test please delete

[Diver]

The game is very good - going one way then the other.

The bloke in the house down the road is the .. The Woman in the house down the road is the... The bloke in the house down the road is the woman down the road is the same

[BrilloPad]

The bloke in the house down the road is the .. The Woman in the house down the road is the... The bloke in the house down the road is the woman down the road is the same

exactly! you should be commentating...

[BrilloPad]

13-7 at half time!

But England are soooo bad in second half these days!

BTW Congrats to Wales on beating Italy.

[Diver]

13-7 at half time!

But England are soooo bad in second half these days!

BTW Congrats to Wales on beating Italy.

We did?

Or did Italy change sides ?

[NickFitz]

Spag bol now simmering

Better get stuck in to my Ascending Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering again

eh? does that mean posting?

It's an algorithm (or family of algorithms) for grouping data points according to some definition of distance, such that points that are "near" each other in some sense can be treated as a single unit.

It's used for various purposes including genomic analysis, but I'm using it for some GIS work - or a Google Maps application, to be precise

It allows one to zoom in and out and, rather than having lots of points too close to each other to distinguish, they can be lumped together as one meta-point centered on the region they occupy. Then you can click on that and it zooms in and shows you the individual points in the cluster.

Funnily enough it was something I'd been working on for my own purposes but am now actually using in an application for NewClientCorp

[NickFitz]

Every so often a gem pops up in TPD.

TPD seems like a long stream of warmed sherry trifle. Sweet, yummy, comforting and addictive.

And then you spot a pearl, or an emerald on your spoon.

It is posts like the above - the little crystals of considered genius and insight - that makes me read EVERY post. They get printed off and filed for future morale-boosting, ideas, reference or comfort as appropriate.

You know, I'm sure we have the makings of at least one book in TPD.

[BrilloPad]

We did?

Or did Italy change sides ?

apparently they made a huge mistake after 60 minutes - up till that point it was a good match.

I am pleased cos the gf's brother-out-law is Welsh. Nice chap.

[Diver]

My hand smells much better now, the smell that injured limbs in casts and bandages develop is awful.
I couldn't stand to be in the same room as it anymore, and I couldn't hang it out the window coz it's too cold out there

[Diver]

apparently they made a huge mistake after 60 minutes - up till that point it was a good match.

I am pleased cos the gf's brother-out-law is Welsh. Nice chap.

Most of us are

[NickFitz]

God didn't intend for spag bol to be spoiled with carrots, peas, sweetcorn ( ) or any other form of foul pollutant.

It's a beef sauce. It was perfect when God gave it to us. Leave it!