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3 Text Editors for the Linux Command Line 17 September, 2024 I don’t know exactly, or even roughly, how many editors there are for the Linux command line. But I have tried more than a few of them over the years, and found that most weren’t for me. A variety reasons for that, which probably had as much to do with me as with the editors. But, regardless of what …

Bev and I fly off to the, sun-soaked, island of Corfu on Wednesday afternoon. Gatwick isn't a particularly pleasant airport from which to start our latest adventure, yet is certainly better than the Luton alternative when having to drive from Ramsgate. Because of this tonight will be the final time that the garden moth trap will be operated until we return. To be fair, the recent run of blustery winds …

There is a classic statistical test known as the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test (Wikipedia). This post is about an off-label use of the KS-test that I don’t think people know about (not even Kolmogorov or Smirnov), and which seems useful for experimentalists in behavioral science and beyond (most useful, I think, for clinical trials and field... The post [120] Off-Label Smirnov: How Many Subjects Show an Effect in Between-Subjects Experiments? appeared …

Have you ever read an autopsy report? It’s brutal. You peel a person apart, pick them over for information. You tour through their body, their organs, their selves like it’s the index to a book. In just a couple of pages of banal medical description, you are turned from an ordinary citizen into the holder of a dark secret. The autopsy makes you a witness to somebody’s most intimate moments. …

Yesterday, I was at State of the Browser in London. It was great to catch up with friends and make new ones, and the talks were once again very well curated. In this post, I'll share some notes from the day and the takeaways that stood out to me the most. The Barbican tube station Think about funding the web ecosystem Stephanie Stimac kicked us off with a brilliant talk …

The history of Western encounters with ‘the other’ is a horrifying collection of oppression, colonisation, extermination; of seemingly intellectual debates about race and the superiority of one race over another; of inflammatory remarks, persecution, camps. Anyone who was not Western (specifically European) and Christian (mainly Catholic) was considered vermin, subhuman, a danger to public life. […]

Written by Arthur McKenzie, Directed by Richard Holthouse Knowing PC Young’s eventual fate, it’s difficult not to look back at any episodes which featured him strongly with a keen eye to see how his character was developed. Even this early on it looks like the essential building blocks were in place – Young is keen to be a member of the team, but seems destined to always be something of …

THE EDITORS OF Not Just Bits of Paper, a compendium of writing on the original anarcho-punk wave which offers a participant’s eye view of events, has been republished in an updated edition to mark the tenth anniversary of its release. The original edition of Not Just Bits of Paper was published back in 2014. The 2024 edition is printed in full-colour, and has been extended to include an additional thirty-seven …

It staggers me to realise that, after penning this blog for almost 17 years now, I have only featured A. A. Allen’s incredible output once, seven years ago when I posted Crying Demons (now updated), a staple of pretty much every ‘worst records’ list compiled. Crying Demons is a classic noted, on the reverse of one of Allen’s many releases, as ‘one of the most amazing recordings of demons speaking …

Strangely, we first visited this park almost exactly 10 years ago, when it was the FIRST wheelchair accessible playground we’d seen in (then) 60... The post Grier Park appeared first on StrollerParking.

1. Vanilla – Homemade – 21.07.242. Tiptree Marmalade – Anya Hindmarch Icecream project – 25.07.243. Filippo Berio Classic Pesto – Anya Hindmarch Icecream project – 25.07.244. Kikkoman Soy Sauce – Anya Hindmarch Icecream project – 25.07.245. Mint Choc Chip – Homemade 28.07.246. Cherry – Homemade 29.07.247. Vanilla – Worton Kitchen Garden 03.08.248. Millionaires Shortbread – Treleavens 17.08.249. Brown bread – Palais Provisions 20.08.2410. Fig Leaf – Palais Provisions 20.08.2411. Banana …

Bluesky is having A Moment right now, and my feed is getting busier with games industry folks. It’s lovely! I’m a little sad Mastodon didn’t get the same love but Bluesky is undoubtedly easier to use. At the same time, another challenger social media platform is having a different kind of moment. Cohost is being shut down - the creators are understandably unable to sustain funding for it. I didn’t …

OpenAI (who owns ChatGPT) released a new model today. It is called o1. The main difference between models like 4o is it inherently performs chain of thought reasoning when producing an answer. What is chain of thought reasoning? Well, it shows you how it came to the result it did. This makes the model more accurate and also shows you how it got to where it did with its answer. …

Following the global success of mega-hit Six was always going to be a challenge. Why Am I So Single? is the new show from Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, a “big fancy musical” that celebrates… More

The distribution of a \(n\times n\) quadratic form in Gaussian variables, \(X^TAX\) is a linear combination of \(\chi_1^2\) variables: \[Q\sim\sum_{i=1}^n\lambda_iZ^2_i\] where \(\lambda_i\) are the eigenvalues of \(A\Xi\) and \(\Xi\) is the covariance matrix of \(X\). This is not in the tables at the back of the book. For reasonable values of \(n\) and reasonable tail probabilities, the Satterthwaite approximation is perfectly reasonable. It is of the form \[\tilde Q_0\sim a\chi^2_d\] …