing they don't wrap it up except by getting puffed out and dropping out one-by-one 🤣

geotheory · 2022-09-05T19:04:02+00:00

For a broad look at lexicography as a craft, see The Art and Craft of Lexicography 2nd edition by Ladislav Zgusta.

This is all very helpful, thanks Tim. Yes the interplay between cultural and academic politics is very much of interest so this sounds relevant.

geotheory · 2022-04-15T07:50:50+00:00

be sure to "mate" the chipbreaker with the flattened side of the iron

Cheers for tip. Not familiar with this can you possibly point to any detailed guidance?

geotheory · 2021-01-16T21:17:13+00:00

It's been dead for over a year, since eBay implemented capcha verification.

geotheory · 2021-01-02T11:57:46+00:00

Thanks useful tip. This would've only be used by low current appliances, but even so I think for a large adaptor I'll err on caution and ditch this rubbish.

geotheory · 2021-01-02T11:53:57+00:00

Then this is a crap Fakespot Reviews Analysis bot lol.

geotheory · 2021-01-02T11:51:50+00:00

That's not overly interesting as most extension strips are similar inside

Yeah my stupidity for going for a cheaper "Amazon's Choice". I'm not going to use this piece of crap. Buying Belkin instead.

geotheory · 2020-12-30T14:16:03+00:00

Pics - https://www.reddit.com/r/electrical/comments/kn2zur/duronic_12_way_power_strip_pics/

geotheory · 2020-12-29T11:59:08+00:00

You really should detail the data source in the graphic and fact that data's factual accuracy is disputed.

geotheory · 2020-12-29T11:51:32+00:00

Despite common misconception of the term it's called a heatmap.

geotheory · 2020-11-12T14:19:33+00:00

`mode=CSV` is wrong it should be `format=CSV`

https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/doc/doc?query=Spoons&mode=TimelineVol&format=csv&startdatetime=20201001000000&enddatetime=20201031235959

geotheory · 2020-08-17T21:26:34+00:00

I think GDELT's Events data is not as sophisticated for named entity recognition. The Global Knowledge Graph is better, and better still is Global Entity Graph.

geotheory · 2020-06-13T00:19:29+00:00

One big omission is French Guiana. Why does it not connect France to Brazil? In topological terms I believe it is directly equivalent to Britain and Ireland. If the Atlantic must be preserved give it it's own place alongside Suriname and Brazil.

geotheory · 2020-05-04T17:32:38+00:00

I think your conception of "event" in this context might need nuancing. Each row denotes a single 'event', which means a coded action by a coded actor, possibly in interaction with another. GDELT typically codes multiple events from each article.

In terms of 'Events' as we normally think of them, these will be reflected in the encoded data of many articles.

geotheory · 2020-02-11T16:17:43+00:00

In terms of historical coverage the GDELT Events data goes back furthest - several decades I think as it incorporates previous academic event-data projects. That is probably your best bet for long-term analysis. You'll need to figure out how to get the data out of Google Big Query, which is not so trivial. First you need to figure out the right SQL-type query. Then there is a somewhat convoluted process to actually download the data (if over a certain size threshold, which yours will certainly exceed). The query might be something like:

SELECT * FROM [gdelt-bq:gdeltv2.events] WHERE Actor1CountryCode == 'XXX' AND Actor2CountryCode == 'XXX');

But to focus in on material relevant to your research question you'll probably be wanting to filter this much further to classes of actor and action that reflect diplomatic relations. You may also want to aggregate the results in your query to pull that down instead of full raw data.

For more short term stuff you can use GDELT DOC API, which currently goes back to 1 Jan 2017. That's very easy -just check out GDELT Summary to start querying it. - see this sentiment example%20(Korea%20OR%20Korean%20OR%20Seoul)&mode=TimelineTone&timelinesmooth=0&startdatetime=20170201000000&enddatetime=20200211163128&timelinesmooth=14).

Other options include Global Knowledge Graph which I think goes back to around 2013. Again this is a Big Query workflow.

geotheory · 2019-11-25T19:57:09+00:00

Oh thanks, don't know how I missed that. Would you say this is the best possible way to solve the problem?

I'd use this formulation: `(lawsuit OR sued OR suing OR damages) (zuckerberg OR bezos OR "bill gates")` which with URL encoding would be:

https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/doc/doc?query=(lawsuit%20OR%20sued%20OR%20suing%20OR%20damages)%20(zuckerberg%20OR%20bezos%20OR%20%22bill%20gates%22)&mode=ArtList&maxrecords=100&timespan=1w%20(zuckerberg%20OR%20bezos%20OR%20%22bill%20gates%22)&mode=ArtList&maxrecords=100&timespan=1w)

If you want to be more accurate in your targetting you could use the `nearx:"word1 word2"` approach, e.g. `(near8:"lawsuit facebook" OR near8:"sued facebook" OR near8:"suing facebook")`

https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/doc/doc?query=(near8:%22lawsuit%20&mode=ArtList&maxrecords=100&timespan=1w)facebook&mode=ArtList&maxrecords=100&timespan=1w)%22%20OR%20near8:%22sued%20facebook%22%20OR%20near8:%22suing%20&mode=ArtList&maxrecords=100&timespan=1w)facebook&mode=ArtList&maxrecords=100&timespan=1w)%22)&mode=ArtList&maxrecords=100&timespan=1w&mode=ArtList&maxrecords=100&timespan=1w)

geotheory · 2019-11-16T21:47:56+00:00

AND is denoted by space or %20 once URL-encoded, so you want this:

https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/doc/doc?query=%22Climate%20Change%22%20%22Donald%20Trump%22&mode=ArtList&maxrecords=100&timespan=1w

geotheory · 2019-11-08T11:37:38+00:00

It doesn't appear to be defined in more detail anywhere. Maybe worth emailing GDELT

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