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by vmilner 8mo ago
For UK readers, the government land registry alert service can alert you if anyone attempts to mortgage sell properties youve registered with it: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/property-alert
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by vmilner 9mo ago
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/06/shopper-face...
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by vmilner 9mo ago
Definitely listen to the 1981 radio version if you like them. Bilbo's Last Song scene here(spoiler warning for those who haven't read it as its at the end of the book). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIsHshR1Ig8
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by vmilner 9mo ago
'The Housekeeper and the Professor' by Yoko Ogawa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Housekeeper_and_the_Profes... is a beautiful novel about a mathematician with a short term memory condition, that should app
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by vmilner 10mo ago
I enjoy https://destevez.net/about/ from a Phd maths guy, who's worked in satellite comms, and blogs on software defined radio and comms protocols (eg error correction and radio modulation, often in space related
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by vmilner 10mo ago
My alma mater (University of Nottingham UK) has just stopped all music and modern language teaching, which (for a very popular, respected, large campus institution) seems a bad sign for universities generally.
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by vmilner 10mo ago
I think it means 'Given a district of 300,000 people in Britain (in 1986)...'
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by vmilner 10mo ago
Roald Dahl said it best: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles:_A_Dangerous_Illness 'Here in Britain, because so many parents refuse, either out of obstinacy or ignorance or fear, to allow their children to be imm
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by vmilner 10mo ago
Yes, it made me think I'd already watched it and had forgotten about it...
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by vmilner 11mo ago
I like the recent variant on websites and apps where a random neutral start position (about ten normal ply moves in) is used to reduce the effect of opening books.
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by vmilner 11mo ago
It's turtles all the way down.
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by vmilner 1y ago
I always think about this when alien technology gets reverse-engineered in a remarkably short time in SF novels.
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by vmilner 1y ago
It makes the biggest dinosaurs (50-70 tons) gigafauna...
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by vmilner 1y ago
It would be funny to reverse generate Stratomatic card picks and dice rolls from the real data.
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by vmilner 1y ago
Here's one - happy to hear about the lots more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dj1zlvxglo
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by vmilner 1y ago
Talk (with rubbish sound sorry) on how Ian Livingstone plotteed fighting fantasy gamebooks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNSL7zTAy44
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by vmilner 1y ago
I hope he does something like Death of Stalin again.
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by vmilner 1y ago
Video of maths one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTAUsTZbiZk
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by vmilner 1y ago
It's scary how relevant a 1970's/80s comedy show is... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgkUVIj3KWY (Salami tactics)
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by vmilner 1y ago
Helping someone practice Oxford Maths Assessment Tests at present, and whatever else may be happening in the admissions process, those test papers are not getting easier over time.
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by vmilner 1y ago
It has ringers taking breaks (for beer, I think) during peals and handing off to other ringers which I was surprised was allowed (till bellringing friends told me it wasn't...). Still a good book though.
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by vmilner 1y ago
There's nothing wrong with these terms, its just that in popular conversation, the "secret" code usage would be quite common. For instance I just googled "enigma machine documentary" and I've seen around twent
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by vmilner 1y ago
Is the term codebreaking familiar to you?
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by vmilner 1y ago
The video lectures are excellent too. Anyone interested in this stuff could do far worse than start here (though a little dated now - fundamentals fine though) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLruBu5BI5n4aFpG32iMbd...
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by vmilner 1y ago
Secret code E.g. The Enigma code.
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by vmilner 1y ago
He has a joint paper using one here: https://www.dafx17.eca.ed.ac.uk/papers/DAFx17_paper_21.pdf
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by vmilner 1y ago
I forget that shows from non-BBC channels in the Uk can get shown on BBC America.
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by vmilner 1y ago
I got the Linux Answers “trial” magazine and then subscribed to Linux Format for ~20 years. Sorry to see it go :-(
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by vmilner 1y ago
Did Father Ted have much impact in the US? - it always seems v British/Irish in its humour (but that’s true of Monty Python of course and that obviously made it over there)
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by vmilner 1y ago
I got a lot more out of his Metamagical Themas (scientific american columns) collection book. Eg Lisp and making self-referential sentences (“This sentence contains three a’s, one b, …”)

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