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by vmilner 6y ago
No mention of the wonderful "My Friend Mr. Leakey"... :-(
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by vmilner 6y ago
That seems to be curiously common with that film - people seem to: 1) think it's awesome 2) but somehow forget that they think that until they're reminded of it!
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by vmilner 6y ago
The Man Who Would Be King
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by vmilner 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-sTs2o0VuY ("Horizon: The Strange Life and Death of Dr. Turing" (1992) )
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by vmilner 6y ago
I remember pre-Internet Radio 4 being incredibly frustrating, as they'd have excellent programmes, but the chances of actually catching them was far more fleeting than a TV show, as there was no readily available technology analogous t
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by vmilner 6y ago
I'd be interested to know if more people were visiting it since "Breaking Bad" aired.
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by vmilner 6y ago
For maths and physics lectures, I always got vastly more out of them if I could somehow obtain a summary beforehand and be conscientious enough to read it through. (Similarly, I found the best way to read the Feynman Physics lectures was to
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by vmilner 6y ago
Is The Day of the Triffids really largely forgotten? Maybe I have a UK bias.
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by vmilner 6y ago
The BBC radio 1968 version of Triffids is excellent, with a pretty modern feel, (except for the music). The BBC 1981 TV version is also great.
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by vmilner 6y ago
I was always surprised as a child that mint sauce was singled out in "Asterix in Britain" (or at least the English translation!) as the very worst of English food - as I think it has a delightful subtle taste!
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by vmilner 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Sachs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milicent_Bagot
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by vmilner 6y ago
If you can find the Robin Buss translation (Penguin books in the UK) it's definitely superior to the public domain one.
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by vmilner 6y ago
The complaint reads: "When Conan Doyle came back to Holmes in the Copyrighted Stories between 1923 and 1927, it was no longer enough that the Holmes character was the most brilliant rational and analytical mind. Holmes needed to be hum
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by vmilner 6y ago
Omsk (and Tomsk) are wombles...
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by vmilner 6y ago
"Slow Train" about UK railway stations shut in the 60s is great (though about a third of the 28 mentioned were reprieved or reopened so it can seem a bit odd if you visit Chester-le-Street, say.)
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by vmilner 6y ago
Not for a crime planned by one person alone.
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by vmilner 6y ago
Salvor Hardin talking about the archaeologist Lord Dorwin in the first Foundation novel.
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by vmilner 6y ago
I was really hoping Boothby (Pagnell) would have a pub called "The Hyperbola" but it appears not... :(
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by vmilner 6y ago
Linus's Jan 1992 post on comp.os.coherent is interesting: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.coherent/c/3dSbdErXdUc/m...
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by vmilner 6y ago
Similar with me. I was loving using UNIX at work on Suns ~1991/2, but it wasn't until I borrowed a PC with Coherent for a few weeks that I really was able to explore it properly, both in the sense of being to work as root, and hav
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by vmilner 6y ago
On his "Sahara" trip Michael Palin measured 55C/131F (unshaded), at Tirelli in Mali. (Presumably he was there on a randomish day, rather than a record-setting one.) https://www.palinstravels.co.uk/book-2120
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by vmilner 6y ago
Slightly weird that the algorithm thinks "Foundation's Edge" is the second best Foundation novel.
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by vmilner 6y ago
I remember having issues with a corporate email system where base64/uuencoded data would fail to get through with a very rough dependency on size - large files had a smaller chance of getting through but it was clear that there wasn&#x
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by vmilner 6y ago
I used to think the shot of "HMS Surprize" in the Star Trek:Enterprise(ize?) intro was some weird Americanism, but the spelling was indeed that in the 18th century, and flipped to HMS Surprise in 1796. https://en.wikipe
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by vmilner 6y ago
I was recommended J.D. Murray "Asymptotic Analysis" when I was having trouble understanding a particular technique (method of steepest descents), and it definitely had clearer explanations than other texts. https://link
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by vmilner 6y ago
I returned to university recently after 30 years to do a masters degree, and was shocked when a lecturer told me that he had to go to a plagiarism hearing regarding 10% of the students on the course. I'm beginning to realise that &quot
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by vmilner 6y ago
It'll be interesting to see if the laminated loose-leaf catalogues that you look at in the shops go too. They have monitors that you can search for stuff with, but I think they will lose the serendipitous impulse buy as people flick th
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by vmilner 6y ago
No, I'm awesomely clever and did the exact same thing...
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by vmilner 6y ago
Shor's algorithm does exactly that by using quantum computation to solve discrete logarithms.
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by vmilner 6y ago
The Sorcery! ones were great - mechanics, story and illustrations all gelled really well.

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