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JeremyC

Peterborough, United Kingdom

Very mature PhD student, returning to study mathematical statistics over 40 years after graduating (MA, MMath) from Cambridge. Researching prior elicitation in extreme value modelling.

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What's a polite way of asking "who are you?" on the phone?
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"Not funny 'ha-ha'", what does Siri mean?
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"Within the month" vs "Within a month" is there a difference?
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Is it normal to have a hard time comprehending academic papers?
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Is the language of The Economist artificially complex?
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Is there a word for food that's gone 'bad', but is still edible?
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Is Excel-generated chart acceptable for publication?
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Giving a career talk in my old university, how prominently should I tell students my salary?
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Why do native speakers say 'Come on in' rather than 'Come in'?
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The content of my manuscript is too complicated to be rewritten in the format of a journal. what should I do?
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A word for 'calculator' (the old meaning)
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How to avoid the "need" to learn more before conducting research?
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Are hand made posters acceptable in Academia?
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What's the point of PhD theses if nobody reads them?
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Is "practitioner" applicable to disciplines other than medical sciences?
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What's the polite way to say "I need to urinate"?
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How do I read a textbook or monograph with good comprehension?
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How to address a knighted academic?
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Recommended tools for graphs and charts
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Should a TA point out a professor's mistake while attending their lecture?
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What do you call someone who attends the same university as you?
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A word to describe a situation, in which the eventual winner in the competition is hardly predictable
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What does Quentin Crisp mean with the quote "To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody"?
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Is "acediast" too rarefied to be acceptable in literature?
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Metric version of "footage"?
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Reviewing equations
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PhD research results in postdoc talk presentation
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What do we write in a table cell to indicate that the value was not filled in by a human?
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"In" vs. "Since" in "She has graduated in/since 1990"
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E-mail greeting: "Dear Brice," vs "Brice,"
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