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Royal Society digital archive puts letters of Galileo and Newton online(thetimes.co.uk)
3 points by timthorn 3y ago|0 comments
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Science in the Making(makingscience.royalsociety.org)
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by timthorn 3y ago
For those in the Cambridge area (or who have Zoom!), there will be a CSAR talk on Monday evening about the CASSIOPeiA Solar Power Satellite: https://www.csar.org.uk/lectures/2022-2023/20230501/
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That was perhaps just the UK response to the Clipper Chip.
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ZX Spectrum trolls’ game of deepfake vengeance(thetimes.co.uk)
4 points by timthorn 3y ago|2 comments
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by timthorn 3y ago
He had a TV series in the late 80s/early 90s titled "The Secret Life of Machines" which was required viewing: https://secretlifeofmachines.com/
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Dot matrix printers can print two or more copies simultaneously using carbon paper.
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by timthorn 3y ago
The generic term used to be "hush covers," if I remember correctly. The printers of the day could be pretty noisy blighters.
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by timthorn 3y ago
Piers Bursill-hall gives a fantastic lecture course on the History of Maths at Cambridge University, now under the auspices of the History of Maths Society: https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~pb112/
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by timthorn 4y ago
The UK faced the same challenge but has mostly ensured that now synthetic phonics is the standard method of instruction. The success of this programme has really been down to a single key politician in the Department for Education, Nick Gib
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I live at the start of the final approach path to one of the London airports, and used to live at an equivalent point for one of the others. I started to put together a site that combined ATC audio, ADS-B data and a live webcam - but then f
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by timthorn 4y ago
The roofing of my primary school was under almost constant repair, so the smell of bitumen heaters was a common companion. Hardly experience it these days, but I loved that aroma - still do.
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Sony invests in Raspberry Pi to promote sensory AI development at the edge(siliconangle.com)
2 points by timthorn 4y ago|0 comments
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Sony deal bakes machine learning into Raspberry Pi(thetimes.co.uk)
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by timthorn 4y ago
The UK's opt outs were to rules brought in during its membership, not prior to it's accession to the (then) EEC.
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Roger Penrose gave last year's Thomas Gresham lecture on this theory. The recording is online here: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/thomas-gresham-22
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by timthorn 4y ago
Specifically, the projection used is the Ordnance Survey National Grid projection, which is Transverse Mercator. The OS published a good introductory (but detailed) guide some years ago: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc
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by timthorn 4y ago
And an OBE, as well.
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> I remember reading here about the fairytale that is Japanese chalk Specifically Hagoromo chalk, I think
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I'm old enough to remember that and some other derivations being very common in the playground. Just not this one.
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I'm UK native and had never heard of the word as an insult. I wonder if it's a regional thing?
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The software industry survived for several decades without subscriptions. The installed base grew, people paid for upgrades, publishers managed their expenses and road maps to keep them profitable.
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UK Government signs £2.9M Moon base nuclear power deal with Rolls-Royce(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by timthorn 4y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 4y ago
Mmarq is correct: https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates/income-over-100000
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Who’s Going to Build the UK’s Homegrown Exascale Supercomputer?(nextplatform.com)
1 points by timthorn 4y ago|1 comments
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer confirmed £900m funding for a UK exascale machine in today's budget.
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Even if you can't get a seat on a mainline trip, there are plenty of lines operating at lower speed that you could just turn up to. Some of the bigger names include the Great Central Railway, Severn Valley Railway, Bluebell Line, North
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by timthorn 4y ago
I believe it will be acting as the "consideration" that UK contract law requires for a contact to be deemed valid.
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by timthorn 4y ago
There's been some good research in the UK about the impact of class size in schools there. The summary is that it is unlikely to be the most effective way of improving outcomes: https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk&#x
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by timthorn 4y ago
I don't think arm26 was a typo: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/26-bit_computing Check the parent's username.

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