Jan Wessnitzer

Short movie : "A story about a boy, his robot and the consequences of his anger at the disintegration of his parents marriage." http://www.imdb.com/title... - Jan Wessnitzer

After playing with the data over the last few days, I must say that the location data is very noisy at best. Maybe it'll be less inaccurate when I switch the GPS services on.... this shall be the experiment for the next day or two. - Jan Wessnitzer

Hmm..your iPhone is basically recording my movements too then! - Jo Young

I had to make a few changes in an R script I downloaded. I do not remember where I downloaded it from but as soon as I do I will host the script on my website (with the necessary acknowledgements to the original author(s)!). - Jan Wessnitzer

Again I would like to stress that this is not my script, I just made some very minor changes in order to produce jpeg rather than png output. I hope it may be useful for people who experienced similar problems with the original script. - Jan Wessnitzer

(via Bjoern) - Jan Wessnitzer

I am a guinea pig in an experiment on time perception. I look forward to reading about the results in Nature :) but maybe I was 11 points below par for that to happen..... - Jan Wessnitzer

Channel 4 News maps the increasing price of university tuition fees amid changes to government funding. Use the slider to change the cost, navigate the map and click on the icons to find out more. - Jan Wessnitzer

Here's the original http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Jan Wessnitzer

Clearly an April 1st gag but still funny.... - Jan Wessnitzer

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps... - Jan Wessnitzer

"A study using census data from nine countries shows that religion there is set for extinction, say researchers. The study found a steady rise in those claiming no religious affiliation. The team's mathematical model attempts to account for the interplay between the number of religious respondents and the social motives behind being one. The result, reported at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas, US, indicates that religion will all but die out altogether in those countries." - Jan Wessnitzer

I 'like' this post too. - Jan Wessnitzer

"This month we talk to Lambda man himself, Phil Wadler, about functional web programming, Ian Sommerville introduces us to cloud computing and we get a report about the most recent HiPEAC conference. Oh, and Edd fails miserably at the quiz! Have you ever wanted to know how bad guys crack passwords? Well this month we explain how they do it, showing you how rainbow tables and salts work. And once you've listened to the feature, try and crack the passwords of the CompuCast crew! The passwords contain only lower case and digits, the hashes below are MD5 hashes. Try your own rainbow table, dictionary attack or get clues from the episode. Let us know if you crack them! " - Jan Wessnitzer

"'Inside Job' provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia." - Jan Wessnitzer

I saw it yesterday and highly recommend it. - Jan Wessnitzer

makes perfect sense! - Jan Wessnitzer

"Valgrind is a GPL'd system for debugging and profiling Linux programs. With Valgrind's tool suite you can automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, avoiding hours of frustrating bug-hunting, making your programs more stable. You can also perform detailed profiling to help speed up your programs." - Jan Wessnitzer

I have to add though that the quadrotors are not autonomous (contrary to what the authors claim)! - Jan Wessnitzer

Details are in here http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls... - Jan Wessnitzer

quack quack "it is not my job to sit down and read peer reviewed papers because I simply haven't got the time, I haven't got the scientific expertise. What I rely on is people who have got the time and expertise to do it and write about it and interpret it. You know, I am an interpreter of interpretations" quack quack quack..... - Jan Wessnitzer

The guy admits he doesn't know what he's writing about. That's pretty blunt. One might transcribe this as: "I spend my days getting paid to sit on my keyboard and laugh at the people who read what appears on the screen." Dunning Kruger at the extreme. - Björn Brembs

Just goes to show what an idiot the guy is. This clip is an extract from the recently aired Horizon programme "Science under attack" http://www.bbc.co.uk/program... What I found very scary is that people like that (and the editors at the Telegraph who should stopped him) are writing such uninformed bullshit day in day out! I'll never again say anything bad about peer review! - Jan Wessnitzer

What really got my blood boiling was when the know-nothing journalist had the gall to tell the president of the Royal Society how science works and how scientists behave. It's like a blind man telling a seeing man what colors really look like. - Björn Brembs

“We also discovered that science is cool and fun because you get to do stuff that no one has ever done before.” - Jan Wessnitzer

DOI to the paper does not resolve... - Björn Brembs

http://rsbl.royalsocietypublis... - Kubke

Got it now, thanks! - Björn Brembs

"So here goes. If you are committed to this path, and want papers, grants, and employment for now and tomorrow, I can sum up in two words what it is that is asked of you, and really, everyone who works in science: Astonish us. That's it. (There is a maxim that says, "If it fits on a bumper sticker, it isn't true." While I generally ascribe to this,....," - Jan Wessnitzer

"From the early nineteen thirties, for a period of about twenty years, the British Council was an enthusiastic commissioner and distributor of documentaries, designed to showcase Britain to the outside world at a time when fascism was becoming evermore prevalent across Europe." - Jan Wessnitzer