Paul Sutton – personal blog
Exeter v Northampton
Rugby Fixture
The next Exeter Chiefs game is on Sunday 20th September @ home to Northampton kick off 17:30 : Heineken Champions Cup QTR Final.
Live coverage here
Scores
Exeter 38 Northampton 15 Full time Exeter 14 Northampton 10 (½ time)
#rugby,#Union,#Heineken, #Champions, #Cup,#Exeter,#Northampton,#result. #fixture
Software Freedom Day 2020
Today, is Software Freedom Day an annual celebration of all things to do with software freedom.
The FOUR FREEDOMS
Debian Academy update
As posted about on the 14th September I am involved in the DebianAcademy.
In addition making various related presentations in LaTeX / Beamer. I am currently working on a Moodle course how to do this.
So the LaTeX template, is being used as part of the course, and it can also be used as a basis for other presentations.
So far this is work in progress.
In other news I have submitted an article to the Torbay Weekly to promote the DebianAcademy and reach out to a few more potential contributors.
#debian,#teams,#academy,#education,torbayweekly,#moodle, #latex,#beamer,#course,#lessons,#article
Possible marker of life spotted on Venus
Possible marker of life spotted on Venus
This was posted on September 14th. Interesting discovery and worth looking in to what has produced this Phosphine $PH_3$
I have added a topic on Discourse to discuss further.
I will also make further updates to this post as I am linking to Wikipedia at the moment.
Searching and classifying exoplanets
Searching and Characterizing Exoplanets with CHEOPS, ARIEL, and PLATO
Debian Academy
As I have started on my Paignton Code Club blog I am now part of the Debian Academy team.
I have been working on some presentations to help promote this.
Please join the team mailing list to ask questions and find out more. I am also on the team IRC channel on oftc.
Please see the Wiki page for details.
Chiefs vs Gloucester
Rugby Fixture
The next Exeter Chiefs game is on Wednesday 9th September @ home to Gloucester kick off 17:30.
Scores
Universal Basic Income (UBI)
There has been calls recently for the introduction of Universal Basic Income or UBI for short.
This partly provides a safety net, esp in uncertain times, it also means those who are working in the 'GIG economy' without fixed hours or income at least get some sort safety net.
I have included a link to UK population data below [2].
This has been tried out in Finland and a report in New Scientist is presented below.
#universal,#basic,#income,#money,#finance,#economic,#population.
Basic IT course update 6
Earlier this year (March to May), I was undertaking a Level 1 Basic IT course. It is now, at least 4 months, since completing the course and I am STILL waiting for my certificate. Have been advised 16 weeks which to me is far too long.
So this course was undertaken via an old fashioned brick college offering distance learning.
This is another good reason to promote courses through other online providers. You get generally a certificate quickly (or can download an electronic version) on completion.
This is essential, if you need one for work, for example. At least with FutureLearn, it is a few days to deliver a nice paper certificate I suspect EdX, Free Code Camp send them out quickly too. OpenLearn issue certificates of completion within a few hours.
Parts of the UK system, are so old and antiquated, it is laughable, this is 2020. Just look at the mess the exam system was in this year. This HAS to change.
The narrative has to change, so eventually the old exam boards, with any luck with fade in to oblivion.
To be fair, there is a global pandemic. That however does not stop other providers, providing evidence of study quickly. I ended up making my own certificate in an attempt to evidence what is on my CV.
With code club I have made Free Code Camp certificates for each module. Code Club, has its own certificates anyway.