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Astrology is Rubbish

07 Monday Feb 2011

Posted by bwkeller in pseudoscience, scams

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astronomy, Bulshytt, ethics, science

So, the other week I got into a It really is!minor flame war (more of a potshot skirmish really) with an astrologer on twitter (full disclosure: I started it ;).  It all started over the remarks Brian Cox (scientist, rock star, all-around cool dude) made on his most excellent Wonders of The Solar System television program. Clip after the jump.

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The Quest to End My Contract

22 Monday Sep 2008

Posted by bwkeller in scams

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bell

With so many wicked awesome gsm phones either already here or on their way, I’m starting to get serious protocol envy. I’ve currently got a pretty decent student plan with Bell, but unfortunately, they are a CDMA carrier. Naturally, there are a number of reasons to prefer GSM to CDMA: the ease of changing phones and carriers via SIM cards, the better overseas coverage, and, as I said before, better phones.  So, as soon as the first hardware with Android arrives (the T-mobile G1), I am going to try to get Bell to end my contract.  How, you might ask?  By actually using it.  Most telecommunications companies grossly oversell their networks, as the vast majority of users never even begin to approach full use of the service they pay for.  So, once I find out if I can get me a pocket of linuxphone goodness, my phone will be wardialing from 9pm-5am (free calling!) and every minute I am not using it on the weekend (also free calling!).  Depending on what I can do with that, I may also exploit the “unlimited browsing” feature in my contract (no tethering though).  If anyone else has any ideas to help me congest the network and hopefully have Bell pull the plug on me, let me know.

No, you cannot run your car on water.

05 Saturday Jul 2008

Posted by bwkeller in alternative energy, pseudoscience, scams

≈ 9 Comments

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stupid

I work at an electronics component retailer, much like the Radio Shack of lore (nothing premade, only parts). Now, we get mostly folks in who are there for business (lots of oilfield people), but from time to time, I am pleased to see an assortment of regular people who are interested in electronics. We get circuit-benders, robotics hobbyists, parents helping children build science projects. Continue reading →

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  • RT @JokesAstro: If the Islands of Hawaii were very massive stars, Kauai would be going supernova soon. https://t.co/NEboP6FRWd 2 days ago
  • RT @AnicaSeelie: @gauravmunjal Imagine if there was a duck but it had human ears 2 days ago
  • RT @jfmclaughlin92: Friendly reminder that if you're at a public university, your institutional email can be searched basically whenever. B… 2 days ago
  • @rcrain_astro Academia has a lot of problems. Precarious employment, massive overworking of junior researchers, poo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 days ago

Nicholas’ Tweet’s

  • RT @michielsdj: New paper! Retrieval-augmented models are expensive. Make them faster by partially pre-computing passage representations. W… 5 days ago
  • RT @michielsdj: New paper! We propose FiDO, an improved version of Fusion-in-Decoder with faster inference and better performance. Work don… 1 month ago
  • @_julianmichael_ @LukeZettlemoyer @emilymbender @nlpnoah @ssshanest Congrats! 5 months ago
  • RT @michielsdj: Now accepted to @iclr_conf! 🎆 1 year ago
  • @mjskay Yeah, I feel a major point people were missing is that an endless spiral into the drain is actually the perfect visual metaphor. 1 year ago

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