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by timthorn 2y ago
The irony of your comment is that Horizon famously went through a phase of making programmes that were all about doom a while ago. Asteroids hitting the Earth, Global warming, food supply collapse, tsunamis, volcanos, etc - and all with por
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by timthorn 2y ago
As I wrote somewhere else, I rather like the cuddly hadrons from The Particle Zoo: https://www.particlezoo.net/collections/particle-packs
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Perhaps Rbanffy meant to link here? https://cerncourier.com/a/a-bestiary-of-exotic-hadrons/ But I quite like the plushes here: https://www.particlezoo.net/collections/particle-packs/produ
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There's 3 part Radio 4 series from a while ago on the King James Version, with one of the 45 minute episodes focussed on the translation of the work: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x3x68
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Wrong trees in the wrong place can make cities hotter at night, study reveals(cam.ac.uk)
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Project will utilise muons to assess aging infrastructure(theengineer.co.uk)
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by timthorn 2y ago
They don't - random bit flips are expected over time. ECC memory is a thing because of this, but cosmic rays can strike the processors too.
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A peek inside the box that could help solve a quantum mystery(cam.ac.uk)
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Because the name is a contraction of T. E. Stockwell and Jack Cohen.
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by timthorn 2y ago
By any chance, was Andrew Strominger involved in this at all? He gave the Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture in Cambridge last month and demoed something that looked similar.
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November 1861: Chalmers' under Channel railway(theengineer.co.uk)
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Ah, yes - The Jupiter Effect: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3400930-the-jupiter-effe...
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Quentin was also behind the Trojan Room Coffee Pot: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/coffee.html
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> There is something in my brain that associates that style with “real” computing. That's interesting. For me, it's green or amber terminals - perhaps it's like music where the genre of your teens defines the best music fo
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by timthorn 2y ago
Global Entry is available to those from some other countries too. IIRC there used to be a threshold for the minimum number of entries in the previous year or so, but it looks like they've opened it up now. https://www.cbp.go
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The Politics of AI(cps.org.uk)
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> Our nation invented the technology... Lewis Fry Richardson might have something to say about that.
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UK firm strikes deal to make space-based solar power a reality(thetimes.com)
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> it consistently fails to produce better results The performance of the English education system has improved markedly over the past couple of decades. At least, as measured by tests!
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It is legal, but it also did get banned at my primary school. It continued to be played.
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Speaking Clocks(britishtelephones.com)
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by timthorn 2y ago
Oh, no. A faff is an activity, rather than a scenario. Going to the bank could be a faff, but your example is just a bloody nuisance...
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How the Moon caught a chill during Covid(thetimes.com)
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Axiom Maths is trying to import the concept of maths circles to the UK, providing support and materials for schools to host their own circles. It is run by a team with deep expertise in mathematics education, including the founding head of
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The vessel is looking for a port to berth in but keeps being turned away.
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The delights of MHEG-5 :)
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It depended on the page. Clearly to have a complete cache you'd have to wait for everything to have come around, but common pages like contents or news headlines were transmitted more often than the others, so they entered the Fasttext
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Brandon's History of Online BBC (2007)(bbc.co.uk)
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ESA launches new lunar simulation facility(theengineer.co.uk)
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And you can start your own service if so inclined: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/create-your-own-teletext-se...

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