alepper
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Comment · 10 years ago
Does this definitely extend to UK academics? They mention a .edu address is required, and I didn't hear back after applying with a .ac.uk address.
Comment · 10 years ago
If you're based in the UK and interested in research software, you might want to look into 'The UK Community of Research Software Engineers'[1] and The Software Sustainability Institute[2]. From what I've seen, the latter in particular are exploring pragmatic ways to make software engineering more compatible with the expectations (e.g. citations) of academic employers.
Comment · 11 years ago
I'm looking at something similar at the moment, but in agricultural areas where line-of-sight is inhibited only by foliage and terrain. For my purpose, it's OK to collect an SD card every so often, but I've toyed with the idea of an ESP8266 and a directional antenna to e.g. a mobile broadband router, probably again with an antenna upgrade.
Earlier today, I found [1] which - amongst other things which you might be interested in - calls out a venture [2] to establish a network of 'citizen scientist' type flood sensors across the UK. Their scheme looks to be a network of radio-to-Internet gateways which support a number of independently-deployed sensor nodes.
[1] http://oomlout.co.uk/blogs/news/81763329-an-overview-of-ardu... [2] http://flood.network/
Comment · 11 years ago
> I hope the published version in 2008 had it
The published version has headings: Latitude, Latin name, Modern name and date of Roman foundation, Axis, Amplitude at solstice, Published research. Still no map, though.
Comment · 11 years ago
Constraints on template types are useful outside of metaprogramming proper. For example, the standard library already specifies classes of iterators dependent on e.g. the direction(s) in which they may be advanced.
Comment · 11 years ago
n.b. it's a double-pointer. The /called/ code probably allocates a dns_name_t itself, updating the /callee's/ pointer. If the callee's pointer isn't NULL, there's a chance overwriting it will cause a memory leak (as the caller may no longer have a reference to whatever it was pointing to). The comment acknowledges that it's perhaps unnecessarily strict.
Comment · 11 years ago
I got a free copy of the lot back around 2003, but when I looked recently they've officially switched to printing on demand (priced at ~cost) via Lulu. I first got them for hobbyist operating system development - their residual utility there should remain high for a while. Plus, bookshelf cred!
http://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/processors/architec...
Comment · 11 years ago
From the paper[1], it sounds like the same linear motion with the film wrapping around to the top:
> The sphere is dipped with
> its north pole pointing downward. The maximum error on the
> northern hemisphere is within 2mm. However, near its south pole
> the error is much larger (about 5mm). This is because after the
> water surface passes the sphere’s equator, the film gets stretched
> largely, and near the south pole the relative angle between the
> water surface and the object surface approaches to 180◦, leading
> to an ill-posed boundary condition for our simulation (recall
> Equation (1), when θ ≈ 180◦).