and a t2 of the half-open interval (t1, 0] such that the image of the point t2 under the same mapping belongs to the complement of the set concerned when the point t2 is considered."
V I Arnol'd (1990) Huygens and Barrow, Newton and Hooke
"For modern mathematicians it is generally difficult to read their predecessors, who wrote "Bob washed his hands" where they should simply have said "There is a t1 < 0 such that the image Bob(t1) of the point t1 under the natural mapping t -> Bob(t) belongs to the set of people having dirty hands
Malt and barley rag?
Journal news: 80% of the editorial board of Communications in Algebra has resigned. The resignation letter cites Taylor & Francis' dismissal of managing editor Scott Chapman and their recent top down approach to running journals. (E.g. implementing a 2 reviewer system without consulting the board.)
Your column in the New Stoatsman is off to a good start, I see
- I brought the urine sample you requested
- Good
- There's rather a lot of it
- I see
- Do you really *need* a whole milk-churn full?
- No, that was just to make sure you were serious about wanting insurance
I get, being optimistic, maybe half the allusions in S J Perelman's pieces and brilliantly funny though I find them I've had to give up recommending them to anyone else
"Sandy Sandilands"
Banging on the window with a sponge
OFCOM all over this like a sloth on diazepam wielding a feather duster
HER: let’s do reverse cowgirl
ME: okay
TOGETHER: lrigwoc
Admittedly a few eyebrows were raised when I hooked up with someone I'd met via listserv in (checks notes) 1994
A previous reader had underlined that passage and written Einstein? in the margin,cursing me with the knowledge of their stupidity but not their identity.
I once got a collection of William S Burroughs essays out of the library, and in one of them he mused about self-taught writers, saying after all one wouldn't expect, say, a physicist never to have studied the subject.
It wasn't that big a deal when I met mine on datingdirect dot co dot uk in 2002
Solutions manual to accompany Acousticsb An Introduction to its Physical Principles and Applications by Allan D Pierce
I've got the thing you all want
You can be the first folks on your block
To have your boy come home in a box
bsky.app/profile/mcmw...
When I first heard it I thought it was the sounds that were radical, later the mildly erotic lyrics, nowadays I think it's that it's in 3/4 time
RIP Joe, this is one of my favourites of his psychedelic output, but I loved his country side too, particularly Tonight I'm Singing Just For You
Some people are apparently claiming that Silicon Valley Tech Bros have consciousness, like normal humans.
As someone who studies these issues carefully, I can assure you that this is an utterly preposterous claim. Yes, they can mimic humans, but they are fundamentally incapable of original thought.
For what it's worth this is my full quote. I would love to understand from @ukri.org why this call has been restricted to 4 weeks (with no advanced warning) going against it's own EDI commitments. The response so far doesn't explain why only 4 weeks nor why not 8 weeks.
#LongStoryShort
and that their job is to work out what it is. Because I deliberately didn't give them a detailed rubric they found this very stressful. I found this very surprising, as well as unfortunate, but I'll know better how to frame the task next time.
Interesting insight arising from discussions with my first-year undergraduate class: A-level essay prep has left some of them with the genuine belief that once I give them an essay title it means there is a single ideal essay that I'm thinking of and only that will satisfy the requirements,
#LongStoryShort
Two animated TV series that I've recently finished and immediately wanted to rewatch, Long Story Short and Strip Law, are very different but both carry a Made By Humans disclaimer
Interesting 'flight simulator'
Likewise, heavier vehicles should have lower speed limits, though only linearly
