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FLF's own numbers on this are given in a white paper [1, fig 7.]. Note the "fusion measured" datapoint used a gas gun, rather than Machine-3, as the driver... [1] https://firstligh…

Wasn't taking traffic off the central line a motivation from the start for Cross rail? This might be another reason why TFL is prioritising other lines over the central.

In my field nature papers have a reputation for employing a fair amount of poetic licence. Have no idea how universal this is .

This is true in principle, but in practice my experience is you have to have an extraordinarily good CV to get funding without a masters degree. Natural science bias in my friendsh…

Link seems to be dead, but doc is available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/604f423be90e0...

This as a fairly recent occurrence in my research group. It’s often quite tedious because you don’t want to waste the money and it’s never clear if there’s going to be a period whe…

I would say that when I started my PhD (aged 22) I didn't think about career prospects in the way I do now. I'm not complaining about my situation -- I love my job. I suppose my po…

By contrast I work in a field (experimental plasma physics) where there are relatively few industrial opportunities. For grad students in my field who wish to carry on working in s…

If you assume that accelerator technology remains the same then you do of course have to keep making your accelerators bigger. There are a fairly large number of people working on …

I'm curious what the motivation for putting this report together was. Some ideas: - Create interest in company to aid recruitment - For fun - Client paid them to do this (seems unl…

A person I with used to work for the UK’s Atomic Weapons Establishment. Apparently their former employer’s preferred method of disabling the camera on a MacBook was to break the le…

Very different use-cases. All the other languages you've mentioned are great for statistical analysis and plotting but are quite slow - for R and Python by virtue of being interpre…

I use one of these [1] for work. The software which comes with it asks you to specify an fps when setting up an exposure. Typing in 66 Mfps always feels a bit dumb! [1] - invisible…

Personally I just put together a PowerPoint presentation and stick that up (as many A4 pages!). That seems to work better than the standard wall of text on one massive piece of pap…