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Comment on Passed my PhD viva! by Dan Q

Dan Q — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:58:56 +0000

Hurrah! That’s fantastic. I had in my calendar to check up with you and see how it went, but I hadn’t gotten around to it yet.

So thanks for sharing, Doctor Q.

Comment on 11 years, 11 days. by john Melton

john Melton — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:05:21 +0000

Well done best of luck! 11Years 11dats and 11 hour.

As I have always said ” Home is where the heart is,”

I will a[ways feel that from six weeks old, to 18 years, when you left for Uni

Some how I think “Our Hearts”, will always be your home!”

Move on Claire, and be kind also happy, except all people have an opinions.

Respect them, for there views, quietly.

With all our love Dad & Pat xxx.

Not forgetting you Mum, and Steven, who are with you, and your future!

Comment on 11 years, 11 days. by Dan Q

Dan Q — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:52:01 +0000

Aww; that’s fab. I’m reminded of my ’saying goodbye to Aberystwyth’ post, some two and a half years earlier.

I don’t have your new address yet.

Comment on Voting Systems Across the World by Michael Ossipoff

Michael Ossipoff — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:08:43 +0000

AV (aka IRV) would be great if voters would vote sincerely instead of overcompromising for a “lesser-evil”. But they do, and so AV shares FPTP’s lesser-evil compromise problem.

A better and simpler voting system reform: Approval.

The voter can give, to each candidate, either an “Approved” rating or an “Unapproved” rating. In other words, the voter can give to any candidate either 1 point, or 0 points.

So Approval is a points rating system. It’s big advantage is that, unlike AV (IRV), Approval never gives anyone any strategic reason to vote someone over their favorite. No one ever has any reason to not give the fullest support to their favorite.

In AV (IRV), a timid voter will often vote a lesser-evil compromise candidate in 1st place, instead of his/her favorite, in order to protect the compromise from immediate elimination, “to avoid wasting [his/her] vote.”

That’s the same problem that FPTP has. Approval doesn’t have that problem.

Approval is much more simply and easily implemented than AV, and is easier to propose and enact, because it’s only the most minimal (but powerful) change from FPTP.

Mike Ossipoff

Comment on Is being a scientist fulfilling? by john melton

john melton — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:20:53 +0000

Now all life is like that, except some types of work a unfortunately repetitive unless your enjoy what you are doing money matters to get by with, and pay boring bills! but the wanting to go to work to discuss with like minded people is a bonus.

(1) Do It
(2) Achieve It
(3) Enjoy It
(4) happiness will Pay the most

Comment on So, how’s that thesis coming? by Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:54:55 +0000

In the last few months two of my friends went for their viva. One passed outright after a viva which lasted about one hour. One has fallen into a cateogry I had never really heard of before, they have a year to resubmit for a second viva. I don’t mean major amendments, and I don’t mean a fail. They made a statistical assumption which the external did not like. Their supervisor doesn’t really know what happened there at all.

Anyway, I hope you pass outright, although I do know how exceptionally rare that is.

You could do a bioinformatics masters degree, they have one here at DMU. Although I have no idea how good it is. Genetics is the way forward, shame I hate working with it!

Comment on MEng. by John Melton

John Melton — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:22:07 +0000

Well, Well, Well, I have hever had doubts about my Daughter and realise that all things have to be gone through

From reading “THE ENORMUS TURNIP at 18 MONTHS and I recorded it ,
to infants, when you were helping the other children to understand ther work to Patrol leader in the scouts.

To being a “MUSICAL DIRECTOR FOR THE KING”S LYNN AMATURE OPERACTIC SOCIETY AT 17 years old.

To high school with very high grades, running along that you achieved Grade 5 with ” The Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music”

Learning to Drive, and passed FIRST TIME and

taken your andvanced driving test, sorting out the University you wanted to go.
Getting a 2.1 Master of Enginering.

Then the family life loosing your MUM and BROTHER fighting the berievment, whilst alone a university,

” DAD IS SO PROUD OF YOU and just loved to say go for it CLAIRE”

Best of luck with the Phd. “Go for it Claire”

Comment on Polyamory - an honest retrospective by Dan Q

Dan Q — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:09:05 +0000

Nice post. And I’m pleased that you still feel able to do your tiny bit of poly-activism by defending your choices and defending the fact that this kind of relationship is right for others, even if it’s not for you: it would probably have been easier, in the medium-to-long term, to have simply said “yes, I made a mistake,” even if it wasn’t true… but you’re doing something nobler, and that’s admirable. Well done.

Comment on Dear future employer by Eskoala

Eskoala — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:17:49 +0000

Wow, I was really a dick about this. Sorry, 5-years-ago Suz!

Comment on Ada Lovelace day by Dan Q

Dan Q — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:09:50 +0000

I met Jocelyn Bell Burnell the other month. She famously discovered pulsars, but the Nobel Prize for Physics went to her supervisor (who didn’t actually do much), in what has sometimes been used as a criticism of the “one named recipient” policy of the Nobel Prize process, and slightly less-often been cited as an example of sexism in the sciences, especially in the 1960s.