Richard G Clegg

You would be most welcome. :)

Brilliant. Would love to hear about what you are up to with them.

This is Don Knuth's write up of using Claude to solve a graph theory problem.
cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper...

In practice I find their summaries are really pretty good these days. I would say as good as a middle level first year PhD student in the specific discipline.

It's wild that a general problem solving technology that did not exist ten years has reached "not quite as good as the most qualified humans in that area" at a very specific skill. It makes them better than 95%? 99%? 99.9%? of humans at that task. (I could not summarize papers in, say, chemistry.)

The US last declared war in 1942 (UK the same). It is not a thing that happens in modern conflicts. Weird but true. "Declaring war" is essentially obsolete.

I did what the estate agent advised given the only expense I paid out would be paint and carpet.

I thought you were making it up at first. It looks like one of those designs you get if you let the winner of a children's TV contest do the design. I live on the road where the station was but I don't think that branding was visible anywhere on the remaining building.

Afraid I am in the "into them" category (despite the asshole who left the company). I liked the philosophy make beer some people really love and some hate. It is more interesting than making beers everyone is blandly OK with. I loved some (but not all) or their beers. You did not. That is ok.

It makes sense. When I am teaching the various forms of Fourier transforms I would rather the students spent their time understanding the interplay of the topics and eg the relationship between sampling and spectral duplicates than spend their time mememorising which equations need an - and a pi.

Ah... Then I fear you have thought about a level of subtlety that the designers did not have in mind for 2B.

Honestly it makes so much sense from a teaching perspective. I include such for MSc level modules (Fourier transform). There is no virtue in remembering where the minus signs and constants go, it is the techniques I want people to remember.

Is that canon? I saw nothing in game. I thought she was designed like that because the designer wanted people to cosplay as her.
(It also has the feel of Kojima years later saying that Eve has an unfortunate condition that forces her to wear skimpy outfits for medical reasons. Yeah right mate.)

I really dislike it but it is a thing Japanese culture (and especially Japanese geek culture) seems to have absolutely no problem with. I enjoyed NieR but that aspect was creepy.

I have a vivid memory of a friend who did a beautiful and passionate monologue about how she hated magnolia. She showed me "dusky apricot" she picked. I hid labels and challenged her to tell the difference. It did not go well for her.
We are drawn to beige walls like dull moths to a boring flame.

:-)
THX1138 is supposed to be a dystopia not an ideal homes exhibit.

It is honestly weird that I redecorated knowing it would receive a negative reaction and be replaced *but* apparently a new carpet and freshly painted walls that people will tear out and paint over up the price vs a beaten up carpet and scuffed walls.

I think the estate agents basically say that grey carpet and magnolia walls are most likely to make the buyer think they can put up with it and it is no pain to remove.

I remember a particular flat I helped paint and stencil some roses and a pattern looking like bushes. By coincidence I helped the next owner paint it absolutely plain white.

Having done just that you are decorating to get the response "I can live with it for a while" or "It will be easy to replace" and to avoid the response "oh my God this needs a lot of work before I set foot in it".

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This is how the super mice from hitchhikers happen. We can cure all disease in mice, make them stronger smarter and longer lived.

If I recall the order of events correctly at this point another biologist reading the article said "those properties sound like these obscure creatures I'm observing". More observations were collected and the naked mole rats were, indeed, the first (and so far only) known eusocial mammal.

A thing I think is amazing about the naked mole rat is it was an animal that was (in a sense) predicted before being observed. A biologist made calculations about what an eusocial animal would be like before it was known that the naked mole rate was eusocial.

It's an interesting article but I think the "Most colleagues thought I was mad." part is important there. The writer's perspective does not feel modern or mainstream.

As someone who often referees a viva for "thesis by publication" he won't be the only ugly stitched together creation I see that year. (Niche PhD examiner humour).

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Bridge Command is a spaceship experience: a bit interactive theatre a bit computer game and a bit role playing game -- Vauxhall, London. This ad is great. Maybe it's for you. (Not sponsorship, just really want them to succeed so I can keep playing.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZKa...

Very sad. The show is still quite charming with some real classic moments.

Peak 1980s. What if we took the most famous British black athlete and said "you know what mate, the technology is not quite there yet. You OK to be white?"