#lifeofpi — Public Fediverse posts
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Today's fun challenge has been to figure out a way to remove/recover data from a locked-down laptop that has no internet connection, and where the ability to plug in a USB drive is blocked.
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Today's fun challenge has been to figure out a way to remove/recover data from a locked-down laptop that has no internet connection, and where the ability to plug in a USB drive is blocked.
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Bwah! Reviewer doesn't like my cheeky Stevie Wonder-referencing title of my Perspective article. I suppose the name of the game is to sneak these things in undetected… and I just lost.
Ah well, it was not in the same league as @CellySally's “You should always keep in touch with your friends”
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Bwah! Reviewer doesn't like my cheeky Stevie Wonder-referencing title of my Perspective article. I suppose the name of the game is to sneak these things in undetected… and I just lost.
Ah well, it was not in the same league as @CellySally's “You should always keep in touch with your friends”
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #Fantasy #LifeOfPi #Shrek 8 Fantasy Movie Masterpieces That Defined the Past 25 Years http://dlvr.it/TT5pgC
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #Fantasy #LifeOfPi #Shrek 8 Fantasy Movie Masterpieces That Defined the Past 25 Years http://dlvr.it/TT5pgC
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Grrr...
I asked last week if there were different forms for the grant that I submitted this morning.I was told there were NO different forms last week.
Friends, there were different forms.
Thankfully, easy to change.
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Grrr...
I asked last week if there were different forms for the grant that I submitted this morning.I was told there were NO different forms last week.
Friends, there were different forms.
Thankfully, easy to change.
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May 31 : Overrated
#Bales2026FilmChallenge #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬
#LifeOfPi (2012)
A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.Admire cinematography only
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May 31 : Overrated
#Bales2026FilmChallenge #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬
#LifeOfPi (2012)
A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.Admire cinematography only
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Another day messing around with GPUs, conda, python this-and-that. Segment Anything indeed... Say what you like about Otsu, at least it will work out of the box on the crappest computer on the planet.
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Another day messing around with GPUs, conda, python this-and-that. Segment Anything indeed... Say what you like about Otsu, at least it will work out of the box on the crappest computer on the planet.
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Just helped someone in my lab with a coding problem. Ended up writing the commands out by hand on a piece of paper. I feel like some kind of yesteryear LLM.
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Just helped someone in my lab with a coding problem. Ended up writing the commands out by hand on a piece of paper. I feel like some kind of yesteryear LLM.
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Email from a colleague to a large distribution list, signing off with “Enjoy the long weekend and the sun!”.
Effectively ensuring thunderstorms via sod's law.
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Email from a colleague to a large distribution list, signing off with “Enjoy the long weekend and the sun!”.
Effectively ensuring thunderstorms via sod's law.
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I just made myself a Post It holder for my desk and am feeling pretty pleased with myself
(I feel sure I must have stolen this idea from someone at some point... if anyone knows who please let me know so that I can credit them)
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I just made myself a Post It holder for my desk and am feeling pretty pleased with myself
(I feel sure I must have stolen this idea from someone at some point... if anyone knows who please let me know so that I can credit them)
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Q&A after seminar.
Q: *mentions relevant paper*
A: thanks! I will check it out.
Q: it was published in Nature.
A: well, it might still be true.It made me laugh anyway.
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Q&A after seminar.
Q: *mentions relevant paper*
A: thanks! I will check it out.
Q: it was published in Nature.
A: well, it might still be true.It made me laugh anyway.
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Writing is thinking.
But also…
Making figures is thinking.
At least it helps me to write by clarifying what we're trying to say and then go back to writing.
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Writing is thinking.
But also…
Making figures is thinking.
At least it helps me to write by clarifying what we're trying to say and then go back to writing.
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Predatory conference madness in my Junk folder just now.
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Predatory conference madness in my Junk folder just now.
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2012 Film Poll - Quarter-Final Round Group 4 of 4 (Screenshots).
#LifeOfPi
#TheBourneLegacy
#TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney
#TheDarkKnightRises#Film #Movies #FilmCommunity #Cinema #CineMastodon #ClassicFilms #FilmPoll #FilmTournament
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Yann Martel: ‘I hate the rich people of this world – of which I’m one, because of Life of Pi’ https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/apr/18/yann-martel-life-of-pi-author-interview #YannMartel #Books #SydneyWritersFestival #Fiction #Culture #LifeOfPi #LeoTolstoy
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Yann Martel: ‘I hate the rich people of this world – of which I’m one, because of Life of Pi’ https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/apr/18/yann-martel-life-of-pi-author-interview #YannMartel #Books #SydneyWritersFestival #Fiction #Culture #LifeOfPi #LeoTolstoy
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Great start to the day. Semantic Scholar alert tells me about an interesting preprint that has cited one of our papers. I click through and find that not only is it an appropriate citation (not always the case), but the authors really understood a deep point in our paper which I wasn’t sure we'd managed to convey.
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Great start to the day. Semantic Scholar alert tells me about an interesting preprint that has cited one of our papers. I click through and find that not only is it an appropriate citation (not always the case), but the authors really understood a deep point in our paper which I wasn’t sure we'd managed to convey.
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Remembered a conversation with a long-in-the-tooth academic 10 years ago.
He said “things are bad, so bad. I've never known a situation like this in all my career.” Hilarious really given that, back then, grant success rates were better, we were still in the EU, the madness of world events & COVID was yet to happen.
I suppose with continual decline, it will always feel at (that point in time) like things are the worst its ever been.
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Remembered a conversation with a long-in-the-tooth academic 10 years ago.
He said “things are bad, so bad. I've never known a situation like this in all my career.” Hilarious really given that, back then, grant success rates were better, we were still in the EU, the madness of world events & COVID was yet to happen.
I suppose with continual decline, it will always feel at (that point in time) like things are the worst its ever been.
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I love it when somebody in the lab proves me wrong with experimental data.
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I love it when somebody in the lab proves me wrong with experimental data.
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The tragedy of writing a reference letter and submitting it only to realise this task was not on my todo list.
It's going on there and then it shall be crossed off!
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The tragedy of writing a reference letter and submitting it only to realise this task was not on my todo list.
It's going on there and then it shall be crossed off!
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"Now that your article has been accepted, you will want to maximize the impact of your work. Elsevier facilitates and encourages authors to share their article responsibly."
I will very responsibly share more details when the embargo is lifted.
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"Now that your article has been accepted, you will want to maximize the impact of your work. Elsevier facilitates and encourages authors to share their article responsibly."
I will very responsibly share more details when the embargo is lifted.
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Supplementary Data. A general rule.
The amount of formatting in an Excel spreadsheet negatively correlates with the usefulness of enclosed data.
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Supplementary Data. A general rule.
The amount of formatting in an Excel spreadsheet negatively correlates with the usefulness of enclosed data.
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Having your paper rejected yet very much appreciating the reviewer's comments... is that a form of Stockholm Syndrome? Asking for a friend.
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Having your paper rejected yet very much appreciating the reviewer's comments... is that a form of Stockholm Syndrome? Asking for a friend.
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25 Modern Classics That’ll Actually Wreck You (In the Best Way)
25 modern classic books that belong on every reading list, from gut-punch literary fiction to genre-bending thrillers. Cormac McCarthy, Zadie Smith, Gillian Flynn, and more. These aren't dusty assignments, they're the books people are still talking about. Here's your no-BS guide to what's actually worth reading. -
25 Modern Classics That’ll Actually Wreck You (In the Best Way)
25 modern classic books that belong on every reading list, from gut-punch literary fiction to genre-bending thrillers. Cormac McCarthy, Zadie Smith, Gillian Flynn, and more. These aren't dusty assignments, they're the books people are still talking about. Here's your no-BS guide to what's actually worth reading. -
Were the changes in the document that I just lost in the crash superior to the half-remembered changes I just rekeyed? I guess we'll never know! Onwards!
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Were the changes in the document that I just lost in the crash superior to the half-remembered changes I just rekeyed? I guess we'll never know! Onwards!
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I have just learned something new and it has surprised me.
Emoji prize if you can me, without looking it up, what GANTT stands for.
#LifeOfPI #StilWritingGrants #TooManyGrants #TooManyGANTTs
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I have just learned something new and it has surprised me.
Emoji prize if you can me, without looking it up, what GANTT stands for.
#LifeOfPI #StilWritingGrants #TooManyGrants #TooManyGANTTs
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Today's highlight (so far)
Data analysis task that was so enthralling, my cup of tea went cold.
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Today's highlight (so far)
Data analysis task that was so enthralling, my cup of tea went cold.
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First two months of 2026 in #PeerReview
I've reviewed:
4 papers
3 grant applicationsI've submitted:
1 paper
1 grant application
so I've “requested” ~6 reviews from the system.So I'm in credit at the Bank of Peer Review so far.
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The frustration of having to convert a (beautiful) LaTeX document into a MS Word document for a journal is offset by the zotero plug-in for Word. It's MUCH better than it used to be under v7.
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81 x two thousand word mini dissertations marked in two days, think that's a #LifeofPi moment 😫😄🎉🥂