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by vmilner 5y ago
Yes, I deleted it because I was being an idiot :) I was momentarily thinking pow(a,-1,n) would need to calculate phi(n) internally (a hard thing to do in general) but the EEA will of course do it very cheaply without needing to know phi(n).
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by vmilner 5y ago
The history of transatlantic cable-laying is extraordinary (and didn't work for several attempts because the theory of the field around the cable wasn't properly understood).
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Inventions That Changed the World: Compression [video](youtube.com)
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by vmilner 5y ago
You can tell she's good because her books are copied and sold on Audible.
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by vmilner 5y ago
[I should add that this was posted in 2012, and differentiation from first principles was apparently emphasised far more in the syllabus in 2017 onwards.]
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by vmilner 5y ago
Tim Gowers uses the differentiation of e^x as an example of something bright UK maths A-level students often don't understand fully: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/what-maths-a-level-d...
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by vmilner 5y ago
I met him while on opposing teams on the BBC's Only Connect show. Excellent chap. We beat his "QI Elves" team, (which then beat the team that beat us...).
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by vmilner 5y ago
FWIW It's also 1.5% between Switzerland and the EU.
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by vmilner 5y ago
> Roman Republic rapidly devolved into the Roman Empire Well, after 500 years...
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by vmilner 5y ago
"Our musical, Groundhog Day, despite awards and five-star reviews, took a bit of a battering on Broadway (I promise it will be back!)." Definitely worth seeking out the soundtrack to this.
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by vmilner 5y ago
The prestigious open Discrete Analysis journal provides accessible editorial introductions: https://discreteanalysisjournal.com/articles
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by vmilner 5y ago
Having lived both 10kms north and 10kms south of Newton's birthplace (in more flat Lincolnshire farmland) I'm not sure he's the best example for that argument!
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by vmilner 5y ago
It seems a bit surprising not to mention specifically the harder _naval_ Enigma and the U-boat threat in the context of Turing.
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by vmilner 5y ago
Yes, very much so - for example it used to be almost axiomatic (told in your second or third go lesson) that placing a white stone at the 3-3 point when black had played at 4-4 was very bad, but this video shows that AlphaGo has radically c
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by vmilner 5y ago
Thankfully for track and field athletics on the BBC we have former world mile record holder Steve Cram, who's the epitome of an intelligent commentator.
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by vmilner 5y ago
I've a horrible premonition that the paper describing this problem (and those that cite it) may eventually end up being flagged for containing too many tortured phrases...
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by vmilner 5y ago
I've been somewhat taken aback that having paid for a subscription for Eurosport (in the UK) to watch more than the two Olympic streams that the BBC are permitted, I still have to watch adverts.
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by vmilner 5y ago
They weren't planning to make any more even when Dermot Morgan died - though I suppose they might have changed their mind. Great Father Ted doc at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsIxJZ8u0H0 I always find this bit movi
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by vmilner 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Gods_and_Men_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Fields_(film)
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by vmilner 5y ago
If reading it in English, seek out the modern Robin Buss translation, e.g. in Penguin - it is far clearer (and completere) than the older public domain version - and has excellet footnotes.
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by vmilner 5y ago
What would be useful is a wider shot that hopefully shows the laser hitting the netting as well as Schmeichel, allowing lines to be plotted back to the stands. Together with the 3d information at https://3ddigitalvenue.com/3
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by vmilner 5y ago
It feels like there should be enough information from the (4K) footage to significantly narrow the location of the laser down to a group of seats. Particularly if one can get images of the laser hitting the netting of the goal before hittin
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by vmilner 5y ago
In at least one case - "Warrior's Gate", the final Romana story, there was a "2001"-style vibe between the show and the book - i.e. both very good, but it was a lot easier to tell what was going on having read the b
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by vmilner 5y ago
The Dr Who novelisations were loved in part because they were the only way pre-video for the show's decades of output to be experienced. (And still are for some lost episodes.) I'd hardly ever seen an episode (as a late 70's
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by vmilner 5y ago
Sure, but does the sacked person still own part of John Lewis?
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by vmilner 5y ago
I never quite understood how that works when they want to sack people.
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by vmilner 5y ago
Continuous entropy is more subtle than the direct analogy to the discrete case he uses in the original paper, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_entropy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L
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by vmilner 5y ago
See also his video course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCiZc0n6COY
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by vmilner 5y ago
This BBC engineering paper is also useful. https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp/whp-pdf-files/WHP031...
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by vmilner 5y ago
https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_01.html

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