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Lazy option is best when waiting for the bus

Posted by John Lampard on Saturday, 26 January, 2008 to the comment subset

Lazy option is best when waiting for the bus. Buses travel in packs. It's a universal constant. So if you've just missed a pack of buses that were meant to be travelling 20 minutes apart, what should you do? Wait for another bus-pack, or walk to your destination? Scott Kominers, a mathematician at Harvard University, and his colleagues derived a formula for the optimal time that you should wait for a ... Read full entry

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Parse

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 3 August, 2007 to the technology subset

The last two weeks have been a tad frustrating in the technology department. Or, more specifically with Wordpress. I honestly feel I have lost two eight hour days waiting for my WP posts to save this past fortnight. Two days is a lot of time to try and "replace"... Today I wrote two posts (see below). Maybe 90 minutes in total was spent actually writing both of them. As I said ... Read full entry

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