About a time management technique At the start of the film ‘About a Boy’ starring Hugh Grant, Grant’s character explains how, as a man of leisure, he must be his own activities director. He divides up his day into 30 minute segments and slots his tasks for the day into those segments: a haircut for… Read More »
I had a discussion the other day about how much difference it made to turn off things like laptops and mobile phone chargers. To put it into some kind of perspective I thought I’d see how using different appliances for a day equated to time spent driving a car. Of course there is not just… Read More »
Power laws: we’ve seen them before Power laws describe many physical phenomena, but we’ll see here that a power law can help you to work more efficiently and more effectively. Examples of power law functions in science include black body radiation (described by the the Stefan-Boltzmann law), the movements of planets (described by the Newton… Read More »
There seem to be many parallels between academia and the world of software engineering, so what can academia learn from the development of ‘human factors’ in engineering. I am sure that engineering and science attract similar kinds of people: independent problem solvers who are wary of conventional management. Perhaps because it tends to be more… Read More »
When doing micromagnetic simulations it is easy to end up with hundreds of output files, so part four of this OOMMF Tutorial covers some of the tools available for analysing OOMMF data. This list isn’t exhaustive – if I’ve missed out your favourite – please leave a comment! OOMMF outputs two types of data: vector,… Read More »