Author Archives: rpg

The latest LHC webcam images show it’s a success.

All this week I am at a workshop in a wet, flooded York. In a fit of enthusiasm I decided to blog the discussions and work, to give the outside world an idea about what we are actually doing.

This is just a quick update before I spend the day wandering the streets of London trying not to think of Ralf McTell. I’m alive, and so are those bloggers I’ve bumped into over the last couple of days. Some … Continue reading →

You know how it is, you read someone’s writings on the web, a few blog posts and comments, and then when you meet them in the flesh, they are totally different from how you imagine them. Well, meeting Prof. Steve … Continue reading →

Viktor Poor has written some strips specially for the science blogging conference. He has p-printed them ahead of the online publication. So, by the tradition of the internets, I had to scoop his online publication…

This from The Guardian: 2,865 bikes recovered from world’s most prolific cycle thief They found drugs at his house. I guess he was peddling them as well.

I was remiss in not posting about this last week, so, only a week late, I post now that the winners of the 2008 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest were announced, with little fanfare and even less financial reward for the efforts … Continue reading →

OK, technology is getting silly. I’m sat in a bar on a ferry in the middle of the Gulf of Finland, between Tallinn and Helsinki, and I can get a wireless signal.

Over the last week or so I have been asked a couple of statistical questions where the root cause of the problems has been the unthinking application of p-values. In both cases, the solution was to use confidence intervals instead; … Continue reading →