Max Hammond Photography: blog » Work http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog Max Hammond's Personal Weblog Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:46:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Negation Field http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog/2007/02/11/negation-field/ http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog/2007/02/11/negation-field/#comments Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:25:06 +0000 Max Hammond http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog/2007/02/11/negation-field/

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]]> http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog/2006/09/21/my-thesis/feed/ 1 Doctor Doctor http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog/2006/07/27/doctor-doctor/ http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog/2006/07/27/doctor-doctor/#comments Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:04:08 +0000 Max Hammond http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog/2006/07/27/doctor-doctor/ Viva passed. All good. No time to celebrate though, as I’m off to Manchester tomorrow on business. Oh well. Celebration deferred until Stuart finally finishes his :-)

]]> http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog/2006/07/27/doctor-doctor/feed/ 3 Submission http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog/2006/05/25/submission/ http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog/2006/05/25/submission/#comments Thu, 25 May 2006 20:04:43 +0000 Max Hammond http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog/2006/05/25/submission/ All done. Submitted today. No more writing. My life feels suddenly empty again. (Except, of course, for trying to find somewhere to live when I start my new job, woo!)

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]]> http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog/2006/05/25/submission/feed/ 0 MS Word is psychic http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog/2006/05/21/ms-word-is-psychic/ http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog/2006/05/21/ms-word-is-psychic/#comments Sun, 21 May 2006 10:28:07 +0000 Max Hammond http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog/2006/05/21/ms-word-is-psychic/ I’m currently explaining why the the calculations which we have done may not be particularly accurate; one factor is that we haven’t modelled the solvation energy.

Word auto-corrects solvation to salvation.

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About time too.

Final editing early next week, should submit by the end of the week.

And it’s looking positive for a start at the small consultancy company that offered me a job a while back. So all good :)

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\frac{N_i}{N_j} = \frac{g_i}{g_j} \exp \left (\frac{-(E_i-E_j)}{RT} \right)

]]> http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog/2006/04/03/boltzmann-distribution/feed/ 0 Thesis Traffic Lights http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog/2006/03/30/thesis-traffic-lights-2/ http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog/2006/03/30/thesis-traffic-lights-2/#comments Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:08:34 +0000 Max Hammond http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog/2006/03/30/thesis-traffic-lights-2/ Nearly There…

Just waiting on some final computational results for Chapter 5, and then it’ll be done.

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PhD Comics

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There isn’t a single great work in the history of civilization, no novel, symphony, film, or song that was completed as a 1/5th time-slice between e-mail, IM, cellphones and television.

(_via_ John Dale)

Well put, and so true. I know that when I want to really get on with the thesis, I quit the browsers, Set my messengers to Busy and actually really don’t talk to anyone who ignores that. Some things can be multitasked, most can’t. Or rather, can with a timeslice of > 1 h :-)

]]> http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog/2006/03/23/multitasking/feed/ 1 Thesis Traffic Lights http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog/2006/03/22/thesis-traffic-lights/ http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog/2006/03/22/thesis-traffic-lights/#comments Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:46:07 +0000 Max Hammond http://www.maxhammondphotos.org.uk/blog/2006/03/22/thesis-traffic-lights/ So. There’s a proposal to put “traffic lights” on food so the buyer knows how bad things are for them. The supermarkets don’t want it, they’d rather give the numbers rather than any kind of relative rating. (do both?) So here’s a similar thing for my thesis.

Again, if you’re looking at this other than on my blog, it’s not going to make sense :-)

Status    Key
  Chapter 1      Finished and signed off
Chapter 2    Final Draft
Chapter 3    Fully written, editing
Chapter 4    In Progress
Chapter 5   
Chapter 6   

Estimated Submission Date: 31 March

This depends somewhat on getting some final data from an industrial collaborator, which is really the only thing causing Ch 5 to be orange rather than yellow.

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