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by timthorn 9mo ago
Felder & Felder's Modern Physics is pretty good ( https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/physic... ). I also second OgsyedIE's suggestion og Young & Freedman.
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by timthorn 9mo ago
I did learn German at school but it didn't help much when trying to get to Munich airport last year. I could understand what was going on with the cancelled trains at the station I boarded at, but the train I did catch end up tipping u
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by timthorn 10mo ago
Sounds like a PLD might suit your usecase? Simpler than an FPGA, programmed like an EEPROM, perfect for glue logic.
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Life, Death and Mowing(cam.ac.uk)
16 points by timthorn 10mo ago|11 comments
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by timthorn 10mo ago
Memories. I wrote the initial Windows Media Player plugin for Audioscrobbler but didn't maintain it.
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Misha Glenny to Present BBC Radio 4's in Our Time(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by timthorn 10mo ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 10mo ago
Tim Hunkin had a wonderful series on TV back in the 80s or 90s - the Secret Life of Machines. Nice relaxed pace and great for kids. The episodes are up on YouTube via his website: https://timhunkin.com/a243_Secret-Life-of-Ma
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by timthorn 10mo ago
Yes, it's routinely done. The NHS has this to say: https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/labour-and-birth/where-to-give-...
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Battery tracks: the green innovations that could power the railway's next era(theengineer.co.uk)
5 points by timthorn 10mo ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 10mo ago
Probably a side effect of NHS England being abolished?
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by timthorn 11mo ago
They also don't dip in anticipation of a car coming round the corner, which humans can do fairly accurately.
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by timthorn 11mo ago
It's the camera crew that gets me. Peter Duncan has a bucket hanging down to lower his CoG, whereas the cameraman has a hefty shoulder mount making his balance more precarious.
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by timthorn 11mo ago
And the men who used to clean the clockface: https://www.bbc.co.uk/videos/cneezrj0981o Certainly scary enough for Hallowe'en.
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by timthorn 1y ago
The working title for this film: Syntax Era
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UK banks still run software code written more than 60 years ago(computerweekly.com)
26 points by timthorn 1y ago|24 comments
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by timthorn 1y ago
If you're in the London area at the end of October, the Royal Institution is hosting a special event where "Ig Nobel Prize winners will gather on stage to ask each other questions about their work" https://www.rigb
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ChatGPT seemed to think on the fly when put through an Ancient Greek math puzzle(cam.ac.uk)
1 points by timthorn 1y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 1y ago
In the UK, all legal wedding ceremonies must be public to allow objections to be raised, with notice published to a formal schedule ahead of time.
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by timthorn 1y ago
Doug Englebart and Ted Nelson came to give a lecture at my university when I was a student. I was busy in the lab and engrossed in my work, and realised the time 5 minutes after the talk was due to begin. I was too embarrassed to walk in la
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by timthorn 1y ago
At Netherhall?
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by timthorn 1y ago
Quasi-autonomous, to be completely accurate. They consult regularly with the industry and ministers but the Office of Communications Act established Ofcom to be independent of both Government and industry. They're accountable to Parlia
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The Release of Doom(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by timthorn 1y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 1y ago
I hear so many complaints about ISPs, but Andrews & Arnold really do make the world a better place.
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by timthorn 1y ago
The relevant paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05318
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Gut microbes could protect us from toxic 'forever chemicals'(cam.ac.uk)
36 points by timthorn 1y ago|7 comments
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From a Different Star: 3I/ATLAS in the context of the Ōtautahi-Oxford ISO model(arxiv.org)
1 points by timthorn 1y ago|0 comments
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Asteroid named after first woman at Cambridge paid to observe the heavens(cam.ac.uk)
1 points by timthorn 1y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 1y ago
I bought a 3 year subscription to Byte with my first paycheque. The magazine ceased publication within a couple of months :(
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by timthorn 1y ago
Patrick Moore presented The Sky At Night for 56 years - TV, not radio though
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by timthorn 1y ago
The Royal Institution, where Faraday first isolated Benzene, is celebrating with a Discourse next month: https://www.rigb.org/whats-on/discourse-celebrating-200-year...

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