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    An interesting scam

    by Jack Simpson September 11, 2017
    written by Jack Simpson

    I received an interesting scam email this morning from a person claiming to a representative of “Domain Registry China”. I thought I’d post it and hopefully prevent any business owners potentially falling victim to it. This is what it said:

    Dear CEO,

    (If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent. If this email affects you, we are very sorry, please ignore this email. Thanks)

    We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in China.
    We received an application from Hua An Ltd on September 11 2017. They want to register “jacksimpson .net.cn”, “jacksimpson .org.cn”, “jacksimpson .asia” domain names, they are in China and Asia domain names. But after checking it, we find “jacksimpson” conflicts with your company. In order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China or not?

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  • Data ScienceResearchThoughts

    Honeybees and missing data part 2: Where do bees like to live?

    by Jack Simpson September 9, 2017
    by Jack Simpson September 9, 2017

    This article relates to where bees prefer to build their hives. Back in the 1970s, there was a bunch of research conducted at Cornell surveying where bees build hives in…

  • BloggingResearchThoughts

    ​Honeybees and missing data part 1: Tale of the missing bees

    by Jack Simpson September 2, 2017
    by Jack Simpson September 2, 2017

    ​Sometimes missing data can tell you its own story, while other times missing data can lead you in completely the wrong direction. As I’ve been working on a PhD studying…

  • Thoughts

    Interesting recruitment strategy

    by Jack Simpson February 3, 2017
    by Jack Simpson February 3, 2017

    I saw this guy who works at the campus bookstore the other morning: My initial reaction was that it felt a little dehumanising to employees, but after I chatted with him (and he…

  • Data ScienceMachine LearningResearch

    Bees, lasers, and machine learning

    by Jack Simpson February 3, 2017
    by Jack Simpson February 3, 2017

    I originally wrote this article about how I’ve used machine learning as part of my research for the Data Skeptic blog. If you’re interested in machine learning, I can’t recommend…

  • Thoughts

    There are two types of to-do lists

    by Jack Simpson January 23, 2017
    by Jack Simpson January 23, 2017

    Nothing feels as good as checking something off a to-do list. In fact, I have added completed tasks to my to-do list purely to enjoy the feeling of checking them off a moment…

  • Thoughts

    What does it mean to finish a project?

    by Jack Simpson January 19, 2017
    by Jack Simpson January 19, 2017

    I’d like to address one point of contention some people have had with my previous article about finishing projects – what to do when it isn’t worth finishing. I think the…

  • Thoughts

    This is how you hustle

    by Jack Simpson January 17, 2017
    by Jack Simpson January 17, 2017

    Recently, the company that provides hosting for this website experienced some technical problems and my website went down. This was rather frustrating, and I sent them a Tweet to ask…

  • Thoughts

    If you don’t finish then you’re just busy, not productive

    by Jack Simpson January 14, 2017
    by Jack Simpson January 14, 2017

    One of the biggest realisations I’ve come to as part of my PhD, is how little people care about how I spend my time, they only care about what I…

  • Programming

    Google have released a Python to Go transcompiler

    by Jack Simpson January 11, 2017
    by Jack Simpson January 11, 2017

    Google have released an open source project on GitHub called Grumpy that converts Python to Go, and then compiles it down to native code. It’s an interesting development, but since they…

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