vmilner

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by vmilner 8y ago
Loved his (unmade) "I, Robot" screenplay.
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by vmilner 8y ago
Idefix to Dogmatix is a gem.
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by vmilner 9y ago
I wonder if this is connected to the curious zigzags I see in part of my vision field during a visual migraine.
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by vmilner 9y ago
"while a few were still using it at their jobs as engineers or quantitative analysts" Er... which is a good thing, surely?
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by vmilner 10y ago
Why the tab in column 1? Yacc was new, Lex was brand new. I hadn't tried either, so I figured this would be a good excuse to learn. After getting myself snarled up with my first stab at Lex, I just did something simple with the pattern
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by vmilner 10y ago
It'll be some US/UK rights nonsense. In the UK: http://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Business/How-to-Get-Rich-Audiobo...
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by vmilner 10y ago
Tony Benn (UK politician) relates his grandson doing this in his diaries, but I've heard it related many times and suspect it doesn't come from that single source.
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by vmilner 11y ago
Also n=2 for base 2 :-) (think that's it though)
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by vmilner 11y ago
Er, n=1 [ The title ought to read: "For what n does n! have n decimal digits?..." ]
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by vmilner 11y ago
This was my favourite of the Escher Legos. I seem to remember Andrew telling me the cowls only came in one Lego set. With one in each set...
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by vmilner 11y ago
It's good to be able to quantify the level at which it's visible - telling people (as I have done) "it's real but usually too tiny to see" is far less persuasive than "it's real, and if you use a child&#x2
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by vmilner 12y ago
trueCall seems to work well for me. I let all mobile calls straight through, and those from my local phone area and those where the people who ring me most live. Everyone else gets asked to press '3' (say) to get through. I can im
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by vmilner 13y ago
"clearly I wouldn't write a script to do that and then search for optimally priced combinations" Another thing you wouldn't do is go to: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/split-cheap-train-tickets/
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by vmilner 13y ago
"In this issue we're celebrating the crowdfunding revolution. We asked our contributors what project they'd like to see on Indiegogo or Kickstarter... - Linux Format Xmas 2013" "A. Gregory: For consistency
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by vmilner 13y ago
I'm not aware M823 can be downloaded (which is the first of the two number theory courses using Apostol)
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by vmilner 14y ago
Worden's episode in "From the Earth to the Moon" was my favourite. You can see his double act with Farouk El-Baz at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59HpmdIqI-g
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by vmilner 14y ago
I find it a lot easier (though still not _very_ easy) to ditch books these days, as I have a lot more confidence I'll be able to find them again (ABE books, Amazon etc...) should I need them (unless they're _extremely_ obscure).
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by vmilner 14y ago
Fair enough. I guess I always think of "gravity" as "gravitational field strength caused by matter" (the gradient of "Einstein's rubber sheet", if you like), so a free-falling object near Earth will always have plenty.
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by vmilner 14y ago
Great :-) <pet_peeve> Can we say "free-fall" though? The ISS has at least 90% of the gravity we have down here... not very micro! </pet_peeve>
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by vmilner 14y ago
I suspect the fact my degree was almost as long ago, and I certainly _can_ remember the real analysis topics that were non-obvious, means there were fewer of them for you than for me :-)
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by vmilner 14y ago
I guess I'm now intrigued as to where your "sort of obvious" threshold lies. Which aspects of your undergraduate real analysis course did you not find obvious (if any)?
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by vmilner 14y ago
Yes sorry, realised just before you posted that this was HPP, not the TSP subset I'm familiar with where all cities are connected by their Euclidean distance. [I deleted my original post which asked why the TSP problem was described as _a_
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by vmilner 14y ago
I think one problem is that both DH and RSA depend on the fact that finding inverses is hard in certain big groups, which isn't an intuitive idea.(Admittedly, in RSA, the idea that factoring is hard is intuitive, but then you have the probl
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by vmilner 15y ago
It's interesting to see that "zero-gravity" was originally used in a context that actually _was_ a zero (or very small) gravitational field. The normal usage (where there's plenty of gravity, it's just that things are falling free in it) is