rfbooth.bsky.social
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When I was a youth, there was a period where my father's typical week was Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, London, Belfast. Just hideous.
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Oh, that's a good idea. Back on the Wodehouse later.
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The "NHS is a cesspool of waste, bureaucracy, corruption, and out-of-control demarcation" narrative has been sold, by all political sides, as an excuse for so many decades that many people now believe there are endless savings to be had, I think.
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I re-read KPS on Saturday, and I couldn't help thinking what a damn fine TV show it could spawn.
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Here’s the other one. The key fact is, if you move one point of a triangle parallel to its opposite side, the area doesn’t change. So the triangle transforms twice to be half the medium square, that is ten (since the medium square is four small squares).
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Ok, each train is 48m long. We can imagine one is still and the other is moving at 55kph. 55kph is 55000/3600 = 275/18 m/s.
The moving train needs to cover 96m, half to get alongside and the other half to get clear. 96÷(275/18)=6.28 seconds..
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Oh, I meant the geometry problem! But I would be able to do the train, I shall return 🤞
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More than happy to post a solution if you would like, or not if you'd rather not.
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I mean, I can do this problem in my head in under 30 seconds, because I'm a mathematician with an interest in recreational geometry, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't demonstrate any usefulness in government.
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That's because we're not being paid to argue with selfish shitheads.
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It's easier to see if you reflect the upper triangle in the meeting line of the triangles. Now C _is_ the centre of the circle.
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The radius is also 4, so the area is 8pi.
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You get quiet reproach? We get hyperactivity and barking.
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So peculiar. As a mathematician who enjoys recreational geometry, I can do it in my head in thirty seconds, but I doubt I'm any better suited than most to be a "Whitehall disrupter". Although I could shout "What's even the point of you knock-off Tories!" quite loudly, so there's that.
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As a mathematician who enjoys recreational geometry, I can do it in my head in thirty seconds, but I doubt I'm any better suited than you to be a "Whitehall disrupter". Although I could shout "What's even the point of you knock-off Tories!" quite loudly, so there's that.
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If I had painted that, I would be smug as anything. Actually, these days, if I'd painted ANYTHING I'd be quite pleased with myself, but still, that's lovely.
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Now, I just don't believe that this generation is fundamentally less able than prior ones to engage with academic work, but a LOT of people do. They certainly haven't been expected to in the same way, which means it's likely to become more true. It's all very difficult.
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I teach, and we're facing an interesting near-future (I suspect you already know all this and have thought about it as much as me, but anyway...).
Pressure from parents and kids is "this generation is different", "post-COVID", "screens" - to fewer trad exams.
Pressure from GenAI: trad exams.
Hmm.
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We're seeing related effects here, as the Labour Party continue to do things that their opponent's supporters, rather than their own, want, very often to the utter disgust of their natural base.
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Yes, came here to say that. Extraordinary and superb, absolutely.
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I don't want to seem like I'm advocating violence, but this does seem like the sort of situation we were constantly told firearms rights were supposed to prevent.
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What a great book that is, though.
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As another man with an unjustifiably amazing wife, I really enjoy your open and entirely correct worship.
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If I'm anything to go by, you'll end up with a dozen or so of his little treasures, and they will enrich your daily life considerably.
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You're 90 on their eyes anyway, honestly. Not worth it.
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I wish I were surprised. Fucking pseudoscientific bullshit.
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I used to know some people in construction who built their own sailing yacht from steel-reinforced cement. Admirably, they painted it light green and called it Seamint.
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I'm struggling to see how there could possibly be enough data to conclude increased risk in tackles when the number of trans women playing rugby is minuscule. I'm just a mathematician, this is not my field, but pretty much every piece of sport research I've seen suggests no trans advantages.
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Her house's pipe, or her personal pipe?
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If you haven't seen youtu.be/6k01DIVDJlY?... - which surely you have - I really cannot recommend it enough.
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Supermarket sandwiches are, in my world, for when you're out of the house and have fucked up your planning rather badly.
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Her family, yes. Her friends have made a choice.
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Is there a book you'd recommend on this?
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And... bought - thank you!
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Rivers of London, and its sequels, are absolutely best -of-breed in their genre. Genuinely and consistently superb.
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The whole vibe-coding thing is deranged to me.
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There seems to be an implication that projects like this have to get huge to survive, but it's not clear to me why that would be so.
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This book is absurdly good.
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Eat complete sets of one of each, in the correct order, until it becomes obvious which are over-represented. Then dispose of the excess, in correct order, until you have only full sets remaining. Then eat by complete sets. The correct order is brown then 🌈.