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Eclectic mathematician, irritable geek, boring homosexual, procrastinator extraordinaire, overworked dilettante and full-time human being. I post in fr&en.
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For the uninitiated, the band is playing "Fortunate Son" - which is a protest song against rich folk being able to dodge the draft for Vietnam. Either whoever did the set list is incompetent or it's a 14/10 troll of DJT, who got a very timely diagnosis of bone spurs in 1968 at age 22.

submitted 2 hours ago • 9 comments

À moitié drôle...

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

La lycéenne convoquée par le proviseur pcq elle a mis une recette de brownie dans ses candidatures de licence, c’est tout l’abus d’autoritarisme de notre société. Qu’est-ce que ça peut bien faire franchement ? Qu’est-ce que ça peut lui faire au proviseur? Et évidemment que les LM ne sont pas lues

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Le Palais de la Découverte, haut lieu parisien de la culture scientifique fermé depuis cinq ans pour rénovation, vit un nouveau coup dur. Alors que sa réouverture était annoncée pour le 29 juin, elle vient d'être reportée sine die, plongeant médiateurs et visiteurs ... 1/5

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Our library holds a rare copy of the proceedings of the 1911 Solvay Conference on physics, and I enjoyed looking through it (very carefully) today. As well as the amazing discussions and pictures (these are from Perrin) it seems a previous reader had been practicing their French at the same time!

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Argh. 😣

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HELP: Trying to find a more reliable #source for this exclamation attributed to the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II that Ferdinand of Spain cannot be called wise if he expelled people. Tried in Nomologia o discursos legales by Imanuel Aboab but can't read easily 😶 Does anyone know?

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Interesting bit of US-centrism from Web search results. I was trying to remember the name of Anton Wilhelm Amo, so I searched “first black man to get a doctorate” then adding “in the world”. Basically all answers are about Edward Bouchet (Yale PhD in 1876) and other Americans. …

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-Thème astral d'aujourd'hui: né sous l'influence du capricorne, vous êtes d'un naturel bienveillant. Tout le monde vous apprécie -Thème astral du IVᵉ siècle apr. J.-C: né sous Mars et Saturne en opposition, vous souffrirez d'hémorroïdes et de la lèpre Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis: T. II

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This is the first time I've seen this articulated, but it's a very neat summary of the instinctive reaction to AI that a lot of us have. I can acccess all the information I want about, say, car engines or linear algebra, but that doesn't give me the knowledge to fix the engine or do the equations

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Incidental discovery: it seems that around the 1970's, the standard Russian word (transcription) for “algorithm” was “алгорифм” [“algorifm”] ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B0%... — now it is “алгоритм” [“algoritm”].

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When the formula you're trying to look up is to be found in a chapter of a Russian book that was published in 1974 by the Computing Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and which nobody seems to have digitized, you know you're in trouble. 😬 (And no ISBN, of course.)

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Parfois les choses auxquelles on s'attend le moins ont un succès dingue. Par exemple, il y a longtemps, j'avais mis en ligne un scan des figures sur les jeux de cartes à jouer anglais et français (images dans le domaine public). Zéro effort. Ça a eu un succès auquel je ne m'attendais vraiment pas.

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a little ragnarok comic continuation. ...same, slime monster, same... =v=

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