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by vmilner 6y ago
I haven't encountered it in the MSc - but they may use it (Brannan) at undergrad level.
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by vmilner 6y ago
The UK Open University (distance learning) uses Apostol heavily in its MSc Maths course. I've put a post about this in their private forum, so you may pick up some interest from there.
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by vmilner 6y ago
Fair enough!
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by vmilner 6y ago
I remember when encountering my first (or one of my first) proof by contradiction (irrationality of sqrt(2), say) feeling unsatisfied because I didn't know how one could know that it was _your_ assumption that was wrong and not one of
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by vmilner 6y ago
I don't believe (but could be wrong) that the same rules apply to non-EEA, non-former-EU Switzerland - but I bet they can't access the site either.
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by vmilner 6y ago
I was three. Similar policy with pounds (weight), ounces, pints, gallons which was a shame since they're still widely used today.
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by vmilner 6y ago
Dawkins believes Darwin's "Origin of Species" suffered from that as later editions bowed somewhat to religious pressure.
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by vmilner 6y ago
As far as I can tell, the UK seems to be treated the same as non-EEA Switzerland here. Any Swiss readers want to confirm that?
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by vmilner 6y ago
Well, I read this in The Economist: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/10/17/the-persecution-of-the-uyghurs-is-a-crime-against-humanity
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by vmilner 6y ago
And the right to NOT dye your hair, apparently.
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by vmilner 6y ago
Requiring naturally blonde people to dye their hair black seems significantly more unreasonable to me.
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by vmilner 6y ago
Yes - I hope the Music Lesson gets a similar scan - if the Queen agrees...
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by vmilner 6y ago
The "In the Beginning" prequel movie was amazingly good - though has huge spoilers so should be watched after the show proper.
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by vmilner 6y ago
Yes - the TV series is fun,but the beautiful building he has for his 1950's Cotswolds Roman Catholic church looks as if Henry VIII never existed!
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by vmilner 6y ago
Just realised that this charter contains a rule against double jeopardy: "No one shall be liable to be tried or punished again in criminal proceedings for an offence for which he or she has already been finally acquitted or convicted w
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by vmilner 6y ago
This UK one is excellent: http://www.mountsaintbernard.org/tynt-meadow-ale
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by vmilner 6y ago
The o’reilly GNU make book was released under the GNU free doc license.
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by vmilner 6y ago
"Would they have the guts to that? Realistically no." Is it so unrealistic? It's only existed in its modern form since 2009, and we've removed the supremacy of ECJ rulings since then, which once seemed similarly unthinka
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by vmilner 6y ago
Quite. The European Commission generally consists of people who have lost an election in a member state, and have had to find something else to do... :-)
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by vmilner 6y ago
For cross-border regulations like this you're quite right, but making sense is the reason for the UK not doing so, rather than it being a legal requirement.
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by vmilner 6y ago
Well, the currently in-force "COUNCIL DECISION 2008/616/JHA" at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A... contains the same SHA-1 requirement, so the story seems to b
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by vmilner 6y ago
Yes, the alternative pitch would presumably be that EU standards (which the agreement is (I suspect) copying for now) aren't being updated fast enough because of the bureaucracy of 27 countries slowing things down, even for uncontrover
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by vmilner 6y ago
It seems plausible that this is the current EU standard on encrypting DNA profiles, in which case the agreement is correct (in some sense) to mirror it. Once the EU (hopefully soon) updates its standards, the UK will then have the option to
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by vmilner 6y ago
I was (clumsily) trying to say: "know that 0/2 is an integer (i.e. zero), but are not sure if an integer result is enough to qualify 0 as even"
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by vmilner 6y ago
The even number question and the Earth/Sun question seem subtly different in that I can imagine people knowing that 0/2 = 0, but being unsure if the definition of "even" includes that. (I can imagine they might hazily th
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by vmilner 6y ago
The US tax authorities disagree.
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by vmilner 6y ago
I get very frustrated at how terribly mathematics is formatted in many Kindle e-books. Some authors succeed in working around the limitations but most don't.
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by vmilner 6y ago
Peter Salus's "A quarter century of Unix" and "The Daemon, the Gnu and the Penguin" Katie Hafner "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of The Internet"
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by vmilner 6y ago
Out of interest, roughly what proportion of students do come to the office hours?
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by vmilner 6y ago
See what you think of https://pysdr.org/content/sampling.html# first.

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