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by vmilner 5y ago
"As for any inner meaning or 'message', it has in the intention of the author none. It is neither allegorical nor topical. As the story grew it put down roots (into the past) and threw out unexpected branches: but its main th
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by vmilner 5y ago
Quite. So I'm puzzled by what mistake the 'skilled programmers' are making, when confusing DFT and FFT. Implementing DFT in quadratic time?
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by vmilner 5y ago
Having spent a fair bit of time with them I think "Cistercians" is the term they prefer, at least in England, though the full OCSO is a bit of a mouthful.
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by vmilner 5y ago
I picked apples and blackberries in the garden in that picture in 1986. The "Trappist" monks I was with were actually pretty chatty. (Many of them feature in the recent film "Outside the City". http://www.out
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by vmilner 5y ago
I'd assumed fft was just a dft with O(n log(n)) performance - am I missing something?
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by vmilner 5y ago
The 1997 BBC Radio adaptation of TWoE (narrated by Judi Dench and Michael Maloney as Ged) is wonderful - parallel in quality to their 1981 Lord of the Rings adaptation.
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by vmilner 5y ago
The excellent female reading by Karen Archer helps (though is annoyingly hard to find.)
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by vmilner 5y ago
Le Guin herself said she didn't make a big thing of it, but that the traditional genre skin-colour stereotypes are deliberately flipped. I certainly didn't notice until it was pointed out to me.
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by vmilner 5y ago
The notable white people are the Kargish bad guys.
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by vmilner 5y ago
I found Atuan a bit dull at 20 (years old), but really moving at 40.
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by vmilner 5y ago
I'm a huge Earthsea fan and I enjoyed HP too - I just think they're different styles of books, in particular HP has a lot of comedy, and it's more directly aimed at children than Earthsea is. Similarly, 'The Worst Witch&
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by vmilner 5y ago
"The push to calculus in grade twelve is itself misguided." Well, I kind of agree with that in a perverse sense - half my UK school year started it at the end of 5th form (age 15-16) (in 1984), which was a massive help for those m
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by vmilner 5y ago
She does - but she wasn't the first. [ First girlfriend = Alice (say). Breaks up with Alice. Dates more girlfriends. Marries one. Divorces. Dates Alice again. ]
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by vmilner 5y ago
Every time I encounter anything from Gowers I'm impressed by his humility and real concern for people's struggles with learning mathematics - particularly at the undergraduate level. He did a great blog when teaching Real Analysis
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by vmilner 5y ago
I'd really like to see the fictitious Island of Sodor from Thomas the Tank Engine done in a proper UK Ordnance Survey map style! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodor_(fictional_island)
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by vmilner 6y ago
Is question 1 just asking for the student to sketch the derivative and integral curves of an arbitrary curve sketched by the teacher? It seems a bit different to the other questions (but is question 1, so might be an "easy" start
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by vmilner 6y ago
Yes, one of the surprising things I realised when first making regular US trips from the UK was that lamb was a comparatively exotic meat there.
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by vmilner 6y ago
In France, at least, the "Divine Box" company seems to be acting as a distributor for monasteries.
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by vmilner 6y ago
And they make nice beer - just had some with my lunch. http://www.mountsaintbernard.org/tynt-meadow-ale
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by vmilner 6y ago
It's about twice the price of Cadbury's in the UK, but significantly better quality. I often buy it when I see it, and it has fairly good shop distribution now.
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by vmilner 6y ago
>If you think you're not being paid enough, increase the price along with creating your own products. That seems to be what happened with Mars and Hershey (i.e. a price increase) though put in the terms of not paying farmers enough
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by vmilner 6y ago
According to wikipedia the regular comic books stopped in 2017.
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by vmilner 6y ago
You're probably aware of it but if not, check out the "biomorphs" from Richard Dawkins "Blind Watchmaker" book. Or the 1987 documentary version at : https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x223a3n (T
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by vmilner 6y ago
Qui, Qua, Quo in Italy is the best!
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by vmilner 6y ago
Confusing if they have two masters degrees...
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by vmilner 6y ago
Cousin.
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by vmilner 6y ago
Might be interesting to do https://wyag.thb.lt (Write yourself a git!) first and then compare. (Though that is intended to be done in python)
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by vmilner 6y ago
I loved the older versions of English Fairy Tales as a child - specifically this one: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14241/14241-h/14241-h.htm with limited happy endings and scary artwork. (Try "The Lamb
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by vmilner 6y ago
I remember feeling embarrassed when visiting the US in my 30s as a Brit and realising I'd never heard of the 1812 war, even though I thought I was fairly well-read in US history.
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by vmilner 6y ago
Orwell on tea: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel... Christopher Hitchens on (Orwell on) tea: http://www.slate.com/id/2279601/

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