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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024) on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @01:47AM (#40571071)
University of Glasgow | Funded PhD "Harnessing Large Language Models and Dimensionality Reduction to Reframe Student Feedback in UK Universities." | Glasgow, UK | Onsite

Join our fully funded PhD program: "Harnessing Large Language Models and Dimensionality Reduction to Reframe Student Feedback in UK Universities."

Run jointly by the James Watt School of Engineering and the School of Computer Science, this project will enable you to:

- Use AI and machine learning to analyse and improve student feedback. - Collaborate with Student Voice (www.studentvoice.ai) for real-world impact. - Gain expertise in advanced AI techniques.

Deadline: June 21, 2024

Details: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/phd-in-engineering-har...

Re:A New Blog for 2024 on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @02:43PM (#38846095)
My timing was perfect, saw the site, saw the noise bug, read the comments, checked again and it’s fixed (on iPhone at least)
Re:The Design System Ecosystem on Saturday September 23, 2023 @01:40AM (#37620838)
Luro [0] by Dave Rupert has been developed to solve just this problem.

[0] https://luroapp.com/

Maybe check out Huli who are working on exactly this amongst other things https://huli.life/
Re:Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019) on Monday January 27, 2020 @03:53PM (#22163656)
https://www.stugrey.com

Just revamped mine at the weekend and now much happier with it. Trying to better split out my research from public engagement and other miscellanea.

Unfortunately, to show the Earth and the orbital positions to scale, it was not possible to show the pieces of debris to scale.
Author here,

The debris is coloured to match the descriptive text.

Each years data is loaded when the user gets to that part of the visualisation.

The ring you see is indeed all of the satellites in geosynchronous orbit. You can also see the orbits of many of the GNSS satellites in medium Earth orbit if you stare hard enough for long enough!

This shows all objects (functioning and debris) in orbit at the time in question.

Re:Creating 3D worlds with HTML and CSS on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @04:23PM (#8564346)
He gave a great talk on this at the HNLondon meetup in September 2013, he was a really engaging speaker as I recall.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014) on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @11:42AM (#7971424)
London, UK

Fully funded PhD Studentship in Space Debris Environment Modelling using Spatio-Temporal Analysis

University College London

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Although largely unrecognised by the general population, the world has never been more reliant on access to space. However, continued use of the space environment over the last 60 years has polluted the orbits around the Earth with debris. Currently only a small fraction of space debris is tracked. Failure to capture this data more accurately, and model its behaviour, could result in us losing access to space entirely if a space debris cascade event is allowed to occur.

The aim of this PhD project is to describe the current space debris environment using cutting edge astrodynamics methods and model its evolution over time using machine learning techniques and spatio-temporal data analysis. The Space Geodesy and Navigation Laboratory (SGNL) has become a world leader in accurately modelling the many forces acting on spacecraft in orbit. Our models are currently employed by both NASA and ESA to supply data to support scientific environmental monitoring missions (JASON-1, SENTINEL). SpaceTimeLab have a wealth of experience in the analysis, modelling, simulation and visualisation of large spatio-temporal datasets, with applications in transportation, crime and disaster response. This is an exciting opportunity to build on these models and develop novel techniques to gain new insights into the behaviour of the space debris environment.

Skills you will learn include design, development and testing of algorithms, software and database development, experimental design and implementation, data analysis and both technical and interpersonal communication. You will also have the opportunity to build a network of contacts within both the astrodynamics and spatio-temporal data analysis communities.

This project is a collaboration between UCL’s Space Geodesy and Navigation Laboratory and SpaceTimeLab and will be supervised by Dr Stuart Grey and Dr James Haworth.

Eligibility: Applications are invited from UK and EU members, residing in UK.

Application Procedure: Applicants should send a covering letter and CV to [email protected]

Start Date: The post will be available from September 2014

Duration: 4 Years

Funding: The scholarship covers UCL registration fees and provides a stipend of £15,726 per annum tax free. Travel expenses and research equipment will also be paid for.

Funding Body:EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

Re:3D online library of ancient Egyptian collection on Friday May 09, 2014 @08:38AM (#7720497)
Some great work by my colleagues at UCL. We also scanned Sir Isaac Newton's death mask

http://uclgeomatics.com/2014/02/07/sir-isaac-newton-in-3d/

Re:Become a better programmer with programming challenges on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @05:52AM (#7665930)
I actually run through the first few Project Euler https://projecteuler.net/ problems whenever I am looking to play with a new language. It was really eye opening comparing my answers in Haskell to my answers in the procedural languages.
Re:Visualization of where the $1B on Kickstarter went on Monday March 10, 2014 @10:11AM (#7372954)
It's interesting to see the step change when Kickstarter launched in the UK in October 2012
For those looking to get hacking quickly on the osm data I would highly recommend osm2pgsql

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm2pgsql

It sets up and imports OSM data into a postGIS-enabled PostgreSQL database. From there you can use TileMill to create whatever type of map you fancy or just access the raw data.

Their TileMill software is great. You don't have to sign up to have them serve your maps, you can use all of their tools to generate your tilesets and do what you like with them (obviously attributing your data set source). The MapBox iOS SDK is another stand out contribution from these guys.
Re:My startup is Microsoft-based, here's why on Monday July 01, 2013 @09:41AM (#5970514)
BizSpark is fantastic, not for the free MS software but for the $150 a month of free Azure use for 3 years. For my bootstrapped project which has a significant server-side component it has removed my only monthly expenditure. There is also no compulsion to use MS products or to develop for Microsoft platforms either as i'm using Azure to power the Linux based backend of my iOS app.
Re:Google's Proposed London Headquarters on Friday June 28, 2013 @09:21AM (#5957790)
I agree, It looks like all of the other proposed buildings for Kings Cross.
Re:Google's Proposed London Headquarters on Friday June 28, 2013 @08:35AM (#5957586)
I live nearby and it will be very interesting to see what this does to local rents and house prices.
Re:Sublime Text 3 Public Beta on Friday June 28, 2013 @07:24AM (#5957329)
I absolutely love ST2, Just downloaded the ST3 beta and it is significantly faster then version 2. I'll keep 2 though while I see how stable 3 is in day to day use.
Re:Prince Of Persia Code Review on Friday June 21, 2013 @10:08AM (#5918072)
Jordan Mechner did a great interview where he talks about Kareteka and coding for the Apple II vs iOS.

http://www.imore.com/debug-7-jordan-mechner-and-karateka

Re:Landsat 8 Data Now Available on Friday May 31, 2013 @07:55AM (#5798016)
This is such an amazing dataset. I really like the cloudless map tiles that Mapbox are producing. http://www.mapbox.com/blog/cloudless-atlas-with-landsat/
This is a really interesting approach but the downside is "the need for a 150 m^2 antenna area or compact light-weighted Xray telescopes and detectors, which are currently developed for the next generation of X-ray observatories." This really limits it to very large spacecraft, not the type of spacecraft in use today.
Re:Can I help you? Why retail customers always say No on Friday May 24, 2013 @12:05PM (#5763721)
I worked in retail for a few years and the approach I always took was to say hello or make eye contact and smile. That way if the customer needs help they know you are there but they dont feel harassed.

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