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Fact and Fiction: December 2005
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Thoughts about a funny old world, and what is real, and what is not. Comments are welcome, but please keep them on topic. Friday, December 30, 2005. When I haven't been filling myself with mince pies and mulled wine, I have been writing up my analysis of Kate Bush's song π (Greek letter p) which I described earlier here. There is quite a lot of material, so I have organised it as a web site called A Great Big Circle. Posted by Stephen Luttrell @ 9:54 pm. Tuesday, December 13, 2005. The article points out...
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Fact and Fiction: Who is in control?
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Thoughts about a funny old world, and what is real, and what is not. Comments are welcome, but please keep them on topic. Sunday, January 07, 2007. Who is in control? Ran a New Year competition in which you were invited to imagine that you were an alien who had recently arrived on Earth, and you had to send a short text message home describing what you found there. The winners have now been announced here. And my two favourites are:. Here is an entertaining little exercise, which I was told about many ye...
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Fact and Fiction: August 2006
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Thoughts about a funny old world, and what is real, and what is not. Comments are welcome, but please keep them on topic. Tuesday, August 15, 2006. Here are 3 photos that I took whilst in the Land's End area of Cornwall:. How are these photos related? Give details to justify your answer. Posted by Stephen Luttrell @ 7:02 pm. Malvern, United Kingdom. Where have all my images gone? This blog is now closed. Bottom-up design of high energy physics theories. Bell Labs: Over and out. Who is in control?
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Fact and Fiction: September 2005
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Thoughts about a funny old world, and what is real, and what is not. Comments are welcome, but please keep them on topic. Thursday, September 29, 2005. Kate Bush returns to planet Earth. So finally she has returned from her long break who knows where. Welcome back Kate Bush. She has just released a single called King of the Mountain. From her forthcoming album Aerial. Here are the lyrics:. King of the Mountain. Could you see the aisles of women? Could you see them screaming and weeping? KOTM is a dark an...
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Fact and Fiction: Possible worlds
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Thoughts about a funny old world, and what is real, and what is not. Comments are welcome, but please keep them on topic. Tuesday, December 26, 2006. I have just finished Richard Dawkins. Book The God Delusion. The last paragraph of which reads as follows:. How should we interpret Haldane's 'queerer than we can suppose'? Queerer than can, in principle. Or just queerer than we can suppose, given the limitation of our brains' evolutionary apprenticeship in Middle World? I want to use the narrow slit in the...
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Fact and Fiction: Four preconditions for civilisation
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Thoughts about a funny old world, and what is real, and what is not. Comments are welcome, but please keep them on topic. Friday, December 15, 2006. Four preconditions for civilisation. A propos my previous posting It pays to keep a little craziness. Here are the four intellectual processes underlying human achievement, as listed on the back cover of the book Pioneering Research: A Risk Worth Taking. By Donald W Braben that I discussed a few months ago here. Ask questions not on the agenda. My degree is ...
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Shtetl-Optimized: This week, let's overthrow the Taliban
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Sunday, November 05, 2006. This week, let's overthrow the Taliban. Let this man's face serve as a reminder to all my American friends, to haul your respective asses to your respective polling places with no excuses accepted. Keep in mind that this year the Democratic voting day is Tuesday November 7. While the Republican voting day is Wednesday November 8. I couldn't find a precinct station in Waterloo for some strange reason, so I mailed an absentee ballot back to New Hope, PA.). If you want to influenc...
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Fact and Fiction: April 2006
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Thoughts about a funny old world, and what is real, and what is not. Comments are welcome, but please keep them on topic. Sunday, April 02, 2006. Life begins at N=40. In this week's New Scientist there is an article by Marcus du Sautoy. Entitled Life begins at N=40. In which he ridicules the idea that if you are a mathematician then "after 40 you're past your best and will never make any worthwhile discoveries", which is reinforced by the fact that the award of the Fields Medal. See are going nowhere, wh...
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Fact and Fiction: Widescreen laptop computers
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Thoughts about a funny old world, and what is real, and what is not. Comments are welcome, but please keep them on topic. Sunday, February 25, 2007. The LCD screen makes heavy duty technical wordprocessing relatively painless to do, especially as I use Publicon. To do my technical writing. So, despite being an old and underpowered laptop PC, it creates worthwhile results because it is well-matched to the needs of the software that I run on it. Of the screens used the full height that was available in its...
