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"In a similar situation, I've recently signed up with the Open University. For my course fees I get a heap of books, access to tutorials, exercises, and if I do all the assessment, some university credit. The tutor explained to us all that..." [
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"This book comes highly recommended:
Travels in four dimensions
I've not read it myself, but back in the day when I was Robin Le Poidevin's MA student, I found his courses on the philosophy of time very very good - clearly put, but exactly as..." [
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"One problem with this: There are no polytechnics in Britain anymore. We turned them all into universities in 1992." [
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"One way to interpret 1-4 is that you lied.
Whatever your motivations, try not to lie to friends again, because it's not a friendly thing to do. Cut your losses, and start again, without the lying...." [
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4 weeks ago
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"I was on that Welling march in 1993. Talk about piss-poor policing - the march was re-routed at the last minute so it didn't go past the nazi bookshop, and when the head of the march (holocaust survivor, people in wheelchairs, that sort of thing)..." [
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2 months ago
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"I've been on several DB trains over the last year (maybe 10 in total, counting long distance ICE trains and small ones). On the train, I have seen no smoking, and no evidence of smoking. Outside on some platforms there are "rauchen island"..." [
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3 months ago
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"The newer EU countries (and the candidates for membership) are often cheaper - Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria..." [
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3 months ago
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"This ultimate winter couscous is fab:
Ultimate Winter Couscous. I had it at least once a week last winter, really it is fantastic and a very forgiving recipe if you fancy playing around with it.
An old Engish cheese+potato+onion dish which is..." [
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3 months ago
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"I'm going to have to recommend Greenwich again here: there's a great park, the observatory, the foot tunnel under the thames, the cutty sark, the maritime museum, a decent cinema, and a number of markets (on a sunday there's at least three: antique..." [
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3 months ago
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"There's a program that automatically creates bibtex style files. It's great. It covers every single POSSIBLE thing you might want to do though so it can take a few minutes to run through. It's in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/custom-bib/ in this (linux)..." [
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3 months ago
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"I'm in the BCSWomen group - British Computer Society's women's network.
We had a "premiere day" trip to Bletchley with one of the original Wrens showing us round, who was just amazing. This woman - Jean Valentine - was a total..." [
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5 months ago
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"Book trains early, and commit to a particular time, and you can save something like 80% on the ticket. thetrainline is the site to do it at. Not sure if they deliver to the US but if not drop me an email and we can sort something out.
Whilst..." [
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7 months ago
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"I seem to say this everytime there's a London question, but here are two good days out/walks which are fairly cheap and steeped in London history: they both involve crossing the river, too. As a native sarf landoner I'm always a little disappointed..." [
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7 months ago
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"I'm 32, and planning to hold a HUGE party in about 7 months when I hit 33 + 1/3. Youse will all have to wish me happy LP-RPM then, and watch the kids say whuh?
No point stressing out about 30. It's just an accident of the number system. Did you..." [
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8 months ago
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"More dealing with Bayesian networks, Kevin Murphy's pages (here's his graphical models + bayes nets stuff) were great when I was trying to get a handle on this. His basic tutorial on the Bayes rule for example is very clear.
If you're one of..." [
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9 months ago
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"Oxfam unwrapped http://www.oxfamamericaunwrapped.com/ do some cool gifts. You could get them a toilet installed somewhere that really needs it." [
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11 months ago
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"I expect it is a function of autonomy and memory. The stuff you listen to as a teen is likely to be the first stuff you chose to listen to (rather than being the choice of your parents). So you have more autonomy concerning the choice, so it is more..." [
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"I was recently shown a way of making vinaigrette which resulted in a really smooth, thick dressing:
Take a bit of smooth mustard in a small bowl.
Add a teaspoon of olive oil and stir with a fork until it mixes together and you can't see the oil..." [
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"I think you might be talking about vellum. It's not paper as we know it, but wiki has a good deal of info.
The study of old manuscripts and the surfaces upon which they were written is palaeography or papyrology. I once attended a great seminar in..." [
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"I had a student once who handed in an essay which was clearly a patchwork of different sources - a paragraph from here, a paragraph from there. Using google and findsame I located about half of his essay on the internet, from about 6 different sites...." [
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"Start looking for another job. If you've telephone and call centre skills and experience, customer services sounds like something you could do more happily: fixing people's problems rather than selling them shite. You'll still get the venters, but..." [
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"I can't answer your questions directly, but here are a few observations:
I have difficulty getting a taxi back to my area sometimes - it has a rough reputation, but I expect that is largely due to racism.
Statistically, unemployment is high in..." [
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"WRT the "Oh my god don't drink" school of thought:
I think there are two clear approaches here. I suspect it depends if you are American or not - Americans seem terribly puritanical about alcohol. I have been the (female) recipient of..." [
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Last year
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"Why not just add something on the end of the rss feed - like the characters '[more to the question]'. Then the RSS feed would say things like "Should I divorce him? Of course theres [more to the question]" instead of "What should I..." [
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