Posts by Bart Janssen
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Cracker: Bloggers: Pr*cks, Ars*holes,…, in reply to Islander,
everytime I travelled overseas, I came back with a chest infection.
Same here. Sitting in an air conditioned lecture theatres with people from everywhere in the world carrying every virus in circulation ... just don't tell Health and Safety or they'll ban conferences.
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Cracker: Bloggers: Pr*cks, Ars*holes,…, in reply to Damian Christie,
I wouldn’t describe it as a holiday, but as a life experience it beats 3 days in the office.
Yeah that's it exactly. The trips are hard work. And sometimes you don't perform as well as you'd like for various reasons (giving a good talk when your body is telling you it is 2 am and you should be asleep is non-trivial). But I wouldn't trade them for anything. So complaining that they are too hard and they mean my work isn't as good as it could or should be is not really going to wash with most folks.
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Cracker: Bloggers: Pr*cks, Ars*holes,…, in reply to Paul Williams,
I still don’t know any journalist on the way up who wouldn’t give their right arm to jump on that plane to Vladivostok, knowing how difficult it was.
Needed saying.
Same is true in Science, travelling to conferences is tiring, sitting through boring seminars is ... but you get to goto another country and meet some amazing people and some boring ones and some who are both.
You can't really be taken seriously when you complain.
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Hard News: Tired and emotional, for reals, in reply to Jdrinnan,
opens up a festering issue about bloggers and the relationship with mainstream media
Yeah, nah.
Well to be fair it might be a subject for discussion around your table at tea time, but out here in the rest of New Zealand (and I'm going to use a royal we here) we don't really care that much if the news comes from a blogger or a "real journalist".
What I care about is news and analysis. I get that from a combination of sources that I trust to varying degrees. The level of trust is earned according to behaviour not as a result of being published on dead trees. If Edwards and Campbell have a strong following perhaps it is because they have earned the trust of their readers.
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This whole thing has an element of the worm eating its own tail.
If you make your living by making public commentary or even merely reporting the facts, then having that commentary subject to crticism would seem to be part of the job. Rather than railing against it Armstrong might have better spent his time learning from it.
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Hard News: Reviews: #NZGT and the Herald, in reply to Russell Brown,
beef and lamb
As an aside for some reason I really like that NZ beef and lamb use strong athletic women to advertise their product. A refreshing change from the usual models.
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Hard News: Media3: PIF, Paralympics, and…, in reply to Angus Robertson,
ts a good idea to get this kind of draconian law in place
Because everyone knows all refugees make a point of checking the immigration laws before they board the boat.
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Hard News: Leaf and Tips, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Another point is that there are two problems with correlating IQ against drug use:
- there is substantial dispute as to the validity of the very concept of IQ
- there is a cause/effect ambiguity.Yeah nah.
This is a part of a long term study done by some good people. They are very experienced in this kind of research and I really don't think they are silly enough to describe cause and effect, they find correlations from these studies and no scientist mistake correlation for causation.
You can argue that IQ does not necessarily equal intelligence. But their study does pretty much show that cannibis use by young folk results in a decrease in the numbers scored on an IQ test. Their stats are good it's a real result. Why you see that effect is another question and the subject for further research.
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Hard News: Changing news, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
True in base 3
Pretty certain our management think base 3 is on Mt Everest
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Hard News: Changing news, in reply to Russell Brown,
And when they’ve been kind enough to get us their two star guests, I’m hardly about to rudely refuse to use it.
Quite rightly too. It indeed would be entirely inappropriate for you to comment on it.
But it is a bit sad that an institute of higher education would allow its marketing department to use such a tautology. They are after all trying to present themselves as a place where people can become more educated and knowledgable.
On a closer note to home my own institute is fond of such statements as 1+1=3 or even 1+1+1=10 to imply synergistic responses when combining research teams. While the language may excite the managers and marketing teams it causes severe forehead bruising for the scientists in those teams.