ColinTheMathmo @ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz
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Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
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must... resist... obvious... conclusion
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-49375917
Give your child the invaluable life lesson that punctuation can be important - wash their hair with 'No! *More* tears!'
Every artist was first an amateur. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trains in chaos ...
I'm just trying to get home ...
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hey dev friends, if you were looking to write a really interactive web interface (like one with draggable, interactive gui elements), what framework would be your top choice right now?
i've got a great idea for a fun web app, but honestly I'm way more of a backend dev and I don't even know where to start with the frontend stuff if it has to be totally dynamic and animated.
The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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1m fingerprints found in leaky database by firm who should know better https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3080475/1m-fingerprints-found-in-leaky-database-by-firm-who-should-know-better - this is why I still use passwords
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Just watched Back to the Future... for about the 40th time in my life 😂
What can I say... it's still as good as the first time I've seen it.
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RT @JimMFelton@twitter.com
Thunberg is boating to the US because she wants to minimise CO2 emissions whilst she fights climate change. Meanwhile 50-year-olds behind keyboards are making jokes about her drowning to try to hurt the feelings of a teenager. So hard to know who's on the right side of history.
I'll never forget the first time I saw a universal remote control. I said to myself 'Well, this changes everything'
New Proof Settles Ancient Question of How to Simplify Numbers Like Pi
A nice article in Quanta about the chromatic function:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/color-me-polynomial-20190813/
It doesn't prove it, but the vertex colouring function is always a polynomial. Which is lovely.
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stupid, tabs
Thousands of people have talent ... The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power? -- Noel Coward
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I want a text editor, not a word processor. I've seen what a food processor does to food ...
The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. -- Stanley Gudder
Some days, I amaze myself! Other days, I look for my scissors while already holding them. -- Anon.
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone -- Ronald Reagan
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