ColinTheMathmo @ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
In about half an hour, UK #ISS pass, starting at 20:39:12, duration 125 secs, bright, Magnitude -2.0
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There's this guy who, during lockdown, kept calling the library asking not when he can check out books again
Not when he can use the computers again or read the newspaper or USE the library in any ways
But when we will need volunteers again, and if we could use any help right now
He's like 85 years old... he's been volunteering for 20 years. He just enjoys reshelving the books. He takes satisfaction in getting everything in order.
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"If people's basic needs were met through socialism, nobody would ever choose to work!"
Kid, there's people who saved up their entire lives to retire, and never have to work again
Who then choose to spend their retirement doing unpaid menial labor for the public library
People generally WANT to work, to feel accomplished from Doing Stuff
They just want to get to do work they choose to do willingly, for reasonable amounts of time, without the threat of starvation looming over them
Some passes of the #ISS visible from the UK overnight - I'll tweet/toot warnings closer to the time
*Doorbell* Me: Hello? Fireman: Hi - do you have a smoke detector? Me: Yes. Fireman: Test it regularly? Me: Every time I cook.
In about half an hour, UK #ISS pass, starting at 21:25:57, duration 14 secs, visible, Magnitude -1.2
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
In collection: Lists and catalogues
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
Some passes of the #ISS visible from the UK overnight - I'll tweet/toot warnings closer to the time
TIL of the word 'Lagniappe' ... language is cool. And weird. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagniappe
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