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Fighting against misattributions is actually a rewarding task, despite their prevalence. Recently I had the opportunity to correct page an alleged quote from Linus Torvalds that "the future is open source everything" - a comment which appears, erroneously, in numerous books. This is, in a sense, a social bug fix. Inspired by this, I am composing a somewhat longer piece which was originally intended as part of a presentation to the Philosophy Forum, but has been brought forward having discovered that I too have been misquoted! The article will address misquotations, poor use of qualifiers, quantitative research, arguments from authority, all as components to qualitative citations.
Next week I'll be in New Zealand; initially to MC Multicore World, and then to give a presentation to computer science staff at the University of Otago in Dunedin, and to visit my secret South Pacific base. The meeting with the computer science staff will be in part inspired by a meeting this week with Greg Wilson and his software carpentry project, designed to provide scientists the minimum tools for the computation side of their research. It is similar in concept, but different in content, to the training courses I run for high performance computing. Whilst in Dunedin, we'll be staying at Larnach Castle which is surprisingly affordable, and the history of a Scottish gothic-horror-romance novel.
Thursday night was the second-last episode of Horror on the Orient Express, which includes the famous transformation of said locomotive into a living monster and the appearance of a cathedral car attached to the runaway steam monstrosity. Having literally crashed into Paris, one character decided enough was enough and booked themselves into the local asylum. Another catatonic character is in the care of another, and a third is secreted in a Romanian asylum in the Carpathians where they call for Ithaqua each evening.
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doomydoombear and partner visited and we provided a tour of Willsmere. Tomorrow is LUV-Beginners, with Daniel Jitnah giving a talk on an introduction to PHP. On Sunday there's a chance I'll be attending the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, although the circumstances of the ticket are not the best - imajica_lj, you are in our thoughts.
Next week I'll be in New Zealand; initially to MC Multicore World, and then to give a presentation to computer science staff at the University of Otago in Dunedin, and to visit my secret South Pacific base. The meeting with the computer science staff will be in part inspired by a meeting this week with Greg Wilson and his software carpentry project, designed to provide scientists the minimum tools for the computation side of their research. It is similar in concept, but different in content, to the training courses I run for high performance computing. Whilst in Dunedin, we'll be staying at Larnach Castle which is surprisingly affordable, and the history of a Scottish gothic-horror-romance novel.
Thursday night was the second-last episode of Horror on the Orient Express, which includes the famous transformation of said locomotive into a living monster and the appearance of a cathedral car attached to the runaway steam monstrosity. Having literally crashed into Paris, one character decided enough was enough and booked themselves into the local asylum. Another catatonic character is in the care of another, and a third is secreted in a Romanian asylum in the Carpathians where they call for Ithaqua each evening.
Earlier in the week
doomydoombear and partner visited and we provided a tour of Willsmere. Tomorrow is LUV-Beginners, with Daniel Jitnah giving a talk on an introduction to PHP. On Sunday there's a chance I'll be attending the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, although the circumstances of the ticket are not the best - imajica_lj, you are in our thoughts.