robjlow.bsky.social
Ex maths lecturer. Now classics postgrad (MA) @ClassicsWarwick. Also @[email protected], mostly maths there. Mostly lurking for the moment, haven't yet given up on Twitter completely.
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Depending on what you mean by recent, there's Cooley's "Res Gestae Divi Augusti" (2009, I think).
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I guess the game is aimed at (or was developed by) people more likely to say "philhellene" than "muon"...
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Does the game accept proper nouns? I speak, of course, in complete ignorance of this particular game.
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Only 20? More people should watch "My Fair Lady".
youtu.be/EN0wXFN0GO0?...
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Or maybe the slightly later one of adding radium to food and cosmetics - radium haircream, radium toothpaste, radium water...
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For completeness, I just got round to checking on my desktop, where it also worked fine.
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Not your most coherent post. (Or the least coherent thing I've seen on social media, but that is a very low bar.)
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The fact that you can do that by solving the first two equations for y an z doesn't mean that it's a good idea. 😈
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Works fine for me.
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It's elementary statistics?
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How does it do for numbers compared to Welsh and Gaelic? (I won't be insisting that Scots is a language here.)
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Hard to believe that Suetonius and Velleius Paterculus were writing about the same man...
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We just got set selections of questions from out of the textbook. There was the textbook and, well, that was it.
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I'm pretty sure that the two hours I spend reading Sophocles is better spent than his two minute.
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Proposal for a new classification: Arts, Sciences, Humanities and Inhumanities (eg business schools).
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1-0.
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Fun - nice bit of playing with how logs work.
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Surely it's a universal phenomenon that no matter how fast you read, the 'to be read' pile only ever gets bigger.
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It literally was your dream job...
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I usually just put the \LaTeX source in the text. Presumably the people you're sending to use it themselves, so they can read it.
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When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore, so it eats it! It's rather like getting tenure.”
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Daniel Dennett:
“The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system.
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easy...straightforward...well-known
So at a rough guess, about a week's work.
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More seriously, in terms of impact and influence it's hard to deny the status, even if you don't like the content. (I tend to enjoy the stuff he wrote before I was born more than the later books. YMMV.)
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😈
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Terry Pratchett
Isaac Asimov
Robert Heinlein
Robert Jordan
Iain M Banks
EE 'Doc' Smith
Arthur C Clarke
Homer
Virgil
Classics all :-)
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It should be the other way round: the only way you can have an academic job is if you make a decent contribution to the teaching. (Cloud cuckoo land, I know.)
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Reading five books by Spivak is definitely more work that reading five each by most sets of ten authors.
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Why, thank you. I try.
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Technically, if no terms and conditions are attached then by signing you have indicated your acceptance of there being no terms and conditions.
Good luck trying to make that stick, though.
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You need to have him listen to a few rounds of Mornington Crescent.
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Nearly fell into the 'grit your teeth and grind out the trigonometry' trap, but then the neat alternative jumped out and saved me.
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It's part of the drive for a 'preparation for the real word of work'.
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Just sometimes it would be nice to have one of my "it's obvious that..." prejudices contradicted by the evidence.
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I feel it would have been more considerate if they didn't just have a handful of names between them.
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If universities are going to be AI-native the way our students are digital natives by the year 2100 the population will be hunting one another for food.
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The last line is from Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick in the Wall', and it's about the treatment of schoolkids at the hands of harsh schoolteachers - could it be about the way teachers treat their pupils rather than pupil-on-pupil bullying?
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I think where I was was en route to that for some time. We went from having discretion to adjust marks and discussing each student individually to processing by exception with almost no discretion before I retired. By now the board may well have no discretion anyway, so no real reason to meet :-(
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I think you mean "nobody wants to *hear* it at dinner".
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I resisted the temptation to double the size and use Pick's theorem (that seems sufficiently like magic to be cheating), and after a lot of head scratching managed to dissect it usefully into a square, a rectangle, and some triangles. Then all I had to do was get the adding up right...
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When I was young all we had to 'just say "no"' to was drugs...happy days.
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Nice - I managed to find a helpful triangle, and avoided the double angle formula, but still had to use sin(30°). (It's easy to enough to work out, but even so...).
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Depends: do you want to be sleeping in the garage for the foreseeable future?
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It's a tough problem. I think it's pretty well established that simple diagnostics for spotting AI generated material have a huge false-positive rate, though, which is reasonable because the AIs were trained on stuff produced by people...
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Yeah, but that statistic was probably made up by an AI. I wouldn't give it much credence.
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OK, totally unashamed of using a little trig this time :-)
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Yep. Was quite chuffed when I spotted it.
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Still, at least we can all agree that lasagne (slices of baked processed wheat with meat and vegetables between) is a sandwich.
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I did it with a (tiny) bit of trig, but wasn't satisfied, so I stared at it a bit harder and finally realized there was a nice geometric argument (which I at least found much more satisfying).
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Hence the ancient song:
"Sulla has only got one ball..."
more famously repurposed by the Allies in WWII.