ColinTheMathmo @ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz
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*Doorbell* Me: Hello? Fireman: Hi - do you have a smoke detector? Me: Yes. Fireman: Test it regularly? Me: Every time I cook.
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Some passes of the #ISS visible from the UK overnight - I'll tweet/toot warnings closer to the time
Give someone a program, you frustrate them for a day; teach them how to program, you frustrate them for a lifetime. -- David Leinweber
Random factlet: Virginia extends further West than West Virginia.
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Math Counterexamples
Web page by Jean-Pierre Merx
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I initiated this website because for years I have been passionated about Mathematics as a hobby and also by “strange objects”. Mathematical counterexamples combine both topics. The first counterexample I was exposed with is the one of an unbounded positive continuous function with a convergent integral. I took time to find such a counterexample… but...
URL: http://www.mathcounterexamples.net/
Entry: https://read.somethingorotherwhatever.com/entry/MathCounterexamples
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@ColinTheMathmo or it's 2020; time forgot how to drive this year and isn't doing things one at a time anymore
When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. -- Steven Wright
And so to bed ... night all.
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Preparing the maths can be a mess.
Hope the talk will not be one.
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them. -- Gene Roddenberry
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone -- Ronald Reagan
'ipsedixitism': the dogmatic insistence that something is a 'fact' without providing any supporting evidence -- Source: https://twitter.com/susie_dent/status/1302156807368916992
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TIL of the word 'Lagniappe' ... language is cool. And weird. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagniappe
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations. Nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard Feynman
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mathjax question
So now that I've rewritten bunch of extensions for v3, I wonder if there's interest in sharing what I've learned and how to share it.
Any suggestions?
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Q: What do you get when you drop a piano down a mineshaft? A: A flat minor!
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