Notices by Phil Bull (philbull), page 2

Phil Bull Ubuntu users

Loving that #oxford has an !ubuntu mirror. One minute to download the Natty ISO :)

Phil Bull GNOME

I didn't do so well in the epic !gnome vs. !mozilla thumb wrestling showdown. I'll be back for you next year, muwahahaha!

Phil Bull

Need MCMC sample from what looks like a significantly multi-modal distribution - what should I use? Thinking of tempered transitions. #cmml

Phil Bull GNOME

Just kicking off the #openhelp conference - wooo! !gnome #foss #documentation (follow on #openhelp hashtag)

Phil Bull GNOME

Off to Open Help conference and !gnome docs hackfest, 3-9 June, Cincinnati http://openhelpconference.com #documentation #foss

Phil Bull

Great article on how users perceive #documentation by Anita http://is.gd/uJcbSW

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CQG published a load of free articles from the GR19 conference http://iopscience.iop.org/0264-9381/28/11 #cosmology #gr

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X-men wasn't bad, if you could see through the large dollops of cheese.

Phil Bull

May have fixed my problem with shift parameters in voids. Only took three weeks! #cosmology

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Lovely dinner with Kip Thorne and others last night after his Dennis Sciama lecture (thanks to Sciama family for putting on the event).

Phil Bull

My task for today: Learn about simulated annealing #cmml

Phil Bull

Slashdot have a story about "Ryan Gibbs". Tee hee. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/05/26/0332208/Twitter-Prepared-To-Name-Users

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First breakthrough of the day: My Makefile's looking at the wrong version of the WMAP likelihood code. Duh.

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Hmm, "New method confirms dark energy" - a touch misleading, BBC? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13462926 #cosmology

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"Man has opinions on things; happens to be scientist" - Hawking continues with the "#science means no God" bit http://is.gd/TNSxIz #religion

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Just checked my MCMC run and it'd reached 1337 steps. It's an omen!

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Bad luck Stoke :( #facup

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CosmoMC tip of the day: Don't use estimate_propose_matrix = T, it will eat your babies http://is.gd/Xl4LCz #cosmology

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"When we try to calculate observable quantities [...] pert. theory gives UV divergences + corrections to the background of O(1)" #cosmology

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Fun paper from Chris Clarkson: Is backreaction really small within concordance cosmology? http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.1886 #cosmology