Posts Tagged ‘psychology’

The dichotomy of Real Science

OK, so something occurred to me whilst writing my Part II research project report (which is about all I’ve been doing in the last couple of weeks, in case you wondered). Science, looking from a philosophical point of view, has the following underlying axiom:
All data points are imperfect copies of a Platonic Data Point, [...]

Pancakes and amnesia

Not in any way linked.

It’s pancake day – which meant Powertool Pancakes in the ADC Clubroom. Admittedly we didn’t actually use a powertool this time (it was really just a one-off thing) but most cordless drills are very effective, if somewhat messy, batter-mixing devices. My master creation was ham, cheese, lemon, sugar and [...]

Hi Blog, it's been a while.

Cambridge without students, I can handle. Cambridge without tourists, I can (definitely) handle. Cambridge without either set of people is REALLY weird. Anyway, I digress.
So yeah, um, busy Christmas. I’ve not blogged for a while because I’ve actually been fairly productive over the vacation, doing a whole bunch of academic and [...]

More late-night Linux

grep -B 3 average stuart.out | grep -v Turnpoint | sed -e ’s/cosine/0/g;s/random/1/g;/-/d; s/[[:alpha:][:space:]:]\+/,/g;s/^,8//g; s/,\(([[:digit:]\.]\+)\)//g;s/^,//g’ > clean.csv
Yup, I feel that’s quite an impressively long sed argument. It is probably possible to write something more succinct that will have the same effect, but it’d only be even more obfuscated stuart.out is the [...]