jhayes

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by jhayes 5y ago
How about calling it Last Chance Saloon? (Just to be colourful and dramatic!).
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by jhayes 17y ago
This clip (and the others posted by 'ChristopherJSykes') are from the BBC show "Fun to Imagine". Been a few months, but I remember the 'Magnets (and 'Why?' questions...)' segment being particularly worthwhile if you're looking for good bang
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by jhayes 17y ago
Again with the visualizing of a pre-newtonian world, a few years ago a physics TA (now a lecturer) made some observations on his Q&A sessions with some 1st years in Cambridge- they didn't hold up too well either but then again, changing
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by jhayes 18y ago
A similar idea is this firefox plugin, TeX the World: http://thewe.net/tex/ Pros: - Works on any site (I've only checked it out in gchat though). Cons: - Not as pretty (if it matters to you) and requires both sides to d/l firefox exten
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by jhayes 18y ago
In case anybody's interested in making one: http://www.instructables.com/id/Crazy-Star-Cube-!/ Looks to be an hour long project tops, requiring just starched paper and sellotape.
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by jhayes 18y ago
If you want to see some sample articles first, you can login to http://pcm.tandtproductions.com/ with U/P : guest/PCM - he put this information up on his blog a year ago perhaps. Look under 'Resources/Sample Articles'.
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by jhayes 18y ago
I have a book called "The Art and Craft of Problem Solving" which uses climbing terms to describe various techniques and tools used in IMO problems. It wasn't a very forced analogy at all. Also, for interest's sake, a few years ago a physic
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by jhayes 18y ago
http://www.metafilter.com/58583/Youre-so-smart-you-probably-... Similar story by same author with some interesting comments from the blue.
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by jhayes 18y ago
Japan, I guess. They were fast to strike in Pearl Harbour (i.e loading speed). However, their extensions are lacking (nuclear capacity) and so they suffer for it.
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by jhayes 18y ago
How about WWII? Mozilla coming from the remnants of Netscape was like the transition from the decimated Weimar Republic to Third Reich, starting over. Microsoft of course would represent USSR, and just to force the analogy, because their PR
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by jhayes 18y ago
Sister's doing a PhD here (or there rather, from your POV). Back of the envelope calculation, she'd be earning roughly 10% more than the minimum wage if you view a PhD as a 36 hours/week job (I wouldn't). Pretty sure that that's close to th
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by jhayes 18y ago
"And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical." Jaysus! Hasn't a bleedin' notion what he's bleating on about there; we're not like that at all, like. A right lula.