vmilner

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by vmilner 4y ago
> (Apologies: being the HN pleb that I am, I don’t know how to hyperlink) I think it usually "just works" (I don't do anything special for mine).
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by vmilner 4y ago
Well, he lost his parliamentary seat in 2017, post-referendum, and there were no new UK commissioners created after that (Julian King was appointed in 2016 and was the final one.)
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by vmilner 4y ago
The traditional destination for spectacular Uk political falls (EU Commissioner) has been blocked.
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by vmilner 4y ago
Well, I do... :-) Less facetiously, I think Jaynes is becoming better known as Bayesian techniques have become more mainstream.
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by vmilner 4y ago
[It’s worth emphasising that Sands was hugely positive about the lectures and was great friends with Feynman.]
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by vmilner 4y ago
That someone is Matthew Sands: “Early on, though, a small problem surfaced. Feynman had a long-time commitment to be absent from Caltech the third week of the fall semester, and so would miss two class lectures. The problem was easily solve
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by vmilner 4y ago
I used kiwix Wikipedia for a Polish friend in the Uk who couldn’t afford reliable internet access and was using public library computers. I found the English edition with images was too large for him, but the Polish edition was fine. Ideall
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by vmilner 4y ago
No obvious shortages at my Sainsbury’s today.
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by vmilner 4y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a2tDOYkFCYo
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by vmilner 4y ago
That was one of the innovations of Stephenson’s “Rocket” locomotive that won the famous Rainhill speed trials easily.(Increased surface area of pipes with hot gases in helps boil the water more efficiently.)
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by vmilner 4y ago
Parody of https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RRdAe3UAIVs
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by vmilner 4y ago
In the Uk, at least in terms of what’s available in normal shops you have all the varieties of “eating apples”, (which you pick up and bite into in the normal way) and then the “cooking apple” which is roughly twice the size of an eating ap
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by vmilner 4y ago
Are Bramleys readily available in the US? - I was surprised not to see them mentioned. (I live in the Uk with a Bramley tree in my garden.) EDIT: Apparently they are Uk only. Wow.
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by vmilner 4y ago
He lost the next election by a landslide, however...
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by vmilner 4y ago
I would start with the Leonard Susskind Theoretical Minimum series (books and YouTube Videos) and then see if you need to try other texts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theoretical_Minimum
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by vmilner 4y ago
Check out https://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Its-History-Undergraduate... which goes through the history of maths while actually _doing_ some maths at undergraduate level. Also the lectures based on it by N J Wildberger E.g
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by vmilner 4y ago
Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. “Well, I never!” said he. “I thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see that there was nothing in it after all.” “I begin to think, Watson,” said Holmes, “that I make a mis
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by vmilner 4y ago
I love this so much - I’ve been trying to encourage anyone starting a linear algebra course to watch this - LA cries out for this type of visualisation help.
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by vmilner 4y ago
Probably the closest there is: https://accu.org/conf-main/main/
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by vmilner 4y ago
I’m not saying you’re wrong but it surprises me that there are many countries in Europe with no (or even very few) private schools - are you thinking of Former soviet bloc countries?
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by vmilner 4y ago
A very annoying thing in the U.K. recently is that companies are making it more difficult to make ongoing payments via “direct debits” which have a high level of consumer protection and encourage people to use “continuous payment authoritie
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by vmilner 4y ago
Really impressed with this.
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by vmilner 4y ago
Maybe so, but I was quoting Feynman: “When I was in high school, my physics teacher—whose name was Mr. Bader—called me down one day after physics class and said, ‘You look bored; I want to tell you something interesting.’ Then he told me so
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by vmilner 4y ago
You can certainly see why Feynman loved the Principle of Least Action and Lagrangians so much.
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by vmilner 4y ago
They almost certainly won’t vote for a single party next time - Minority Labour supported by SNP seems almost inevitable now.
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by vmilner 4y ago
This reminded me of Leonard Susskind's "Theoretical Minimum" physics lectures. "A number of years ago I became aware of the large number of physics enthusiasts out there who have no venue to learn modern physics and cosm
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by vmilner 4y ago
The brilliant David Warner also gone... (movies 5 and 6 and TNG:Chain of Command - "There are four lights!" with his Royal Shakespeare Company friend Patrick Stewart)
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by vmilner 4y ago
"He appeared already to know much about them and all their families, and indeed to know much of all the history and doings of the Shire down from days hardly remembered among the hobbits themselves. It no longer surprised them; but he
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by vmilner 4y ago
Old Forest section was dramatised later (though they couldnt get the same cast) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tales-Perilous-Realm-Full-Cast-Dram...
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by vmilner 4y ago
See also Magpie Audio for high audio quality recordings of Holmes and others (eg Pride and Prejudice) by professional actors. (They have been put on YouTube by the main reader Greg Wayland for free - though I think he retains copyright)

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