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Associate Professor in Space Environment at the University of Birmingham, creating the next generation space weather forecast models. Included on Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

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World Cup 2018 Predictions

Posted on June 14, 2018 by Sean

The World Cup is almost upon us and so it’s time to make some predictions…

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Number of Days Between Easter’s

Posted on April 7, 2018 by Sean

My three year old asked me a pretty interesting question this morning, “how many sleeps is it until next Easter?”

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Was there room on the door for two?

Posted on April 6, 2018 by Sean

Could Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) from the motion picture ‘Titanic’ both have survived by both floating on the door? (Clearly there are a load of spoilers in this article – but the film did come out over 20 years ago so I’m not going to worry too much about
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Unblock IP address from connecting via SSH

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Sean

I manage a small cluster at work and occasionally students get their IP address banned by entering the wrong password when logging into the cluster. I don’t fix the problem often enough to remember how to do it, so I thought I’d jot it down here for future reference.

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Probability of World Cup Group Draw

Posted on November 18, 2017 by Sean

The lineup for the 2018 FIFA World Cup is now complete, and the teams have been sorted into pots ahead of the group stage draw on December 1st. All draws are not equally likely, so what teams is your team likely to face? 

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Correlation of mean transfer spend and UEFA coefficient

Posted on July 24, 2017 by Sean

How does a countries mean transfer spend relate to its UEFA coefficient?

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Most expensive Premier League football transfer of all time: Rio Ferdinand

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Sean

No, this post isn’t 15 years late, Rio Ferdinand really did cost “more” than Paul Pogba…

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Passwordless SSH on CentOS

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Sean

The CentOS wiki page misses out a crucial step in setting up passwordless SSH.

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Complex Reflection Groups

Posted on March 7, 2017 by Sean

After a spring clean I came across a talk I gave on the classification of complex reflection groups back in March 2011.

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Rescan Wireless Networks on Ubuntu

Posted on March 6, 2017 by Sean

Sometimes I can’t find wireless networks which I know exist (on Ubuntu 16.04). Forcing the wireless interface to rescan fixes the problem. 

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