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so far, I am spending a statistically significant percentage of 2012 listening to kpop youtube.com/watch?v=3fy4cq…

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths nine days?

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Walking on frozen sand is a lovely feeling

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In reply to @mathshistory

@mathshistory established Greenwich AT the location of the prime meridian?!

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that was my least successful shave ever. #basicallystillhairy

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor precisely for that reason.

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor doesn't that make sense?

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my supervisor and I have got to the "vicious back-and-forth comments" stage of editing this paper

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on a related note: I don't like people who use a fixed line-width in TeX documents. I'm prepared to get into a big twitter fight about this

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall lines are max. 80 characters long.

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall yep

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In reply to @enchamade

@enchamade I mean in the source .tex, not the compiled document

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"Enthusiastic network marketer - born again pagan - I'm collecting cashback with Cashbackcard - are you?" - worst twitter bio? I felt sick.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett the "born again pagan" bit worries - another symptom of poor critical thinking, or of a willingness to do anything for money?

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites I beg to differ: it was quite a popular middle name in 1911, viz. 1911census.co.uk/search/results…

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites in 1861 there was a Ms Peyton Luff of London

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites unlikely names are somewhat an interest of mine nameoftheyear.blogspot.com/2007/02/key-no…

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Watch in amazement as I completely fail to notice my tripod is falling over! youtube.com/watch?v=Z6_ION…

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett can you do it in any base? the @MathsBusking person who showed me said she couldn't. I was making a video to show how.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett alright, I'll just go and make one then.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett once the person upstairs has finished hoovering, of course...

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett sound insulation == be far away from objects making sounds. Right?

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any idea why my video is only uploading at 10k/s to vimeo?

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In reply to @TwidgeMC

@AdrenalGBR is it ok to post your 3x3 grid puzzle on my blog as part fo the december recap? I may be asking more questions as I forgot lots

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thanks to @aperfect, christian@hotmathematicians.com is my new email address. Next step: arXiv contact information!

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie snaggly frown :<

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similarly alluring addresses are available to sufficiently-hot mathematicians (contrapositive: not having one => not a hot mathematician)

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie well, I didn't need to see that! Yeesh.

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo of course I assume that, given the opportunity to have such a winning address, any hot mathematician will accept instantly

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie second-class Oxford degree. Borderline.

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo don't quite understand what you want, so have you seen traintimes.org.uk? maybe ask him where he gets his data?

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I've made a video: The Ace of Base (-three numbers) trick - vimeo.com/34478966

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In reply to @jjsanderson

@jjsanderson that's considerably more than I drove mine, I think.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @SallyRobin I was staring at this like mad last night, but then it clicked: (rot 13 code:) snpgbevny vf n hanel bcrengvba

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In reply to @TwidgeMC

@AdrenalGBR what was the name of your friend from Warwick?

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I had my legs crossed for too long and now they are dead! At some point soon I'll have to get up to make dinner oh me oh my what a to-do

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I've finally written up December's Newcastle @MathsJam: checkmyworking.com/2012/01/newcas…

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks there are MORE?!!! I thought the quicksort was the only one!

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In reply to @gingerbeardman

@gingerbeardman sadly, this particular instance of quantum levitation is fake metafilter.com/111217/Old-vid…

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In reply to @numberloving

@numberloving Simon Tatham's puzzle collection has a slitherlink game (called Loopy) that can do loads of shapes: chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzz…

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor twitter automatically sends links through t.co these days

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor oh, but I see you meant "why does twitter do this?"

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett if you're not going to link to those dancers I will in the Aperiodical

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett it's deliberate spam not scattershot spam. If it was email it would be one message with many BCC. Only looks bad bc of twitter

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett but yeah, TEDx is a scourge

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths write pi in base 24; assign digits to moves. Will the cube be solved at some point? Doesn't follow from normality of pi.

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some interesting comments on my December MathsJam recap post checkmyworking.com/2012/01/newcas…

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I've made a bajillion edits to my reply to your reply, in case you've already looked at it

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JSlayerUK what's the essay on?

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JSlayerUK and what's the title?

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JSlayerUK do you have opinions on the matter?

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JSlayerUK is that an essay's worth of opinion? I think so. Get cracking!

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@RANIELDANSON fines go up the more times you get caught, so this isn't a sustainable strategy

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somebody run at me with a knife while reciting the definition of plutôt, please

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interesting name, interesting guy! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafcadio_…

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more interesting Victorians news: I'm reconsidering my opinion of Alexander Graham Bell mathcraft.wonderhowto.com/blog/alexander…

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In reply to @naomzzb

@naomzzb it's impossible to be cynical about that program

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites carry your DS at all times, in case we run into each other. I've heard Professor Layton has some very interesting maths puzzles

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks so does the reception team appear just as you're checking out?

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks so inconvenient! and I suppose if I wanted to convene a meeting that would also cause hilarious problems

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect google news alerts?

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Why oh why wasn't Zen recommissioned? I did so love his sexy crime-solving capers

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The research station at the south pole has a copy of The Thing... on Betamax - mikeygoingdown.tumblr.com/post/123182338…

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does there exist a decent free-ish or cheap-ish video editor for windows?

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites The Asda Delivery Man Always Knocks Twice (then eats your yoghurts on the way back to the depot)

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just submitted a new @gaussfacts.It's that kind of day.

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In reply to @charliesgames

@charliesgames I approve!

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths potential bonus-heckle re the podcast: "billion" was invented in 1475, but Greeks were talking about "myriads" well before

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths said heckle only valid if you were talking about people starting to think about big numbers, not just about the term "billion"

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the people at brume must be wondering why I order a new blackboard wall sticker every six months

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites with hollandaise sauce?

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learn how to speak cross-discipline with p257 of this excellent document: ets.org/Media/Research…

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What a long apple!

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean my dad does. He still runs his own Microsoft Exchange Servers in his garage though, so he might not have the best judgement.

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In reply to @MathsJam

Ok @MathsJam, if nobody else is going to do it, I will. Can I have a list of requested locations, so I can make a map?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I assumed @stecks would see that tweet, plus anyone else who's had enquiries. She knows how to contact me!

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett patience, Rowlett! It's the morning

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks super! @peterrowlett : poor show, your page on mathsjam.com doesn't say where you meet. Where is it?

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A map of current and potential @MathsJam locations: g.co/maps/yb88n (cc @stecks @peterrowlett)

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Stopped at Wetherby services. Leo is having topological issues with his jumper.

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@AdamJackzon yes, I did. An oldie AND a goodie!

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I have reached the South and I have updated the @MathsJam map with Nottingham, Melbourne and Portsmouth g.co/maps/f7rgs

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@RANIELDANSON that's the kind of completely equivocal recommendation I can really appreciate!

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @stecks ok, I've added a bit to the bio saying to email manchester@mathsjam.com or tweet @MathsJam

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In reply to @christianp

@christianp @peterrowlett @stecks @MathsJam hah, see how "bio" has come to mean "bumf at the top of the page" in my mind!

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mathemategwyr Cymraeg and mathematoryon kernewek: there is a MathsJam-shaped hole where you live. Get on it! g.co/maps/f7rgs

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett 80 news: my nana was 80 yesterday. She'd love a math/maths shoutout

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Just been told the place for nana's 80th party today has a flock of alpacas in the grounds. Considerably more excited now.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @Samuel_Hansen to be very clear: I'm requesting a cp-ancestor mention. My policy on hearing my own name remains unchanged

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts some of these puns are pretty hock-neyed

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan shave your moustache first, then sideburns, and beard last. #unhelpfulneckbeardadvice

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan it's as if I spent the last year setting that joke up!

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Have found myself wedged under a table. Need to move out without pushing the table. Curse you, Newton!!!

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen you scoundrel! For a few glorious moments I thought you were both genuinely trying to avoid mentioning me.

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts ohh, don't you find that place a little bit creepy?

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Just passed an Austrian tourbus emblazoned with the slogan "Beat the Street". Do you think they meant "hit the road"?

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Whenever I see a full moon partially obscured by clouds, only four words and a guitar riff come to mind: TEENAGE! MUTANT! NINJA! TURTLES!

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In reply to @Rosalot

@Rosalot disagree. They were ninjas more than heroes, and the tory-era ban on nunchuks in the media was so ridiculous of won't perpetuate it

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In reply to @christianp

@christianp @Rosalot *I* won't perpetuate it

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz you now have 100 followers. Congratulations!

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In reply to @Rosalot

@Rosalot there was a moral panic about ninjas, hence "hero turtles". All the really cool kids knew the real name. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_M…

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In reply to @Rosalot

@Rosalot PS my full signature book from universal studios, even with scary Casey Jones, hints that I am a bugger fan than you

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In reply to @Rosalot

@Rosalot ha! Bigger fan! Autocomplete hates me twice!

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what voodoo is this! webdemo.visionobjects.com/equation.html?… like Microsoft's math input panel but over the web

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In reply to @alexbellos

@alexbellos did you watch Sherlock last night? Thee floors in the secret lab were negative numbers followed by a B at the bottom

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In reply to @trackinthebox

@trackinthebox your 404 error page has an error. You're either meta geniuses or you didn't mean to forget the word "one"

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please make: a Civ-like game called "TORY QUEST" where it is your job to impede progress as much as possible (cc @PeterMolydeux)

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I've had just about enough of these Whigs and their stranglehold on longplay strategy paradigms

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Clothes collection chuggers: putting two bagsthrough our front door because we have two buzzers is almost Panglossian in its optimism

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MathsJammers: ideas for readily-available materials I can use to make a set of lominoes? schoengeometry.com/webbooklet.PDF

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High tension in PHD2 as Cushing attempts to fix the last couple of squares of the sudoku cube

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks I do not know what they are! Could you provide diagrams?

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks I don't understand that. It seems to leave everything unchanged.

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Solvèd! Thanks @stecks!

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I've added some good stuff to my Interesting Esoterica collection recently: mendeley.com/groups/519971/…

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In reply to @tylermath12

@TylerClark12 good!

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what's the opposite of a SQL injection? I clicked a button and this intranet site filled the page with the query it should have executed

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I like theorem statements beginning, "Suppose $P_1, P_2, ..., P_n$ want to play poker."

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well, I've ruined my landlady's wall and my blackboard sticker has bubbles behind it. That's just about the worst that could have happened.

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I hope this was worthwhile

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie what were you showing us?

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you're damn right the LaTeX I used in my tweet earlier gets properly typeset on my blog

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie hahaha that is excellent!

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall re poles on trains: I almost gave some kids a lesson in rotational inertia - jump and hold on to the pole when the train stops

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ok Dyson, when are you going to invent a bagless bin?

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@nulibsage the only freely-available definition of Fibonacci p-codes I can find is at comlab.uniroma3.it/marco/articoli… in Section III

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Tempted to use my phone's barcode scanner on this dudes neck to find out exactly what consumer product he felt was so important

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen have you seen the draft? I'm trying to marshall the energy to finish it. I have loads of links

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen can you get on Skype? Is it a reasonable time where you are?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett an interesting email should currently be at the top of your inbox

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks good point, I'll send it to you too.

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks by publicly twittering peter, I was actually prompting people like you to remind me of should have included them

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I do wish my phone would stop rewriting 'I' to 'of'

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett as far as I'm concerned, that other email was responded to at mathsjam. I wouldn't mind if you *do* reply to it though...

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today I learned that at least one French mathematician thinks "Soazig" is a good name for a human baby

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I've done another Internet Maths Aperiodical. This one's a corker. acmescience.com/mathematics/13…

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In reply to @alexbellos

@alexbellos I did not think there needed to be another book on the subject after "the geometry of pasta"

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@RANIELDANSON I'll ask just in case: are you getting all your tax credits?

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4music: come for Nicki Minaj, stay for the advert with women shaving their moustaches

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths quesclamation sounds like what dinosaurs did to reproduce

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@RANIELDANSON can't hurt to have a go at the questionnaire: hmrc.gov.uk/taxcredits/sta…

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths best you can do is 379. 379,397,739,9638 prime but 793, 973 not. Answers with repeated digits: 113, 199

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In reply to @christianp

@christianp @standupmaths well of course I meant 963 not 9638

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my 1177th prime birthday is the day after my 26th real birthday! Double festivities!

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In reply to @christianp

@christianp and I should read my computer better: 149 also has 4 prime permutations

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths my method (in Python, of course!): gist.github.com/1594133

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan ctrl+shift+v

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan I think the behaviour has just changed to formatted-by-default recently. It's been annoying me too.

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts <~~ little poke about maths making?

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the difference between 'condescend' and 'patronise': to 'condescend' is to act haughtily; 'patronise' is what you should do to Deli Bar One

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spend five minutes checking something works in a Python shell before realising your app is written in Ruby

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In reply to @HilariousCow

@HilariousCow haha, saying "I'm always in trouble" while riding a skateboard is so massively 90s

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks could my MathsJam map go somewhere on the website?

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hey, one header in this Word document inexplicably written in Consolas - you're my favourite

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean I'm curating last night's dinner in a hot new venue.

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Further adventures with poorly-chosen tripod positions youtube.com/watch?v=ls_sGr…

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In reply to @acmescience

@acmescience do you read Cabinet too? My love for it is unbounded.

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In reply to @alexbellos

@alexbellos I did a similar bit of computation-with-a-dictionary: checkmyworking.com/2011/12/grunt-…

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made chilli. Don't have any sour cream. If I don't make it through tonight, tell Janelle Monae I love her.

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In reply to @Tony_Mann

@Tony_Mann don't you mean Nature Valley 3, then?

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan because when you ask that question you end up with madore.org/~david/program…

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In reply to @CloudoidLtd

@CloudoidLtd could well be. They certainly offer both boxes and sandwiches

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I think this guy would like to know if anyone is looking at his site: date12122012.blogspot.com

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I don't want to be awake now!

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett well, that's still data

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Today I am (I think) wearing pink on yellow. Do I need style advice or am I a Fashion Maverick?

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean photosofvinylalbumsheldinfrontofmacbooks.tumblr.com

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean @trackinthebox so happy birthday from me too!

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Changed his mind.

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks don't make me go to hobbycraft! That is a slippery slope I wish to remain at the top of!

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In reply to @plusmathsorg

@plusmathsorg if you're going to explode, do it on one side of the Atlantic and not in-between. They frown on that sort of thing

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I'm an evil genius: I have decided to make a rubik's cube with ratchets in, so each face can only turn one way

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall yes, but the look on someone's face when they first encounter it will be priceless

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall or: can you think of a set of interlocking ratchets that restrict the number of positions the cube can be in?

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David claims that this is a tetrahedron

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@RachaelBailes the only job title where a prefix of "she-" is acceptable is "Hulk"

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ok, bake caking time

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I hardly ever do #ff, but I will today because his blog is pretty interesting: Twitter, please pay attention to @outofthenorm2

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In reply to @mathshistory

@mathshistory I baked a cake today for my birthday tomorrow! I missed a golden opportunity to make a Menger sponge! Woe!!!

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dear Newcastle ISS: this is not acceptable content for your root apps site: apps.ncl.ac.uk

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ahh, I forgot to tweet this yesterday: yesterday's date was a palindrome in base-13

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect I want examples

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen aww, you deleted the crazy man's comment on the blog :(

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen is this a network q: how long should it take a service to have most things you'd want on it? Eg wikipedia, youtube, the web

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen indeed. It feels like something that would be fun to work out a methodology for.

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Never change, Nana.

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Oh my god, I've just looked inside:

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The Christiansmas festivities are off to a fine start with the traditional goose parade youtube.com/watch?v=wK-YHT…

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Remember to check your programme so you don't miss out on any of the fabulous Christiansmas activites throughout the day

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I've gone a bit silly with old age.

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites you look wide-awake to me

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In reply to @Rosalot

@Rosalot would you like a lecture on queuing theory? It's very interesting, I could go on for ages

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In reply to @Rosalot

@Rosalot there is an optimum queue length they want to maintain at all times. So they change the staff levels as incoming call rate changes

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths @TimandraHarknes you're not going above Harrogate? I was about to drum up some PhDs to see you!

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In reply to @TimandraHarknes

@TimandraHarknes @standupmaths one of the aforementioned PhDs is also a standup. I will enquire.

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I just thought to try j/k to scroll through tweets. It's a @Christiansmas miracle!

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor @standupmaths @pixie359 well, @peterrowlett did basically that in his Travels in a Mathematical World podcast

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In reply to @pixie359

@pixie359 but he got his facts from numbergossip. So listen to his podcasts anyway, just not for this reason.

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I'm going to sell savoury pastries under the name Quiche Thegwin.

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my Gauss fact got on the site!

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Did anyone else feel physical pain trying to parse this "graph" in the Observer New Review today?

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In happier news, this is what my mum got me for my birthday. Trust me, I have a plan.

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In reply to @jjsanderson

@jjsanderson forget pens, the first writing implement I would import would be Hagoromo "Fulltouch" chalk: mathoverflow.net/questions/2626…

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett stop tricking me into clicking on your old posts!

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@RANIELDANSON *discreetly unfollowed*

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@RANIELDANSON its not that I don't think you can kick the habit, but just to be safe...

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@RANIELDANSON cold hard science

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett while I've got you - do you have any thoughts about that thing?

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In reply to @karenshancock

@karenshancock I have been wondering exactly the same thing

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some nice 3d-printed models by Rinus Roelofs: rinusroelofs.nl/sculpture/rp-m…

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites are you going mad with instagram again?

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Baaanach-Tarski instagr.am/p/hMHiP/ (thanks @ellenirites and @Bishnavitch)

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths I used to think I did, but since I moved away from home and kept the same detergent, it cleared up

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett there's a chat window and comment boxes. I'm in there now.

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In reply to @plusmathsorg

@plusmathsorg subjects of the British Empire do not have a terrifically good record with world domination plans that begin in Massachusetts

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AAAAAAAAAAA WHY DOES IE CONTINUE TO EXIST

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@Nathan1123 the thing I'm making has to support IE

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@Nathan1123 your tweet arrived simultaneously with me fixing the bug. Hooray for a coincidence!

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@Nathan1123 I've been working on this for two years. This is just the latest bug.

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just now, while sat at home, about eight miles from the university, my computer told me "more information is needed to connect to eduroam"

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This is a fun sundial. A fundial. mateturismo.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/el-…

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In reply to @haggismaths

@haggismaths could you add the things on your trail to mathsinthecity.com ?

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths my activities are not uniformly distributed throughout the year

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reading wikipedia like a boss. Finally A-Level French is paying off!

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@pkrautz (@peterrowlett @Samuel_Hansen) do one this week. I still haven't "hung out", so I'll look in. Why math/maths, not your own thing?

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JSlayerUK your correction was about my MP!

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ahhh this algorithm would be so much easier in Haskell but I'm working in javascript and I just want monads why is life so hard :( :( :(

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oh hello, cutting-edge web-based exposition: igstan.ro/posts/2011-05-…

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In reply to @Tony_Mann

@Tony_Mann @peterrowlett however, I found Newton's college notebooks that were put online quite readable.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @Tony_Mann the Cambridge one, I think. Whichever one @acmescience linked to.

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In reply to @acmescience

@acmescience @Samuel_Hansen your two accounts' profile pics are facing each other. It looks like you're having a conversation with yourself

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In reply to @trackinthebox

@trackinthebox when you redesign, could there be a way of listening to all the last week's tracks without clicking between pages?

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean I think that's the first tweet I've sent you whose response didn't match the regexp /@christianp (ha)+!*/

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In reply to @alexbellos

@alexbellos at the very least it's in PSPACE

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Midday. Poo and a shower, then clothes. #livingthedream

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett before I read that, can I just say how nice it is to have a project report site with no design rubbish on the page

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In reply to @HilariousCow

@HilariousCow I don't know, and please don't RT the answer because I don't want to know

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In reply to @TwidgeMC

@AdrenalGBR go on then. Are you sure it's difficult?

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In reply to @TwidgeMC

@AdrenalGBR oof, that's not a programming problem, I don't think. Is it OK if I retweet from the MathsJam account?

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In reply to @TwidgeMC

@AdrenalGBR also, I want to fix your notation but I'm doing something else at the moment

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6 hours of concentrated thinking = lambda operations in my algebra system while preserving implicit multiplication. Need a lot of drinks now

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These are the fiercest waves I've ever seen here. Where are the surfers? Are these waves TOO fierce?

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch what what?

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts I'm a tall man, as you know. For a moment I considered the possibility that I might get blown out to sea.

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In reply to @daveowhite

@daveowhite @mathsinthecity I would replace my Ampelmann umbrella with a Maths Dave one in an instant

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In reply to @skrivr

@skrivr I've just got an invitation and started a blog. Page loads and sync seems to be failing. Are you under heavy load?

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In reply to @skrivr

@skrivr ok. Is there any reason why that would make the settings pages or even the 404 page not load fully?

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In reply to @skrivr

@skrivr and does the fact you know that mean you can look in my entire dropbox folder?

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In reply to @acmescience

@acmescience I did not know you were doing this! It alone has made relatively prime worth the money.

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In reply to @acmescience

@acmescience then I'm glad I gave you so little money. I got an excellent deal!

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In reply to @stevieb

@stevieb How have we not bumped into each other at conferences? Thought you got a job after your MMath, had no idea you were doing research

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In reply to @skrivr

@skrivr yes, it looks like it's working now, thanks

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In reply to @HilariousCow

@HilariousCow this just in: women also shave.

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In reply to @stevieb

@stevieb I'm doing more jobs than would fit in a tweet, plus a PhD on group theory / computability

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In reply to @stevieb

@stevieb somewhere in the middle. I'm self-funding and part-time, so no idea when I'll finish

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In reply to @mike_geogebra

@mike_geogebra @davidobrador shapecatcher.com lets you draw the character you're after.

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In reply to @danaernst

@danaernst skrivr.com/christianp/ it's very flakey, which is why it's still in beta, I suppose.

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In reply to @danaernst

@danaernst I don't really have a need for it, because I've got my own proper wordpress blog and takenot.es for quick notes

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In reply to @danaernst

@danaernst yes, I have christianperfect.calepin.co - I just signed up to help Theron get MathJax going, really

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In reply to @danaernst

@danaernst checkmyworking.com . My workflow is to write stuff on takenot.es (instant TeX preview!) then copy it straight into wordpress

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new year's resolution: get over my infatuation with clever domain names. hotmathematicians.com will be my last one, promise.

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when did I download this album? It's pretty fun! It's by The South Trio.

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This summer in cinemas: Iron Man, the Iron Giant and the Iron Lady are... STEEL TEAM SIX

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Sorry, I couldn't think of three more metallic neocapitalists/destroyers of industry

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In reply to @aPaulTaylor

@aPaulTaylor could your game be rewritten in javascript?

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Yavalath, a computer-designed board game: cameronius.com/games/yavalath/ (via @outofthenorm2, whom you should #ff)

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett you have a doppelganger at Newcastle University! Aaa that freaked me out!

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks @aPaulTaylor is that the co-op membership form? I remember it had an exhaustive list of titles

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch soon, Muthurangu, soon.

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 the hairy ball theorem is an excellent choice for a barber

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there is a name for the happiest mode of transport: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stotting

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"90-95% of indigenous peoples were decimated by European diseases" - a scholar of the humanities on BBC4

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Arg, this is a bad documentary about a really interesting subject!

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites there's a way of preventing that... #unhelpfulnonsmokeradvice

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett Gowers is rallying people to boycott Elsevier, and the traffic to his blog is spilling over to mine a bit gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/els…

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett oh man, that's what I get for replying before reading all the way up my twitter feed

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett because he has a link to my MathJax bookmarklet on the sidebar :P

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett better than being just "a tool"

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Missed my mouth, got toothpaste on my face. #dyspraxia!

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Whoah, that Ben & Jerry's van up at Cullercoats is a bit optimistic.

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall the Chrome developer tools are very good

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall good stuff. Do you know about prototypes in javascript?

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall it's just a good idea to declare methods in the prototype rather than in the constructor

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Rrgrgrggg, Flash music download widget!! Share my outrage, @brittneybean!

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall gist.github.com/1657503

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean wasn't even the audio. I just wanted to middle-click the provider's logo to see who they were.

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall I've just added some explanation at the top of the file

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I look at the publications list of someone like Zeilberger or Svante Janson and I think, what's the point. Let them discover all the facts.

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why is copying text from PDFs such a hassle? Can't the information about, for example, where the spaces between words are, be kept?

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor It's a problem pretty much unique to PDFs. Most of these files are generated by LaTeX, from the looks of them.

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor I *think* that the reader program has to infer the presence of spaces from the positions of glyphs on the page.

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor the problem is that a pdf is just a list of where to put symbols on a page, not a coherent representation of the text

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks could the link to my MathsJam posts on the Newcastle MathsJam page be changed to the category listing? checkmyworking.com/category/maths…

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In reply to @christianp

@christianp @stecks actually, I've realised that category has non-recap posts in it. This one, please: checkmyworking.com/category/maths…

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I'm trying something a bit ambitious on my blog: a summation of my interesting esoterica collection checkmyworking.com/2012/01/intere…

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In reply to @acmescience

@acmescience do you know that none of the links from the C&P Classic RSS feed work?

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In reply to @CloudoidLtd

@CloudoidLtd I don't think I have! You should post a comment with a link to it.

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I can see really faint aurora stood on the point at the bottom of longsands beach

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Man, the people in that plane must be getting a good view

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In reply to @jjsanderson

@jjsanderson should've stayed in Tynemouth! I got out just as it was reaching its peak.

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen can I just say what an excellent job you did on the podcast this week, in my opinion.

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JSlayerUK BECAUSE POOR PEOPLE ARE GETTING ALL THE MONEY DON'T YOU GET IT

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In reply to @acmescience

@acmescience haha, that's an excellent idea

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to do a global find and replace on a file and have it compile correctly immediately afterwards is a sublime joy.

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen that's a mighty short post on your blog there, Samuel. Ephemeral, I'd even go so far as to say. Not that it's a bad post...

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today's grand insight: $x - y = x + (-y)$. I'm a good PhD student.

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites Old age is pretty fun. You can walk into a place like you know what you're doing with your life and nobody calls you out on it.

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths please, get some MathJax on that blog!

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths also, use the <code> tag (the wordpress editor has a button for it) around your Python code so indentation is preserved

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths & finally, wp-footnotes is a good plugin. It makes footnotes which link back to the relevant bit of text. elvery.net/drzax/wordpres…

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths I can email you the code if you'd like. It literally takes two minutes to paste it into your header file from the admin page.

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths also, @danaernst and others are planning a mailing list for mathematicians with WP blogs. I'll tweet it when it exists.

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In reply to @Gelada

@Gelada @standupmaths @danaernst well that sounds like we have a quorum. @pkrautz is keen as well.

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In reply to @mattypsmith

@mattybeardsmith how many people work there? Not sure you've spotted a trend there

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In reply to @acmescience

@acmescience top stuff!

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Milton Jones is a Brilliant Mathematician: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

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I got a present for ya! apps.nahklick.de/cnc/

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity we should publish a picture book of the times we manage to look stylish while carrying unstylish things.

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Getting familiar with Lominoes. I will be trying to build a ziggurat at tonight's @MathsJam

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is it just that twitter search is bad or are old tweets actually forgotten after a while?

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 is that problem related to Golomb rulers? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golomb_ru…

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect so I should be saving my tweets somewhere in case I want to refer back to them?

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In reply to @lizmallard

@lizmallard the creator will sell you some if you email him: schoengeometry.com

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This dude's talk would be a lot easier to understand if I could see laser pointers

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz failed hard. But it would've been easier, if not objectively easy

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new game in the office: get to my blog with an unlikely google query. Current leader: "the esoteric turtle and the carrots"

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz yep

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new winner in mathem-o-blog quest: "the irrational rubik's cube at mardi gras"

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or: "the case of sherlock holmes and the esoteric lego egg"

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett you'd better check your registration status!

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Off for a cheeky Micky D's before @MathsJam

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz they've reverted to the old one, so depending on cookies and caches, it'll either appear or not for a while

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks are you getting much done in Manchester? A write-up of our night would just be, "we played with Lominoes then went home"

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @MathsJam or it's a double-bluff, and the answer is no for a surprising reason

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too many computer scientists named Philip.

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites @sadiestrong I will eat something similar! Good idea!

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I took 7 pages of notes at last night's MathsJam. Durham students are too keen.

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Linguistics fact: Jèrriais, the Norman French spoken on Jersey, sounds like normal French spoken by someone you want to punch in the face

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these clouds are gathering, like, Storm-from-the-X-Men-fast.

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In reply to @GhostMutt

@GhostMutt what's going on there?

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women of twitter: do you also get "female" spambots following you, or male ones? Or none? Is sexism rife in the evil spammer fraternity?

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The wind turbine is 120! That's 2pi/3 in radians. On 25/1/1892 James Blyth presented his new invention - the wind turbine (via @nulibsage)

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In reply to @GhostMutt

@GhostMutt PHP's an odd choice. Is there some syntax you're comfortable with only in PHP?

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In reply to @GhostMutt

@GhostMutt javascript, dude. paper.js is a good simple library for doing graphics

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean their about page reads like what a 9-year-old girl who isn't yet aware of feminism would imagine she'd write when she grows up

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect @kenfodder @brittneybean @moomerman I'm having burgers tonight too! Except they're homemade and I'm putting plastic cheese on top

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan hidden semantics yeaaaaaah! It's like how the RT button doesn't just stick RT in front of a tweet any more

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hello, new Belgian followers! Why are there so many of you?

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Listening to Clare and the Reasons unapologetically. Ain't no apologies forthcoming.

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In reply to @enoFsamohT

@enoFsamohT Cantonaftershave

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@clareandreasons nope!

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Yeah, numbergossip.com is fine, but how about numberslander.com? I know 7's dark secret.

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites @RANIELDANSON you're both wrong. "Yourself" as a subject pronoun makes me very very angry indeed.

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Mathematicians with Wordpress blogs (in particular @standupmaths): ask questions about blogging maths on wp4sci groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/…

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites @ranieldanson "Would yourself like anything else?"

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites @RANIELDANSON on the internet, nobody knows you've got a posh voice, like wot I does.

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites @RANIELDANSON and I fully accept that that previous sentence was nothing other than hateful

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@RANIELDANSON @ellenirites time to break out some Greek: Heteroglossia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteroglo…

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall sorry snopes.com/politics/milit…

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In reply to @Rosalot

@Rosalot that is a hilarious name for a blog

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In reply to @Htbaa

@Htbaa you might find Champernowne's constant interesting

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seriously good fish from Marshall's tonight

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failing to make a ziggurat of Lominoes: youtu.be/5fUIX1xp1cI

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths on that subject, I'm going to share a google document with you. You might have some thoughts about it.

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch Metal Gear Cosby youtube.com/watch?v=7tTPNi…

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean oh wow, n+1 doesn't look like J. Wellington Wimpy's Geocities page any more!

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity I'm looking at the site for the first time in ages. Is there a way of getting a list of all sites, sorted by date added?

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity EXCELLENT!!!

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity you might even be able to tempt me down south with such a trendy accessory

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In reply to @daveowhite

@daveowhite I ask my uni's systems the same. It doesn't let me log off until I delete things, so I think the former is empirically true.

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just discovered that / starts search-as-you-type in SumatraPDF, just like in vim.

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there should be an annual Mathematicians' Rounds where we go to other departments and point out what they've reinvented with worse notation

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(reading a computer science paper which spends ages defining "2-to-1 functions", which are just binary relations)

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update on my little survey: seems everyone gets female spambot followers, regardless of their own gender identity.

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Trying to attract undergrads to @MathsJam with @stecks's postcards.

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no, the entire point of LaTeX is that you don't do the spacing manually. (editing someone else's text)

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In reply to @TimandraHarknes

@TimandraHarknes but it costs some unlikely combination of change, or you have to get a token off someone and it's a hassle, so why bother?

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just a little bit tired of Chrome pasting text with formatting included by default.

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how do I get to a position in life where it's my job to watch this video all day? youtube.com/watch?v=3fy4cq…

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths you say that as if it isn't something you do regularly :S

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How to get beautifully typeset maths on your blog: checkmyworking.com/2012/01/how-to…

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I would appreciate it if you mentioned my MathJax post on #mathmaths. My mathematical week: declaring LaTeX jihad!

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths unless Google is just one person - "qoud vos, Google"

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Might be time for a new Dr Robotnik. He's gone blind and most of his wires are wonky.

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In reply to @rockhyrax

@rockhyrax midnight slug espionage!

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In reply to @rockhyrax

@rockhyrax they clean up after themselves in the sink. It's the perfect crime!

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JSlayerUK I would patronise that establishment for both my tort[e] needs.

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor @standupmaths but the snowflake obstacle in the Wipeout zone has the correct symmetries

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In reply to @OddballDave

@OddballDave twitter seems to have forgotten I'm following you. Well, it's a quiet Saturday night, I'll buy your game now.

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JSlayerUK or less, if he continues ruining the company the way he is currently

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why is nobody using something TeX-ish, i.e. a macro language with minimal syntax, as a template language for the web?

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man, I'd probably hate heroin. The noises I make when I haven't had any chocolate in a while are bad enough.

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall no, it doesn't have macros

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall macros are new commands you can define in the text to abstract out common patterns.

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall yes, well, I was asking why nobody had done that

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall the usual reasons people want templating languages

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch sad/happy times

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Today, Christian Perfect is: CRINKLY MAN.

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If someone you are meeting for the first time describes themselves as "old and fat", does etiquette demand that you fail to recognise them?

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall Greggs pasty. That's a rough approximation to a pie.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett arg I need to write up Newcastle MathsJam and I have so much other stuff to do!

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett massive pedantry on the solution page: the singular form is 'tetrahedron'.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett although it is quite fun spending an evening doing the writeup, and it gets a lot of hits and discussion

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan like having a gun in the home, I'm much more worried that I'll forget my own master password than that hackers will crack it.

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Does there exist a CCD which sees light in the bit of the spectrum used by wifi? Do human bodies reflect it or are they just opaque to it?

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie can and should

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In reply to @mike_geogebra

@mike_geogebra is there a timetable for the html5 implementation?

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In reply to @mike_geogebra

@mike_geogebra is most of the performance lost in the computation, rather than rendering?

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In reply to @mike_geogebra

@mike_geogebra I've been staring at the .js files thinking there's no way that's enough code, then I remembered you used GWT!

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In reply to @daveowhite

@daveowhite twitter seems to be doing an excellent job of forgetting for me

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In reply to @daveowhite

@daveowhite losing old tweets is the biggest problem

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February

In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths "kids say the most quantifiable things"

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I wither under the heat of your mad social media cross-promotion skillz

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Not sure why I misread Leonhard Pfeifer as Leonhard Euler but that's the most excited I've been about a John Lewis window display in a while

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks look at the end of this video youtube.com/watch?feature=… - I'd love to see them do more of those orbits you talked about at mathsjam

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In reply to @daveowhite

@daveowhite well, the argument could be made that Google's IPO changed how they work considerably

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall the Euler characteristic is actually a design motif

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I dislike bug reports written in the passive voice.

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somebody called Jon with a rich baritone should open a bookshop in Hay-on-Wye called Jon Tomes

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my blog is in a coma :(

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my blog has arisen from its coma! Thanks, @aperfect!

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new @MathsJam organisers might like this big collection of really interesting puzzles and games gurmeet.net/puzzles/

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I've rejoined the Coincidentally Colour Coordinated Clothing Corps with a brown t-shirt and this rather fetching mustard yellow jumper

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spambots have excellent names. Mignon Bonifont, Melania Griffiths, Telma Fabry: I wish you were real people!

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Note to me: apple juice benefits from being shaken. Apples do not.

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In reply to @PeterMolydeux

@PeterMolydeux you're just repeating plots from Round the Twist now

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Decided I was going to take three steps at once but that thought didn't get down to my legs in time.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I'm perfectly fine. Thanks to my height, I had enough thinking time to rectify the mistake

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and my blog is ill again :(

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@RANIELDANSON one day your loyal #FFing of me every week will be rewarded. Not today, though.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett so should #gausslies be true? @gaussfacts are mainly false.

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths have you been in one of those ones that moves continuously and loops round at the top? They scare me.

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I've got a really quite enormous lumpen spot in that little crevice behind my ear. Worried it's like a boll weevil or something.

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie hah, those are totally Auntie Sheila shoes. Aunties of other names need not apply.

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie come on though, you can do better than that. Sheila's Heels.

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths google has helped my memory! They're called paternosters and Leicester Uni has one youtube.com/watch?v=Pb3Isb…

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths big in Germany, of course, where people can be expected to behave themselves youtube.com/watch?v=0siUw7…

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In reply to @Our_Frank

@standupmaths @Our_Frank @thought4day2 @jonny_nichols @charlotteyoung wow, loads more than I thought! Someone update nerdydaytrips.com

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In reply to @mathpuzzle

@mathpuzzle it's been a long time since you last updated the site!

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someone called exactly as an album finished playing. I like that.

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen @peterrowlett what about Erdos's enormous collection of left shoes stolen from his collaborators?

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@chaosdynamics @jeffemanuel especkley? ekspecially?

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the set of universes in which Cibelle is correctly classified as "country music" has measure zero. Stupid emusic.

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@chaosdynamics that's hilarious. Remind me never to visit Boston or I might get fisticuffsome.

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks you're in Newcastle tomorrow, yes? Coffee and Lominoes?

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks as you're tourists, I suggest the Baltic. Alternatively, heading into town, there's Blakes or Cafe Royal

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How is it possible for a man of 26 to make this much mess eating soup? #dyspraxia!

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nearly at the end of my notes on January's @MathsJam. This recap post is going to happen, people!

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In reply to @miclugo

@madcaptenor I think it does.

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Finally! The Newcastle @MathsJam January 2012 Recap: checkmyworking.com/2012/02/newcas…

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stop looking, we've found the free-energy source: finnishdesignshop.us/-kukka-reflect… "in addition it reflects in the dark"

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites Cheer up! Dog with silly boots! animalsbeingdicks.com/post/169749474…

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In reply to @mariondov

@mariondov pi is defined in terms of the properties it has. Series representations are often derived from trig functions with known values.

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In reply to @mariondov

@mariondov but there now exists a formula for individual digits of pi without working out the previous ones, so calculations can be checked

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Oh man, you really don't want to see a spelling error on a sign in a tattooist's window.

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Got in a good round of blue plaque bagging. Got 9 plaques around the quayside, Byker and Heaton. Now it's snowing so I'm going home.

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Pay homage to the Sun King! Documentary on Louis XIV starting on BBC HD now.

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oh no never mind, it's awful

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to the author of this article: you've saved neither space nor time by rounding the price up the first time it appears bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

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In reply to @TraineeGeek

@TraineeGeek email Alan Schoen: schoenah@gmail.com

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Frozen sand! Best sand!

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Wahey!! (I may have cheated a little bit) #lominoes

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @Samuel_Hansen superbowl maths puzzle: explain how a 60-minute game takes FOUR HOURS to finish

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths @qikipedia I worked out how big the bucket would be so no. atoms in bucket = buckets of water on earth takenot.es/?water%20conta…

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The plot thickens in my mathematical investigation, with the inestimable assistance of PI Pi.

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because it's Sunday and I've run out of things to do: a blog post about atoms of water checkmyworking.com/2012/02/puttin…

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In reply to @lizmallard

@lizmallard its just over a teaspoon if you're counting molecules.

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EXCELLENT. Just did a yawn exactly like Peter Ustinov in Disney's Robin Hood. #vibrato

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I love how if you leave a TV on these days the only thing that gets burnt out is the planet.

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites we were having a discussion in the maths department about the practicality of storing soup in tupperware. I see where you stand

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites can't really remember, but empirical evidence of expected spillage was sought in the staff kitchen.

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oh wow, the Proceedings of the FUN with Algorithms conference is treasure trove of excellent paper titles informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/f…

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites ah, but we were discussing it as a means of getting soup into work

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites PS "soup into work" is a policy to be announced at the next Tory Party conference

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way more pictures of old carrots than you need, but nowhere near as many as you want carrotmuseum.co.uk/manuscripts.ht…

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie for the record: Lana del Rey is not hot. That top lip is an automatic disqualification.

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Arg, Neil Cowley's new album is too beautiful! I am an emotional turtle flipped on its soppy back, feelers all waving in the air helplessly

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I'm so emotional that I'm looking at curta calculators on ebay. This is my equivalent of drunk-dialling.

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie word on the street is that so is her entire face

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites what is that salad doing there?!

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites eugh. Reconsidering whether I should follow you.

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Walking down stairs takes a lot longer when you take them one step at a time. I don't know how you short people don't go mad with boredom

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you have permission to rock out while reading these papers: latexsearch.com/latexFacets.do…

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In reply to @TwidgeMC

@AdrenalGBR true recollection of events

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall Resources tab. Click on Frames -> (myfile.htm) -> myfile.htm. Tada!

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall oh no, that's only got new selectors in it.

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall though if you do make changes, the stylesheet in the resource tab is changed to reflect them, and the original is underneath

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I'm editing a WordPress plugin. I hate PHP so much!

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall we're (some people you've heard of) collecting our individual blogs on one site. We've got a plugin which imports our posts...

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall but it needed changing so imported posts have the same publication date as the version on the original blog.

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall not quite

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getting some burgers out of the freezer. If they're thawed by dinner time, bonza. Otherwiser it's carbohydrate bumholes, aka tortellini

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity ooerr, tiny fame. @standupmaths has since informed me that London's circle line now has the same topological property :(

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity it's OK, this is how Science! is done. I'm going to start petitioning the council for a loop-the-loop in the Metro, though.

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity every time I go to IKEA, I forget to take a pic of the store map as an example of fractional dimension for the website

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity can you send an undergrad to take one? You have that kind of power, right?

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it isn't even funny how long my body takes to recover from just walking for a couple of hours. Day 4...

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity incredible. And I've just discovered that google maps has enormous difficulty searching for ikea

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there are only 18 IKEA shops in the whole UK?! I feel like a Byzantine discovering the Western Roman Empire collapsed 600 years ago.

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect really though?

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NVDA read "résumé" as "resume" and "resume" as "résumé". The mind boggles.

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In reply to @enoFsamohT

@enoFsamohT it's funny because now I'm thinking about you handling your own poo

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths is this a marginal utility of tea thing, or would the consumption of tea always have negative utility for you?

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In reply to @jcsteh

@jcsteh probably microsoft. I've been switching between the two

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In reply to @jcsteh

@jcsteh while I've got you - how well can NVDA read MathML?

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks @peterrowlett *cough* blog post please *cough*

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In reply to @charliesgames

@charliesgames how much fun maths was involved in the pathfinding? Could you do a mobius strip, for example?

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In reply to @charliesgames

@charliesgames so if they're diametrically opposite the player they won't move at all?

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In reply to @charliesgames

@charliesgames mobius strip: take a strip of paper. Put a twist in it. Glue two ends together.

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In reply to @plusmathsorg

@plusmathsorg have they really made a Turing machine? They've made two two-state FSAs, which aren't Turing-complete.

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it is enormously annoying that codetalks.org has disappeared off the face of the internet

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In reply to @plusmathsorg

@plusmathsorg my tut remains. Don't pull a New Scientist.

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@RachaelBailes your badge and your gun. You're not quite there yet

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen I reckon I've got another Internet Maths Aperiodical for you, when I find some time and energy to write it up

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen huh, I suppose. Not sure how long until it's ready

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can anyone explain to me which way is up in this product photo? amazon.co.uk/Eva-Solo-Magne…

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites is it a sequel to creepy 18th-C abuse-of-trust-fest The Woman in White?

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Dear Diary, Today everyone found my colourblindness hilarious. Sigh. #gotthepurples

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In reply to @laurareeshughes

@laurareeshughes @numberloving but the golden ratio doesn't really have much to do with beauty - see maa.org/devlin/devlin_….

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In reply to @laurareeshughes

@laurareeshughes @numberloving however, @SparksMaths has a very nice Geogebra applet about a real application of phi - sunflower heads

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths as you're seemingly in the maths jewellery business now: how about Gibonacci bracelets? maa.org/columns/colm/c…

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In reply to @JPickford

@JPickford does the second M in ISMMTTM stand for Monkey or for Mate?

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so far tonight I have found three different, contradicting, definitions of "Gibonacci" sequences. Can anyone think of any more?

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going to see if I can put in a requisition order for a couple of these to go in the school reception: designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/v…

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In reply to @HoeJodgkiss

@HoeJodgkiss you mean this? youtube.com/watch?v=psAgEd…

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @mathblogging aw man I thought I was in for certain this week. I'll beat you next time, Rowlett!

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oh no, I made toast like 30 minutes ago. Now it's cold and brown! There is no rescuing this toast! #woe

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In reply to @TraineeGeek

@TraineeGeek gosh! That's quite a few of us have bought Lominoes now.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett mathmo.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett make it so! It's pretty clear what it means.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @xabl if it's good enough for @ColinTheMathmo it's good enough for me

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Electrokittie @Bishnavitch I'd love it if you changed "phenomena" to "phenomenon"

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In reply to @xabl

@xabl @peterrowlett @Gelada something something reappropriation of a derogatory term

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I'm classically trained in the art of rhetoric

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz Jan's mathsjam recap was the biggest yet checkmyworking.com/2012/02/newcas… and I wrote instructions on MathJax blogging checkmyworking.com/2012/01/how-to…

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Been thinking hard all day. Squash and chocolate time.

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths I think some of your thief traffic is spilling over into the princess/castle problem and finding me on google for the solution

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Mathmos, in particular analysts: is there any sensible definition of exponentiation on matrices that copes with real-valued exponents?

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo why have you got the band being stretched instantaneously in 1m increments? Ease of exposition, again?

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo Righto. We did the continuous one at NCL mathsjam, and we'd all forgotten how to spot an integrating factor problem.

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect in CoffeeScript, whitespace is more significant than a raised eyebrow across a room

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz yeah, I was mainly teasing @peterrowlett

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JSlayerUK Il faut cultiver son jardin

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I've written a lot of work emails today that have to be signed "Christian", not "cp". Not happy.

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syntax error on line 1337! y u no like me, c0mpilr?!?!

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan do you ever use it on windows? It throws up modal IE javascript error dialogs every now and then, caused by crashed adverts.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett is #prdayoff the hashtag for your day of liberated mayhem?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @mathsinthecity break into the Science Museum and steal their Curta calculator for me

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Blog post: MATH PROBLEMS? checkmyworking.com/2012/02/math-p… (following @mathsinthecity's tweet of that flyer earlier)

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity well, I wasted my afternoon solving that: checkmyworking.com/2012/02/math-p…

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett my mathematical week: I just solved a flyer checkmyworking.com/2012/02/math-p…

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Eurg. #dyspraxia!

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this might be the hardest Loopy puzzle I've ever seen

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Unexpected massive bonus koala!

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FINALLY. That 3 in the middle right was done! I hadn't noticed!

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Everyone else finds Norman really creepy. Philistines.

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor I'll guess "psychology research grant"

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In reply to @alexbellos

@alexbellos your blog is down

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In reply to @mariondov

@mariondov We know the definition of pi. You can work out the value, or series expansions, from that by pure logic.

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Gnarly thumbwound is coming in handy (ha!)
It expressed my frustration at being panne d'essence for all of 1000 bornes

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In reply to @mariondov

@mariondov this pi book looks good: amazon.co.uk/Pi-Biography-W…

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts it's either that or the Sunday Service, so go for it

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths that gives me the idea of designing a (finite state? pushdown?) automaton which recognises all coffee orders

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie my studies of Rose Byrne's features have not yet got below her chin, never mind her feet. Maybe others start from the bottom?

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie I will conjecture that every part of her is good-looking, so maybe these people have a point.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan ok, now you need to make an audio filter that tries to shift any singing towards an ethereal whispering of the words "WHAT AM I"

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I've blogged again about the additions to my interesting esoterica mendeley group. There's some properly fun stuff! checkmyworking.com/2012/02/intere…

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett ♫ Peter and George, sitting in a tree, doing a double integral on a closed curve ♫

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In reply to @MathsJam

@MathsJam I've just noticed that Feb MathsJam coincides with pancake day? What are we to do? I take pancake day very seriously

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In reply to @HilariousCow

@HilariousCow I have so many issues with the maths on that page. Mainly, the use of the percent sign when percentages are not being used

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks @Andrew_Taylor is this one of those PR things or a real thing?

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity @phillyg1990 people who attend the tour might like to join @MathsJam in the evening

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity @peterrowlett Peter is as northern as I am Australian

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going to open a cupcake shop called Zorn's. (you'll have trouble picking just one)

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett nice, but no RSS! I was thinking it could get brought in to the new site somehow

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch @Electrokittie @ellenirites @mattybeardsmith pancakes, my house, next Monday. Yes?

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 I once had to do those calculations while driving a friend to the pizza place. Very hard to concentrate on the road.

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts the *second* bounce? It has a coefficient of restitution greater than 1?!

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean anything by Cornelius

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I love saying "that's a weight off my mind!" to my barber. Not sure if he appreciates it.

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths Get Surrey sounds like a a really boring gangster film. Or maybe the big-screen adaptation of Midsomer Murders.

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In reply to @TraineeGeek

@TraineeGeek shouldn't that be second-last tuesdays? Or are you doing your own thing?

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David's new game: take turns choosing edges. First to pick a cycle loses. What happens when it's played properly?

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reconsidering my ambition to one day be a German youtube.com/watch?v=-MNzna…

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In reply to @GhostMutt

@GhostMutt crumbs! Where have you read that?

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In reply to @GhostMutt

@GhostMutt got a link? I need more context because it's a complicated topic

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In reply to @GhostMutt

@GhostMutt ok, it's a bit of an unusual phrasing. "Limits" usually involve seeing what happens as a parameter tends to infinity.

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In reply to @GhostMutt

@GhostMutt e.g. "the limit of 1/x as x tends to infinity" is 0 because the difference between 1/x and 0 gets smaller as x increases.

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In reply to @GhostMutt

@GhostMutt on searching, "passage to the limit" seems to be popular with Russians. I would use "take the limit".

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In reply to @GhostMutt

@GhostMutt Right. Because it doesn't settle on any one value.

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hah, any paper downloaded from ScienceDirect is called "science.pdf". I want an exclamation mark in there!

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also in re ScienceDirect: those poppy-uppy headers and footers with the 1000ms delay are really quite annoying.

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time and motion planning is great except when it results in all the toilets in the building being cleaned at once

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity I don't know how you do things in Oxford but we're a little more civilised up here.

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In reply to @FakeElsevier

@FakeElsevier I can only hope I never meet someone who read that and took it to heart

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JSlayerUK chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzz… - Loopy; choose the "Cairo" type

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch @Electrokittie animalsthatdopeoplethings.tumblr.com

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at home with a cold today, so I'm listening to The Department and taking a panadol every time @hellobuglers says "testify!"

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My dad brought me this back from London. Have no patience for this kind of thing but Kurt is making a compelling case.

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points against: 1) maths isn't just equations; 2) physics is; 3) most of these are physics equations; 4) mug is wider than it is tall

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch I'm ill! Apparently you called me 7 times. I love you too dude but after four you can assume I'm asleep.

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch I say no, I'm ill.

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In reply to @KSCMaths

@KSCMaths @standupmaths oh you know it. χ²

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This is the most beautifully unhelpful diagrams I've ever seen in a maths textbook (Papy's "Groups")

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I forgot to celebrate this book's 200th birthday! It is my oldest possession.

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The things you find at the back of a bookshelf...

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My original Creatures disc!

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I've been going through my bookshelves and found some cracking maths books, including one 201 years old (see tweets passim)

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does it annoy anyone else when undergrads use "we" when they actually mean "I"? eg, "we can't solve this equation by the usual method"

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in fact, I'm against the use of "we" pretty much anywhere outside a group report.

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In reply to @NoelAnn

@NoelAnn yes, that would be better.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett yeah, but I don't like being implicated in my student's inadequacies

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @NoelAnn oh I did! I'm thinking of stuff like "we prove that ..."

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In reply to @NoelAnn

@NoelAnn @peterrowlett at NCL we don't encourage anything - apart from occasional comments on homework, we give no training on writing maths

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites @Electrokittie @Bishnavitch @mattybeardsmith (plus several mathematicians)

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my mouse has decided not to scroll when the cursor is in a narrow band 20% from the left of the screen. Trackpad works fine. WHAT.

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reminder: Feb's @MathsJam is this Tuesday, the 21st. At NCL, I intend to discuss spambots and abelian card games. mathsjam.com

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The milk bounced off my Frosties and on to the kitchen surface. So I'm not dyspraxic, I just live in a slapstick movie.

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aww yisss that was my 4000th tweet and it was a good one!

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett this withering satire considered too short or too inflammatory for second rate minds?

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my mad scrolling problems were being caused by Facebook messenger. I am at a loss.

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites @Electrokittie nobody has ever been sectioned for hallucinating sausage dogs.

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths I'll blame the torygraph's copy editors for the fact question 1 asks you to find a pair of numbers which has 6 different sums

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feel sort of bad for making @Electrokittie and @ellenirites flip pancakes against their will but those are the Rules of Pancakes

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I just checked and I'm coming up for five years on twitter! Has it even been around that long?

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In reply to @madeupstats

@madeupstats the average pancake is successfully flipped 0.8 times

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I hope you won't be liveblogging the crime I asked you to commit

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I don't know. Maybe ask those two guys with the camera?

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it's too hot! I'm melting!

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths I'm meeting my friend for dinner before mathsjam again if you'd like to join us

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths ah! 7 is when the pub stops serving food and when I need to be in the pub to start MathsJam. A conundrum!

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths and I was alarmed to notice the Melbourne @MathsJam was already underway when I got up this morning!

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I dreamt I'd been put in charge of a baby orangutan! It was beautiful!

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for those who don't have access to a pack of cards or some friends: I've made the game Mad Abel in python - gist.github.com/1883965

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths is it OK if I use your photos from last night in my recap post?

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths couldn't hurt!

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The letter H is the eighth letter and sounds a bit like "eight" when you say it. That's a little bit interesting.

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argrgrw why is flickr upload on android+htc so rubbish?

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I had so much fun at last night's @MathsJam that I've written it up straight away: checkmyworking.com/2012/02/newcas…

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In reply to @ilythruthephone

@ScienceFest could you slow down that slideshow on the front page a bit? I'm a fast reader and I struggled to keep up

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites I read that as #wetgirlproblems. Wasn't wrong.

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Mad Abel is also a good solitaire game. I just finished a round with an enormous 9-card smash

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites it's surprisingly tame

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In reply to @kirkpatricke

@kirkpatricke homeless! When they're back on their feet they can help look after the sick kids and the brain injured

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just realised that in vim you can name the buffer you want to change to, instead of remembering numbers!

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look, @Samuel_Hansen has posted a really properly interesting video on his blog blog.samuelhansen.com/post/180848606…

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen yeah, I dunno...

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And now a nosebleed. My body is not performing well at the moment.

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This seagull is laughing like Jimmy Carr. Or, Jimmy Carr has climbed onto my neighbour's roof.

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen @peterrowlett you could pass the time by playing Desert Bus

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites proof that the adjective "inviting" doesn't always apply to invitations

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen we like all the same things, why must we be so far apart?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @Samuel_Hansen series 2 finished on Five here just before series 3 finished in the US. Series 1 on dvd is highly recommended!

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett don't confuse Sam further with the class system. Though I enjoy both the Archers and Archer, so where does that put me?

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interesting - somebody's using pandoc to generate both scriptogr.am posts and LaTeX PDFs at the same time (with maths!) scriptogr.am/michaelt/post/…

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I think my boss just made a satirical commit message. Trying to work out if I'm its target.

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks @Samuel_Hansen @peterrowlett and they often read verbatim from government pamphlets about soil management during conversations

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In reply to @MathsJam

@MathsJam why doesn''t n=7, s=2 work?

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In reply to @MathsJam

@MathsJam then I don't understand what you're doing

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In reply to @MathsJam

@MathsJam Ahh, yes I do!

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please help me twitter: is it possible to improvise bubblebath? I have a bar of soap and a bottle of vosene shampoo

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In reply to @charliesgames

@charliesgames I have some from-scratch quaternion code I can answer questions about, if you'd like

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity just remembered that I took a picture of an IKEA floor plan a year ago! I've added a site to the site: mathsinthecity.com/sites/fractal-…

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my ear popped in the shower and filled up with water and now all I can hear is glub glub glub glub

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This dude has the kind of idiot laugh that's surely so cliché that idiots would self-consciously avoid using it, lest they appear idiotic.

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not to hot, not too bright, not too noisy: we can have any two in my office, but never all three at once.

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect is there a service which will air-courier food from posh London restaurants up to me for my lunch?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett how kind, thank you

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BBC Sport headline generator: <driver for mid-field F1 team> sets pace in <Spanish city>

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now playing Mad Abel on $D_6 \times \mathbb{Z}_4$. It's surprisingly not-impossible!

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In reply to @Gelada

@Gelada you got the spelling of 'noble' wrong in your post about being wrong.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I'm torn. It's an admirable idea, but the execution is off. My thoughts don't fit in any of the things the survey asks.

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity I wouldn't know about that. Are they saving space on corridors so they can have more rooms? Does that make sense? Not sure.

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor is that snowman warm-blooded?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett what do you think are the chances of the new site having over 100 posts before it even starts?

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Warhammer 40K is 25 years old today! Let's take some time to think about all the nice things we could've bought instead of miniatures.

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I have the coolest friends: we're doing exercises from the 1811 arithmetic textbook on my coffee table blackboard.

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz thanks!

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen is complimentary therapy the kind of thing where you go into a little room and everyone tells you how great you are?

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This is a bit odd matematikkoyu.org/en/village

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it looks like @Samuel_Hansen is riding the crest of a wave bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-…

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In reply to @alexbellos

@alexbellos please use your mastery of the English language to coin a name for puzzles I've seen before but have forgotten the solution to

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In reply to @alexbellos

@alexbellos because I've seen that one before and I want to use a word with lots of plosives in it to describe my frustration

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could this be easier? "All proposals must be completed using the MS Word template from the site, converted to PDF and uploaded to EasyChair"

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch that is an amazing advance in the field of Internet cat pictures. Twelve gold stars and three thumbs up

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths I'd say 8 is an over-generous score for a kettle with no nearby power outlet

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths wordpress magic: instead of taking screenshots of tweets, write [twitter URL]; get the URL by clicking on "embed this tweet"

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths actually, that feature is in the next version of wordpress! Never mind.

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths well then, could you set the image's alt text to the tweet's content so that it's screen-readable?

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ARG I was going to put my dinner on an hour ago so it'd be ready when I was hungry but I didn't and now I'm hungry and ARG

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett a celebration of British culture

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how closely do your shopping lists match brand names? Mine: "washy; bath squish; squash; scrubbers..."

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Unilever: I will use your brand names on my shopping list for a small consideration

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JSlayerUK never mind the sexism, that burger looks completely rank

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@RANIELDANSON what happened to the sunshine warming your mood?

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz mega-gimmicky. They never say why a Penrose tiling is suitable. They certainly don't make use of aperiodicity.

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks @MathsJam does MK have a meeting-place or organiser? I'll update the map when they do

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 according to who?

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz @Gelada yeah, opposite - think of how many ways you can put squares next to each other. Penrose tiles deliberately have fewer ways

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz @Gelada they're not using anywhere near enough tiles to get the Penrose effect - might as well use any shape with acute angles.

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My blog recently passed 4000 all-time hits. That isn't very many!

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett October last year. But I got a negligible number of hits before then.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett yeah, it's alright. My mum told me at the weekend in a worried voice that I am very ambitious.

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data on every character in unicode. @standupmaths might just lose his reason over this: graphemica.com/%E2%88%83

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean I've been avoiding thatt because I had an issue of Cabinet to read. Finished that on the metro today. Oh dear.

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths I've made a Python script to do the happification graph up to 1000. gist.github.com/1939254

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths I'm redoing it so the edges don't overlap, but that apparently takes FOREVER in graphviz. Maybe it'll be done when I get home

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In reply to @walkingrandomly

@walkingrandomly I think our economists use it. They use it because it's what they were taught and they are incurious beings

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 good point

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor has one proposed to you?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett you're extremely close to your 8888th tweet. I suggest you make it something in Chinese about the virtues of palindromes

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I've been followed by a spambot with a not completely unreasonable picture (though still a pretty girl). Beginning to doubt reality.

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In reply to @Graphviz

@Graphviz @standupmaths here you go: raw.github.com/gist/1939254/8…

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett you total rapscallion

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In reply to @Graphviz

@Graphviz @standupmaths behold! I think this took my laptop just over 50 minutes: somethingorotherwhatever.com/happify.png

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks ow that was hard to parse. I have brain cramp.

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch this brings up a good question! Where do your farts go?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @SpencerTHughes Spencer Hughes, you've made an enemy.

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this has been me recently: 27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymnjex…

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@RANIELDANSON anagram: Faster Mech. That would be loads better.

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March

images des mathématiques has posted a very good (and long) summary of recent maths news images.math.cnrs.fr/Revue-de-press… (cc @peterrowlett @stecks)

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo your cafe-based generosity is increasing at an amazing rate. I must make sure to be in the same city as you at some point.

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen that song is part of a trio of creepy girl songs. The other two: "I'll Kill Her" by Soko, "Boyfriend" by Best Coast.

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen she has just released an album which I'm undecided about. "I'll Kill Her" is a modern classic, though.

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just had my first Newcastle undergrad email to ask about MathsJam. There is hope for this institution yet!

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In reply to @alexbellos

@alexbellos write 1 in cell A1. In cell A2, write "=A1+1". Selected cells A2:A1000. Press Ctrl+D

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just read a comment by someone saying IE has excellent developer tools. I agreed so much my computer went out the window.

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie @ellenirites also to stop tweeting about "tactical whiteys". As a teetotaller, I'd rather not even know that exists.

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 my first year number theory lecturer used to do these tricks with stats from the end of Doom levels

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie that is the opposite of what will happen

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 oh! except he used continued fractions to get the answer a lot quicker

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In reply to @jjsanderson

@jjsanderson @standupmaths I was amazed last night that I could still see it as far south as Peterlee

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In reply to @daveowhite

@daveowhite how bad? early 3dfx cards, or even PowerVR?

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aw, this is a lovely idea goodgym.org

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In reply to @daveowhite

@daveowhite ouch. Suggest you use the Rumble Pak.

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In reply to @E_I_W

@E_I_W what time will you be in the pub?

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In reply to @E_I_W

@E_I_W excellent, that's when I finish at maths-aid. Mind if I join you?

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In reply to @E_I_W

@E_I_W well that sounds sinister!

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In reply to @HilariousCow

@HilariousCow hey! That looks just like the original NPRQuake!

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In reply to @E_I_W

@E_I_W I'm on my way. There in five minutes

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett almost exclusively wikipedia. Mathworld when I want a second opinion

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In reply to @Gelada

@Gelada @haggismaths is this inverse kinematics + control theory?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @stecks hooray! The site that doesn't exist yet has 100 posts. I'm itching to get started.

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In reply to @Gelada

@Gelada @haggismaths all of them confusing to me. I would be a games programmer now if I'd been able to get my head round it

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WHY DO I ALWAYS FORGET GUACAMOLE NEEDS LIME?!?! Now I have to go to the shops.

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it's not like there's a catchy song with the recipe or anything youtube.com/watch?v=kRlqsv…

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85% homemade hippy-dippy fajitas. Definitely put enough chillies in.

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if I am elected, I pledge an end to the boom-and-bust weather systems of the current Tory government

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SO COLD

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It's March the Turd! The day when people try to do a poo while walking. I love old English traditions.

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths missing a trick, dude: leave your front door clopen. Burglars will be unable to break in, because there is no "in".

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Be broadband is down! O woe, I will have to go outside and enjoy the beach.

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Caught out in the rain! Where's my @mathsinthecity umbrella?

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In reply to @enoFsamohT

@enoFsamohT like all traditions, it's as real as you make it

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Physicists: this (double!) rainbow is slightly bigger than my camera's field of view. Moving won't help, right?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett oi, I am expecting an email from you about talk dates

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett hey, it worked, didn't it?

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In reply to @jjsanderson

@jjsanderson I couldn't see it. Is it because I'm colourblind?

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@Talithin gosh, am I famous?

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@Talithin if you download that file again, you'll get the finished thing. It was my 4th year project

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@Talithin oof, you're doing proper maths.

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch I can give you a lift after the film I'm seeing tonight

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch but you'd have to get the metro back

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I wish this was a real article that had been edited and had references and no unsupported claims open.salon.com/blog/annie_kee…

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect alfa rofail. alfail romeo. awful romeo. alfa roamy-no. alfa roh-me-oh-my. half-a romeo.

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In reply to @benkenyon

@benkenyon it's certainly better than the awful French narration / poetry

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this film is excellent. I saw it at the Lumiere museum in Lyon. Each frame was hand-coloured. youtube.com/watch?feature=…

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To some, programming can be addictive, like a drug. That's why I use Haskell.

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In reply to @Htbaa

@Htbaa no side-effects. It is a terrible pun.

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks my speakers were too loud! you are echoey all the way through

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In reply to @HEAcademy

@HEAcademy clicking on the "book on this event" button for my event (heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/…) gives a big long database error

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In reply to @HEAcademy

@HEAcademy to wit (abbrv): Drivers error '80004005'
SQL Server does not exist or access denied
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sometimes jQuery is too helpful and I worry it will one day demand its pound of flesh

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My cousin answered one of those facebook trick-arithmetic questions wrong. Disinherited.

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What's the most efficient way to cut parallelograms out of a square?

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A maths lecturer's best-of clips: youtube.com/watch?v=l789l6…

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In reply to @WhiteGroupMaths

@WhiteGroupMaths good enough. Have you seen MathJax (mathjax.org) - get typeset maths on your page without using images.

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@somerandomdude what attribution text do you want for the Iconic set? I can't find a set phrase on the site.

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I've spent too long photographing a bookcase. Please at least agree with me about how excellent my taste is flickr.com/photos/christi…

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I've updated my "How to get MathJax on your blog" post with instructions on getting MathJax to work with Disqus: checkmyworking.com/2012/01/how-to…

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has anyone read "Euclid in the Rainforest"? amazon.com/Euclid-Rainfor… @nulibsage has just acquired it, I might take it out

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths the headline "Back on the sheep's back" is not doing your homeland any favours.

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In reply to @eAssess

@eAssess and me and @NclNumbas !

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Currently rewriting this crime against typists into more friendly language.

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We're gonna need a bigger brace

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch my friend @Samuel_Hansen has just interviewed him! blog.samuelhansen.com/post/188718312…

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect aw man I just lost the scone game. Now I want one too.

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I miss the old Pukka Pad paper. You can hardly ever get a clean tear from the new kind.

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Just fell over. All this thinking seems to have drained the blood out of my legs. Clearly not match-fit.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett shockingly, I don't have one in my esoterica collection! Appalled at myself.

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen you're getting faster, not slower like I was expecting. I thought you'd turn up on a canal boat next.

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this video is ENORMOUSLY pleasing. youtube.com/watch?v=FQMO6v…

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Pourquoi devient-on mathématicienne? rts.ch/video/decouver… and she seems to be a geometric group theorist!

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JSlayerUK the universe wants you to sit and twiddle your thumbs for a bit

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts that's a very Pocahontas attitude

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too clever, google! Search for "zip file mime type". I thought this kind of categorical expert system was abandoned in the 90s?

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean adverts? Ticketmaster handling fee for the Christmas party?

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean hey, at least if those catch on they'll be accurate. Look what the mackems are trying to promote: sunderlandsoftwarecity.com/home.html

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean hahahahaha I've just looked at their twitter and it's full of events happening in Newcastle

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites a lion tamer. Isn't it obvious?

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen @peterrowlett let me try. Is this your interview with Neil deGrasser Tyson? weknowmemes.com/2011/11/watch-…

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In reply to @christianp

@christianp @Samuel_Hansen @peterrowlett who is Neil deGrasser Tyson? Maybe a relative of F Scott Snitchgerald

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Wow, hmv still exists! And there are people inside! And they're not *all* old women buying presents!

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it's taken 26 years, but I think I'm ready to start loving mustard

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You don't have to have a smile on your face to work here, but these piggies can fix that

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In reply to @GhostMutt

@GhostMutt not going near it

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yazoo is basically brown water. What's the point?

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks how did you get on with the video? Should I do it?

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wherein @stecks uses a zero-knowledge protocol to prove she's better at sudoku than I am: youtube.com/watch?v=i0sffX…

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks windows live movie maker is a blunt instrument. At least we know what to do next time

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iphone/wordpress people: is there a way to send a link from the browser or twitter directly to a wordpress blog as a draft post?

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the spambots have outwitted twitter by changing their names to /x(firstname)\d{4}/ instead of /(firstname)X\d{4}/. Modern-day Einsteins!

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@RANIELDANSON smart trousers too! Is Ranson going up in the world?

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JSlayerUK did you watch that thing on bbc four, then?

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JSlayerUK bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01…

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I reject this applause-sound completely. There is no way that many people wanted to attend a recording of Brain of Britain.

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz @danaernst it's CC, not open-source.

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In reply to @danaernst

@danaernst @pkrautz there are mathematica notebook versions of the chapters on the wiki, so maybe they're the source, but I can't load them

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean is this something to do with conspicuously throwing out your LPs of next year's hot new pop act?

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean sorry, I'm trying to write an entertaining maths article. My mind is jammed in "try too hard" mode.

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In reply to @Pat_Hogun

@GPRPichot @pkrautz @stecks @mathblogging sorry, try going straight to youtube: youtube.com/watch?feature=… - my blog has occasional DNS problems

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor yeah, word order: "up to 16 killed by soldier" is less ambiguous

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In reply to @RichardWiseman

@RichardWiseman consider it an affirmation of your respect for your heritage. He'll like that.

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In reply to @Pat_Hogun

@GPRPichot thanks. NP just says a solution can be checked quite quickly - being able to check at all is enough for random guessing to work

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 does it work well? We have a similar thing called MAGIC but it's pretty much universally disliked

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In reply to @Pat_Hogun

@GPRPichot twitter doesn't really have enough space to get into the subtleties of it.

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall I'm skeptical. Is it by design?

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The Aperiodical is back! Brit-aping, useless formulae, arts and crafts, interactive proof and parking constants: aperiodical.com/2012/03/aperio…

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @Samuel_Hansen chalk up another win for ol' cp. #mathmaths

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A trail of sweets on the pavement. I'm tempted to follow it, but I know there'll just be a messy child at the end of it

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In reply to @gingerbeardman

@gingerbeardman implying a spammer somewhere died at their keyboard. What a sad thought!

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In reply to @trackinthebox

@trackinthebox "Happy Soup" isn't upcoming: it already upcame - amazon.co.uk/Happy-Soup-Exp…

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@nulibsage I met one of the photographers in that book while out looking for the aurora at tynemouth! I don't know his name, though.

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"we relabel the $i$th letter $w_k$." Does nobody check PhD theses?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett what news?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett ah, Durham's joined. My mind: not blown.

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In reply to @gingerbeardman

@gingerbeardman great, now my google adverts are going to be full of that Ruark radio for the next month. So expensive!

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In reply to @aperiodical

@aperiodical well, that didn't work, whoever posted that

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forget about Pi Day tomorrow, today is March's first Unambiguous Day: While 12/3 could be 12th Mar or 3rd Dec, 13/3 can only be today!

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths is "avoid all things which increase risk of death" a good strategy? A greedy algorithm, if you will.

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this BLT is way more than the sum of its parts, or even the product of its parts. This BLT is more than the tetration of its parts!

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In reply to @TimandraHarknes

@TimandraHarknes @standupmaths could I outsource the worrying, and blindly accept the advice of a third party?

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it is very cruel of Mai Lan to release this excellent demo and have nothing downloadable! soundcloud.com/mai-lan/easy-d…

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3 in 20 women are on a FTSE 100 board: "The percentage of women on the boards of the UK's 100 largest firms has risen to a record 15.6%"

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect yes, it is good

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I had a huge BLT and a litre of fruit (I think that's how big my bowl is) for lunch. How am I still hungry?

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean what happened to e-s-p-r-e-s-s-o.com? It's serving all sorts of nonsense now

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In reply to @HoeJodgkiss

@HoeJodgkiss you only said that so somebody could call you a PDF-phile, right?

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 I'm going to make a comment, but I also have editorial comments; where would you like those? email?

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths oh my god, is that a temple of NOD?

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Yes!!! We've reached the future! Let's invade mars! youtube.com/watch?v=6ydeY0…

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In reply to @alexbellos

@alexbellos quite interesting. It reminded me of the way the computer/girl Max spoke in Monday's Dirk Gently.

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tomorrow: Hypatia (she stoned to death by the monks for the thinking-while-being-a-woman) explains astronomy in London: bbc.co.uk/thingstodo/act…

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sorry, most of the last tweet was inaccurate: Hypatia flayed alive by lay Christians; astronomers explain Rachel Weisz as Hypatia in "Agora"

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @SecondRateMinds oh no! image maths! eesh!

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @SecondRateMinds and some of the things there were new to me: can you add citations?

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In reply to @plusmathsorg

@plusmathsorg oh, bravo! What a genteel, well-mannered pun.

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean I believe California has some experience with the concept of the "company town", yes.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett the desk calculator used by Ferguson

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett nooooo way! Shanks was from where I'm from! houghtonlespring.org.uk/articles/willi…

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Is the world path-connected?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett maybe, but to follow through logically I should do it on the wrong day

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In reply to @charliesgames

@charliesgames first thought: quaternions are what you want. I have code at github.com/christianp/war…. Busy at the moment.

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In reply to @charliesgames

@charliesgames but this kind of thing is exactly what hardware T&L is meant to do, I think. Ask an OpenGL person.

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In reply to @ilythruthephone

@sciencefest is there a way to link to a single event on the website? Trying to tell my mum about the gaze aversion talk tomorrow

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In reply to @ilythruthephone

@ScienceFest but that doesn't have the description!

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In reply to @charliesgames

@charliesgames can't you use opengl's rotation functions? morrowland.com/apron/tutorial…

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In reply to @charliesgames

@charliesgames then I'm stumped, sorry. I'm no good at optimisations, we don't do those in real maths :)

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In reply to @charliesgames

@charliesgames oh! Is this all happening in 2d?

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In reply to @charliesgames

@charliesgames right. I am very busy at the moment, but remind me this evening if you're still having trouble

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a roguelike on hyperbolic space! roguetemple.com/z/hyper.php (via @haggismaths)

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In reply to @MathsJam

@MathsJam a link to mathsjam.com just came up in the "sponsored links" section of my gmail. How odd! Surely nobody is buying adwords

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths you should get into sage notebook: sagenb.org I'll see if I can do that plot after talk+cakes afternoon here at NCL

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 @standupmaths that chart, with a log-10 vertical axis, might show no. of digits correct better

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oh! just noticed @peterrowlett linked digits of pi to the first person to calculate them in his post travels.peterrowlett.net/2012/03/happy-…

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@yomcat @peterrowlett @Samuel_Hansen honestly, MathJax is dead dead easy. There's a wordpress plugin. wordpress.org/extend/plugins…

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths I prefer to write pi in base-26^9 and write the first digit as "christian"

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths gosh, I had an odd moment of tweet-blindness where I thought you said to look for your name. Same method works, anyway

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I'm so enormously happy with myself for remembering to put the garlic bread in the oven. For once, pasta night is proper!

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@RachaelBailes you should hear the outrageous things my colleague has to say about the humanities

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wahey, 304 followers! See if you can get that up to 314 before pi day is over

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I'm watching videos of animals embarrassing themselves. So far I've watched two dolphins collide mid-air and a hippo with terrible diarrhoea

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett nobody is going to misinterpret 3/14 as referring to the 3rd of Mega-February

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In reply to @PatParslow

@PatParslow @peterrowlett @timtfj that's it, I'm measuring dates using radians from now on. I will celebrate pi day halfway through July 1st

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In reply to @timtfj

@timtfj @PatParslow @peterrowlett um.. why?

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yes!! thank you windows update! my bluetooth chip works again! now the speakers I bought to replace my unusable speakers are usable again!

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how many chocolate traybakes can I prevent myself from cooking before the one I have to make next wednesday? Chocobrain has been activated

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artsters: can any of you explain the current fad for geometric shapes?

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amazon reviewer trying very hard with his first three sentences to come across as the kind of person I don't like: amazon.co.uk/review/R3RJB3L…

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the closest shop selling an avocado after 5 is not in walking distance. I thought Tynemouth was meant to be posh?

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean at least we're not being referred to as "matériel" yet

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now I know for definite that licking the spoon you measured the cayenne pepper with is a bad idea

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 great stuff!

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch archer series 3: Wednesday, 10pm, 5*.

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo yeesh. We're a long way from my campaign for 0 to be a natural number to gain any traction, then.

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$\int_0^e \left( e^{e^{e^{e^{e^x}}}}.e^{e^{e^{e^x}}}.e^{e^{e^x}}.e^{e^x}.e^x \right) dx = ^6e - ^5e$. Why? pic.twitter.com/SbLRIi4D

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(sorry, took me a while to get the TeX right there)

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 fun fact

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how is this "Lost Cities of the Ancients" programme on bbc four? It's barely good enough for channel five.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett you missed out Katie's Manchester MathsJam recap from the math/maths show notes! aperiodical.com/2012/03/mathsj…

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2^10 comments on my blog! Only 89.8% of which are spam!

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts which printer?

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall so their servers can literally be taken down by The Man?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett that looks like a very good booklet

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Newcastle @MathsJam is tomorrow, 7pm, the Charles Grey. mathsjam.com/index.php?cont… @peterrowlett will be joining us, so look smart!

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean that is lacking a lot of nuance

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean argrgrsgr, the more I read about that visualisation, the more angry it makes me

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this visualisation of the wrong data has made me angry: guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/…. Typing with clenched fists is hard so no thanks @brittneybean

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect @brittneybean precisely. checkmyworking.com/2012/03/visual…

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett it's practically summer up here. Hope you packed shorts! Dragons currently in Sunderland, so you'll be fine.

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This might not be very healthy

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths should I be updating the MathsJams map with your van's coordinates?

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In reply to @TuringSunflower

@TuringSunflower can you explain the link between Turing and sunflowers please? Is it to do with reaction-diffusion and that sort of thing?

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In reply to @MathsJam

@MathsJam GLA: we meant you need only one of the first two steps, ie 2332 is a solution

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In reply to @christianp

@christianp @MathsJam or even 3223 would make more sense to you! Forgot which way round you had it

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I like this a big lot: thisiscolossal.com/2012/03/clouds…

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In reply to @HESTEM

@HESTEM thanks! I should've given @peterrowlett some in a doggy bag, there's loads left over (turns out we didn't need TWO kilos of cake)

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plan for tomorrow: sit in pyjamas and write code until all my problems are solved

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In reply to @trackinthebox

@trackinthebox why don't your URLs have the date in them? Isn't that sort of the idiom within which your site operates?

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean but if it was in the url I'd be able to tell if a link is to today's track or an old one.

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we are running a workshop on creating maths OER on April the 10th, for which places are still available: heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/…

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In reply to @charliesgames

@charliesgames and that is why I don't play shmups. Did you sort out your rotation thing?

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Oh no! It's the Simpsons episode with the Run Lola Run spoof but I missed that bit. Truly life is not worth living!

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Dinner tonight: a traditional Mexican dish, "throw all one's spices and vegetables at a few bowls"

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ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks oh! I get it now!

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks can we make a script which takes arxiv papers and replaces every proof with "Left as an exercise for the reader"?

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I wanted to live by the sea, not in it!

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @aperiodical ahh, I thought I fixed that! I wonder where the correct version is

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @aperiodical should be fixed now

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@RANIELDANSON I wondered this, because my (southern, manchester) flatmates had never heard of it. I thought it was used everywhere

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Bison! In Sedgefield! At Farnless Farm Park.

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more bison pictures at plus.google.com/11130061692066…

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Gosh, @peterrowlett has been doing a very good job writing up news stories for our new site aperiodical.com today.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I added a bit of mathematical detail in a comment to the topic-based vector space story.

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haha! 30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1c9yeu…

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a clever way of switching between markup and its display, including with LaTeX: youtube.com/watch?v=hG3ELs…

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A page from an old notebook. When was I good at drawing?!

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yeesh. I've just discovered a library that makes my instant-preview-above-TeX editor a squillion times simpler: somethingorotherwhatever.com/new-writemaths/

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today has started with a good photo gardenofpraise.com/agbell13.htm

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please buy my new range of plates featuring images of the abyss, a navel, the circle of life and the night sky: "ContemPlates"

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other ill-considered crockery: the Grand Bowl Opry, Dish is The End, Camilla Finger-Bowls

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett time to forward you all those funny cat pictures I've been saving

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan a first attempt: dict['a'] = dict.get('a',0). I feel there's a slightly more obvious way though

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In reply to @christianp

@christianp @jcoglan in fact, two lines lower in the docs: dict.setdefault('foo',0). docs.python.org/library/stdtyp…

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan that's what setdefault does. get doesn't set it.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan oh, I see what you mean. Never mind.

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windows 7 non-powershell command line: is there a way to pipe a wildcard selection of files through to a command?

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In reply to @PencilBloke

@PencilBloke it's the best kind of correct: technically correct

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan this (neckbeardy) command just occurred to me: ``` python -c "help(dict)" | grep default ```

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In reply to @jjsanderson

@jjsanderson eduroam is an agreement between universities so visitors can use their home institution account info to get wifi anywhere

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks "Blackboard Bold" is an excellent name for a column

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This is just excellent: "The mate-in-n problem of infinite chess is decidable" jdh.hamkins.org/the-mate-in-n-… (via @mathblogging)

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan I tried to cross "inception!" with "examination" but all I got was "incemination!" and that is another kind of dream entirely

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Using inline SVG in HTML is an enormous faff. Am I missing something?

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Matt's code loves him!

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In reply to @decaf_unicorn

@fumbleweeds wow, you would *not* get on well in the UK

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The new metro trains have a space for wheelchair users which this wheelchair user is not using because her carer can't sit next to her.

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 there seems to be a circle going round. I've been added by lots of people recently too. Watching it happen is like epidemiology.

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On hot days like today, the air in Tynemouth is 50% barbecue smoke

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@RANIELDANSON it could be worse: a new person could appear who is just as annoying as Ben Elton, and Ben Elton would also be still extant

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett kick's 'self

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In reply to @Skweeky

@Skweeky then you'd better render unto Caesar what is Caesar's

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks youtube showed me an advert for Fosters before that Guinness world records video. Wasted effort, I don't booze!

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In reply to @mathshistory

@mathshistory you had an extra character left there. "when" could've been "whence" and then it would've been grammatically perfect

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett yes!

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett what's the name of that Law of the Universe about correcting people?

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idea for the next @MathsJam: do something like Drunk History but with mathematical proofs

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz @peterrowlett collecting all our blogging efforts together, plus news and pieces by other people who don't have their own blogs

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz not quite a blog network! Lots of stuff goes straight on the Aperiodical

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April

@KathrynHTaylor buying them with money is preferred

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In reply to @davidhopperact

@DavidHopper88 @Bishnavitch tiny Crying Game fact: it's a spoonerist remake of a 1950s public information film

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks @aPaulTaylor I like the waterfall puzzle a lot. I think that's the first puzzlebomb puzzle I've solved

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks @aPaulTaylor and the space filling crossword makes two!

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie journalism question for a friend: if someone writes to their MP, is it OK to publish the response in full on their blog?

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In reply to @PickfordBros

@PickfordBros did you ever play my Blitz game "poption"? It was a bit like MB but with a broom instead of a cue. It was loads of fun

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall @stecks @standupmaths JLS Love Self-reference is my favourite one

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waiting for someone to file an issue on github so I can include its number in the message of the commit that fixes it. #productivity!

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New blog post: slides about the princess in a castle puzzle checkmyworking.com/2012/04/slides…

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett how long will it take me to get from the train station to wherever your workshop is on the 16th?

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall oh dear! Not sure what could cause that

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THE BEST! RT @aperiodical: Post: Turing-Tape Games: A Challenge in Algorithmic Problem Solving aperiodical.com/2012/04/turing…

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@sgravn let me know when you have your first one and I'll add you to the map

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today's weather is a sensible continuation of yesterday's, yes.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett am I correct in assuming you avoid google talk for work-overload reasons? I want to ask when I should arrive in Birmingham

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan put me down for five quid on "cease and desist"

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The author of this proof seems to hate whitespace so much he's even reduced the line-height. Man that's dense maths!

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yet again I have managed to drown all the notes in my bag. This time it was with Pepsi, so I will have to wash the bag.

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths but but but… Unicode SMS can only have 70 characters! What are twitter doing? Someone might not get all of your tweet!

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problem: food must be bought up to a week in advance because the shops are a long way away. Solution: pneumatic grocery delivery tubes

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I honestly think that if the edwardians had invented pneumatic food delivery to the home, we'd consider it a human right today.

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz did you link to my princess-castle slides from the "mathjax in use" page? Could you also link to my maths-on-your-blog post please?

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In reply to @jjsanderson

@jjsanderson ah! thanks for reminding me I also need to book train tickets

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It seems my little brother is not content to kill himself just with cigarettes

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall I think it was coffee once

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JanvierUK *he* is!

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#ff @CarnivalOfMath because I suppose I have obligations as a host now. No. 85, out this week at travels.aperiodical.com/2012/04/carniv… is very good though

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nice! Poincare disc tiling coasters: instructables.com/id/Poincare-di…

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@Talithin maybe later. I'm trying to work out how to write a hyperbolic orienteering game that was suggested at Newcastle @MathsJam

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@Talithin maybe. Just trying to find stuff in hyperbolic space, to see how people navigate. For example, are landmarks useful?

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SPRINGERLINK I HATE YOU!

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how is "problem X is undecidable" a positive result? I'd ask if something *is* decidable. arxiv.org/abs/0806.1602

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Writing haskell again. This is my brain's happy place. Everything is soft and bounces back only so very slightly when you push it.

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my hotmail was hacked again! Sorry to anyone who received very enthusiastic emails from me about enlargement

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canonic n = tail . map snd $ scanl (\(x,d) y -> if x>=y then (x-y,1) else (x,0)) (n,0) (reverse $ takeWhile (<= n) (tail fibs))

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that tweet brought to you by Haskell, God's Own Programming Language

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie I would say a "girl next door" typically has a bit more meat on her

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does BT throttle downloads of PDFs? I'm at my mum's house and they're taking ages, while everything else, even on the same sites, is fast

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In reply to @for_the_winn

@for_the_winn use gist

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depressed I have no local maths hero. @peterrowlett has George Green, of "Green's Theorem" fame. I have William Shanks, who got π wrong.

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I've summed up some more Interesting Esoterica. There are some corkers! checkmyworking.com/2012/04/intere…

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In reply to @natachitas

@natachitas EXCELLENT profile picture! Where is it from?

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In reply to @ellenirites

@ellenirites I wish I was! My mum's roast is still at least half an hour away

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 have the courage of your convictions! Either you believe it's worthwhile or you don't

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this is fun orteil.dashnet.org/nested.php

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dear windows team: why does it take fully 30 seconds to open the control panel for a bluetooth headset?

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In reply to @CloudoidLtd

@CloudoidLtd beautiful

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This was underappreciated: interesting esoterica 3 - orange peels, homophonic quotient groups, nomograms and word death checkmyworking.com/2012/04/intere…

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie I have a friend who is very good and a nice chap. Could ask him which class he runs

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hah, people are already getting to my site by searching for the solutions to the puzzles in the Dara O'Briain adverts. Sorry to disappoint!

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Flawless dismount by my beard. 6.0s all round, even from the Russian judge. A great prospect for #london2012

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean languages can be objectively bad: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean the fact people use PHP doesn't make it not a bad language. But I shouldn't engage with Jeff Atwood, it only encourages him

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean which I disagree with, but I want twitter to be a happy place so I'll stop there

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Is there something like google (search for haskell functions by type signature) for units of measurement?

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hooray! my quiet suggestion to the postgrad events organiser to use the bcc field has worked: no more 3mb headers in emails!

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In reply to @Htbaa

@Htbaa sorry, I meant hoogle not google. That does the haskell search thing.

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In reply to @badmachinery

@badmachinery hydraulic, not pneumatic? I don't want your pipe leaking fluids in my house

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I picked exactly the wrong moment to leave the office.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett April @MathsJam is next week?! Crikey. Going to have to give up on writing up March then. Good idea to include the photos link

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths it's excellent that we live so far in the future that a retro games shop exists

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In reply to @walkingrandomly

@walkingrandomly could you add that as a snapshot on @mathsinthecity.com please?

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Kickstarter idea: fund a documentary crew to follow me in my search for someone who doesn't like The Big Lebowski. Target: $2 million

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity I could really do with one at the moment! It's tipping it down up here

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie @ellenirites I've just googled her. You are quite mistaken about her face

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A nice Penrose tiling generator ifany.org/penrose/ (via plus.google.com/10508009917840…)

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In reply to @DanielColquitt

@DanielColquitt I find Bill Evans "Peace Piece" soothes me when code doesn't work

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Tom Lehrer is still alive. This is a good world, the one we live in.

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen @peterrowlett how much of an effect do they have though? I've never used tags on my blog and I have very good google rankings

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a cool dude to follow on google+: olivier gerard - plus.google.com/10226219979927…

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In reply to @TwidgeMC

@AdrenalGBR congratulations! I will buy you a drink at MathsJam

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In reply to @eassessscotland

@eassessscotland the link to join the e-assessment association (tinyurl.com/bz6xqv) is broken

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In reply to @eassessscotland

@eassessscotland and is there a reason you have your own copyright notice instead of CC BY-NC, which is effectively the same licence?

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean @songdropapp curses, now what twitter name will I use for my fansite for the avant-garde Transdniestrian artist, Songdro Papp?

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In reply to @pelagikat

@hornmaths ask @stecks, she's in charge of the email and website

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Erdos: a web interface to the google GraphViz API - sandbox.kidstrythisathome.com/erdos/index.ht…

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz but isn't google how people search for things these days? I can't remember the last time I searched for anything using tags

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo @walkingrandomly @ben_nuttall is there a well-known place to download infinite sequences such as primes, digits of p, etc?

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo @walkingrandomly @ben_nuttall if not, would it be worth setting one up? eg keep sending sequence elements until you stop it

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall @ColinTheMathmo @walkingrandomly maybe something like calculatefor.me/1000/digits-of… would give you 1000 digits of pi in a plain file

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40 posts in, I'm beginning to regret deciding to retag all of the posts on the @aperiodical

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 @aperiodical works for me. What do you get? The links on names are just to their google+ profiles, thought it was polite.

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 @aperiodical ahh, it's set to limited visibility. Seems the original post is also hidden. Not sure if I should just quote it

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In reply to @walkingrandomly

@walkingrandomly @ColinTheMathmo @ben_nuttall not necessarily. It's definitely quick to just download a list, if that's all you need

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In reply to @walkingrandomly

@walkingrandomly @ColinTheMathmo @ben_nuttall and especially if you don't have Mathematica (or Maple or whatever)

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In reply to @walkingrandomly

@walkingrandomly I can install that on my home PC... but if I'm just writing a quicky python script, feeding a file in is more convenient

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie only three spokes, so the only potential outraged party is the residents of the Isle of Man

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In reply to @christianp

@christianp @Electrokittie why did I only see three spokes there? I might be having neurological problems. Eesh.

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I don't think @stecks promoted this when she posted it, so I will: her experience of presenting at Science Showoff aperiodical.com/2012/02/scienc…

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I've been thinking about hyperbolic space lately, so this grabbed my attention: Hyperbolic Buckyballs: youtu.be/vyi1W717Bgg

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 I've edited the post, quoting Rongmin. This journalism thing's hard.

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Does anyone know a good, non-chain, pizza place that delivers to Tynemouth?

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I agree that switching off escalators saves energy, @My_Metro, but please make sure the train uses the platform where they're still running

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The yachts on the Tyne are all mine all mine, the yachts on the Tyne are all mine. #geordieoligarch

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Any player linked to NUFC by the Chronicle, I will buy. #geordieoligarch

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Greggs is now free at the point of service, just like the NHS. #geordieoligarch

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Behold the 100-foot sculpture of a raised middle finger I have erected off the coast at Sunderland. #geordieoligarch

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths can you tile a sphere in H3 with hexagons? Zero curvature - negative curvature = positive curvature, right? #badatgeometry

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No better than the soviets: @Electrokittie has divided Catan in half

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In reply to @mathpunk

@mathpunk according to etymonline, no etymonline.com/index.php?allo…

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excellent! every ipad owner should have one: scott-eaton.com/2011/ipad-dock…

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts I've been considering getting a bike. Days like this are the reason I defer my decision

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts so, in summary, the wuss vote says "stay indoors"

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phew! Every post on the @aperiodical is now retagged sensibly.

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I left an entire hour to get the metro in to central station. Looks like I will be using all of that plus or minus 2 minutes

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Reader, I arrived with 15 minutes to spare. And just behind the mechanics, who are here to fix my train, which has apparently broken down.

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arrived in Birmingham. This room is so hot even my tweets are m͇͔͉͖̪e̙͔̟̜͇̮l͖̤͖̪̲̫̗͓t̫̞͔i̭̭̖̠̻͉̯n͉̞̝g̭

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I like the way Ian Agol writes his slides. homepages.math.uic.edu/~agol/coNP/coN… Talking of which, I need to write mine for tomorrow morning's #hestemsoc

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Two years ago, I started collecting interesting maths esoterica. Today, I have found its platonic ideal: complex-systems.com/pdf/20-2-2.pdf

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My view of the sink. But wait, what's that reflected in the tap?

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Why, it's a warning sign, for midgets' eyes only!

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Similarly: where is the keyhole? Was this place designed for children?

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In reply to @standupmaths

.@standupmaths oh, Weng Weng! I know him! youtube.com/watch?v=eqh5O9…

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I'm going to wander around campus for an hour. Anything I should see, or are you around?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett going to the Lapworth museum because it's the only one open. It might ROCK my world?

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Basking like an iguana in the warm midlands sun.

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Brummies: I'm currently in the bullring with an hour to spare. Does your city contain anything interesting?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett managed to write some code to do the thing you want while sitting in the train waiting room, but forgot one thing! Arg!

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lawks a mercy! @Andrew_Taylor's Grime Dice and voting essay on the @aperiodical has really seized the popular imagination.

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In reply to @eddequincey

@eddequincey thanks!

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Newcastle @MathsJam is tonight! 7pm at the Charles Grey pub. Bring a friend, bring some maths.

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Oh man, I just forgot to add the outstandingly witty postscript I was planning for this commit message. I make a sad face now :(

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oh my god, there is an anti-dog-racing group called Greyt Exploitations. Inappropriate pun time!

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In reply to @jamesgrime

@jamesgrime I've only ever found it irritating but plenty of people love it, so it must be a personality type thing.

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In reply to @Simon_Woodhead

@Simon_Woodhead the card game Mad Abel is good. Princess in a Castle puzzle also very good. All on my blog checkmyworking.com

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In reply to @jamesgrime

@jamesgrime you're only 6 years older than me! That doesn't seem like an insurmountable deficit. And: is there a Little Professor fan club?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @stecks I've stopped tumblring because they don't get tweeted. I'll tumblr afterwards.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @stecks phone, tweeting does seem to just work now. I apologise for the forthcoming torrent of duplicate tweets

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Getting my new staff email and smartcard and everything has been suspiciously easy

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect UP????

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In reply to @rockhyrax

@rockhyrax seen this? BBC News - The rock hyrax surprises with syntax skills bbc.in/HPGZFh"

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it doesn't always pay to kill your siblings: …-scorpion-and-the-frog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/it-doe…) (found via researchblogging.org)

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Who loves butter chicken? CP loves butter chicken! Is it true? Yes I do I do I do I do-ooo!

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Ah! So that headache was a symptom of curry withdrawal.

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two kinds of people go to bed before 9: children and WINNERS. #yawn

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@nulibsage that's the most transparently rewritten-press-release story I've ever seen on BBC tech news. Shameful!

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google chrome's auto translate should also do "this recipe is in stupid American units. Would you like to see it in metric?"

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cropped this scan of Durer's melancholia to 666x666. SECRET CODES‽‽ #danbrown

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I now have a favourite comic book, in case comic books fans ever corner me and ask for an opinion about spider/bat/super/whateverman

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and that comic book is: COW PUNCHER digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.…

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Once again, the metro has pulled in to St James at the platform where the escalators are turned off.

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This mad old women has taken the opportunity to walk down what is normally the up escalator.

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Tiny fact: Alan Turing's Erdős number is 5 -- ams.org//mathscinet/co…

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In reply to @aPaulTaylor

@aPaulTaylor make a javascript version! javascript is so much nicer for writing little maths things in than java

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks due to a lack of foresight tonight's chicken empanadas are now tomorrow's chicken empanadas and I'm eating ready-meal crispy duck :(

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made for @aPaulTaylor, who wanted an easy way to screengrab just some maths: a MathJax applet called "make big maths": checkmyworking.com/misc/makebigma…

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have fallen instantly in love with the continuity announcer on film4.

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@RANIELDANSON is it my mum? Can't watch, too busy eating fast food

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!!! pinterest.com/staceynightmar… (warning: bare naked manchests and future-giggles)

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths @theredroaster very nice, but what's hyperbolic about it?

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor @stecks @markstaylor a robust is what fembots have. #OED2332AD

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Finally, here's what happened at March's @MathsJam, reconstructed out of a haze of tiredness. checkmyworking.com/2012/04/newcas… April's recap is imminent

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every time I read this, panel 6 is as if I've never read it before achewood.com/index.php?date…

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Shakingly tired. Empanada failure doubtless a factor.

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the onion's autistic news reporter is brilliant yet again theonion.com/video/four-ame…

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thanks @ajk_44, @SparksMaths and whoever runs Cardiff Maths Jam for your photos

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In reply to @TwidgeMC

@AdrenalGBR I've forgotten how that integer partitions grid you showed at MathsJam works. Do you think you could write something about it?

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I'm not comfortable with Newcastle doing so well.

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In English, "first" and "second" have nothing lexically to do with "one" and "two"...

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...We just need one more word to go between "second" and "third" and we can finally start counting from 0 like civilised human beings.

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I suggest "first, second, twird, third, ..."

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"twird" a homophone of "turd", of course.

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz isn't that how "third" is pronounced by ze Chermans?

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considering writing my new, correct, ordinals into the @aperiodical's style book.

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz ah, jetzt verstehe ich! As is traditional, English mathematics is a step behind the Germans.

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz aw, now you've got me looking in the book of numbers to see if anyone does do it my way

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Wait a minute. What?

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz difficult. We have separate author/category feeds, which might be best. Certainly don't aggregate the news.

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz maybe just aggregate the "features" feed? aperiodical.com/category/main/…

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz gosh, well, it'd certainly bulk out that news section, wouldn't it? Time to cc @peterrowlett and @stecks and see what they think

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Here's April's Newcastle @MathsJam recap: checkmyworking.com/2012/04/newcas… Subtitle: Wine tasters on a (hyperbolic) plane!

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have developed a very expensive cloudy apple juice habit

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen you've been quiet lately. Are you hard at work making my relatively prime investment worthwhile?

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen for a less gregarious personage than yourself, that would be. Never mind, I'll get by with however much Hansen is going.

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In reply to @christianp

@christianp @Samuel_Hansen I think I meant, "that would *not be quiet*". I've confused myself. Eugh.

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall I bet it's something stupid like the calculation only being fired on the keydown event

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gonna have a glass of milk! Ain't none of you can stop me! You're all miles away and the milk is very very close

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"You can now enjoy free John Lewis wifi here." - If google doesn't have what I want, will they order it in for me?

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two unit tests into my expected suite of hundreds, I have found a bug. Super.

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks @aPaulTaylor Newcastle are doing appallingly at the melbourne puzzle hunt. We just looked at your stats and did a sad face

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan I am, and I want to know if using QUnit is a bad idea. Writing my first unit tests today.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan super! Thanks. I'll give that article a good read before carrying on

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks they've called themselves "team badger". I'm avoiding involvement

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In reply to @PinkLaneCoffee

@PinkLaneCoffee my colourblind eyes can't see the word "Pink" in that logo

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WOW changing options in Pagelines is hard if you don't have the paid-for version. What a business model!

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In reply to @HoeJodgkiss

@HoeJodgkiss DOES NOT COMPUTE

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In reply to @aPaulTaylor

@aPaulTaylor @stecks I need to find more people who will play german games with me. I have catan, need to play agricola and carcassonne

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks I'm not a great conference-goer. I'm sure I'll have a reason to visit Manchester eventually though

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In reply to @HilariousCow

@HilariousCow you've seen how many people appear on the forums for those tools asking for help making an MMORPG, right?

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks or: you could visit Newcastle, and it would be Catandemonium

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can anyone think of a boolean expression that would confirm that != and = have equal precedence and left-associate?

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this looks like a fun thing for @MathsJam: flickr.com/photos/4433583… (from @maanow)

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 pertinently, we're launching a new maths magazine/blog today, The Aperiodical. Please have a look and RT aperiodical.com

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 thanks. What prompted your question about maths sites? Were you thinking of something similar to us?

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In reply to @divbyzero

@divbyzero a few of us are launching a new maths blog, The @aperiodical,
with Klein's birthday goodies. Please RT?
aperiodical.com/tag/launch/

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In reply to @d_spiegel

@undunc a few of us are launching a new maths blog, The @aperiodical,
with Klein's birthday goodies. Please RT?
aperiodical.com/tag/launch/

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In reply to @alexbellos

@alexbellos a few of us are launching a new maths blog, The @aperiodical,
with Klein's birthday goodies. Please RT?
aperiodical.com/tag/launch/

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In reply to @nrichmaths

@nrichmaths a few of us are launching a new maths blog, The @aperiodical,
with Klein's birthday goodies. Please RT?
aperiodical.com/tag/launch/

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In reply to @danaernst

@danaernst a few of us are launching a new maths blog, The @aperiodical,
with Klein's birthday goodies. Please RT?
aperiodical.com/tag/launch/

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(anyone also following the people I just mass-tweeted, I can only apologise. I'll never do it again)

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 like, Serious Maths? Or maths in general, as part of the culture?

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JanvierUK or open a guillotine factory

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@nulibsage don't suppose you could help a NCL student out and RT a link to my new maths magazine/blog, @aperiodical: aperiodical.com

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@nulibsage thanks!

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch well now I know where you're going on holiday this summer

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Well, today is going about as well as it possibly can.

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 those notes are lovely! They make me miss my Tablet PC

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In reply to @walkingrandomly

@walkingrandomly trying to update my JScript exponential function to be accurate on complex^(int) and fast on (complex)^(complex). Ideas?

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In reply to @walkingrandomly

@walkingrandomly the current code: github.com/numbas/Numbas/… (floating-point errors abound!)

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In reply to @walkingrandomly

@walkingrandomly ah, good idea. Thanks!

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In reply to @Gelada

@Gelada @peterrowlett I said, "I would suggest not tweeting that kind of thing"

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wow! Thanks for the hugely positive response to the @aperiodical. Today has been amazing.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @ben_nuttall you're welcome to rewrite it, but I reckon "has a beard" is definitely in the top 3 Peter facts

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I don't know how you had the energy to write up all those news stories last night. Bravo.

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths umbrella husbandry should be part of every school's citizenship lessons

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least awful desktop/chrome twitter client which supports multiple accounts? I don't like TweetDeck

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In reply to @DanielColquitt

@DanielColquitt preliminary findings: twimbow only allows max 3 accounts, hootsuite abhorrent in every way

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In reply to @pelagikat

@hornmaths maybe this? google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j…

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can anyone help me with doing maths on complex numbers in javascript? stackoverflow.com/questions/1033… (cc @walkingrandomly)

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we've decided to send Cushing to Iraq as a safety precaution. Abdul has been telling us about the excellent swimming lessons he was given

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my nana has expressed an interest in twitter. Be good, people, or I will unleash her on you.

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stop underestimating your audience, Hollywood! "the pirates! in an adventure with scientists" is "the pirates: band of misfits" in the US

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm What would the minimum score for a question be? Allowing 0 would punish errors enormously

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo thanks for submitting that @aperiodical story to HN. We'll see how it goes this time round.

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burning a CD-R like it's 1999

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server still down, will be for at least another hour or so. Those dying to see the popular post can use coral mirror: aperiodical.com.nyud.net/2012/04/classi…

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how middle class am I? I've installed a minecraft mod where AIs do the mining for me and I take what they produce. #marxcraft

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo yes, caching is on now. Thanks again for sharing it. Good job this only happened on day 2

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As a mathematician, I think I'm qualified to extrapolate from these data.

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 nice, but what's non-obvious there? I couldn't see an example that shocked me

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor for Balrogs, it's more of a commuter village than a town. No shared civic space. They had trouble getting past planning.

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie ...yes, coincidence. That's why they don't think being a criminal depends on the shape of your head any more

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo 7749 yesterday, 3403 so far today

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right, I'm finally going to record this fibonacci grids video. Just you see if I don't.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett ha! on a serious note: visitors from HN don't click around. Hits on launch day had a much bigger spread round the site

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett very, very few. Beware that the referrers breakdown doesn't accurately catch everybody

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett umm... don't know.

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch sterlingarcherdraperpryce.tumblr.com

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My second ever #ff is for @aperiodical, my new maths magazine/blog I started with a couple of friends. Please have a look!

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo they dropped off a couple of hours ago. Seems only the top 10 or so links on the front page get any attention

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the smallest measurable quantity of waste is the time between you placing your foot on the opposite pavement and the green man lighting up

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo not sure if I do. If you'd asked me before...

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo ah yes, I do! Will email when I get home

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan I used deck.js recently. Didn't have any trouble

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Dear Nature: would it kill you to run your old (1997!) articles through OCR? And cite survey data properly?

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In reply to @kenjilamb

@kenjilamb very interesting! I'll have to look into this later.

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twice today I've been thwarted by paywalls hiding academic research reported in the news, despite having access to my uni library!

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@Talithin way ahead of you dude: twitter.com/aperiodical/st… (but thanks!)

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trying to find a discount code for something. Google ad said 40% off, page said 30% off, code says 20% off. #deflationaryspiral

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just recorded the first Aperiodcast with @peterrowlett and @stecks. Out soon at the @aperiodical

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must stop accidentally following back people from this account instead of my various others

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hwo did I have D.A.N.C.E. in my head before turning on Radio Nova? Am I receiving it through my fillings now?

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In reply to @Tony_Mann

@Tony_Mann @jamesgrime contrapositive is "if this isn't a new, detailed talk, then you haven't seen me talk before"

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In reply to @Tony_Mann

@Tony_Mann @jamesgrime my gut says no. I was hoping the contrapositive would say something funny, but it didn't

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I'm all for challenging stereotypes but I don't think this ad has been placed particularly well.

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although, I suppose they might be going for the up-all-night-trying-to-do-a-calculation-on-wolfram-alpha demographic

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full disclosure: I have no idea what that product is meant to do

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths would you like to promote those with a post on @aperiodical?

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I could've saved myself half an hour if I'd written the tests for the sin function before the ones for the gamma function.

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In reply to @Tony_Mann

@Tony_Mann an amount on a different order of magnitude

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In reply to @Tony_Mann

@Tony_Mann I see your pedantry and raise you: looks like five things to me

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In reply to @mike_geogebra

@mike_geogebra excellent! I was just trying to show someone the web version a few weeks ago and couldn't find the page

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In reply to @mike_geogebra

@mike_geogebra do you want a post on the @aperiodical about this, or is it too early?

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In reply to @mike_geogebra

@mike_geogebra let's wait until June, then

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths now you've only got another ~200 Reuleaux mechanisms to reproduce: library24.library.cornell.edu:8280/luna/servlet/v…

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 ... no?

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 @standupmaths arg, stupid cookies! Terrible URL scheme. Try this: library24.library.cornell.edu:8280/luna/servlet/s…

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In reply to @walkingrandomly

@walkingrandomly I bet if you posted that as a comment on aperiodical.com/2012/04/whats-… good things would happen

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"Amending to your basket". I hate you, whoever you are.

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JanvierUK nope!

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May

aargrgagrg what is the point in only releasing your EP on iTunes?

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In reply to @MarcusduSautoy

@MarcusduSautoy @Kit_Yates_Maths wasn't that famously used by a famous mathematician?

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this month's emusicsmas has been so barren I'm going to download the new Sebastien Tellier without even listening to it

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This girl's makeup has made her just staggeringly ugly, like a Hogarth caricature or a grown-up from an edgy mid-evening Nicktoon.

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Yes yes the male gaze etc etc, but I can't fathom what look she's going for. "Groucho Marx crossed with the Infanta of Castile"?

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Was given a free travel mug at Olive and Bean. Much like cash ISAs, this is free stuff just for being middle class and I now feel guilty

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean wow indeed! This is the first google result for "Lord Ashtar": newciv.org/nl/newslog.php…

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Both I and the tramp who smells of wee think this woman flirting very loudly on the phone is the most annoying thing on the train

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In reply to @kenfodder

@kenfodder what happens if you bing ping.com?

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In reply to @kenfodder

@kenfodder ah no, I cleverly reversed the letters

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In reply to @Kit_Yates_Maths

@Kit_Yates_Maths @MarcusduSautoy maybe I'm thinking of Smullyan: everything2.com/title/Logical+… (can't believe I just googled "smullyan pickup lines")

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In reply to @mathpunk

@mathpunk that's the kind of logic that leads to things like people.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/zagier/files/e…

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Those who liked the prime factorisation jumper (aperiodical.com/2012/04/knit-y…) can now buy their own - blog.jgc.org/2012/04/make-y… (via @ColinTheMathmo)

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz I do not! I've always been trying to prod my boss to look at European collaboration.

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In reply to @HoeJodgkiss

@HoeJodgkiss where's that from?

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I think every mathematician aspires to leave a grave as excellent as Boltzmann's: beautifulcentury.tumblr.com/post/211790069…

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In reply to @matheknitician

@matheknitician just spotted your Aperiodical thread on ravelry. Thanks!

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Instead of starting words with tw- because you're on twitter, change words normally starting with tw- to something else in normal speech

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if I can just get pelve people to join my campaign it'll be worth it. Until then, I'll be piddling my thumbs and peaking my panger

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there are enough Paris streets named after mathematicians to fill a Monopoly board. Let's do this. www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Socie…

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean they won't stop finding new ways to assault our senses until teenagers can text Lynx at each other on the train.

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this is why chemists should be discouraged youtube.com/watch?v=g8gJOC…

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A probability distribution in the flesh! Like a naturally-occurring Galton board

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oh my god, that guy who was in Doctors five years ago is still in Doctors! Is that long enough for a missing persons report?

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I finally have some time to catch up on a few weeks' worth of @trackinthebox. This week's picks look good.

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean can you remember when everyone set up their own front for microsoft's catalogue? It was ridiculous.

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having an emotional moment about how useful sagenb.org is.

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In reply to @haggismaths

@haggismaths snarks could be the solutions to a 4-player edge-colouring game?

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JanvierUK yes, just imagine if he'd had an awkwardly long name like Kenneth

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why does ctrl-0 set the zoom to 125% in IE? Just... why?

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I had a dream last night that I received an awkward amount of change after paying for something with a note. What could it possibly mean?

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths recommendations for mathsy toys for a toddler? You bought some for your nephew, didn't you?

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Boo! RT @NTCouncilTeam: Conservatives hold Cullercoats, St Mary's, Tynemouth & Monkseaton North

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this means the tedious parking permit campaign will continue. Get over it, selfish tories!

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It's 2012. Why is copying text out of a PDF still so hard? Surely someone's written a PhD on inferring capitalisation, at least?

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In reply to @danaernst

@danaernst is oz.plymouth.edu/~dcernst/Talks… the canonical version of your futurama talk?

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In reply to @danaernst

@danaernst ta!

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In reply to @danaernst

@danaernst what happened to the Sage Notebook bit, for trying out permutations?

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In reply to @danaernst

@danaernst well, sagenb is being very slow for me on something else at the moment, so I'd guess not

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo "why are there infinitely many infinities, and why are N and R not the same one?"

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emusic only has jazz these days, so my library fills with jazz, so last.fm recommends more jazz. Help I'm stuck in a loop with a smooth beat

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm @ColinTheMathmo video or it isn't true!

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In reply to @Gelada

@Gelada @ColinTheMathmo what mathematician doesn't know about groups? Applied? It was in year 2 of my bachelor's.

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In reply to @Gelada

@Gelada @ColinTheMathmo well, they're on the IGCSE and being talked about for GCSE, so hopefully that won't last much longer

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In reply to @zetta3pt14face

@zetta3pt14face @Kit_Yates_Maths @MarcusduSautoy so I suppose on Absolute Radio pop is bigger?

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why do the previews on emusic take 10 seconds to fade up to full volume? They're only 30 seconds long!

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In reply to @Gelada

@Gelada I think if GCSE maths got split into "functional" and "pure" bits, someone wanted (permutation) group theory in the pure bit.

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is this the one yahoo! answers page that excuses the rest? answers.yahoo.com/question/index…

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I love an opportunity to visit Ian's Shoelace Site fieggen.com/shoelace/

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twitvid.com/NIHCQ - #valueadded @FakeElsevier

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @MouldS it does say 1.2g of salt per portion in very small text just above...

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett ah! Now I have parsed your sentence differently and see you knew that

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Start then learning young. Might have been outmathsed at this birthday party :(

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Nerd cred restored: out of all the mathematicians at the party, one kid said I looked the geekiest.

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just drew a perfect 400x400px box freehand. #touchme

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 another nice example is that the continued fraction (2,3,5,7,11,13,...) *almost* agrees with one of Renyi's parking constants

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks I have coloured in my Word Split. What am I looking at?

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compound noun required: the moment when you finally pick up a screwdriver to fix that thing that's been annoying you for months

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Schraubendreherholenmoment?

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The Atlantic on Blow - the missing copy opinex.tumblr.com/post/210396273…

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths people like you are the reason so few trains these days have a dedicated record store carriage. Buy local!

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Google Reader 0. Forget all you inbox zero types, this is a way bigger achievement.

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out now in the BBC Shop: the Today programme baiting people to shout at each other about nonsense topics at 8:58am - the complete collection

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In reply to @MarcusduSautoy

@MarcusduSautoy no MC Escher pose? Surely they'll let you pick it up if it's for art.

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Microsoft's advice on writing fast javascript or, in other words, "we're not as clever as the v8 people. You fix it." - msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/…

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brb, flagellating myself in penance for that design decision causing 1000x slowdown. Stand by my comments about IE's javascript though.

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help, I'm watching Austrian folk music videos on youtube and I can't stop. Every video is worse than the last!

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@RANIELDANSON can't work out if that's brilliant or stupid

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the contagion is spreading! youtube.com/watch?v=hWxnGE… How are there so many Dutch songs about skiing?

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I take it all back! When I have offspring, I will enforce singing of this on all car trips: youtube.com/watch?v=SvP-Je… EVEN THE SCHOOL RUN

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@RANIELDANSON never before has a tweet led to so much happiness

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JanvierUK learnt : learned :: meant : meaned. America : wrong :: UK : right.

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In reply to @MathWhizz

@MathWhizz @aperiodical @lostinrecursion oh, thanks! I'm pretty pleased with it myself.

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JanvierUK the argument could be made that they went months without *a* government but they had plenty of others to keep things ticking over

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity The Field Guide to Math on the National Mall - maa.org/pubs/fieldguid… - from @maanow

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I've added a cuboctahedron made of curler units (ceciliacotton.ca/2006/03/a-seri…) to the touchy-feely zone

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I'm open to claims that it isn't a cuboctahedron, by the way. Not sure the symmetries are right.

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz what's prompted this?

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect GCSE maths fail: equal area on the graph should represent equal measure. 1 year for new team looks bigger than for an older one.

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In reply to @mathpunk

@mathpunk sum(i=1 to 2000, log i). Approximate with an integral if you wish.

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In reply to @mathpunk

@mathpunk so precise answer from Python is 13,206.5. Integral approximation on paper gave 13,202.8.

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In reply to @mathpunk

@mathpunk sorry!! that was base e. Precise: 5735.5; approx: 5733.9

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm I tried that a while ago with our resident card trick fanatic (and a big fan of yours!) We got the angles hilariously wrong.

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@RANIELDANSON I always make a point of sitting next to him if I can. Everyone else steers clear, so I get plenty of space.

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@RANIELDANSON I am... acquainted... with the smell of old urine, yes.

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when I grow up I want to be one of these skeletons youtube.com/watch?v=UFRA9E…

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What's the equivalent of "snail mail" for printed literature like books? I can't think of anything equally cheesy and rhyming.

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen fortunately, there seems to be one, and you're part of it.

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz oh, I suppose there's that. I sort of hate it, though. The beautiful thing about "snail mail" is the mollusk non-sequitur.

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz @Samuel_Hansen I dunno, we've done pretty well for the last ~3000 years, despite various systems of patronage coming and going

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an hour ago, I decided to get up to turn the heating on. Still hasn't happened. Can I actually stand the cold, or might my legs fall off?

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz yeah, but the uncommunicative mathematician isn't a recent invention.

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this might just be it - RT @rmehigan: @christianp e-mail vs snail-mail, e-books vs .....tree-books ?

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz I think this has boiled down to a question that requires a few years' scholarship and library-usage to answer. So not for twitter.

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm @alexbellos shameless!

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In reply to @IanMulvany

@IanMulvany the interface is so bad I'm now using tweetdeck. So, very bad.

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen @pkrautz oh absolutely. I'm just not worried about pure maths disappearing due to lack of communication.

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Shelf discipline has completely collapsed in this cupboard. No idea where anything is any more. Considering joining the Foreign Legion.

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In reply to @Pat_Hogun

@GPRPichot @pkrautz @Samuel_Hansen Cedric Villani is excellent!

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen @pkrautz and I'm not worried that that won't happen. Man, I'm bad at articulating opinions.

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen @pkrautz so what I mean is: pure mathmos on the whole are uncommunicative, but there are enough evangelisers to balance out

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My prime factorisation t-shirt by @jgrahamc has arrived! blog.jgc.org/2012/04/make-y…

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In reply to @aperiodical

@aperiodical @Gelada @pkrautz @Samuel_Hansen a point-counterpoint might be fun. Can I find a serious mathematician to back my side, though?

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen well, I'm still just a postgrad and my PhD has sort of stalled, so my opinions don't really have the weight of experience

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett nooooo! I still have things to do tonight!

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why does it take five seconds to paste plain text into windows live mail? Why is there no better free mail client for windows? AGRSGSGFDSAF

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In reply to @HoeJodgkiss

@HoeJodgkiss very nice!

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In reply to @DanielColquitt

@DanielColquitt I really disagree. I've never liked thunderbird.

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making myself stay up so there'll be a good program on the radio to fall asleep to later. Feels like bad logic.

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The seagulls are either very upset or very excited about this chap fixing the roof they normally sit on

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In reply to @HoeJodgkiss

@HoeJodgkiss this might be good reference material for you if you're still mathsing: pinterest.com/olololol/

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @pkrautz double retweet! Proudest man in Britain?

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why would the PDF version of an article cost money while the HTML version is free? HTML is more convenient.

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In reply to @komiga

@komiga no, not complaining. Just confused. Maybe I'm missing something.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett it gives you the citation with page numbers in the HTML.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett although, as the HTML is freely-available, I'd cite it with a DOI

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett they've put markers for the page numbers on the side of the HTML

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oh! Might have solved it! It's possible I loaded the HTML version of the article while at uni, but now I'm back at home. Doiii

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I've recorded a pretty OK 10 minutes of maths exposition but video editing on windows is either expensive or doesn't work. Suggestions?

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In reply to @IanMulvany

@IanMulvany That looks dire! Are those breadcrumbs?

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect thank god Jayce is at the end of that cavalcade of humdrum. But no Ulysses?!

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Made with one cut! (and a lot of folds)

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In reply to @JurieHorneman

@jurieongames @danielpunkass well, now I know what our US version is going to be called

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen less tweeting! more editing! Hyaaa!

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen want to know what I did today? 5 games of Company of Heroes and a kirigami butterfly.

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen oh, I forgot the enchiladas. I made some OK enchiladas.

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen then I must admit defeat.

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In reply to @haggismaths

@haggismaths that would make a good Snapshot on @mathsinthecity

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@RANIELDANSON we should envy these people for their ability to enjoy such tedious lives

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the documentation for Asymptote is so poor! raaaaaaage!!!

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THIS TOOK FAR TOO LONG TO MAKE somethingorotherwhatever.com/3dpeg.gif

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.@CardColm is cooking up something really nice for the @aperiodical. Should be out on Monday. Be there or be square! (or is that circle?)

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan yes! This is what puts me off using Ruby! You have put it into words which I agree with!

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 great post! Like appearances of Elvis, appearances of the Fibonacci sequence are massively more satisfying when based in fact

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Hamilton is an anagram of "math lion". Didn't help him calculated his fuel yesterday though!

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mysteriously, several days later, Windows Movie Maker is now able to open this file. Really need to buy a better program.

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You're through to the reality helpdesk. An operator will assist you with your paradox shortly. Please hold. youtube.com/watch?v=boJD_g…

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz umm, apropos what? Getting npm on windows is hard (or was, haven't looked recently) so I haven't done much with node.

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz thought so. Is this to do with the people who want pre-rendered SVG?

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in just before the bell: today is May's first unambiguous date! Join hands with me, America! We can understand each other for 18 more days!

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In reply to @HoeJodgkiss

@HoeJodgkiss get it as a tattoo. Can't rely on the t-shirt still being there when it's relevant.

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Another Aperiodcast, covering the last almost-fortnight on the @aperiodical, with @stecks and @peterrowlett: aperiodical.com/2012/05/aperio…

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor your non-transitive dice article has been picked up by Information Week: informationweek.com/aroundtheweb/g…

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hah! That article available selectively in HTML (tweets passim) is now PDF only. What am I doing wrong, PNAS?

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Domino's, Imma let you finish, but Piccante make the best damn takeaway pizza on Tyneside!

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I recorded a video about the recent flat torus embedding. It features tori of both the Slinky and plasticine varieties: aperiodical.com/2012/05/torus/

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In reply to @pelagikat

@hornmaths at a guess: first one plot y^2 against x, and second one plot 1/y against x

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In reply to @walkingrandomly

@walkingrandomly @aperiodical we have, and I thought it was in the news queue, but apparently not. I'm no CAS person: why Octave over Sage?

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In reply to @walkingrandomly

@walkingrandomly as I don't know enough to make an informed decision, would you like your post reposted verbatim on the aperiodical?

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan *certain* Android browsers don't support it. My Transformer does, but my Desire HD doesn't.

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Newcastle @MathsJam is next Tuesday, the 22nd! Charles Grey pub, 7pm. Yaaaaaaay! mlkshk.com/p/FH9J

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.@aperiodical yo dawg I heard I like adding, so I added adding to my adding so I can add while I add... #sorry

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In reply to @walkingrandomly

@walkingrandomly email root@aperiodical.com

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this is the best defence of Nikola Tesla I've ever seen: theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

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discrete and discreet - any more #anagrhomophones?

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Yahoo! Answers, you have redeemed yourself: answers.yahoo.com/question/index… @MathsJam

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I nominate you, woman on the opposite platform, for Best Dressed Person Today. Sartorial excellence deserves to be recognised!

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Dude is sitting in his car. Listening to panpipe music. Waiting for his wife to come out of Boots. Silently hating everything.

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In reply to @walkingrandomly

@walkingrandomly I'm expecting an email from you so I can set you up as a post author on the site

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In reply to @NoelAnn

@NoelAnn @IMAmaths it can't, really. There is a project called JSXGraph which does (and uses MathJax for notation): jsxgraph.uni-bayreuth.de/wp/

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In reply to @NoelAnn

@NoelAnn @IMAmaths but broadly speaking there isn't a perfect solution for drawing graphs like there is for displaying mathematical notation

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dear IE's developer tools: who does '{...}' help? I know it's an object! Literally everything in javascript is!

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall hey, those Pennines aren't going to cross themselves

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts I had the same thought in pretty much the same place this afternoon

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Thinking "hey, I should shazam this song so I can download it". Realising that I'm listening to my own music. #excellenttaste

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall nice pictures! Were they made in Mathematica?

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall I don't have Mathematica. Coming to realise with my recent blogging efforts that I should pick a CAS to learn.

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm very clever!

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall Look North makes Look North look like a joke

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hahaha! edskes.net/ie/ie8overflow…

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett yes, mission complete. All in favour of closing the site?

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@CuriousatLife there's a typo in your bio: "exercice"

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I was not sensible with chillies tonight. It's not that they're too hot, it's that I seem to have got them all over my face. #painmoustache

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In reply to @Plattsc

@Plattsc I know! I'm really desperate though!

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very nice fact about fibonacci numbers! mathlesstraveled.com/2012/05/15/fib…

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I know the NYT is pretty fruity about house style, but "1 in 3 Americans _are_ obese"?

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Amount I am unhappy about the new version of pagelines losing all my widgets: 15 kilofuries.

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The fury is defined as the amount of anger required to boil 1g of water just by glaring at it.

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall fury does not diminish with distance, as evidenced by Nikita Khrushchev's volcanic wobbly thrown during the Cuban missile crisis.

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity larger subway networks tend to a common topology: science.slashdot.org/story/12/05/17…

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In reply to @alexbellos

@alexbellos so if P=NP, does that mean we're all diminutive Belgian detectives?

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I apparently dropped my payslip on the metro latest week. The driver has posted it back to me! @My_Metro, give J Leigh a pay rise!

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In reply to @My_Metro

@My_Metro or, congratulate yourselves for running such good customer service.

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Cushing's evil doppelganger is stalking the halls

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In reply to @gingerbeardman

@gingerbeardman who are the users? We've just given up on textile because it wasn't worthwhile for the hassle it causes with whitespace

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In reply to @jamesgrime

@jamesgrime aww, I printed it out but my non-Pringles tube is *just* too big

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett oh, she changed her name! Thanks for pointing that out

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths yet again, the North East eschews nerdy comedy. We've got a ruddy Science City!

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In reply to @franklinheath

@franklinheath @jamesgrime mine was as big as it could be. I just had a very wide tube. Going to try with avreal pringles tube today

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eesh, pagelines needs upgrading AGAIN. Blame me if the @aperiodical disappears for a bit.

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wow, it worked! Now watch as I blitz the news queue. Steady yourselves, this might be more maths news than you can comfortably handle.

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man, if I had a pound for every time someone has asked me this: books.scientificamerican.com/books/why-is-t…

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do you ever get confused about which way an email is going and write your own name in the To: box?

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Man, I wish I had the kind of autism that leaves you with the mental ability of a child. This dude is ENJOYING the stairs.

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen just remembered I need to arrange those maths communication questions! They're back on the imaginary to-do list.

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In reply to @alexbellos

@alexbellos do you know Philipp Legner? The site does look great but very ambitious for one person!

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Dust omelette! It just occurred to me that I've never cleaned my tumble dryer's filter

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JanvierUK because that is what you perceive it to be.

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SPACE CORTÉS: a game where the aliens are well-organised and technologically superior, but massively outnumbered by you, the puny humans.

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In reply to @jamesgrime

@jamesgrime @franklinheath I'm on attempt no. 3. Turns out my printer needs "borderless printing", not just "normal-size printing", I think.

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch I've just noticed the sound on this maths-aid video is completely out of sync vimeo.com/32856552

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In reply to @GhostMutt

@GhostMutt excellent quests!

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts I have a planetarium question! A colleague was asked to provide JPEGs for a show, not something lossless. Is that normal?

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this is how you sell paintbrushes! facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…

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These buffalo burgers smell like cleaning product. I'm very confused.

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths take lots of pictures for @mathsinthecity!

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I earned my PhD in discredited theories at the University of Derby Discarded Learning Centre

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Group theory is *not* abstract nonsense, so stop saying it is.

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have decided to be the change I want to see in the world and draw some maths to go on the walls of the department. Ideas?

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz is the new @MathJax https CDN address official yet? It still says cloudfront in the docs mathjax.org/docs/2.0/start…

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Tomorrow at Newcastle @MathsJam I will be making some maths propaganda posters to decorate my department's uninspiring walls.

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@nulibsage when? Where? I might be able to not miss it this time

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@nulibsage well then! Perhaps you can work in a plug for tonight's @MathsJam as a social media science thing

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Reminder: Newcastle @MathsJam is tonight, 7pm, at the Charles Grey. I have a paper enigma machine, some fibonacci facts and a lot of puzzles

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Danger: mathematicians at work

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@nulibsage it has now: twitter.com/#!/christianp/…

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In reply to @pelagikat

@hornmaths you might also like to try curler units: britishorigami.info/academic/curle…

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In reply to @MathsJam

@MathsJam to CAM: but the deck is still shuffled, right?

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 see britishorigami.info/academic/curle…. Should end up looking like ceciliacotton.ca/2006/03/a-seri…

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This is pretty excellent youtube.com/watch?v=uI5FyU…

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The uni has put a table tennis table outside my building. I don't think I'm ever going to do any work again.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I can only think that's the case. Don't mind though.

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Tynemouth Knobbly Knee Brigade out on manoeuvres. Visitors are warned that socks may be worn with sandals without warning.

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In reply to @gingerbeardman

@gingerbeardman yep. The net makes a satisfying CLANG when you hit it

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I love the summer so much! youtube.com/watch?v=CKHTlt…

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defenestrating furniture until PHP gets its act together

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PHP hate: staring at innocuous-looking lines of code to see if they have any side effects, or if they're exactly as stupid as they appear

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In reply to @Htbaa

@Htbaa the what what now? There's only one way to order parameters, isn't there?

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...and now I've found an eval statement in this module's javascript. That's it. Prepare the napalm: this code is going to burn.

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks I am with a founder of the Melbourne puzzle hunt!

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In reply to @HoeJodgkiss

@HoeJodgkiss that exists? How do I watch it?

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going to go down to the beach tomorrow and write the next @aperiodical round up. It's going to be good.

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In reply to @jamesgrime

@jamesgrime @numberphile oh no, either you've scooped us or inadvertent synergies are happening. @aperiodical has a similar post brewing.

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In reply to @jamesgrime

@jamesgrime @numberphile @aperiodical and we were all scooped by Conway and Guy 14 years ago.

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks it was Maurice Chiodo. He's a group theorist now.

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In reply to @jamesgrime

@jamesgrime @numberphile & I'm a tiny bit disappointed you didn't fit in a "crore, what a palaver!" joke. Maybe that can be my contribution

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New businesses: "It's Rude To Stair" (elevators); "Ply Captain and the World of Tomorrow" (origami)

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In reply to @MathsJam

@MathsJam who presented the folded-paper heart in a single cut at last year's big MathsJam? I'm having a total brain-blank

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks thanks!

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pretty annoyed that I seem to have lost an entire post's worth of research, on a really interesting subject.

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In reply to @NTWH

@NTWH @NorthEastNT "deadheading, edging and weeding" sound like the latest ways of wasting youth. eg "I lost my junkie son to deadheading".

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and for my next trick, the news queue!

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It's the last square day of the year. Previous square days: 16/4, 9/3, 4/2, 1/1.

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In reply to @sjccmaths

@sjccmaths 3rd of September? That's the first day of school usually, isn't it?

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rainbow origami street art thisiscolossal.com/2012/05/origam…

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In reply to @pelagikat

@hornmaths it's well worth doing if you're physicsy, anyway.

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Tynemouth is eerily empty.

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths I'm going to the Henry Moore thing at the science museum tomorrow. Are you by any chance around?

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Weeping a little tear for unloved maths: the guides at the science museum had never heard of the Henry Moore exhibition in the maths hall

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Oh. Maybe this is why: this is the whole exhibit

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How recent? #disappointment

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett still not clear enough. I reckon "@aperiodical triumvirand" would be better. #lahahahatin

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett ...but wikipedia tells me it's just "triumvir". Well, I know what my bio will say, never mind yours.

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For the first time in just over five years, my twitter bio has changed.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @rmathematicus @Talithin I've spent half an hour looking for any information on what he did, and it seems none is available

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I like the "decoding tabloid news" tag

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths Unhelpful headline territory, right?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett should I comment on that?

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mathematicians: how do you add a prime in LaTeX to denote, for example, function derivatives? plus.google.com/11130061692066…

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@Nathan1123 it can, but is that an equilibrium solution?

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In reply to @gingerbeardman

@gingerbeardman I bet there's a sad story behind that lot all being in the charity shop at the same time

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths I look forward to the Betamax of your contemporary dance interpretation

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths wouldn't that be a cone?

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Had a nice day at Kingston university giving a workshop on @NclNumbas. Now walking along the Thames back to the station.

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks that reminds me that I must get round to making a rhythmomachy board

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In reply to @stevieb

@stevieb don't think so. Bill is probably going, though.

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Finally listening to this week's #mathmaths. I hope Sam didn't say anything bad about me.

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 it's in French! That's your problem.

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks that's the title of our post on the anti-Turingpalooza backlash.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett thanks for plugging the call for the interesting research. Nathan says still no submissions though :(

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Bouncy little foals / running round telegraph poles / in a field near Stow-on-the-Wold.

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Oh my god, Diana is on the front page of the Express. WHO IS STILL BUYING IT FOR THAT?

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WANTED: reordering of the alphabet with the most contiguous words in it

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In reply to @alexbellos

@alexbellos would you like a new random number, or the same one? Because the one I put in before was, I believe, the most random.

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Wolf moon sweater: check. Bag with 80s song lyrics scrawled on: check. Face full of contempt for life's bounty: yep. Sort of hate this guy!

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A variety of geometric shapes each made with just one HTML element and a lot of CSS: css-tricks.com/examples/Shape…

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In reply to @alexbellos

@alexbellos whoops, that came from the wrong account! It was me! I've submitted another random number, anyway.

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In reply to @rob_botch

@rob_botch strictly contiguous. So SCAT has SCAT & CAT, but CART doesn't get CAT

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I just don't have it in me to write a limerick. I just can't get the rhythm right in my head

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In reply to @rob_botch

@rob_botch not necessarily.

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the link between a journal's impact factor and no. of citations of its papers is decreasing: arxiv.org/abs/1205.4328 (via Timothy Gowers on g+)

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the word in the English language containing the most smaller words has 13 letters and 16 subwords, but is too rude for twitter!

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sorry, that's the word with no repeated letters, containing the most contiguous subwords

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm of words which use letters at most once, I have found the one which contains the most contiguous subwords, but it's very rudge

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm I mean rude

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Problems with the Mathematical Gazette: costs £99 a year; articles available online only as low-res scanned-in Word documents

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Problems cont.: submissions by post only: two typed copies or floppy disk (surely not any more!); no online index of articles past 2008.

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks robot makes screen wall, sings happy song while doing so: vimeo.com/39373093

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Estimated readership of the Mathematical Gazette: 7,000. Unique readers of the @aperiodical this month: >25,000. Apples and oranges, but...

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In reply to @matheknitician

@matheknitician @haggismaths ooh! A knitted version of this interpretation of the hilbert curve would look good: corte.si/posts/code/hil…

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In reply to @MarcusduSautoy

@MarcusduSautoy have you got links for the other two? I'll write a post on the @aperiodical about them

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm not sure what you're talking about

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm ah, I wasn't sure what to make of that, because it looked like you were still editing it

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If this woman stopped gurning, maybe her train would arrive. #worthatry

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @stecks 1.2million HTTP requests on the aperiodical this month. My analysis tool needs beefing up...

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@jfgregg I can assure you that isn't the policy. We've turned down a few things.

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June

starting BlitzMax for the first time in forever. The impulse to create games has reappeared

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it is now my life's goal to devalue the US dollar until I can afford one of these thecitygirlfarm.com/collections/ch…

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sumatrapdf opens postscript files on windows! Goodbye, rubbish GhostView! I hope to never see you again!

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In reply to @Tony_Mann

@Tony_Mann you're going! Excellent! Please write something about it afterwards, I'm so annoyed I can't go.

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fimdalinha.com/whistling/

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 not for the purposes of my post about Hay Festival, but if you'd like to say more about what you do, we have a forum for you.

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 would you like to write a longer post for the aperiodical about it? And did anything ever come of your Aus maths site idea?

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In reply to @mickybullock

@mickybullock @SparksMaths keep an eye on aperiodical.com/category/main/…

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks my brother has some goslings too! We paid them a visit last weekend flickr.com/photos/aperfec… (he also has a silly-expensive camera)

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In reply to @OddballDave

@OddballDave I didn't make much progress. I've put it online at somethingorotherwhatever.com/posty.zip if you want to have a look.

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JanvierUK never cancel a barbecue. That's how the weather wins.

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Kimya Dawson on a furniture advert. Wasn't expecting that ever.

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My greatest challenge as a mathematician is explaining the UK's car licence numbering scheme to my mum. 09,59,10,60,11,... WHAT IS SO HARD

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We had to break out diagrams, but she claims to have got it now. #codingtheoryformothers

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge I just go with "add 50 for the second half of the year"

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In reply to @haggismaths

@haggismaths remind me to send in a photo of princesses being captured by finite state automota living on graphs when it's a work day again

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now taking orders for my new range of Provencal crockery, S'il te Plate.

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Trying to explain to the dog that he is too old and stupid to be in charge of when he goes out for a poo.

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Wow, the @aperiodical blasted past its 300th published post last week. Thanks for reading!

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Newcastle Review of the London Review of Books: very good, but sometimes the reviewers don't bother to review the books they're reviewing

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now measuring the passage of time in Watts-yawns: the 30-60 seconds at the start of a Reggie Watts track when he sets up his loops

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In reply to @qikipedia

@qikipedia Yo dawg... flickr.com/photos/9291574…

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @MoMath1 now we need to find a wealthy benefactor who will send one of us (me) to New York for opening day.

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In reply to @acmescience

@acmescience excuse me where is your @aperiodical employee smart card? No, I think the only solution is to send me, expenses paid.

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In reply to @acmescience

@acmescience I believe that trips to New York, and its associated eateries and museums of math, require the steady hand of an Editor.

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In reply to @acmescience

@acmescience ...steady hand and healthy appetite of an Editor. Oh well, twitter's enforced brevity enforced the delivery of half a quip!

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In reply to @SecondRateMinds

@SecondRateMinds @Samuel_Hansen best post yet on that blog.

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Information Age: searching a PDF of a long article for a keyword. Idiot Age: your keyword contains a digraph for which TeX uses a ligature

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths I'm finding the progress of your beard much more interesting. Is it chilly up there?

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In reply to @GeorgeBray

@GeorgeBray @gingerbeardman "In contrast, in Britain many children get to know authority through their social workers." - teLOLograph

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths for pre-emptively answering that question with a question-begging question, do I get some Nordic tat?

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In reply to @GeorgeBray

@GeorgeBray @gingerbeardman for a much better essay about Japanese "shame" culture: cabinetmagazine.org/issues/31/ivy.…

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett let's give that a little prod...

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo @standupmaths so glad this turned out OK. I was worried Colin was getting prize-crazy.

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths is #whereML sustainable? You're like parents looking for souvenirs for your kids, but your kids are everyone on the internet

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Jessie Ware's songs are nice to listen to, but only when not accompanied by video. Is it her face? That is not a nice thought.

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I think I want figure 20(a) of this paper on a t-shirt carma.newcastle.edu.au/jon/numtools.p…

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In reply to @mike_geogebra

@mike_geogebra wow, what a lot of progress! It seems loads faster - how did that happen?

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emailed a mathematician to ask for permission to use one of their figures in a blog post. Got some fantastic 5000x5000px images back. Happy!

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan but as it's deterministic, storing the program is functionally similar to storing encrypted passwords

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In reply to @Gelada

@Gelada sort of, but sagenb.org is also keeping up with technology and has all of Sage behind it.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan aha! Good point.

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The barber's on Eldon Square has closed! But I am like a shaggy ram left out on a hilltop too long! O woe!

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I love reading @nulibsage's RSS feed of newly acquired maths books. Lots of interesting ones today: ncl.ac.uk/library/resour…

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just looked down at the prime factorisation t-shirt I'm wearing and decoded a number. It works! (blog.jgc.org/2012/04/make-y…)

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Sat outside Spy wearing a maths t-shirt. Never felt so uncool.

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it seems that in wordpress's image insertion interface, the thumbnails are just the original images resized. This is bad when they are 5Kx5K

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In final training for the Beard Growing event at the Olympics. Almost there, but my dismount still needs a little work.

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In reply to @kenfodder

@kenfodder particularly markdown parsers

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@HELIUM_HEED is this one of those trick statements where it's that you're having an out of body experience?

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secure: logging into your terminal with an SSH key. insecure: forgetting that happens, and typing your password into the shell.

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does anyone still play Red Dead Redemption on the xbox? Do any of those people fancy a quick round of shooties?

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In reply to @qikipedia

@qikipedia that's assuming that all vampires successfully feed

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan I take it it's too much effort to write a regexp -> FSA algorithm, then take random walks on that?

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan something like this, slightly too long for a tweet: gist.github.com/2891557

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan probably not, since nobody says things like "at MOST n uppercase letters".

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan basically: I'm a mathematician, so I immediately looked for the strings Vault can't generate, never mind if they're not needed.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan with loads of zero-width lookahead. eg: zorched.net/2009/05/08/pas…. Better models of computation exist, but regexps are easy to write out

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.@FakeElsevier who let Xzibit pimp sciencedirect? What's the deal with the hydraulic header & footer when you scroll? #addedvalue?

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch @AdamJackzon yes! And I'm having the day off work today, so I'll definitely still have enough energy to play this evening

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had a little panic yesterday when I forgot what my favourite number was. It's 3435, because 3^3+4^4+3^3+5^5 = 3435.

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In reply to @JamesMoosh

@JamesMoosh exactly. 3435 is improbable.

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give me $\cos(\arcsin(\sqrt{-3}))$ good reasons why I shouldn't extend the domain of these functions to the complex plane

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"part time" and "no fixed hours" are a terrible combination of words in an employment contract.

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge that was exactly the joke

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge because cos(arcsin(sqrt(-3))) = 2.

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Classless dudes with more Paul Smith shirts than hairs on their heads impeding my progress down Front Street.

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JanvierUK I'll guess the former, since I have no idea what you're talking about

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eeee!!!! SO CUTE kuriositas.com/2012/06/amazin…

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RONALD FISHER, THE FAMOUS STATISTICIAN!!! youtube.com/watch?v=bVMVGH…

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facebook: how am I meant to click the "developers" link at the bottom of the page when infinite scroll keeps punting it downwards?

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I've just spent LITERALLY AN HOUR recording myself proving a pretty simple fact about fibonacci numbers. Online later, if youtube can cope.

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Seeking investors for my 18th century pleasure palace/hot chocolate bar, "Rococoa".

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Talking of which, the co-op's hot chocolate is pretty decent

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GRzczxagggg just ruined the grand prix by loading bbc news! Poo!

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just blogged some problems I've posed myself but haven't thought very much about. Any input appreciated: checkmyworking.com/2012/06/proble…

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths I bought a very nice winter coat for not very much money in the week that was hot. Inadvertent planning!

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wherein CP spends almost an entire hour proving a moderately interesting fact about fibonacci numbers: youtube.com/watch?v=MMttZb…

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@Nathan1123 does that mean you watched my video all the way through?!

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@Nathan1123 wow, jolly good! Another fun fib fact: Fn divides Fm iff n divides m

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Sandwich shop: I can have choritzo but they're out of djalapeenos. Crossiants still available. Glad they're better at cooking than spelling

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean that's either a low number of females for a conference or a very high number for a singles tennis match

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If it could stay exactly this temperature and humidity for a while that would be excellent.

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No, fewer signatures is more powerful! "@johnnysofhayle: fans of homeopathy - gvnt is trying to restrict it, so please sign this petition"

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan I can help with this, but on my phone at the moment. Email christianperfect@gmail.com if you want to work through it

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan idea which worked on the train does not work when in front of a blackboard. Might email later if I sort it out

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan ok, I have working python code! Going to write an explanation then send it to you

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In reply to @plusmathsorg

@plusmathsorg you're doing a frankly unreasonable number of great things. I can barely keep on top of the news queue at the aperiodical!

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan here you go: I wrote it up on my blog so everyone can benefit - checkmyworking.com/2012/06/conver…

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not sure what time Marshall's closes. Fear it may be in the past. #chishandfips

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In reply to @jgrahamc

@jgrahamc it's an exponential series, but growing more gently than powers of two. That might be why it looks good.

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have at you, @aperiodical news queue! en garde!

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there is an "Athena SWAN" award for promoting recruitment of women in higher ed. Would the male equivalent be "Rambo GORILLA"? #terriblename

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dear Manchester: fairly sure you weren't that far inland last time I looked. Please move back.

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I wish windows media player would just quit without me having to drive a stake through its wicked heart every single time.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan how were you generating characters before? Using Math.random() and rounding, or what?

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If this dude's name isn't Wilfred I will have to report back to my home planet that I have learned nothing of humanity's ways

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan can make one in 15 minutes when I get into work. A reference implementation in haskell would look great, actually

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan but really, statistics should verify your implementation, not comparison with my potentially-also-broken version

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan I've updated the gist with some sample output gist.github.com/2911970

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have just eaten a very nice spiced cumberland pork pie from the posh pork pie stall in the market at monument

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch not sure. I asked the lady what was in it and she just told me the price. Very confused.

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working through these testing reports is going to kill me

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In reply to @eAssess

@eAssess but that isn't really a blog, because that post doesn't have a unique link. Where will it go when the next article appears?

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In reply to @stevenstrogatz

@stevenstrogatz I wrote up your UK map redrawing paper for @aperiodical but couldn't find what "modularity" means. Is it somewhere in there?

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm yes I did! Thanks.

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Am appalled at how good our first year mathematicians' handwriting is. Though volunteers for a UX test might not be a representative sample

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect but then you've made two mistakes

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In reply to @stevenstrogatz

@stevenstrogatz thanks, but [16] refers to [15] and [15] is closed access. Can you give a handwavey description of what it measures?

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In reply to @stevenstrogatz

@stevenstrogatz never mind, got access through VPN to my uni. Would "it's a measure of how much better than random the division is" be fair?

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In reply to @stevenstrogatz

@stevenstrogatz ah, super! It didn't even occur to me to try wikipedia

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this album is completely superb: Floreat by Mara Carlyle emusic.com/listen/#/album…:

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looking for angel funding for my lactose-free milkshake bar, "Whey Out West"

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett at that point I would just forget the whole HT/MT/xT paradigm and have a "via <firstdude>, <seconddude>" at the end

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall 90s road trip! Hope you've got your three quarter-lengths on and a walkman in your pocket.

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm @peterrowlett I couldn't possibly say

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch ehhh, which one's that? Yes provisionally.

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch at 10! No way!

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Sprained my knee playing table tennis. I hope it doesn't swell up or do anything more painful than it currently is

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan four twitter accounts was my limit for finally switching to tweetdeck. I hate it, but it's the easiest option

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arg! The next @MathsJam is next week! Where did June go?

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wordpress 3.4 does twitter oEmbed, finally!

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hahahahahahhaha I've just seen the cover of Catwoman 0 hahahahahahahaaaaa

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In reply to @DrSaraSantos

@sotnasaras secondary challenge: do it in a foreign country. Tried it once on a girl in a Flunch in Brussels. She just handed my coins back.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan he's right though, using his name in phrases is fun: "Cameron Up The Khyber", "Cameron Obscura", etc. ad infinitum

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan I haven't yet! There's some interesting discussion of methods in the comments on my blog, if you want to pass some time.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan ok, I might have some time to look in a few hours

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan I've been meaning to say - did you just copy my code to compute stats? Because mine was very wrong.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan good! Because my original code calculated num. samples/num. characters. Was on the verge of handing my degree back when I noticed.

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity only one math? Is the supply running low?

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In reply to @plusmathsorg

@plusmathsorg I would DM you if you were following me

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In reply to @plusmathsorg

@plusmathsorg have you got the princess in a castle puzzle already? @standupmaths did a video after I told it to him: youtube.com/watch?v=nv0Onj…

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Day 2 of my knee's separation from its socket. Have brought in Archbishop Desmond Tutu for reconciliation talks.

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If that fails, I have a roll of tubigrip. It's a tense moment. (I WISH! do you see what I did there?!?!)

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan oh, I was exaggerating. It's not too bad, more of a sprain. It happens all the time because I have really weak ligaments.

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Eldon Square is a mixed bag: all neatly cut lawns and teenagers giving themselves cancer until their peers love them.

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In reply to @DrSaraSantos

@sotnasaras or International Wechsel. (does 'wechsel' rhyme with 'rescue'? Close enough)

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JanvierUK suppose I wish "cakes" to be a euphemism for something. Which account should I follow?

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wanted: indicator, chemical or mechanical or whatever, that I have forgotten to shake a bottle of orangina before taking a swig

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Targetted advertising in the Newcastle University student union: we don't have a physics department

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I'm sure I catch my site's hit counter on palindromes more often than chance would allow

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In reply to @mathpunk

@mathpunk no. Paste it into json.parser.online.fr or try JSON.parse(document.getElementsByTagName('pre')[0].innerText) in your browser

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In reply to @mathpunk

@mathpunk you need square brackets around the "keywords" array

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo wow, defined in terms of circumference not radius! Did that rule start as "must complete a full roll before being touched"?

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@nulibsage oh, it's you who's taking over our office! You'll be glad to hear it now gets wifi signal, which wasn't the case last month

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In reply to @mathpunk

@mathpunk but if you're doing this by hand, can I suggest YAML instead of JSON: yaml.org/start.html

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo "a full roll" is probably an easier rule to explain, though, don't you think?

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo how interesting!

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there is a a cure for ebola! Booking my tickets to the Congo straight away.

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aaag wordpress! Restored everything in an autosave except the changed permalink

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Bad idea: normal users can't submit bug reports to Blackboard. Only administrators can. Maybe that's why there are still so many!

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SANDWICHZEIT BEGINNT JETZT! BRING MIR BROT! BRING MIR FLEISCH! BRING MIR KAESE!

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch we've still got a box of your brother's first edition miniatures somewhere

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have found a mega-bizarre @MathJax bug: calling $('*').find('anything') knacks MathJax spacing. Trying to boil down simplest exemplar now.

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts I've had the heating on all week.

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Trying to convince myself that even though the top and bottom halves of my leg are splitting up, it doesn't mean they don't both love me

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R plots can't or don't use LaTeX for labels. Rubbish.

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oh my god it has its own nutjob syntax: stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/proje… Is R the PHP of maths languages?

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Blew my mind: NASA has a page with the latest data received from Voyager voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/weekly…

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Mum is preaching the gospel of this kipper she just ate at Irvine's on North Shields fish quay

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I think today is a day for Interesting Esoterica

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I basically can't stop playing this Mara Carlyle album

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she knows how to work a dental plosive to her advantage, is all I'm saying.

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man, you try and drop some phonetics and then you look on wikipedia and see you meant an alveolar plosive.

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I hereby resign my membership of the knows-good-words club

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cor, my aunty's photos of her resident giraffe falling in her swimming pool have got online and have 4 million views! imgur.com/a/T3YO1

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch well, it lives on her safari park. She showed us those photos last time she was over here.

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch yes, that's her, but she's in Tanzania now.

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to clarify: I'm not sure if my aunty took the photos, but they're from her safari park. She's also just a family friend, not a real aunty.

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In reply to @Rosalot

@Rosalot somewhere near Arusha in Tanzania. I've forgotten the name of the company she works for

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts can you do mine? I'm colourblind and only realised recently that you can buy socks with patterns on

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts one day, I'd like there to be a machine which will make up cotton socks with an arbitrary pattern on

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Dinner dilemma: fajitas (tastier) or caesar salad (less effort)?

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch oh, I'm sorry, is chicken and bacon, lathered in puréed anchovies, oil and parmesan not rich enough for you?

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch how about if I remove the lettuce?

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch pasta and cream is for girls and Italians

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch carbs are for people with insecurities. Lettuce is for men who just don't give a damn

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can't believe how many people are wrong about dinner choices.

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That is how you turn a game of Civilization around!

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The secret to my success: a firm policy of appeasing the Germans

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electrotelethermometer is the English word with the most Es in it (7)

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan because Steve Jobs never installed a program that wasn't made by Apple

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A huggermuggering nonannouncement of an overinvolved knickknack, or an alliterationist's dream: checkmyworking.com/2012/06/a-hugg…

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In reply to @lizmallard

@lizmallard indeed! By the way, you're on the Newcastle mathsjam list, aren't you? Are you going to come on Tuesday?

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In reply to @lizmallard

@lizmallard then there are multiple mathematically-minded Liz Hansons!

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In reply to @lizmallard

@lizmallard well, she's on the list but she's never come!

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A round of applause for @peterrowlett, who took on the @aperiodical news queue and won.

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch I refuse to watch that episode now, in case 1) it makes me cry, or worse, 2) I become desensitised to it

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I'm hosting the Carnival of Maths this month, so please send in any good maths blogging you've seen: docs.google.com/spreadsheet/vi…

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In reply to @jgrahamc

@jgrahamc are you aware of the book Making Mathematics with Needlework? I've got it, it's very good amazon.co.uk/Making-Mathema…

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why do so many journal/scholarly literature sites make it so hard to find the link to go from an abstract to the full paper?

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan well done keeping that hashtag alive

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A sequence with a simple elementary definition which only produces prime numbers oeis.org/A137613

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths replacing iphone screens is only to be attempted by teams of nanobots or infinitely patient monks. Not sure which Apple have.

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths and I think £60 probably won't buy you the bits for a new screen

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In reply to @haggismaths

@haggismaths ah, it might be too late! My princesses got hijacked by less serious mathematicians.

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In reply to @haggismaths

@haggismaths relatedly: are you aware of blackboardoftheday.com? Etienne Ghys told me about it when he visited last week

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In reply to @LeedsMathsJam

@LeedsMathsJam I'll have one at Newcastle, and I think @stecks will have one at Manchester. Prepare some secret messages!

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan echh, no. And got a very busy week.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan where was your data?

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall @tgandrews what is Haskell doing in there with PROLOG and FORTRAN? This is an outrage!

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In reply to @haggismaths

@haggismaths waiting until tomorrow, when the student in control of the blackboard next to the white one has his viva and passes it on to me

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basically every ingredient in this pizza went off at least a week ago. It's OK once it's cooked though, right?

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also: jalapenos have antiseptic properties, don't they? Because I've just checked and those are in date.

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there's a lot more sadness in my life since I started playing minecraft on hardcore. Sitting wondering what I could have done to survive

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There's a Mongolian throat-singing rap album called Back Tuva Future. You can go to sleep now, today is over. youtube.com/watch?v=2uf1lE…

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths @Dr_Lucie you've got the entire McBain movie to look forward to: ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81…

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Played the game and lost. It's tipping it down and I'm in just a t-shirt. Must check webcams before coming in to town from Tynemouth

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I have an HTML demo page for a project on Github Pages. What do I add to the YAML bit at the start to get syntax highlighting CSS?

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I've written a jQuery plugin that gives you an instant @MathJax preview of any LaTeX you write in input boxes: christianp.github.com/writemaths/

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In reply to @mathieuruellan

@mathieuruellan What do you mean?

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz I've just fixed a bug with IE. See if that was your problem too.

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just made a load of maths worked example videos with the legendary Prof Robin Johnson publicly available on vimeo vimeo.com/nclmaths/video…

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I'm going to be late for Newcastle @MathsJam due to a friend's overlong viva. At the very least, Sarah should be there from 7

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In reply to @mathieuruellan

@mathieuruellan but then you have to solve the reverse problem of turning screen coords into caret position.

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In reply to @jamesgrime

@jamesgrime @standupmaths @penguat @KSCMaths @MathsJam Grime Bice? That gives you a colour scheme, too.

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts @jjsanderson whatever you're doing: have you worked in a reference to the tidal effects on the LHC? That filled me with awe.

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I've made a wordpress plugin which applies my instant LaTeX preview thing to the comment box under posts. checkmyworking.com/2012/06/instan…

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I'm thinking of doing a piece for the @aperiodical on people's relationships with LaTeX. Do you have a horror story or moment of brilliance?

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I'm particularly interested in mathematicians who don't use LaTeX: what's your excuse, you heretics?

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In reply to @BoringVoid

@St_Sebas do you write maths often? If so, what do you use?

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm can you say a bit more about how it changed your life?

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz should do. Can you point me to a site with disqus comments?

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz no, just with disqus. Never mind, found one of mine!

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In reply to @danaernst

@danaernst @pkrautz @disqus should work straight away. Disqus just provides a textarea.

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In reply to @danaernst

@danaernst @pkrautz no, my plugin loads mathjax if it isn't already there. But you should be using Sam's plugin anyway.

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz @danaernst oh, disqus' textarea is inside an iframe, so I need to add a line to my plugin.

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch @Electrokittie @HeyCwiss is it any good?

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In reply to @danaernst

@danaernst @pkrautz github.com/christianp/wp-…. Wait a mo while I make it work with disqus though. (unexpectedly complicated!)

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In reply to @danaernst

@danaernst unzip in your wp-content/plugins directory. Activate in the admin plugins page.

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch @Electrokittie @HeyCwiss your excellent argument has convinced me. Yours at 7.30?

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In reply to @danaernst

@danaernst @pkrautz @disqus revising my earlier opinion: I can't do anything with disqus because of cross-site scripting restrictions

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sitting in a hot office waiting for windows to finish unzipping a 500kb file. Truly these are my salad days.

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"no, the other 90 degrees!" isn't quite as bad as "no, the other left!", but it's close.

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch Britain's most successful hoover comedian

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch by which I mean two things: 1) Henry is a brand of vacuum cleaner. 2) Lenny Henry sucks.

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall thanks!

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In reply to @alnelson_writes

@MuseGarden @Nathan1123 pronounced "secky"?

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Another LaTeX question: is there a package that you use but nobody else does? What does it do?

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Thanks to @plusmathsorg for these rather fetching mathematical card holders. Wasn't expecting 3!

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@disqushelp yeah, I'm running chrome. Trying jQuery selector $('.dsq-textarea-wrapper').find('iframe').contents()

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@ma1cal when does the teaching take place? A compulsory module?

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo MiKTeX on windows, I assume?

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan challenge: arrange your finances so that your tax bill is a solution to a 3-SAT problem encoded in your annual earnings

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jcoglan can you get your base-whatever hash test data in a plain text file of the form <bits>\n<base>\n<output>?

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lunch and then I battle the Stupid Bug Mountain.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan commas, spaces, whatever.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan my results.txt is now in the same format, at gist.github.com/2911970. We differ, and I'm pretty sure the error is with you

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan in base 10, we agree until the subsequence (...,9,8,9,5,3,1,0), and you have an extra digit in your output

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan sorting this out might be better over IM of some sort

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan ok, just added you

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz @aperiodical (answering as myself now) I think I might have seen it before. More grant money being ineffectively spent!

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz funded by Munich Re, so at least it isn't EU money

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In reply to @jgrahamc

@jgrahamc you need more than two data points to conjecture exponential growth

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has anyone ever seen IE run an object's constructor function before attaching its prototype? Because I think that just happened to me.

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch wolframalpha.com/input/?i=calor…

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen I can't see what that's a reply to, but if it's about the carnival of maths: you're submitting to me, so send in loads

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In reply to @haggismaths

@haggismaths oh, you know there's been a paper on that ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo man, you have so much more trouble with computers than I do. Did you do something to offend them?

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It's Turingsmas Eve! Remember to put your programs on the mantelpiece tonight, and maybe tomorrow morning you'll wake up to a proof it halts

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Remember to leave out a pad of paper and a pen for Alan, and a pile of punch cards for his team of hunky computer operators

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In reply to @PumphreysMath

@PumphreysMaths mathscard looked decent when I tried it: play.google.com/store/apps/det…

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In reply to @PumphreysMath

@PumphreysMaths and wolfram alpha is, of course, excellent

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie really? youtube.com/watch?v=IK2cfd…

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am I to understand that it's raining in less excellent parts of the country? I'm going out for a walk on the beach

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And lo, did the Lord God see cp's braggadocio and verily did He send forth innumerable drizzles

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge what was the other one?

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge but there've been plenty of big real maths stories: Agol's Virtual Haken proof, Goldbach progress, potential ABC proof...

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how odd: @standupmaths's radio 4 documentary on Turing is still on iplayer, but can't be found using the search.

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge there really wouldn't be much point in the mainstream press reporting those stories.

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge I disagree completely.

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two games of Risk and *then* writing our big Turing post was never a good plan. Moody's has just downgraded it to a Very Bad Plan Indeed

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I've collected together some of the best Turing coverage for the @aperiodical at aperiodical.com/2012/06/turing….

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what's the easiest way to run a node.js server on a server that uses Apache? Modern app-deployment techniques baffle me

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Looking forward to the river of fire along the Thames tonight. A great way to celebrate Turing's centenary and it's never been done before.

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In reply to @treasa

@treasa just spent 10 minutes not finding the clip on youtube. I'm sure it used to be there. Anyway, it's an old joke from Broken News

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just went round the google sign-in loop four times with my mum on @TripIt. She's given up trying to register.

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Looking at the @aperiodical's stats, it seems Shouryya Ray is twice as popular as Alan Turing. Disheartening.

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths EXCELLENT. Have you seen the description of railway junction logic gates? I saw it when I was 17 but can't remember the author

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths if you can make use of someone in the Far North East, I'm in.

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths not emailing because a) I'm too cool for school and b) I have a woman on the inside of your operation, Parker.

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall you must be really mad that Prince William uses that title despite not having been awarded it by the Roman Emperor

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths my PhD is in computability and exactly this kind of thing, so I can help with design

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In reply to @goddent83

@goddent83 I think it was two Cambridge postgrads, circa 2003/4, reported in a paper but not sure which. Junction boxes work as logic gates

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In reply to @goddent83

@goddent83 I have googled long and hard and turned up nothing but people making external, electronic, logic gates for model railways.

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 @goddent83 @standupmaths that is precisely it! Thank you!

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In reply to @HilariousCow

@HilariousCow already done: Prince of Persia refusing to walk off ledges.

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In reply to @HilariousCow

@HilariousCow unlike walking into walls, where the character has no mind of his own, in PoP he's visibly struggling against your command

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In reply to @HilariousCow

@HilariousCow for a while I've wanted a platformer where "your" actions don't need to be coherently displayed (transition animations etc)...

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In reply to @HilariousCow

@HilariousCow ... but the character follows a tiny bit behind, properly animated because the game knows in advance what it's going to do

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In reply to @HilariousCow

@HilariousCow yeah. You've got to fiddle things so the character never gets affected by something you don't, breaking the illusion.

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In reply to @HilariousCow

@HilariousCow a single-agent Portal-ish environment would do, with you playing the character's "mind's eye"

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In reply to @HilariousCow

@HilariousCow yes! Got to make that now!

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None of the doors in the student union make sense. There's every combination of handle/button/automatic/signage.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett oh dear! Is that the teaching, or something like what you've done this year?

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Wearing my "maths is easy" t-shirt to an interdepartmental meeting.

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In reply to @alisonkiddle

@ajk_44 thats some serious chutzpah on the part of the Tories, trying to reuse the phrase "back to basics"

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crikey o'reilly this is some needlessly cryptic code

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"I've just discovered multiline var declarations and lazy evaluation of booleans. Let's write my entire program and logic in one of those!"

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths is the quiet coach not the naughty coach? People complaining about bad passengers are hardly ever not in the quiet coach.

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"lion" is the only English word ending in -ion which is still a word when you swap the I and O.

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emusic, why does the "your session has expired so you need to log in" page now redirect to the signup page? That's enormously annoying!

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In reply to @IanMulvany

@IanMulvany I have a hashtag I use on occasions like that: #unhelpfulneckbeardadvice

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect my name is extremely common in Catholic countries, particularly the Philippines. I win.

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In reply to @Sdfahey

@Sdfahey @mathsinthecity only one face? Which one? Anyway, I'd just say it's a twisted prism: korthalsaltes.com/cuadros.php?ty…

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In reply to @Sdfahey

@Sdfahey no, it isn't an antiprism because the sides aren't flat faces - they're curved.

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In reply to @Sdfahey

@Sdfahey actually, just looked at your picture again and they are. Whoops!

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Publishing minified code without a source map is pretty unhelpful.

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In reply to @dmh10

@dmh10 sadly not. Anyway, my brilliant mental deobfuscation skills have allowed me to find the corresponding point in the source

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In reply to @FOTSN

@FOTSN at my phone's highest volume I can barely hear the podcast. Could you sacrifice some of your glorious hi fidelity and enlouden it?

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Twitteraticians: how do you write $\mathbb{Z}$? I've been told I don't follow convention.

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follow-up question: how about $\mathbb{N}$? Rotate previous pic 90° anti-clockwise for mine v apparently conventional styles.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @standupmaths hearing that the weather's better somewhere else is one of those little things that make life less bearable

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In reply to @aPaulTaylor

@aPaulTaylor that's a mega-tenuous reason! My reason is that it can't be mistaken for a really badly drawn mathematical X

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The first crazy person outs himself RT @panlepan: I'm crazy! RT @christianp: how do you write $\mathbb{Z}$? po.st/zeIiLb

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@Talithin @Samuel_Hansen zeds should always have a line through them!

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen @Talithin I used to think it was Continental Frippery until I started actually writing maths for a living.

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In reply to @panlepan

@panlepan alors, il faut que vous demandiez á vos collègues comment ils l'écrivent (how's my French?)

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we have patient no. 2 for the Z Madness. There must be more: I know you're out there, you loons!

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In reply to @ProfNoodlearms

@ProfNoodlearms do you see Serious People write the other version very often? (ps when did you change your twitter name? It's excellent)

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@Talithin so your second stroke is a single line?

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@Talithin it actually looks decent.

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does anyone else do it this way? RT @Talithin: @christianp By the way, here's mine dropbox.com/s/dw4buzbsolpa…

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In reply to @jgrahamc

@jgrahamc I now want to book a ticket from Poole to Bagshot.

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In reply to @MouldS

@MouldS you've assumed that very few of the people who look like you are ticket inspectors. This notice is dispelling that notion.

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TIL that Chebyshev's (he of the inequality) first name was Pafnuty.

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In reply to @transponderings

@axnicho @peterrowlett is this a pun I see before me?

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managed to maximise my savings inefficiency at Sainsbury's: every item I bought is part of a multibuy offer, but no two are in the same one

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan I thought ahead and used the self-service

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like voting for the Greens, while it was against my immediate self-interest, I made the statistics register the way I want the world to be

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen football! I forgot about the football! O WOE!

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not on my nelly bot on my belly dot on my delhi jot on my jelly pot on my pele tot on my telly what on my welly #isthatallofthem

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Going on holiday on Friday, leaving these beauties sitting in the queue at the @aperiodical:

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In reply to @MarcusduSautoy

@MarcusduSautoy this is relevant to my interests

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I believe I am owed some presents. RT @MarcusduSautoy: Happy Perfect Day! 28/6 A number is perfect if it is the sum of its proper divisors.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan only module needed: a Turing machine which can simulate all other modules. #unhelpfulneckbeardadvice

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In reply to @helenarney

@helenarney ahh, I would go if I wasn't setting off on holiday early tomorrow morning

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this is a happy little integer sequence: undulating palindromic primes oeis.org/A059758

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..which has led me to this magnum opus - primes.utm.edu/lists/top_ten/… - more top ten lists than you can shake a cracked.com at!

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In reply to @aPaulTaylor

@aPaulTaylor no - undulating primes are at oeis.org/A032758 - includes two-digit non-palindromes

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@seanhandley Pancho Villa's on the Royal Mile is excellent panchovillas.co.uk

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9876543210 followed by 2002 zeroes and then a 1 is prime

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In reply to @aPaulTaylor

@aPaulTaylor now I'm trying to think how to find the most needlessly complicated OEIS definition

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just watched a fly spontaneously generate on my wall. Aristotle was right! (or the fly was hiding)

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Problem: one could avoid the hateful facebook->guardian login thing by copying and googling the title. Solution: forbid selecting text

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@HELIUM_HEED no, I'm going to dissolve! I'd hoped to observe you humans a while longer but now I must return to alka-seltzer-man home planet

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I picked a bad day to renounce all gods

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz @peterrowlett @stecks I know a bit. Email me.

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity I managed to get out just before too many roads closed. My seaside abode is untroubled by mere rain! Thanks for asking

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity no, I live at Tynemouth but today I'm setting off for the Loire valley for my jollies

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A glacier would reverse into that space faster. And it wouldn't come out to straighten up three times either.

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity the council has done a brilliant job up here but I'm hearing bad things about the Midlands. But that's nothing new, right?

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In reply to @ehauke

@ehauke htc desire hd played through sennheiser mm100 headphones. It's lots quieter than other podcasts.

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen a follow on google+ has about as much value as a turkish lira

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen wow, I picked the wrong kind of lira. Let's go with Italian lira

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In reply to @ehauke

@ehauke all the episodes have been the same

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Gosh, the new google+ app is good! I'm still tweeting this thought though.

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Slough: it's not worth the effort

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Not sure how I feel about this video tribute to Turing youtube.com/watch?v=RIUash…

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In reply to @ipnosimmia

@ipnosimmia the backing music's a bit weird

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July

I have internet! Here's a picture of some fabulous French cuisine. We have so much to learn from them.

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 have you seen checkmyworking.com/2012/01/how-to… ? Or do you want to use textmode LaTeX too?

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Il fait chaud, fo' sho'.

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Me and four bishops in a nissan micra, driving France's autoroutes and reviewing the service stations. Title of the book: Aires and Graces

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Koala! Happy day!

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And if you want to see a panda, don't even bother going to Edinburgh: come to Beauval, you can get right up to them

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SPACE BABY

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In reply to @manytypesoftea

@manytypesoftea yes, we can only assume it's an accurate translation given the picture. Excellent twitter avatar, by the way

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In reply to @MEIMaths

@MEIMaths @peterrowlett it's in the queue for my next open access round up. Could well merit its own post, though.

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor well, you've _got_ to register comicsines.com and fill it with comic sans maths now.

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In reply to @alexbellos

@alexbellos @haggismaths looks like autocorrect has got the right ideas

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan Turing would be all about the #unhelpfulneckbeardadvice.

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Goodbye, France! No thanks to DFDS Seaways, who were an hour late out of port. Watched three P&O ones come and go while we waited.

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks yes, δmaths/δt (britain,now) > 0

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks and I will be gratified if you notice my correct identification of a partial differential

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths Matt's Unvirtual Mersenne Prime Search, or #MUMPS

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths and I've just noticed your twitter username is a pun on your real name when pronounced in a French accent. A reason to move?

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Almost everyone on this ferry is reading the Daily Mail. Hypocrites.

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Forget meditation, if you want to get in harmony with the world around you just do a wee on a boat. (Men and adventurous ladies only)

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it's the world's funniest child! youtube.com/watch?v=Zt1jkZ…

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Now I can be like @standupmaths and tweet maths symbols ∵ ∃ a character map app for android! play.google.com/store/apps/det…

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...but they aren't displayed properly on my PC. Willy poo bums.

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.@univofstandrews did you check with Dr Nacenta before writing that tweet? Pie charts represent proportion; "Fatfonts" show arrays of data

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where do I sign up to kick the people who wrote TinyMCE? I assume there's already a list.

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In reply to @helenarney

@helenarney @djfbus @standupmaths @FOTSN I made a video a while ago explaining what's going on in that picture: aperiodical.com/2012/05/torus/

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One for all and all for 0! #mathspuns

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Looks like the metal pushing pad on this door isn't at the right height for anybody else either

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if you want a poster of a famous mathematician and don't have working colour vision, this is the site for you! mathematicianspictures.com/Posters%20&%20…

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen @peterrowlett just listened to m/ms 104. Re economic centre of gravity: how do you average points on a sphere?

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hahahahahahahaha youtube.com/watch?v=rZLfXF…

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths similarly: the University of Derby Discarded Learning Centre flickr.com/photos/christi…

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durham.ac.uk doesn't work. durham.ac.uk does. When Oxford was a waste and Cambridge a bog... Durham set up their DNS.

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and hilariously, twitter shortens them both to just durham.ac.uk

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @Samuel_Hansen I've just read the appendix of the report. It's exactly as rigorous as you'd expect.

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misleading infographic news, now: digicert.com/TimeTravel/

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reaction-diffusion whiz-boffins: please make some stripy paint.

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is there a good reason javascript's ternary if assignment goes `b?x:y` instead of something readable like `x if b else y`?

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@Nathan1123 yes yes, I get that, but all I did in my better version (python's) was replace the symbols with words

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@Nathan1123 oh hang on, I thought that's what I did but I switched b and x. Whoops.

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@Nathan1123 I think what I originally wanted was something like `if(b) x else y` as an acceptable expression in an assignment

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge yes, that's what I was getting at. Quite annoying!

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is Ohio the international twitter spam nexus or am I just very popular with people from middling states?

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can someone with working colour vision, either skype or gtalk, and 10 minutes to spare help me with a colour scheme please?

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Dear Microsoft Word, Thank you so much for noticing how wide my screen is, but I don't actually want you to zoom in so the page fills it.

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while I'm pretending to write letters: Dear VMWare, Why does your one-click unsubscribe link go to a page I need to click on two more times?

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I don't tweet boring work things much, but the PENS import by @SCORMCloud is amazing!

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JanvierUK that's pretty close to your height as well, isn't it? #everyoneistinytome

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I wish right guard would stop changing the names of their deodorants. What's the big idea?

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I've said "what rot" so many times in the last 10 minutes browsing this conference's programme that the words have lost all meaning

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks I demand less boring tweets! Or fewer boring tweets!

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks @diffractionman I am. Why?

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks yes, I'll do a talk on something, probably princess/castle. Definitely do aperiodical something. Hosting slides is a good idea.

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks though really, mathsjam.com should be doing that.

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks I worry with the big mathsjam that Colin wants it to be a private party and reporting from it might ruin it a bit.

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie you just apply directly to the institution

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In reply to @HilariousCow

@HilariousCow manicheanima.

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In reply to @HilariousCow

@HilariousCow a portmanteau of manicheanism and machinima?

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In reply to @HilariousCow

@HilariousCow it describes basically Peter Molyneux's entire oeuvre

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The screen reader JAWS costs $895. Because blind people get the same grants as people who need, like, new doorways built for them.

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which makes it hard for me to test, since I don't know any blind people, and don't have $895 lying around to enrich a profiteer with.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan so do I fill my HD with noise to make a point, or with "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" so it doesn't look random?

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AAAAA I only work part-time that is too many issues AAAAAA

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I have an almost uncontrollable urge to write a story about the Mormon grammarian P. Dan Tick

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apparently Newcastle University has 4321 postgrads. That's a nice number!

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean I wouldn't be surprised if you said you were visiting a walmart that had an army base.

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In reply to @miclugo

@madcaptenor you're mistaken. These enlightened individuals are correcting their wicked foreign ways.

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@nulibsage I look at my diary for next week. It is a vast empty nothingness. Except for that exact hour. Typical.

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In reply to @mendeley_com

@mendeley_com what's the point of attaching files to my library if it always says "we don't have permission to make this file downloadable"?

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan just add more classes and rules, then freely-reduce the resulting inheritance tree. #unhelpfulneckbeardadvice

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan sorry, I meant directed acyclic graph, not tree. Because that would be too simple.

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there is a layer of bacon-smelling air about three feet off the floor of my flat. Dare I follow it to its source?

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@Nathan1123 a bad programmer would just hack over it until it looks like it works. You're on the right track

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deleted the blitzbasic forums from my bookmarks. There's hardly ever anything interesting there any more

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It's finally here! After literally a quarter of a year, here's a load more interesting maths esoterica aperiodical.com/2012/07/intere…

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo I asked Katie but she's AWOL, so: do you have a picture of last year's MathsJam we can use for an @aperiodical post?

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Can't think of a single good reason why Smash wasn't instead called Packet Jotato.

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In reply to @HoeJodgkiss

@HoeJodgkiss the aristocrats!

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks it isn't great - Colin's all blurred. I'll ask on the @MathsJam twitter

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has anyone got a photo of last year's @MathsJam conference that they wouldn't mind being used in a post on the @aperiodical?

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks oui

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett yep, it can go whenever.

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the Irish one from My Life In Film is in everything now. Must have got a better agent.

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was Dead Boss given that weird inappropriate piano theme tune just because it was written by women?

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or, if the writers specifically asked for that theme: what were you thinking?

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It's a lovely sunny day in Tynemouth! Is anyone else out here enjoying the festival?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett it went OK, then? No bugs?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett hah! Excellent.

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In reply to @acmescience

@acmescience much better!

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall @stecks @aPaulTaylor that's more of a combinatorics and designs problem, surely

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TIL that facebook thinks Newcastle University is in New Delhi facebook.com/pages/Newcastl…

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In reply to @alexbellos

@alexbellos why's it only got one number? You could do that to a normal die. The joke with a mobius one is you can't decide which face is up

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In reply to @Calibrand

@Calibrand do you actually, though? The sentiment is cheapened by your tweet history. I'm now going to make an effort to avoid you.

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11:11!

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mathematicians: does anyone else find the misuse of "hence" in a proof really annoying?

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In reply to @aPaulTaylor

@aPaulTaylor I think you mean "no, hence now I am paranoid that..."

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I think we need to submit it to be reviewed by a person. There's a link somewhere in the webmaster tools

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duoliteral, juloidea, muroidea, muscoidea, pulmonifera, quodlibetal, subcontinental, subhyoidean, uncomplimentary, uncontinental

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.@WWMGT @stevenstrogatz @Wrangler314 see my previous tweet for all words I could find with vowels in reverse order. Excluded "unnoticeably".

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also "fulgoroidea" and "uncoincidental" if you allow repeats of vowels.

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can't find any words with all vowels + Y in forwards or reverse order. Another reason Y is not a vowel

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Omg, just realised Tynemouth Sainsbury's is in walking distance. #sixandtwotwelves

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm gosh! My word list must be missing a lot of words

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm oh hang on, that's in forwards order. Panic over!

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm ah! I see now. Currently walking to the shops so can't check my sums

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Ok, further corrections will be ignored unless told facetiously. Clearly I made an error

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And that shortcut was more like a six v two 3.1s. My brainwaves are a bubbly froth. Time for dinner.

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ok, regexp fixed. adventitiously and pareciously

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the usefulness of useless knowledge library.ias.edu/files/Usefulne… cc @peterrowlett

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I thank @Samuel_Hansen from the bottom of my heart for introducing me to my new religion youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7…

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In reply to @Tony_Mann

@Tony_Mann you're wrong, @peterrowlett has always been at war with Eastasia

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well punned! Radius of the Lost Arc - a maths game for kids chrome.google.com/webstore/detai…

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Is this white fiat 500 doing really quick laps of the village or does everyone own a white fiat 500 now?

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How long do you think I can mingle with the World Congress of Accounting Historians? I need some fun accounting history facts

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#accountinghistory "double book-keeping" was originally a euphemism for workplace drunkenness.

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#accountinghistory in the Crimean war, the Battle of Balaclava was written off as a clothing expense

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch I'd have to see Dark Knight between now and then

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22:22!

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In reply to @rmehigan

@rmehigan and sadly the last in my series of monodigital time tweets for today

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In reply to @rmehigan

@rmehigan I did not. No Sky!

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor to do exactly that and no more, add these to your path gist.github.com/3132399

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor or you could do it properly on Linux with adventure shell: nadvsh.sourceforge.net

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Just attended a workshop where I did a SWOT! I've become you!

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Oh no. For the first time ever, I tweeted what was meant to be a text. It was a long workshop.

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz I think not: cross-site scripting problems.

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz a chrome extension would probably be able to do it

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts write it underneath the header "Things for other people to do"

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths @numberphile neilsloane.com/doc/g4g7.pdf or primes.utm.edu/lists/top_ten/… might give you some ideas

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan no votes for 'look around'? Dangerously risky behaviour from the go-northers

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Descending into the pits of the @aperiodical post queue to hew some maths news from the living rock. Got my undecidability canary with me.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan score

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge well, that's an idea for a new twitter bot. Sadly, @undecidabilitycanary is too long to be a twitter username

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today's programming challenge: write a prime number generator in Hindi hindawi.in/en_US/faq.php

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett you said you had some big mathsjam photos. Prod.

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In reply to @TeXtip

@TeXtip or, with MathJax magic, you can use one I made: checkmyworking.com/misc/makebigma…^{i%20\pi}+1=0

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 argg, I was looking for a tweet about your new post and misread "blogpast" as "blogpost"! Bumbleshpitz

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 we considered "blogpast" for the Aperiodical's tweets and rejected it for exactly that reason

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living the rugged independent lifestyle of a Solo Dude is a nightmare from a home economics perspective.

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maths fact: over the past two years, Cedric Villani has spent as long as three hours not in front of a camera

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall haha, that's crazy! Unregistered domains go to a page saying "DNS Error!"

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rhinoeceros, assemble! imgur.com/gallery/ErYL2

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very very clever: computer-generated pareidolia using genetic algorithms and face detection iobound.com/pareidoloop/

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guess who just tweeted from the wrong account! That guy! (Also this guy)

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In reply to @plusmathsorg

@plusmathsorg @mathsinthecity I tried the "best not to collapse it into an observable state just yet" excuse with my thesis

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch no thanks. Unenthused.

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pretty bummed that numbas.com seems to be a site selling English lessons in Japanese

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan is it possible to just cover one's ears and hum until ECMAScript 6 is widespread?

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chrome, you are using 200mb of memory with one blank tab open. Explain yourself.

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the manufacturers of this chilli have rated it "HOT HOT HOT". Maybe if you were raised on an exclusive diet of milk and yoghurt. Weak.

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a more accurate label would be: "This sauce was produced in a factory where chillies are handled"

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it has the consistency of puppy sick. I think this'll be the end of bad chilli news.

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oh no I discovered the programmable turtle in tekkit

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At least be consistent, guy's! (excellent farm, though)

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths good decision: "standupengineering" is pretty much a tautology. And are you implying you're under-employed?

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan I use the cursor keys all the time. Because sometimes neckbeards are just wrong.

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my little brother hasn't even been to Akbar's. It's like I don't know him any more.

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oh my god Wrong Sign Language is the BEST game

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In reply to @arowx

@arowx @GreyAlien you are correct to disclaim those claims. If you're coming this far up, might as well go across the Tyne to a REAL place.

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In reply to @GreyAlien

@GreyAlien @arowx yeah fine, keep believing that. Just going out for a stroll on the award-winning beach, back later

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windows is saving an 8mb bitmap version of my wallpaper to my uni network profile. That'd be fine if I didn't have a tiny allowance of 60mb

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In reply to @sxpmaths

@sxpmaths as far as I know, @TraineeGeek organises the Portsmouth MathsJam. She's friendly!

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In reply to @sxpmaths

@sxpmaths I think you might be talking about what I called the "worst series in the world" - near the bottom of checkmyworking.com/2012/02/newcas…

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wanted: rich benefactor to fund the acquisition of this fantastic kitchen appliance tesco.com/direct/k-mix-b…

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks I would be entirely happy with being a trophy husband who stays at home and bakes with expensive Kenwood appliances all day

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks but I don't think I'm up for the silicone pec implants trophy husbandship would entail

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In reply to @benjamintormey

@BenTormey you're following the wrong women, dude

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks wow, A had almost completely passed from my memory.

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In reply to @amazingradio

@amazingradio re chilli dogs: the diner in Fenwick's does a mean chilli dog

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Newcastle @MathsJam is tomorrow, 7.30pm in the Charles Grey pub. New people very welcome.

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Oh good, someone's realised the Olympic Security Sand outside the stadium shouldn't block access to the metro station

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen @peterrowlett I had the MAA link for flatland 2! Did I forget to use it? Bums.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett yes, I just put it in

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett the most I'll commit to is that at least occasionally @Samuel_Hansen tells the truth

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it's far too late for the seagulls to be up and about. Can they even see where they're going?

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watch my brilliantly-edited holiday video, featuring lots of animals youtube.com/watch?v=D2-B-X…

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen I see your inappropriate twitter comments kickstarter was funded

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen and also, other twitterists inform me she was gay, so, probably wasn't gonna happen, buddy

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean after verifying my email on songdrop and logging in, I got a 404 for /info/dropitbtn&verify=success?cb=1343115078

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so does Pearson own the concept of education now? Is there anything they haven't bought?

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if I'm responsible for making sure the companies I buy services from pay their tax, I'd better cancel my vodafone subscription

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@nulibsage you'll get that tweet right eventually!

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In reply to @FOTSN

@FOTSN challenge: explain to an innumerate friend how big a pizza with twice as much meat would have to be while driving in a one-way system

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks we have a problem for tonight: pub has no wifi!

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks that might actually be more authentic

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan I have that all the time with algebraic data types and any language that isn't haskell

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not sure what madness caused me to say MathsJam starts at 7.30. It starts at 7. Maybe I'll be alone for half an hour.

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In reply to @MathsJam

@MathsJam NCL->MAN we're having trouble decoding your message

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 @MathsJam yes, and it's not a bad game. A good mental workout

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In reply to @FOTSN

@FOTSN for the safety of my fellow road-users, I did not account for crusts. Or the fact no pizza technician distributes toppings uniformly.

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In reply to @FOTSN

@FOTSN stuffed crusts introduce another problem - they only accrete linearly with pizza size.

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Sportsmen: teammates congratulating you in unwelcome places? Try Matt Parker's Pat Marker. New from Spooner, the Contrivance Company.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan do any of the JS module frameworks have relative import paths and namespacing? Or an equivalent of python's `import module as x`?

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan yes, just looking at the docs now. So the global state you're complaining about is just in naming dependencies?

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pretty stoked about how much of my CPU this set of slides is using. Stopping my other programs running means it gets my full attention!

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan is there any need for global module names? Why not make every `define` anonymous?

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan I assumed that if you require 'sub/mod', then anything required by `sub/mod.js` would be found relative to `sub/`. Apparently not!

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan here you go: gist.github.com/3176512 I'm sure it must be possible. It's mad otherwise.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan ah, I didn't try ./ ! Makes sense.

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In reply to @daveinstpaul

@daveinstpaul @MathsJam what do you mean by "level"?

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In reply to @daveinstpaul

@daveinstpaul @MathsJam oh never mind, got it now. Good. I thought there'd be a simple solution like that.

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In reply to @acmescience

@acmescience I see your site. Dude's probably got malware

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oh lovely, I just noticed someone's written a nice blog post about my rambling fibonacci grids video: andysunknownquantity.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/thinki…

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well, that was uncomfortable. Followed a women home down a darkened street. Turns out she's my next door neighbour.

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In reply to @GeoffBath

@GeoffBath @ColinTheMathmo hence the mathketeers' rallying cry, "one for all and all for 0!"

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In reply to @daveinstpaul

@daveinstpaul very nice!

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VEXED IS BACK ON TELLY NEXT WEDNESDAY!! YESSSSSSSSS

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I can basically inhale a mcdonalds burger. Watching my Nana eat one is like water torture.

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In reply to @plusmathsorg

@plusmathsorg it can lead to many an odd phenomenon DOO DOO DE DOO DOO

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one day I expect to hear Pearson have bought the times tables. We got a spam at the @aperiodical from a subsidiary offering "maths links"

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the first email didn't identify them as from TutorVista (owned by Pearson), but the reply to my email saying "no thanks, I'm not stupid" did

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The @aperiodical is listed on google! Finally! cc @peterrowlett @stecks

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In reply to @miclugo

@madcaptenor it's **. There might be a good reason for that, but there probably isn't.

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"as" as a synonym for "because" - pro or con? I'm as con as the conceptual condominium congress of Conrad Black and Martha Stewart

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dude just walked past my house with the blingest zimmer frame I've ever seen. Actually, he's still walking past my house.

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Dear Jim, Can you fix it for me so my javascript fails in even crazier ways than normal? phpjs.hertzen.com

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two hours ago, I had a really clear idea of what I was going to cook for dinner. Now, nothing. Might starve.

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What the actual what.

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The only Nelson I want to hear from tonight has one arm and an unbeaten record against the French.

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Trevor Nelson hasn't once looked at the right camera during this whole ceremony. Old habits die hard.

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You've noticed there are no boys carrying those petal things. Well, mcdonalds picked them, and they delegated to their cattle farmers

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan oh I forgot about Muse. THANKS A LOT JAMES

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Who gardens in a blue shirt and chinos? My mum's gardeners, apparently.

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Ah, Teesside. Putting the rough in Middlesbrough.

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Rocking my pac a mac in a sac at Stockton

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I'll put a snapshot of Stockton's infinity bridge on @mathsinthecity later. It's a nice bridge!

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An octagonal church in Yarm...

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...sadly, no amount of enthusiasm for octagons can make them tile the plane, so they had to make do with hexagons

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Back in Stockton, where the bus shelters haven't had new adverts put up since the release of "Lesbian Vampire Killers"

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In reply to @Gelada

@Gelada they're methodists. I think they'd frown on that sort of thing.

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so I suppose the $171/year registration fee is the reason that communi.sm doesn't exist. I'm mightily tempted by bonapart.ism too

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I of course meant bonaparti.sm

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge very good! It could be a mirroring site.

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nerds, geeks, and all other categories of poindexters: you've failed me and you've failed the internet. jointheb.org is unregistered

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In reply to @Gelada

@Gelada just prepend any word ending in -gon in my tweets with "regular"

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In reply to @Gelada

@Gelada ...meh. I don't care to think that much about it. Saw an octagonal church with a hexagonal tiled pavement.

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In reply to @Gelada

@Gelada and, the more we discuss this, the more @hexagonbot retweets me

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Having some trouble selling my account of a former Newcastle goalie's ascent through the ranks of freemasonry, "Fifty Grades of Shay"

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity if I want to link to another picture on flickr from a MitC snapshot, is that OK? The description field doesn't look HTMLy

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In reply to @_beanbot

@songdropapp There is no jazz category. boo.

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me too! (it's the same one) RT @stecks: I did a video! RT @aperiodical: Post: Maths Jam July 2012 - Paper Enigma aperiodical.com/2012/07/maths-…

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity thanks. I remembered after uploading that I took some better pics with my nana's camera.

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity because I have a camera obscurer

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I've helped Cushing make a pretty excellent card trick using a de Bruijn sequence and a full 52-card deck. Going to do a video tomorrow.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan sounds like a pretty compelling argument for a fork of bash

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect where "no Internet" means "copious abuse of a 3g dongle"

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I've just remembered I've got chocolate puddings in the fridge. Bonanza!

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm did you see we've reconstructed Diaconis's 6-card de Bruijn red/black trick with all 52 cards? Do you know any better versions?

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oh, excellent thefw.com/olympic-diving…

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm we're going to record a video today. Cards as 6-digit binary strings - first 4 face, last 2 suit. Take 64-bit de bruijn sequence..

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm ..take first 52 strings in that sequence, and swap invalid ones (face>12) with valid ones at the end.

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm .. so you only need to remember the rule to generate the de bruijn sequence and 6 6-digit string pairs to swap

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm so is that Diaconis's trick? David reckons Diaconis said there was no easy trick with exactly 52 cards

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks best thing about Scotland: they still sell those boxes of cadbury's chocolate milk in corner shops.

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks worst thing about Scotland: dirty sheep-stealing Scots.

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks no, because they know real money when they see it

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm Cushing is running across to the uni library to get it now

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999999999999999934463: the largest integer Chrome doesn't use scientific notation to display

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why 999999999999999934463? It's 10^21 - 2^16 - 1.

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo press F12 to get the javascript console up. Enter the number. It gets repeated back to you. That number plus 1 gives '1e21'

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo actually, to be precise it gets rounded to something a bit lower, but scientific notation isn't used; that's the point

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo yes. Of course, chrome can display any number you write in html....

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How many people from different departments can sit down in this room before two exchange words, or even eye contact? Current lower bound: 4

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo it's for my javascript algebra/eassessment system.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan isn't that just a subset of all programmers, though? I've seen plenty of people in many languages that just don't get abstraction

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan maybe it's more apparent in javascript because it's missing so much due to the lack of a stdlib.

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean trust the American to go to the event with guns

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge do you mean an unsolved one?

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the letter I is not a separator. The pipe character | is just about acceptable. There is a difference with serif fonts.

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch ollymoss.co.uk/skateordie.gif

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge oh BRAVO

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Oh no, the krankiesque woman who can't stop talking is on the train

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August

Wander Wednesday: have a look at a nice maths blog on a variety of subjects run by @laurentduval laurent-duval.blogspot.fr

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outlook.com passwords can only be 16 chars long, so I had to truncate my hotmail one when signing in. It worked. Paging @jcoglan!

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In reply to @My_Metro

@My_Metro does the "no problems" tweet go out automatically each morning? That's a pretty bad idea.

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In reply to @My_Metro

@My_Metro you tweeted that trains were delayed, then that there were no problems, then another apology for the delays. Why?

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In reply to @My_Metro

@My_Metro ah no, the one I replied to was 8 hours ago

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In reply to @My_Metro

@My_Metro OK. *That* is a bad idea. I have deja vu. Have I complained about this before?

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan yes

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan well... "good". Quotes decidedly necessary.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan given how often my account has been hacked, I guess the latter

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity can you do some Oxford sleuthing for me? Does Peter Bryant work at your Dept of Education and does he have a web page?

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gosh the maths olympiad has a nice logo imo-official.org

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google now has a button at the top to turn off personalised results! Mirabile die!

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @Tony_Mann another reason to move to wordpress soon *cough cough*

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In reply to @KSCMaths

@KSCMaths go on! Cave to temptation! We can publish it on the aperiodical.

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an enjoyable day of thrashing the @aperiodical news queue with @peterrowlett. Some of these stories are so old they're in Roman numerals!

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity never mind, successfully navigated the department's website now. Sleuth-hats off, please.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @aperiodical my day is basically over by lunchtime, typically.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I'm very much a morning person. A good six hours before lunch, then my brain switches off when I eat

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In reply to @qikipedia

@qikipedia it's uncopyrightable, which is troublemaking because I could do with earning a few bob.

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In reply to @qikipedia

@qikipedia and if you want a one-tweet Python command to get it: sorted([w for w in words if len(set(w))==len(w)],key=len)[-1]

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pretty pleased with this Python for the longest word with no repeated letters: sorted([w for w in words if len(set(w))==len(w)],key=len)[-1]

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall like, ("fizz" if x%7 else "buzz" for x in count()) ?

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall I'm not happy with [(x if x%5 else 'buzz') if x%3 else 'fizz' if x%5 else 'fizzbuzz' for x in count()]

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo @icecolbeveridge either they were automatically truncating it and then hashing before, or they never hashed

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13:37 - time for clothes! Today wasn't meant to be one of those days.

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In reply to @qikipedia

@qikipedia oi, what about 'troublemaking'?

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In reply to @HilariousCow

@HilariousCow <16mb memory, 120 enemies... you haven't just made space invaders again, have you?

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall I spent a while dithering on whether constructing 'fizzbuzz' by concatenation was shorter

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oh, the reason "google maps" is always trending on google+ is because it counts people posting links to places. #embedallthemediaitllbefine

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge @ColinTheMathmo no, because then that's just an encryption: you can recover H(x) for each letter x.

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WHAT ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE DOING ON MY BEACH! IT'S NINE PM!!

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @mathematicsprof I can't see what distinction you're making, Peter

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In reply to @jgrahamc

@jgrahamc what's the other 9%?

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In reply to @Htbaa

@Htbaa fontsquirrel.com to start with

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This looks like a lot of fun youtube.com/watch?v=KoC1iT… @stecks

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A light bulb just popped. Hang on...

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm Can you be our Man in Madison? Take lots of pictures and notes and so on.

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch @AdamJackzon mmyeeeeeeesss.

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In reply to @mathblogging

@mathblogging how is it that vi hart's videos from way in the past are always at the top of your "by date" page?

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In reply to @mathblogging

@mathblogging oh wow, and they're not setting the publication dates properly

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm done

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm ooh! My video with the de Bruijn trick is (secretly) on youtube. Writing words to go with it now but watch at youtube.com/watch?v=g71wG6…

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hahahaha isthispoisono.us

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths @jjsanderson @elinoroberts watch out, if you come to Tynemouth I might trap you and make you write for the aperiodical

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths our thirst for mathematical witticisms can not be slaked!

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 7m! I'd better bump "become an FRS" up my list of ambitions

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @notonlyahatrack @aperiodical @jamesgrime yeesh! I took a quick glance at our twitter avatar, that's all.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @notonlyahatrack @aperiodical @jamesgrime consider it a special case of the lemma being portrayed.

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In reply to @IBLMath

@IBLMath @maanow the PDF is 8mb! That's a tiny bit inconvenient.

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 well, I thought FAA was a bit out of reach for me so I picked the local equivalent

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 alright, that's a deal: get me FAA, and I'll visit Australia to collect.

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waiting for the MAA MathFest programme to download so I can advertise today's talks. Not sure it'll get here in time: 1400 BYTES per second!

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UNAUTHORISED USE! NUKE THE BEACH!

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Good golly, the water at Tynemouth is positively warm! So long and thanks for all the icecaps.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett crumbs, that doesn't sound like it was much fun to do

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In reply to @matthen2

@matthen2 ooh, do all the tricolores cancel each other out? And I expect a strongish ghost of a Union flag in the top-left corner.

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Haskell to generate the de Bruijn sequence (6,2): d = 0:0:0:0:0:1:zipWith (\ x y -> (x+y) `mod` 2) d (tail d)

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I mean *a* de Bruijn sequence (6,2)

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo they're not pegasi, silly!

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A long time ago, a young boy called Christian bought a box of pop tarts. The boy grew up and eventually forgot about the pop tarts...

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... UNTIL TODAY! I found that box of pop tarts, and I am eating them like a chocoholic Jacquard machine

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@Nathan1123 clopen your exercise book!

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts so, I suppose that valley's quite hard to refer to when you're speaking Welsh

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In reply to @haggismaths

@haggismaths there's a statue of Desperate Dan somewhere in the town centre that I was gutted to hear about only as I was leaving

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In reply to @MrHonner

@MrHonner likewise!

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor Broken News! Somebody else watched it! Let us exchange quotes.

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In reply to @danaernst

@danaernst finally! Great news.

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In reply to @IBLMath

@IBLMath finally they're doing something about blogging

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We need to raise 11 men in complete isolation from society, so they reach adulthood not knowing that England can't win on penalties.

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*just* missed! Disheartening

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall @peterrowlett what a quick turnaround! I reckon we've got a shot at the podium in the 4x400 words reportage

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean ...it's called NAS, and quite a few people already do it? But it's more of a hassle than signing up for google, so most don't?

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean ok. Searching for "home cloud" turns up a few nice-looking things

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge nope. Looks Japanese to me!

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top tip: use your paper wallet as a damper for your phone so it doesn't make a nasty rattle when it vibrates on your desk.

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seeking funders for my new-Romantic fireworks show, "Sturm und Bang".

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Writing docs for @NclNumbas on readthedocs.org on @pkrautz's recommendation. It looks pretty good so far!

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Cushing is busily concocting odd searches to find @aperiodical. Example: "fibonacci went to the friend zone in the least efficient carnival"

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @aperiodical another from Cushing: "fermat's last theorem is precisely the physicist's viewpoint of a hot dog"

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In reply to @jgrahamc

@jgrahamc I think it's more a product of a desire to have more flexibility in their stock control, which isn't a bad thing

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett yes, I think so.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett Cushing says yours are too long

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I worry that directly asking people to search for the site might incur google's wrath though.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett those are good! David likes fruit dancing robots.

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Beating a hasty retreat to my coastal redoubt before Newcastle gets washed away completely

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If you're going on holiday in Europe this summer, have a look at the fantastic Turismo Matemático mateturismo.wordpress.com (@mathsinthecity)

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my regexp would have worked perfectly if the person who wrote this code last summer hadn't occasionally used tabs to separate words

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the tab in question was in such a position that it only produced a one character gap anyway, so I only noticed it when I changed tabwidth

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can't stop watching the fractal juggler mike-naylor.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/fracta…

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In reply to @jamesgrime

@jamesgrime and instead of moving south he stays up north

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In reply to @gingerbeardman

@gingerbeardman I'll go with: if you're thinking about that, you've already wasted too much time

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the dept has been given a second-hand blackboard on wheels but it won't fit in any of our rooms. Can you think of an imaginative use for it?

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks I was thinking along those lines, but weatherproofing is an issue

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In reply to @panlepan

@panlepan yes, I have several at home, but this one is over 2m tall!

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Pythonistas: is it possible to write a file-like object to a ZipFile object without doing zip.writestr(fileobj.read())?

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In reply to @panlepan

@panlepan alas, it's a rolly-round one. We've considered cutting off the blackboard material and covering the walls with it.

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In reply to @acmescience

@acmescience you explicitly asked for more cranks

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oh super, the @aperiodical has been slashdotted! Thankfully, nobody reads /. any more so the server is coping fine

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number of people who read the proof before speculating wildly: 0. Never change, slashdot! (for balance, reddit is doing equally poorly)

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean @aperfect Northumberland: also featuring a millennium-old herd of completely inbred super-cattle.

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo this one: aperiodical.com/2012/08/a-glid… (/. thread: games.slashdot.org/story/12/08/07…)

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has anyone considered town planning as a data structures problem?

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In reply to @kenfodder

@kenfodder I was thinking that quadtrees would allow everyone to pack into a small space, leaving lots of green countryside

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity we've been weighing up whether to report that on @aperiodical because it sounds so fishy. Russia Today isn't a great source

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts just looked out the window. Correct.

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In reply to @MathJax

@MathJax oh, I thought it already was. Here you go: github.com/christianp/mak…

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In reply to @jamesgrime

@jamesgrime this calls for a public awareness campaign! Can we make a ribbon with a big symmetry group?

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In reply to @brucel

@brucel @ben_nuttall wow. Why would they release that with their name attached? It's as bad an advert as a grocer putting out mouldy fruit

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In reply to @IMAmaths

@IMAmaths those would look a lot nicer with @MathJax maths.

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch @Electrokittie yes!

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Newcastle Uni is disabling its SOCKS proxy. The 90s are finally over!

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Trying ubuntu again: how are you meant to get the proprietary wireless driver so you can connect to the net to download the wireless driver?

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it's SIGGRAPH time! I love SIGGRAPH.

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cyber panto horse! youtube.com/watch?v=wb1TS_… I'M HACKING THE GIBSON

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In reply to @DanielColquitt

@DanielColquitt that's what I normally do, but it's annoying. And free drivers don't work

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this lady wants to get where she's going a lot faster than her dog does.

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Jeera could give me less curry for the same money, leaving me equally happy *and* less of a porker.

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In reply to @jsnortheast

@jsnortheast is there going to be a meeting this month? I've just found out about you

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall but, like the four-billion-and-first coin flip after four billion heads, that's no reason to say you're also going to succeed

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Usain Bolt fact: Bolt often gets dirt in his eyes, so at home he's hired a personal eyebath attendant from Grenada Mote-Away Services.

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Olympic stats time: who is failing to win the most? somethingorotherwhatever.com/olympic-choker…

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hypothesis: something really, really bad happens to North Koreans if they get bronze or silver.

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oh man, Team GB has moved up the not-winning table after today's sailors, boxers and hockists choked somethingorotherwhatever.com/olympic-choker…

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(Canada still sits comfortably at the top of the table though. I think that level of almost-achievement will be hard to match)

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looking through blogger's javascript for @MathJax integration, it seems blogger has more easter eggs than real features

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Moving furniture. Apparently "quaternions don't commute!" is not helpful input when trying to get an armchair through a doorway.

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 what's your favourite chalk?

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unexpected CP presence at the start of this week's math/maths. You win again, Hansen!

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan wow! That's like #unhelpfulneckbeardadvice: The Twitter Feed.

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks and then your PGP key was in the last place you looked, right?

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks toys? I think we're doing mathsjam wrong

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just remembered that Sainsbury's was playing Creedence yesterday. I wholeheartedly approve.

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I'm watching The Red Shoes. As a keen fan of balletic megacamp, I wish to express my desire that it gets better. Not hopeful so far.

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Inability to see the colour red might be hampering my ability to enjoy this film

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how is it that nobody has remade Netstorm as a free to play facebook game?

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor b.co/I%39m%20trying…

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor answer: they do not work

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge if you put the source to that on github I'll add some nice MathJax to it

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In reply to @DanielColquitt

@DanielColquitt whence came this thought?

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In reply to @benkenyon

@benkenyon I can do one better: they were playing Alt-J in a mcdonald's I was in last week

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I make it 27. What am I missing? Note Northampton and Birmingham appear twice in the mathsjam.com menus

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge @peterrowlett ........ oh, boo to that! Sit on the naughty chair!

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gosh knitting's complicated

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @MathsJam apparently so! Which is why I started the map

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett what does that second sentence mean? I can't parse it. Have another go

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I've discussed that @stecks. I think she convinced me she had a good reason not to do that.

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In reply to @E_I_W

@E_I_W are you going to mathsjam tomorrow? I'm off work with exhaustion so probably won't go. Not sure if anyone else is around,

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks @peterrowlett by forgetting to type the word "with", I invented new language! Hooray, I'm Shakespeare!

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a pox on your house, dictate2us! Not sure why your emails are being let through by the uni's spam filters

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In reply to @jjaron

@jjaron @aperiodical the dude who posted it claimed he did it by hand: reddit.com/r/Minecraft/co…

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In reply to @jjaron

@jjaron are you setting up a "but it's only made of points" pun there?

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity far more interestingly: there's a town called Collegeville!

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity then you might do badly up here - we have lots of villages called things like "No Place" and "Pity Me"

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity it's grim up here, you know.

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@HELIUM_HEED it's uni resits fortnight

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Woke up covered in cuts. I'm worried my house might be infested with Tories.

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm I have a couple in my office, but 1) I'm not there today, and 2) they're not very neat

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm unless by "completed" you meant "all of the hyperbolic plane", in which case I don't have one

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie oh man now I want doughnuts too

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Email isn't an interactive medium with @peterrowlett. It's more like leaving messages in a time capsule for the benefit of later generations

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do I know anyone in academia who runs a programming club for their department or faculty?

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looking for angel investors for my new estate agency specialising in flipping run-down urban homes: Quain't.

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 probability it stops after N goes, or what?

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In reply to @acmescience

@acmescience what, another one?

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joyous! cuteoverload.com/2012/08/22/sea…

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In reply to @acmescience

@acmescience us?

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 there's always a chance it will stop, so expected number of rounds until it stops might be better

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett yes, it's a result of how much email you receive rather than how much you read

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@bucharesttutor @icecolbeveridge I've always had a couple of problems with that, starting with the letter x. There is a best way; use it!

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@bucharesttutor @icecolbeveridge no, I mean the x on that page isn't the best.

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@bucharesttutor @icecolbeveridge in fact, the X there is how I would write a Greek letter Xi

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@bucharesttutor that's the same letter. Don't tell me we have different ways of spelling letters!

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@bucharesttutor oh man, it's me who's wrong. Whoops!

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge @bucharesttutor I think this calls for another #twittorthography survey

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In reply to @MitchKeller

@MitchKeller @peterrowlett @aperiodical that's what I was thinking of. So what's common in the US? Surely not no. 1?

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In reply to @MitchKeller

@MitchKeller interesting! Does 3 look bad to you, or does the thinking behind it make sense?

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In reply to @plusmathsorg

@plusmathsorg which one of you tweeted that? I've never known how you do twitter. Anyway: did they try to get you to do 3 at school?

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In reply to @MitchKeller

@MitchKeller the thinking is that it looks completely unlike any other x, and especially not like the multiplication symbol.

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz I have several of these saved in posts on aperiodical.com for if I ever get round to writing them up.

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz though I'll try storify; it's just that every time I've looked at it it's scared me off

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In reply to @MrHonner

@MrHonner @icecolbeveridge @aperiodical @plusmathsorg they should be. Blame my cack-handedness

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"@MitchKeller: Once you start using x there is no longer a need for a symbol for multiplication" Vector multiplication:

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In reply to @MrHonner

@MrHonner @icecolbeveridge @aperiodical hang on! I've looked again and they are touching. It just looks like they aren't because of chalk

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In reply to @MitchKeller

@MitchKeller handwritten ones, yes. What do you do?

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In reply to @MitchKeller

@MitchKeller but arrows take so long! And a hat is for a unit vector.

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge @MrHonner @aperiodical precisely! Handwriting is different because it's hard to consistently replicate symbols

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In reply to @jjaron

@jjaron @aperiodical *and* for general writing?! Why?

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going to do a reverse-zoolander and write DO SHAVE on my bathroom door so I remember tomorrow morning before my shower

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Just had a superb veg samosa chilli chaat from Dabbawal at the mini-mela on Grainger Street. Shockingly, no other takers

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In reply to @jgrahamc

@jgrahamc I have a really sturdy Staedtler one. Good ones are normally listed under "architect's supplies"

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can anyone explain why this snail was hanging on to the top of a stalk in strong wind? youtube.com/watch?v=ryv5cX…

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The Mad Metal Mosquito of Tynemouth, finally captured and pacified in 1967. Behind, you can see its victims' graves

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argggg I *just* missed the hit counter on aperiodical.com going past 66,666. I'll have to wait ages for another chance like that!

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen re skype video recording: I use SuperTintin, which can do 720p into separate files for each stream.

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In reply to @nilium

@nilium yes, I have that book, but what do you need it for? It's not good for learning new things

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In reply to @nilium

@nilium look past the title and get this amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/184724… - it's really good.

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Today I am Robin to Robin's Batman. Learning how to deliver lectures from the incumbent champion.

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The Mark Wallinger exhibit at the Baltic in Gateshead has a couple of great pieces about randomness and ordering. cc @mathsinthecity

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... One is a wall of shuffled, numbered bricks. The other is 2^16 pebbles laid out on chessboards and categorised with a binary code.

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In reply to @profkeithdevlin

@profkeithdevlin I've encountered a similarly annoying Scottish academic who uses "does anyone remember the quadratic formula?" the same way

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How annoying. The edit page for the @Storify story I had saved gives a 404 error.

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and the wordpress jetpack twitter embedding doesn't seem to be working either. Aaaaa everything is going wrong and I was going to do things!

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and now the @Storify link is working. Complaining worked! Or, it didn't not work!

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"proud christian livin evry day like its my last YOLO" - you might have misunderstood some core tenets of your faith, dude

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"during the closure there will be no trains in both directions" - rats! I use superpositioned trains as the basis of my quantum computer

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*golf clap* RT @CardColm: @christianp surely you meant quantum commuter?

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5555 messages in my inbox. Take that, you obsessive inbox zero types!

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In reply to @walkingrandomly

@walkingrandomly oh, these are all read. Might have maybe deliberately by accident forgotten to mention that

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge if you've got $3m you can see this one in a bit more detail manuscr1pts.com/manuscriptsii/…

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge (fairly sure there's a legitimate source for that somewhere. Trying to find it now)

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge ooh, have you found a good example in Newton's notebooks?

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge I consider that the same as 3. Going for the same shape, in one less stroke

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge can you post that link as a comment on the post please?

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I've made web-compatible versions of the Computer Modern typefaces (the ones LaTeX uses) checkmyworking.com/cm-web-fonts/

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JanvierUK very important, and it's the kind of thing you can't be told. Glad you're feeling OK

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect ahem I THINK YOU MEAN CUTTING-EDGE

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz I did not. I'll look now.

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In reply to @FontSquirrel

@FontSquirrel how does the kit generator's backend work? I'm converting 60+ fonts so I'd like to spare your server and my patience...

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In reply to @FontSquirrel

@FontSquirrel ... by doing the conversion locally, if possible.

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@md267 @bluecombats @NoelAnn @peterrowlett well, wikia is popular, and could probably be convinced to do mathjax. See nakhmani.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/wik…

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen what bands are you already listening to?

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In reply to @FontSquirrel

@FontSquirrel thought as much. Oh well! I'll sit here pushing fonts through for a while. Thanks for replying.

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Sorry dudes, but I just made the best tweet ever from the @aperiodical account. Unless you're RTing it, there's no point using twitter now.

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In reply to @MrHonner

@MrHonner I won't lie, your tweet did prompt mine. But I am pulling muscles patting myself on the back, so I am deaf to your complaints

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to anyone who balked at my Computer Modern webfonts because they're too heavy: I've recompiled them to be <100k each checkmyworking.com/cm-web-fonts/

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen Alt-J, Becca Stevenson, Django Django, Lianne La Havas, Little Dragon, Sirius Mo, Jhameel, Flight Facilities, Neil Cowley

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@disqushelp @pkrautz @ryanvalentin When did Disqus 2012 happen? We're trying to get MathJax to work inside comments. Same-Origin blocks it.

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity if you wear the t-shirt and meet some*one*, that doesn't necessarily mean the t-shirt significantly improved your chances

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity meeting that special dozen or so people would start looking convincing, but correlation is not causation!

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge famously not!

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Brr gosh it's cold!

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I didn't expect to hear the "Chinese Healthy Living Choir" singing Edelweiss when I emerged from monument station

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#eas2012 are any mathematical types also wandering around Dundee this afternoon?

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Whoops, apparently the hashtag is #eas12. So again: are any mathematical types also wandering round Dundee this afternoon?

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks I think I've seen very similar words before

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @stecks I've arrived in Dundee. 7 would be best for me.

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Dundee has some very nice buildings!

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge yes!

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks @peterrowlett I have dinner booked for 8! Later?

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Dundee also has lots of unapologetically mediocre shopping centres

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Euclid street!

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The vajazzling shop I noticed last year has closed. It seems not even gaudy nethers are safe from the double-dip recession

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*and* a wealth of pleasing sculpture? Dundovingians, you're doing OK!

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Oh wow, aforementioned bits-blinging shop was on Nethergate! How did it fail?

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Dundevarians? Dundorks? Dundeebriates? What are you called?

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In reply to @Rathematician

@Rathematician is this where that "furry boots are comfy?" joke comes from?

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks @peterrowlett 9? Hard to say

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Gotta be Dapper Dan!

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Henry's coffee house just made me an extremely nice hot chocolate

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect as I often say, lonely fun is the only fun

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In reply to @maanow

@maanow @plusmathsorg a case of nominative determinism?

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks you should be in Dundee!

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In reply to @geogebra

@geogebra did you tell us about this? Sorry if I forgot to write it up

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In reply to @geogebra

@geogebra the ipad kickstarter. Looks like twitter didn't realise that's what I was replying to

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man, that shower was like being dribbled on by a dehydrated pensioner. 4/10, at least the temperature was consistent.

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and the towel smelled like abandoned popcorn

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In reply to @HilariousCow

@HilariousCow 0/0 is not infinity. Or, if it is, it's plus or minus infinity

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In reply to @EIMathematical

@EIMathematical @peterrowlett @stecks hint taken, it'll be on the Aperiodical shortly I'm sure

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September

In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 there's probably quite a bit of selection bias

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In reply to @citizen_math

@mathalicious are the weekly videos on youtube the product of the math52 kickstarter? Trying to write you something nice on @aperiodical

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 I mean, there was probably a lot of rubbish published in the 1800s that you haven't looked at

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 ok, if we're being honest, I also prefer old maths to new. One of my most treasured possessions is an 1811 arithmetic textbook

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 "the late William Tinwell" (not an anachronism: it's the sixth edition). "A treatise on practical arithmetic and book-keeping"

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 it has a completely different set of concerns to new books, e.g. it tells you how to convert Edinburgh bushels to Newcastle ones

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 it's fascinating as a record of how life used to be, and how important arithmetic used to be

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Bad tropes in the @EIMathematical weekly challenge video: opens with a cloud of mathsy symbols; people are "obsessed" with the subject.

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I nominate @peterrowlett for best sentence on the site this month, for the opener to this post aperiodical.com/2012/09/maths-…

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going into the database to edit a quip made in an uneditable comment: ultimo sadness. And what I'm currently doing

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gdamnsk: just had two ideas. By the time I'd written the first one down, I'd forgotten the second.

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I think it's fair to say I'm currently in the "manic" phase

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forget Professional White Background, this installer's going for Professional Impact Font on Button Labels.

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor that's my favourite one so far

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In reply to @citizen_math

@mathalicious @aperiodical cool. I think they're really really good. Especially when compared with something else we're writing about

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo Bart Simpson used to say it weekly on BBC2

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tyne tunnel permit topup site has introduced 6-digit passcodes as extra security. If you don't have one, it lets you make one up on login...

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but if you've already done that, it lets you log in with just your password and make a new one anyway. Secure!

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths @UsrBinPRL and it's combinations, not permutations

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths would it surprise you to learn Mastermind is NP-complete? arxiv.org/abs/cs/0512049

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In reply to @UsrBinPRL

@UsrBinPRL yeah, ok.

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In reply to @LargeCardinal

@LargeCardinal @standupmaths huh?

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In reply to @benjamintormey

@BenTormey sometimes people who do that look like they feel it's what society requires of them.

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Your suggestions for what CSF could stand for on this dude's bumper sticker. So far I have "Cornish Society of Falkirk"... #csf

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... "Carolingian Sovereignty Fund". "Congress of Sweaty Fishermen". "Comfortable Sofa Fortnightly" #csf

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Cookie Solicitation Front. That's a #csf I might start myself

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oh wow, the outlook.com interface is actually really nice. I'm using it to send an email for the first time since they switched.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @stecks hooray, we're popular in the South

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In reply to @jamesgrime

@jamesgrime in what way?

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oh my god this vim plugin is amazing github.com/tpope/vim-surr…

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ever so sorry, forgot my #unbearablecodinghipster tag there

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this spider has 10 seconds to comply

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths hey, we had assembly every morning in my primary school.

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In reply to @DanielColquitt

@DanielColquitt aaaaaa I'd forgotten about sciencedirect's mental scrolling behaviour. Well done, though.

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actually, left knee, I'm fairly sure I *didn't* just dislocate you, so buck your ideas up

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Kickstarter if I could be bothered: Rubik's cube with internal circuitry.that goes PING when you solve it

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More difficult: Rubik's cube that announces number of moves to solution at each step (now that we know God's number it's easy, right?)

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on the pinging Rubik's cube idea: would a Hilbert curve through the blocks work, so the circuit is only complete in the initial position?

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In reply to @jamesgrime

@jamesgrime excellent cartoon. Remind me to high-five you at the big MathsJam

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In reply to @jamesgrime

@jamesgrime yes I was. Young Indie is live-action, isn't it? Not very good, either.

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In reply to @jamesgrime

@jamesgrime hmm, hard to decide. How about: you can attempt to high-five me, but I'm at least a foot taller than you, so difficulty: hard

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In reply to @jamesgrime

@jamesgrime (I say "at least" in the "I have a rough memory of how tall you are, which time has exaggerated" sense)

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In reply to @jamesgrime

@jamesgrime only a few inches off! I never got into Batman: the animated series. I bow before your mid-90s TV expertise

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I've really enjoyed sitting in for this Amazon delivery. It's given me time to reevaluate my priorities in life.

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mencap chuggers: my face might be blank because I have one of the illnesses your charity helps with. Laughing is not the correct response

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean like, just a grid to put numbers in?

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean maybe BC Spreadsheet download.cnet.com/BC-Spreadsheet…

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well, my parcel failed to arrive. I could've spent the day on the beach!

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In reply to @KSCMaths

@KSCMaths person number 5 went for pi, but the editor chose not to put it in bold

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I hate HDNL so much. They've updated the tracking page overnight to say they left me a card at 5:30 yesterday. I've complained to Amazon

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity if you're using a calculator for anything that precise, you're doing it wrong. It's a fun story of international standards!

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity a somewhat interesting intro to floating-point troubles here: perso.ens-lyon.fr/jean-michel.mu…

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excellent paper title: "How Java’s Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere" cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhu…

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity really? It's the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Lyon!

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity one of my favourite jokes.

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In reply to @benjamintormey

@BenTormey escalators are my cardio exercise. #lazyboy

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In reply to @benjamintormey

@BenTormey man, not even

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today: was going to continue rewriting @NclNumbas with knockout. Instead: getting it to do pretty things with d3.js

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so I've missed the day again, waiting in for this package. "Any time between 8am and 9pm" isn't very precise

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This is ridiculous! It's now 48 hours since I last stepped outside the house. And the courier might not come until 9pm!

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Fresh air! The parcel has finally arrived so I can leave the house yippeeeee!

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In reply to @DanielColquitt

@DanielColquitt yeah, but they didn't leave a card yesterday so they sent a courier today

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Carrot and houmous club! Who's with me today?

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch get the bus straight back to town. Carrots and houmous is an excellent combination

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chrike on a bist this code is badly written

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm the source for that is available online: tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~tmf20/TIES/PA…

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In reply to @FOTSN

@FOTSN trufax.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett Located under "arts" for the same reason it's "maths" instead of "math"

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programming in PHP is like giving instructions to a psychotic 6-year-old who hates you

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett sort of, yeah. I was getting at that "mathematics" used to mean the liberal arts

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett but on googling, it seems I was wrong to think that

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ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow! #dyspraxia

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett oh man the trouble I get from a tiny quip

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A 96-year-old man sat down next to me at the station and told me all about the old times. What a dude.

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Say goodbye to pensioner misery with Uncurmudge, new from CPCo! Patented inflatable grandchild can listen for hours on just 2 AA BATTERIES!

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In reply to @haggismaths

@haggismaths rats! I've been saving that for my next Aperiodical Roundup!

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following "are scientists...", here's "are mathematicians...". I think "sometimes" answers all four.

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there are some pretty science-fiction sounds happening outside. The Venusians might be invading via Tynemouth.

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge almost a clever joke, but monopoly is non-deterministic

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge yes, given a stream of dice rolls I can tell you if the corresponding game ends

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge or maybe I can't! Instant doubt sown.

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity do I recognise the dude on the right of that photo?

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In reply to @MB_Whitworth

@MB_Whitworth @mathsinthecity aha, that's probably it! I'll see you in November

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity never minds caps, I'm still waiting for my umbrella

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why are regional tourism websites universally terrible to navigate?

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Jesmond Dene hooray! Gonna go grab a gander at the Golden Guernsey goats!

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new series of 7 day sunday! bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

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Podcast with @peterrowlett and @stecks for the @aperiodical. @standupmaths makes a largely inaudible guest appearance. aperiodical.com/2012/09/aperio…

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In reply to @pelagikat

@hornmaths what system is it?

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A013916: Numbers n such that the sum of the first n primes is prime. oeis.org/A013916

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In reply to @plusmathsorg

@plusmathsorg I like how Gömböc was de-umlauted for the URL: goumlmboumlc. I'll call it that from now on

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In reply to @GreyAlien

@GreyAlien you only have one in space, but you might have several in time

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks you could while away the time designing an interlocking pieces puzzle and call it Aburrdeen

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity in tropical arithmetic it's 1, so I assume it's the philosophers who take the conventional view.

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In reply to @eAssess

@eAssess there's no comments section!

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In reply to @AMSGradBlog

@AMSGradBlog that site has died! It's throwing a PHP error in statpress.php

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In reply to @AMSGradBlog

@AMSGradBlog yes

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In reply to @AMSGradBlog

@AMSGradBlog you've probably got it cached, in fact

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In reply to @AMSGradBlog

@AMSGradBlog yes, working now

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge it said yesterday that he was leaning out of the car to pick up a parking ticket. Oddly no mention of that now.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett you're a real autodidact!

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I think the spiders outnumber me in this flat not just by headcount but also by total body mass

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In reply to @brianmgonzalez

@BrianGonzalez__ thanks, but I'm on windows and I've already done it

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 visit mathcentre and tell them to give their tech guy a kick up the backside for me, please

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the ADL SCORM test suites are distributed exclusively in a windows installer .exe, for no good reason. They're just static files!

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 it isn't!

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen I had the thought before that now might be a good time to do the "are there enough maths communicators" idea from a while ago

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen man, you were asking for people to interview you, and you say there aren't enough in your press release, so...

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen ok. I'm going to email you a short list of stupid questions and we'll see where that goes

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect @LWigelsworth hello that is a very nice biscuit tin back there yes it is mmhmm

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths (it's really 27, because midlands towns are in both the North and South lists)

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge ah, then my map is out of date, and Katie decided which side of the border two towns lie on

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge @standupmaths some python BeautifulSouping later, I agree with you. I don't have Baltimore or Norwich. Is Baltimore real?

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks interested to hear your reasons for putting Norwich in the "N England" list on mathsjam.com

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge yes, but does it happen? I've never heard anything from them

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks @standupmaths half the towns in "N England" are in the midlands. Don't they deserve their own list now? Or could it be "N&Central"?

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks yes!

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks girl, ain't need no JS no more! CSS got yo back jsfiddle.net/38P9A/6/

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks gtalk me when you've got time

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts so it isn't just me who has trouble with that trip!

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an end to the north/south divide! All English @MathsJams are now under the same menu on mathsjam.com

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and I recoded the nav menus while I was there

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I am weeping as I eat this guacamole, because I know soon it will be just a memory.

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created a tortilla shrine around the remaining guacamole. Then committed instant sacrilege by eating it all.

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the guacamole's life was short but beautiful. It will live forever in my heart.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @MathsJam @stecks hm! Works on my phone. I wonder why iphones don't do hover properly. I've added tabindexes, does that work?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @MathsJam @stecks ok, I'll find someone in the department with an iphone and commandeer it for a bit

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @stecks got hold of an iphone and sorted it. Should be working now, if you'd like to test it

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths you're on in Stockton! my friend has just moved to Stockton, so I now have two reasons to go there! I may see @FOTSN yet!

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.@alexbellos I just tried to send you a dm, but I think tweetdeck would rather I communicated telepathically

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In reply to @alexbellos

@alexbellos and it turns out you're not following me. Oh well.

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ended a mathematical yo mamma argument with "yo mamma was too wide to fit in the margin"

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @stecks I think it's half what it used to be. I'll make it shorter. It's only there to copy the old look

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths @Duncan_Destruct cuboid walks into bar. Barman says, "why the long face?"

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In reply to @velvlol

@velvlol @burnsidemaths yep, you've got me there. Joke isn't funny any more because it's based on an absurd premise. I have so much to learn

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type (some) TeX and (sometimes) get equivalent unicode, for pasting into things like tweets unicodeit.net

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All these terrible people coming out to Tynemouth to alcoholise themselves

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The "oh, who even cares" burger, x2. Mayo, tomato, buffalo, buffala, gherkin, batavia. Not inedible.

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In reply to @christianp

@christianp I forgot another B: bacon!

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In reply to @christianp

@christianp and bufala has one f. That tweet went about as well as tonight's meal-planning

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In Chinatown looking for premises for my new laser hair removal business, Singe-A-Pore

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put food in oven. (time passes) remember to put timer on.

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Trying to find something to watch while eating my dinner, just heard Robert Webb claim "clopen" isn't a word. Tut tut.

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Standing at the start of the great North run, watching everyone gets ready. Best costume so far: a Rubik's cube

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Everyone's run through now. Bananas beat Scooby Doos 6-5. Very defensive play from both sides this year. Ostriches out in force

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts I very much am not. Going home for a hot cocoa now

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I keep noticing people using "this" and "these" instead of "it" and "they" in writing. Have I missed a grammar rule?

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In reply to @HoeJodgkiss

@HoeJodgkiss did you retune on the 12th like ALL THE BILLBOARDS IN THE CITY told you?

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In reply to @HoeJodgkiss

@HoeJodgkiss truth. There's one literally outside your flat.

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@HELIUM_HEED I've missed this entire thing. Is there a krispy kreme shop in town or something?

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In reply to @raj7desai

@raj7desai I've just noticed your name is an anagram of "ideas jar". A nice fit with Maths Jam :)

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In reply to @kenjilamb

@kenjilamb hash-sash?

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In reply to @jgrahamc

@jgrahamc I don't recognise it now, and I have CDs bought from Tower Records. Did people have trouble opening them?

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Knackered myself sprinting for the metro, further validating my decision made at an early age not to become a running back.

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In reply to @jgrahamc

@jgrahamc ah! Yes, that would've been useful

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HATE IE HATE IE HATE IE HATE IE. #debugging

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here's a fun IE bug: on alternate presses of Ctrl+R to reload the page, font-faces don't load. F5 works fine. #aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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In reply to @LexicalAnalysis

@LexicalAnalysis @haggismaths @aperiodical I think things will change pretty soon. For one thing, non-research teachers can be cheaper

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks @peterrowlett you do *one* little thing, and from then on... I'll see if I get round to it this afternoon

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo @stecks @peterrowlett ha! Did we just fix it at exactly the same time?

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo @stecks @peterrowlett then, go team redundant effort!

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In reply to @aPaulTaylor

@aPaulTaylor did you see this comment on your "words to fill space" post? aperiodical.com/2012/04/words-…

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Newcastle @MathsJam is tomorrow, 7pm at the Charles Grey pub. All welcome. I'll be making things with rhombi, and I might have some puzzles

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In reply to @COOLIO_FEAT_LV

@HELIUM_HEED what if his palsy palsy was caused by too many cigarettes! Karma negated!

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HATE IE HATE IE HATE IE HATE IE HATE IE HATE IE HATE IE HATE IE HATE IE HATE IE. #stilldebugging

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo you might be able to start here: data.gov.uk/dataset/nptdr

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Cushing has been anagramming my name: fish-car intercept; "nice craft, hipster"; first cheap cretin; fit hipster cancer; erect rapist finch.

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IE and Chrome regexes disagree about what counts as whitespace. #hateIE

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maths modelling with Cushing before MathsJam: what if killing other prisoners got their sentence taken off yours? gist.github.com/3743994

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message for my last git commit: "More commas for the comma god!"

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett can I turn off the "share posts on twitter" option for the mathsjamphotos tumblr? About to upload my pics from last night

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett just discovered there's a button to turn tweeting on/off per post, so we can both be happy

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I think it does work on my phone, I just forget to use it.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett and of course I would forget to press the button on the second one

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doing with generator expressions in python what should be done with monads in haskell.

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The 4-cards-to-24 problem from @MathsJam last night annoyed me, so I brute-forced it with Python: gist.github.com/6bf0ad2e83b7fd…

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it's just occurred to me that that script solves the numbers game on Countdown, too.

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge it should use all four cards, yes. What numbers did you have?

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whoops, my script doesn't rearrange the numbers. Doh

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge oh right, you mean with your script. Yes, mine insists on all four.

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge you can get 24.2857, if you don't mind fractions...

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stones at various stages of erosion in Tynemouth Priory: flickr.com/photos/christi… flickr.com/photos/christi… flickr.com/photos/christi… flickr.com/photos/christi…

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(well done to the chap who chose Hardy Basalt for his grave stone)

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm similarly: this on my blog, checkmyworking.com/2012/02/puttin…, prompted by a tweet by @qikipedia

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm @peterrowlett @MathsJam Ji claimed you can do it "most of the time".

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo @CardColm @peterrowlett @MathsJam factorial wasn't part of the game!

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @Samuel_Hansen and it isn't impossible that most of us are listening to relprime in our bombproof hyperbaric chambers

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In reply to @maanow

@maanow interesting notation in the solution: (12)(3) instead of 12x3 or 12.3. Is this a US thing, or peculiar to the question setter?

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guess which browser didn't parse "\v" as ASCII character 11 until version 9!

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PS #hateIE

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hoy Platonists, here's a zen koan for you: if nobody agrees with a true statement, is it still true?

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In reply to @aPaulTaylor

@aPaulTaylor did you forget your login for aperiodical.com? I can reset it if you want.

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In reply to @aPaulTaylor

@aPaulTaylor ah, yes. My sympathies.

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In reply to @TeaKayB

@TeaKayB yes

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Alice Arnold reading out funny tweets on the radio4 morning news briefing. What have we become?

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What happens if you disagree with the sentiment in the Prayer for the Day? Do you spend the rest of the day with an unscratched prayer itch?

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In reply to @dmh10

@dmh10 ah, that's not the same, god isn't listening.

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In reply to @MathsCareers

@MathsCareers they'd look even more beautiful, and be more legible to blind potential mathematicians, if you used MathJax on that page

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett anything involving making rectangles

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett mega-pedantry?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I hope so. I was thinking more of of carpentry and landscaping though.

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my git repository has a development branch that I get to check out for about 5 minutes each day before another IE bug appears in master.

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In reply to @kirkpatricke

@kirkpatricke if the multiplication is on quaternions, that might not be nonsense (it is though)

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I'm office-naked, which means I've taken my glasses and my shoes off

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity @naomifantabulus here's mine: second shelf from the top flickr.com/photos/christi…

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen @peterrowlett division by zero isn't infinity, it's undefined! #saddestpedant

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen @peterrowlett ok, one cooked dinner to whoever comes up with the best golden ratio / email nonsense fact

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In reply to @libraryncl

@nulibrs @nulibsage happy hooray!

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan yes, it opens my browser.

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In reply to @mathpunk

@mathpunk @qikipedia but you can enumerate the rationals, so the argument works the same way. The reals are where it breaks.

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity could you ask your Devonian followers to take a picture of this window in Great Torrington? mortati.com/glusker/fowler…

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In reply to @divbyzero

@divbyzero is it bad that I made a simulation so I could say "right to left"?

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there's nothing I enjoy more than writing the Aperiodical Round Up. Could it maybe be my job? Who will pay me to do it?

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Pre-dinner: zippy, whip-bang, straight-to-the-point prose. Post-dinner: yawnful, meandering, superfluously florid murbles. Better stop soon.

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In reply to @vickytnz

@vickytnz this is my cool side-project. Thanks to my magnificently stingy part-time contract, I never do proper work on Fridays

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In reply to @vickytnz

@vickytnz CFP?

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WANTED: combination slide rule / slide whistle

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Finally, Aperiodical Round Up 7! Featuring ternary timesers, timbres, Tuvans, togas, trefoils and tons t'more. aperiodical.com/2012/09/aperio…

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In reply to @wppwah

@wppwah @mathpunk no, but there's one that comes first in the order, and that'll do

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan where is this marvellous thread?

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And then at Cabosse in Warkworth I had this frankly pornographic hot chocolate. It was indecent. Still coming down now!

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I've had a lovely day out along the coast. At Barter Books I found some new activities for @MathsJam...

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In reply to @missradders

@missradders it's near the back left, first shelf after fiction. I have so many good books from there, including one by an ancestor Perfect!

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In reply to @missradders

@missradders better leave it a while. I've pretty much cleared it out.

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In reply to @missradders

@missradders another very very good shop for maths books is Westwood Books in Sedburgh

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths @ajk_44 glad to hear you're not Cowed by punappreciative types

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall ahh, but they minimise flammability per unit buying power

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In reply to @wppwah

@wppwah @mathpunk I won't disagree with that, because I don't think "smallest uninteresting number" is an interesting property anyway

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my mum is being asked to report statistics as percentages, from a population of size 3. Oh no!

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I'm watching Doctor Who, just like a real person! And I might watch the X Factor later. Just watch me watch it.

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@Talithin @peterrowlett might it be a DNS problem? ima.org.uk works for me. Try bit.ly/P9CgTv.

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Unplanned impact of pure maths: Joseph Whitworth decided to standardise screw threads after helping Babbage build the Difference Engine

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I know how the NAS can raise more money than it will ever be able to spend: show this video youtube.com/watch?feature=… #tankengines! #squeeee!

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 we are! But I suppose it's hard to persuade people to move to Australia.

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 correct: Australia is too hot.

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 where are you at the moment? Are you still in the UK?

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 isn't it glorious? Make sure you visit the countryside while you're here (preferably leave Yorkshire. Norther is better)

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz thanks. Not sure I would've used the word "linkspam" though...

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a bloseneed! how annoying!

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Progress on my Wieringa roof continues apace. Only another all of it to go!

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In reply to @vickytnz

@vickytnz my grandma brought it back from your homeland. The label (worn out) says something like "©Fromiva"

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In reply to @vickytnz

@vickytnz after some discussion in the office, we now think it says "Frokiwi"

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ok IE, which ones are the real ones? #hateIE

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unique Scrabble scores: pizazzy(39), oxyphenbutazone(41), pizzazz(45), pizzazzes(47), razzmatazz(48), razzmatazzes(50), razzamatazzes(51)

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(I used the complete word list from scrabblejunction.org/wordlists.htm)

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Most popular score: 13 (15492 words)

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In reply to @aPaulTaylor

@aPaulTaylor oh man, I didn't think of that! I will recompute

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In reply to @aPaulTaylor

@aPaulTaylor so is oxyphenbutazone's 41 the only unique score?

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In reply to @aPaulTaylor

@aPaulTaylor that's already happened up here. Still marginally cheaper per litre than Sainsbury's own brand, but not by much

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If you replace every letter in a word with its Scrabble score, the most common string is '3111111', shared by 1263 words.

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In reply to @dmh10

@dmh10 the "complete word list" from scrabblejunction.org/wordlists.htm

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In reply to @dmh10

@dmh10 do you know where I can get SOWPODS?

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In reply to @dmh10

@dmh10 404, dude! I tried that before.

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my Scrabble score statistifying Python code: gist.github.com/3777345

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo you should also record an album with someone, so you can have an Erdos-Bacon-Sabbath number

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Cushing and I celebrated 16.16pm, aka square-square o'clock, with a high-twenty-five.

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In reply to @haggismaths

@haggismaths that fact is my favourite fact about fibonacci numbers. There's a nice easy proof by induction.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @aperiodical hah, so I'm the "silly twitter questions guy" now? I'll give it a go.

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity you have palindromically many followers!

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity hahaha, of course two people had to unfollow you while I was writing that...

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity good news! Either they've seen the error of their ways, or some replacements have picked up the slack

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch sorry, going to see Marcus Brigstocke in durham

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In reply to @vickytnz

@vickytnz is it alright if I use this picture in my mathsjam recap blogpost?

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In reply to @vickytnz

@vickytnz cor, that was quick! I noticed you retweeted something of mine before the timer had moved past "now" recently, too!

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I've written up last week's Newcastle @MathsJam, just like I used to do: checkmyworking.com/2012/09/newcas…

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Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. 25 years ago you killed my father. Prepare to die. newsday.com/opinion/viewsd…

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor but sunshine is not in its preimage. BAD ANALOGY

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Best Mitt Romney tumblr? I think so. lucilleandmitt.tumblr.com

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm *you want to write a review for the aperiodical* *wavy jedi fingers*

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @stecks @MathsJam that sounds sort of sordid when you say it that way

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12:12! Why do I keep noticing these times? I've almost covered each hour over the past week. WHAT IS GOING ON WITH MY BRAIN

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Tomorrow, 27/9, cancels down to an integer. Is that an interesting fact?

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In reply to @nrichmaths

@nrichmaths my immediate reaction on seeing the new site: please please use something other than colour to differentiate the house icons

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late arrival at the category theorists' ball: Mr and Mrs O'Morphism and their son, End O'Morphism

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... and Jack O'Bian, and Adam Ards-Pace, and Kat O'Gory, and all the rest

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts that has put a big smile on my face

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts is it still here? I thought it was moving to Manchester

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts gosh. Well, Maker Faire usually coincides with me getting a completely heinous flu...

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan wouldn't a pull request mentioning the issue solve that, by alerting both the original author and issue creator that there's a fix?

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan "fixes lazydude/repo#42" would do it.

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor If someone shares something only with their circles, you need to be in their circles. My posts are public by default.

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unicodeit.net I love you, you are my bestest friend

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths hey, at least you're not one of those self-hating comedians

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incredible. The BBC Magazine has led me to a blog I enjoyed reading. Not One-Off Britishisms: britishisms.wordpress.com

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BBC News is doing very well today bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

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hang on, I've just realised that my checkmyworking.com/misc/makebigma… does the same thing as unicodeit.net, but with more symbols and instantly

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In reply to @haggismaths

@haggismaths you ate it so quickly you didn't even see what it was? What a pig! And now I want to know what it was too.

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12.12! I have a disease, I'm sure!

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge yes I can. It's called "Simple MathJax"

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@ProfKinyon @DanielColquitt I think \( \) can delimit inline maths, or that might only be in some dialects

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"one of the region's fastest-growing companies... has gone from 4 staff to 6" - bad percentages on Look North

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Sorry, have slandered Look North. It's ITV News.

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall NI is an anti-punch: it pays for punches to be made better should you receive any later in life

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14.14! I saw 12.13 and 13.12 before so I thought I was cured, but it seems it was just a temporary reprieve. O woe!

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge @standupmaths dude, you need to move to our a PDE and impose a boundary condition v(Leicester square,t) = 0.

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You could call my clock-related worries... The Baader-TIMEhof phenomenon! #cleverestmanontwitter

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That's it. I'm just going to have to go round the corner and buy a Gareth James brownie. There's no other option.

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Good news: I have established Rapport with the girl in the chocolate shop. Said "I'm here for my usual" and she understood.

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Bad news: I have a usual in a chocolate shop

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"Timothy Gowers" is a phonetic anagram (anaphone?) of "Gimme the towers". The Prof must be a big fan of DotA.

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In reply to @mayr2

@mayr2 radio watch, in sync with the atomic clock. I definitely have a problem.

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@nulibsage I can't work out if Elsevier's 2013 price list for maths matches their claim to go under $11 per article. Do you know if it does?

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is there a greasemonkey script that destroys those INSANELY annoying sliding toolbars on ScienceDirect? Or redirects article pages to PDFs?

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch TGI Friday! That is something like poetic justice, or dramatic irony.

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In reply to @mayr2

@mayr2 anyway, no matter how far ahead or behind my watch is, it only shows xy:xy once per hour

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wanted: quick-witted historicalists to help with my 6-minute recreation of WW2, between 19:39 and 19:45 each evening.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett lols. Where's that?

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Hilariously, Elsevier has an ethics site. ethics.elsevier.com/index.asp

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett it can go wrong if they're using a self-hosted or old version, or if the page does funny things when loading.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett PS I have some hot invective in the post queue that I would love you to publish

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guess which one of us left his freezer door open for 15 minutes while his dinner was in the oven

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Tragedy #251: shunned by the rest for flaunting math skills instead of pretty plumage tragedyseries.tumblr.com/post/324699069…

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean it isn't one of those tortured euphemism pieces the British press has to put out because of our libel laws, is it?

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan change to another tab, right click on looping tab, close it. I think chrome chucks in a very rare event check even for running code

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I have an inner Charlie Chaplin and he comes out when I'm tired. After baking brownies, I am covered in an amusing amount of chocolate

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @stecks ping! Are you both available?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @stecks we weren't sure if you were going to appear, so we didn't record. Tomorrow?

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October

I've caught freshers flu AGAIN. They should have to go in quarantine before they're allowed on campus.

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen could you hide the smiley stats counter image on acmescience.com? It's in the Jetpack Stats settings.

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm reminds me of the cover of this Bayesian stats textbook indiana.edu/~kruschke/Doin…

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dying of ill.

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 looks like the OCR is misrecognising "Spain"

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In reply to @haggismaths

@haggismaths I always resented my supervisor telling me to be less conversational.

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Who has two thumbs and can't raise them to point at himself because he's so ill? And on what medium does this joke not work anyway?

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oh wow, Jamie Lee Curtis has three men's names. Now on a quest to find the standup routine from the 80s that made that observation

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is there a way for me to pay money to watch Community online legally while I am waiting out my final hours? Not a fan of skeezy pirate sites

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In reply to @jjaron

@jjaron that sounds unfair. They're really nice. (I posted the tweet from @aperiodical)

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 @MrHonner youtube has a speed setting. That dance is pretty great at 2x playback.

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unfortunate that the woman presumably about to have an abortion in the stock photo looks just like the expert beneath bbc.co.uk/news/health-19…

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Just discovered that @nclmathsoc's netball team is called the Denominatrixes. Points deducted for incorrect plural, but A+++ otherwise!

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In reply to @FOTSN

@FOTSN @geekandgoddess Should've remembered e instead of pi. e is more romantic because it's <3. (hope the date went well anyway!)

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Are there loads more spiders than normal this year or have they just started following me around?

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A reason this is not the best timeline: things are not delivered to my house by pneumatic tube.

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Aaaaaaaa Moodle has so much hidden state it's so terrible aaaaaaaaaaaaa

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In reply to @Andrew_Taylor

@Andrew_Taylor alas, it doesn't work the other way! Disappointing. wolframalpha.com/input/?i=appro…

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BEST THING EVER for us Daltonists: a colour picker which names your colour colblindor.com/color-name-hue/

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In reply to @divbyzero

@divbyzero ooh, it's like a mathematicians-only optical illusion! That's egregious! How did it ever get in print?

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In reply to @divbyzero

@divbyzero ooh, his "Five sculptures (1972)" is about the same thing but is less disagreeable because it demonstrates the problem

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The problem with Excellent Fajita Club is it comes with automatic enrolment in Long Stay Toilet Club

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I hope BBC News give up on their mad six-word limit for front-page headlines. English grammar is pretty flexible, but not *that* flexible!

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Ex 1: "No kitchens 'risk school meals'" turns out not to be the negation of "some kitchens risk school meals".

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Ace! Two thumbs up. RT @nulibsage: Power in the palm of your hands - Press Office - Newcastle University ncl.ac.uk/press.office/p…

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mixed messages from ISS. Suppose I should've emailed webmaster before tweeting it...

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just submitted my talk abstract for the big @MathsJam in November. Won't be anything new to followers of my blog, but it's my fave puzzle

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The LMS isn't on Twitter. That's sort of bad, isn't it?

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity -0 is really important in floating point arithmetic (computer number representation) -- see p13 of port70.net/~nsz/articles/…

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In reply to @EliotBall

@EliotBall life on the edge, yes, but the long edge or the short edge?

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity is that deliberately a 404?

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity oh, now I can! It's good to be recognised for your work.

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to cure my palindromic-time-noticing illness, I've searched for a rarer set of interesting times. Two-way prime-times: gist.github.com/3859511

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(I do realise there are more of those than palindromic times. Still trying to find a suitable property)

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JanvierUK there are loads here: gurmeet.net/puzzles/

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I've just worked out why my cakes always come out wonky: my oven is on a tilt

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks OR: my asymmetric designs will take the art-baking world by storm

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In reply to @TimandraHarknes

@TimandraHarknes @stecks OK, so, that's what I'm doing, and I usually try rotation, but it doesn't feel right, icing-wise.

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks Ratzenberger!

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 absolutely! In the past we've written on the Aperiodical about Amazonian studies into the number line and counting systems

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 or, some people in my department have a project modelling migration patterns in India

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 number line: aperiodical.com/2012/05/the-nu…, counting: aperiodical.com/2012/07/finger…

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In reply to @katebook

@katebook @MathsJam @stecks @standupmaths hint: let n=p_1^a_1*p_2^a_2*...*p_k^a_k. Can you write expr for no. factors in terms of the a_i?

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This is a great sequence on the OEIS. So many serious and so many silly representations! oeis.org/A000975

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In reply to @jjaron

@jjaron You're a writer, so coin one!

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David has suggested an excellent sequence: a(n) is the first number in the nth OEIS sequence.

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I suggested 1+ the nth number in the nth sequence, to ensure we make a novel sequence, but some of them are finite so it doesn't work

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previous tweet is total lies. Of course any number is different from no number, so we're still unique

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.@jjaron of course there is! David found it: oeis.org/A091967

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In reply to @aPaulTaylor

@aPaulTaylor paradox klaxon!

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In reply to @aPaulTaylor

@aPaulTaylor (assuming it gets into the OEIS)

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In reply to @katebook

@katebook yes, no. of factors is (a_1+1)*(a_2+1)*...*(a_k+1). It's called the tau function, or the divisor function: planetmath.org/TauFunction.ht…

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In reply to @JanvierUK

@JanvierUK I died in a dream once! Does that mean I really died? Am I Haley-Joel Osment?

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My friend David has started a blog. He's posted an interesting limits fact: …venturesofdavidcushing.blogspot.co.uk

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I was 2 minutes late to get my car out of the car park! Rrrrrr!

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checking the social plugin on @aperiodical doesn't pick up this tweet as a comment aperiodical.com/2012/10/unimpo…

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In which @stecks makes me feel unexpectedly positive about the @aperiodical: mathblogging.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/mat…

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I've got a backpack in my backpack. Amazingly, Xzibit was not involved.

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It looks like the "MATH PROBLEMS?" image is going round facebook again. I had 350 hits on my "solution" post today checkmyworking.com/2012/02/math-p…

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I don't know whether or not to feel sad when I find a clearly insane person's time-cube-ish pseudoscience rantings.

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Dragging Chrome tabs to the side of the screen snaps them to half-width, as if they were real windows all along! When did they put that in?

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In reply to @Htbaa

@Htbaa yes, that's been there, but they also now snap to edges, which they didn't do before.

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how much more broken stuff can I throw in this cupboard before I need to move house?

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The Penrose magnets kickstarter has 11 days to go and still needs $1000. Back them so I can be mildly amused for a bit! kickstarter.com/projects/19009…

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In reply to @SellaTheChemist

@SellaTheChemist @peterrowlett I haven't seen any. I assume the places that do have dart-and-kite floors had the tiles custom-made

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In reply to @SellaTheChemist

@SellaTheChemist @peterrowlett one dude's written up his experience (and jig-construction diagrams!) in this word doc: google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j…

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M&S uninterested in my song praising their "Cool & Fresh" line of boxers. Shame. Dudes: buy some, and get ready to feel comfortable.

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Google Reader 0! I have read the entire internet! I suppose I've *got* to clean my flat now.

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The Red Bull Stratos livestream is amazing, but the imperial units are putting me off. How can you do science these days not in metric?

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oh no, they're not just using imperial! Pressures in psi, but oxygen flow in litres/minute.

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In reply to @treasa

@treasa it's pretty scientific extreme sports. They've taken Red Bull sponsorship so they can do their experiment, not the other way round

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In reply to @treasa

@treasa the sponsors are Austrian; the space company is American. At least Red Bull insisted on having metric translations of measurements

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REDUCING THE DISTANCE TO THE SUN?!?!?! I wish they'd got a narrator with half a clue

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I love this jumper. It is my Grey Woollenwear of +1 Snugness

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity that "tetrahedral" church looks more like a prism to me

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity not really, because they're all joined together, and every polyhedron can be decomposed into tetrahedra

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In reply to @qikipedia

@qikipedia does the 1,227 count include the fact that the book contains 1,227 facts?

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Mine and Cushing's desk animals are having a stare-off.

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 just noticed another maths/anthropology paper in my Mendeley library: iascud.univalle.edu.co/libro/libro_pd…

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Welcome @TweetsofCushing to Twitter! Fittingly, he's my 444th follower.

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths I'm still waiting for someone to shout that on Masterchef

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For #adalovelaceday, big up to Hazel Perfect who did group theory, like I do!

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I just want to sleep! Stupid tooth.

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I wish real people had names as excellent as those used by spammers. Kalervo Whaphams just created an account on the aperiodical.

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge @jamesgrime good point. We need to go into business making mid-90s nostalgia drinks, as Perfect-Grime-Beveridge.

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge @jamesgrime PS: Whaphams would take 1st place and you know it.

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"Rhabdomancy is a type of divination by means of any rod, wand, staff, stick, arrow, or the like." #goodword

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A glimpse of the glamorous life of @TweetsofCushing: "I saw a square today." …adventuresofdavidcushing.blogspot.com/2012/10/equi-s…

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 oh, did that happen? I haven't paid attention to the Nobels. By all means write something if you want to.

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Christian Perfect: unable to stick finger in own nose on first attempt. #adventuresinsnotmedication

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Hooray! The Penrose fridge magnets kickstarter reached their goal! kickstarter.com/projects/19009…

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In reply to @aperiodical

@aperiodical @peterrowlett whoops, replied from the aperiodical account! Tweetdeck is hard.

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Seeing so many people smoking on Northumberland Street has reassured me that I'm not living so unhealthily after all.

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@Nathan1123 5318008, surely?

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22kg of steel, 9 digits of precision, 1 arithmetic operation: it's Ramón Verea's direct multiplier, built in 1878. history-computer.com/MechanicalCalc…

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Well I know exactly what I'm going to do today. kellscraft.com/BlackboardDraw…

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Bachelaxity (n): lessening of attention paid to use-by dates, caused by living alone for a prolonged period of time

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I've never walked so briskly in my life! Goodbye, left knee, you sacrificed yourself when I really knee-ded you.

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm @stecks I'm editing it now. Should be up soon.

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#hateIE #hateIE #hateIE

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It's so foggy at the coast! Worried this train might lose its way

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall that's very reassuring, thanks. Sitting at the back anyway, just in case

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Foghorn guided us safely into Tynemouth station. Slaughtered a pigeon on the platform as a votive

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts really? I went a couple of years ago and it was awful. Has it changed hands?

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Yeah, I think I'm going to use that indicator bulb replacement as my entry for Manliest Man this year.

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In reply to @aPaulTaylor

@aPaulTaylor you do? My sympathies to @stecks

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@DrMathS the images on drmaths.co.uk don't load

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In reply to @Thalesdisciple

@Thalesdisciple @MrHonner with two words it's called a googlewhack. Never heard of using three words

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Koala hospital! That's a thing! cuteoverload.com/2012/10/17/gre… Get better poorly koalas ♥ ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ ♥

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In reply to @vickytnz

@vickytnz we were just discussing this in the maths dept this week! The pro-B^F3 lobby was surprisingly strong. I say there are only 2 films

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect mum's just given me my tintin t-shirt. Thanks!

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Mega unfortunate copy in the latest Living North

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having dinner with my good friend Maghetti Speatball

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In reply to @jjsanderson

@jjsanderson @MikeTonge yeah, I've never had any trouble in Chrome

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In reply to @danaernst

@danaernst @MathJax I think Markdown turned your ' characters into the more-correct-for-prose apostrophe character. Try ^{\prime} instead

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In reply to @danaernst

@danaernst @MathJax oh, it's switched to right quotes, not two apostrophes. I still blame markdown, anyway.

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts I think he's done a few. He's just got a nice voice, hasn't he?

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everyone-else-is-getting-off-the-train-panic. #germanemotions

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I've just had to put on the emergency clean jumper I keep at work. Too proud of my sensible preparedness to feel shame

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Instant payback shame: paid £5.14 instead of £3 for fruit at M&S because I mixed clementines with satsumas

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen I'm really enjoying the Erdos episode. Worth my kickstarter money on its own. Thanks for collecting these stories

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For the first time ever, I'm giving a talk on a subject I can't just talk about off the top of my head on Wednesday. Worrying.

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Newcastle @MathsJam is tonight, 7pm,upstairs at the Charles Grey pub. I have polynesian knots, SKI calculus cards and a really hard puzzle

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Kids sitting on the metro with his warhammer carry cases. That could've been me, if I'd been more outgoing when I was young. #respect

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Aw man autocorrect why do you gotta ruin it all by taking the longest possible word I could've written instead of the one I did

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In reply to @manytypesoftea

@manytypesoftea hey, I remember you! Wow, you're still following me. I congratulated you last time you tweeted well and I'm doing it again

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Can't tell if the stallholder selling sports bras under a banner advertising space hoppers is being satirical

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In reply to @MathsJam

@MathsJam @standupmaths hint: logs and integrals

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In reply to @C_J_Smith

@C_J_Smith there are no exceptions to fresher's flu!

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In reply to @MathsJam

@MathsJam -> MAN re pascal triangles: poor show not writing down numbers mod n

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How is your research useful? researchinprogress.tumblr.com/post/328866989…

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This javascript function disappears as soon as you call it with anything other than itself: `a = function(b){return a=b}`

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch sorry, too busy

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for m'colleague sitting opposite: what's the best way to make "Case N" headers/sections for a proof by cases in LaTeX? \theoremstyle?

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outlook.com email is so nice to use. Can't quite bring myself to switch from gmail though.

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@Nathan1123 oh no no, it's very different from the outlook web access that institutions use

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In reply to @vickytnz

@vickytnz are you planning on coming to another mathsjam in the future? I think you'd've liked the string patterns we were doing last night

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In reply to @vickytnz

@vickytnz EXCELLENT

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buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo paintings lyonswiergallery.com/wittfooth_3pas…

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gosh these slides are good-lookin'. deck.js + mathjax + computer modern bright = mmhmm!

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In reply to @danaernst

@danaernst in an hour or so once I've given the talk!

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There is no classical music octet called Baroquetagon. REMEDY YOURSELVES, MUSICIANS

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Slides from a talk about zero-knowledge protocols checkmyworking.com/2012/10/slides…

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks interesting! They're on the server...

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks ah! got the capitals wrong. Rubbish windows case-insensitivity

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Right so, 1/0 isn't defined, but is |1/0| ?

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In reply to @DanielColquitt

@DanielColquitt yes

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revelation: ctrl+alt+vowel gives puts an acute accent on in windows 7. There must be something similar for grave, but what is it?

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In reply to @komiga

@komiga tried that. It doesn't work. ctrl+alt+` produces ¦ for me.

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when you enter the second minute of saying "ummm", it's fair to say you've lost your train of thought

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks me too!

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Ha. @stecks and I are writing pseud waffle in parallel on a google doc. Too earnest!

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks 80s laser noises!

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks oh god, and now we're pseuding on twitter too.

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It's cho'clockolate!

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In reply to @alexbellos

@alexbellos nope, nope and definitely nope. I was *enormously* annoyed to find this out the hard way

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In reply to @alexbellos

@alexbellos and if you're thinking of doing the "gardens" visit instead: it's OK, but not amazing. Go only if you're already in Granada

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In reply to @haggismaths

@haggismaths run them through fontsquirrel.com/fontface/gener…

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The site I run with @peterrowlett and @stecks, the @aperiodical, is half a year old today. Cor! aperiodical.com/2012/10/the-ap…

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Sat in the dental hospital waiting to be seen. If it turns out they need to do anything, this afternoon's Maths Aid is going to be fun.

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Hah, my phone's picked up the university wifi at the dental hospital. Fantastic.

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Let's take a trip straight back to the 90s! I just checked, and rinkworks.com still exists. I used to think it was the funniest.

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths amazon says a cube in its packaging is 5.6 ounces / 150g amazon.com/Winning-Moves-… amazon.co.uk/Rubiks-9420-Cu…

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett um....? Really furious chalk-holding?

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths would I be spending too many pedant points if I raised the question of whether it's "the Rubik's cube" or just "Rubik's cube"?

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch just had a root canal done, so best not

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Person I'm sharing this office with has started laughing very loudly at the internet. I think she wants to chat to break the silence...

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... but I find her monumentally tedious. Hoping she'll eventually give up.

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I'm getting nostalgic for this morning with the nice dental student doing my root canal

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North Shields smells really strongly of weed again. I hope they realise "stonefish" isn't just made by getting normal fish stoned.

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In reply to @DanielColquitt

@DanielColquitt no replies apart from yours. I think you're right.

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Watching the latest @numberphile video. It seems @standupmaths used to be able to write ∞ properly, but then he took an arrow to the knee

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My mum has just discovered TODAY, AT THE AGE OF 56, that there is such a thing as a pause button. #themindboggles

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Her defence: "I've never had cause... to pause. Hey, tweet that!"

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Seriously men-dudes, buy some M&S Cool&Fresh pants. Anything else feels like sackcloth now and I will not allow it to touch my bottom.

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths @apontzen does #lll\_ work as a hashtag?

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In reply to @HoeJodgkiss

@HoeJodgkiss the cheap ones are very middling, but nowhere near as bad as tablets can be. Be prepared to be underwhelmed, but they're useful

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Wow, the person who presents Money Box looks even more boring than I could have dared imagine

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in other radio gripes: why wasn't my list of favourite programmes from the old radio iplayer carried over to the new one?

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and another one! Why can't I sort programmes in a category by broadcast date any more? IT'S A RUDDY LIBERTY

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today's Geometry Daily is nice geometrydaily.tumblr.com/post/343564820…

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Beginning to see the favourable aspects of Dorothy Dandridge's Cow Cow Boogie youtube.com/watch?v=xovmaG….

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Your response, Ella Mae Morse? youtube.com/watch?v=H9AfqV… #nevermind

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In reply to @Dr_Lucie

@Dr_Lucie @standupmaths so the #domputer has a bandwidth of ~0.0000000004 mbit/s. ALMOST AS SLOW AS AOL AMIRIGHT

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In reply to @jgrahamc

@jgrahamc I'm writing a quicky news piece about Plan 28 for @aperiodical. Can I email you some questions?

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge actually, you're already registered on the site - if you log in to the admin page, can you see the "anyone can edit" posts?

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In reply to @jgrahamc

@jgrahamc I don't know your address. Can you dm me?

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Nothing fills me with existential dread like the final half-hour of Radio 4 each night. And Something Understood trebles it.

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Shine, cosh, than, ar-cosh, arc-shine, arc-than. #letscallthewholethanoff

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oh, and sesh, cosesh, coth, of course. #letscallthewholethanoff

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@DanaKazim Dangerous Knowledge is very good dailymotion.com/video/xdoe8u_d…

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @KSCMaths @aperiodical aw but I was quite pleased with my hashtag

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just realised I could've gone with #thesinhing instead of #letscallthewholethanoff. Maybe we need a #hyperbolicpuns hashtag as well.

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"I know what each of those words means individually..." is the response 9/10 times one mathematician describes his work to another

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the building manager has taken down the sign which used the word 'egress'. Victory!

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Moodle's DB abstraction is terrible, and its SCORM module is even worse. ~600 DB queries each time a student submits an answer!

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aaaaaa big mathsjam is less than 3 weeks away aaaaa I haven't prepared anything aaaaaaaa

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In reply to @pelagikat

@hornmaths yes. Frames are layers; put (1000ms) at the end of layer names to set display time. Sth like Plugins->Animation->Play to preview

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In reply to @Qunchuy

@Qunchuy @KSCMaths @aperiodical @Shamoquinn oh, rats!

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Every time the site gets 386 views in a day I do a tiny smile.

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There were 2 ships called MS Windoc and they both hit bridges on the Welland Canal, 60 years apart en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Windoc… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Windoc…

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Today's Tynemouth hipster winner is the dude wearing a gendarme cap. Truly didn't expect to see a member of the Foreign Legion today

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Difficult for anyone to challenge him now. Only someone having moved out of Tynemouth a year ago because it's gone too mainstream could try.

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(standing on the metro platform looking out for just such a person to look down their nose out the window as their train goes past)

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now standing on the train listening to Breakbot (it's good to listen to the oldies occasionally) and tweeting about hipsters. #awinnerisme!

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ahahahahahahah RT @Kit_Yates_Maths: This article "proves" a link between maths and nature. bbc.in/VUPmLG

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moodle's SCORM module: 70 instances of eval() in the JS; ~600 DB queries per save; custom AJAX calls instead of YUI's; ETC AD INFINITUM

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Solved a Fresnel integral while peeling my lunchtime clementine. Pretty chuffed.

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More food calculus: evaluating double integrals is like picking strawberries; triple integrals are like picking strawberries in a chopper

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While discussing what we'd do with our last half-hour of sight, we found "Last of the Brazilians" is not an extant porno spoof. Disappointed

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The maths behind my Fresnel integral peel: arxiv.org/abs/1202.3033

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In reply to @maanow

@maanow this says it's no longer attributed to Franklin: jstor.org/stable/2695704

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#hateie #hateie #hateie #hateie

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Just won a vicious maths battle with @TweetsofCushing. Matt has a Russian textbook with ALL the questions in

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doing some top githubbing today github.com/numbas/editor/…

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Pretty happy with how my evening's going

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In reply to @vickytnz

@vickytnz I was recently told I have too much tintin merchandise. Impossible!

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@DanaKazim Pure: python or Haskell. Applied: MATLAB or maybe Mathematica. Stats: R.

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In reply to @vickytnz

@vickytnz the Tintin Shop in London is the place that makes it all, and well worth a visit. My bro bought me an ace t-shirt for £10 recently

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@DanaKazim much nicer syntax, easier to write what you mean without fiddling about with language stuff. If you want speed, haskell is fast.

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@DanaKazim python, by far. Try femhub.com/textbook-pytho… and diveintopython.net/toc/index.html

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Is anyone interested in taking part in a v casual "recreational maths seminar" g+ hangout? We'd look at papers from my esoterica collection

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge have you got a bit of time to test the idea now?

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge ok, ping me when you're ready and I'll start a hangout

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In order to be blinded by paintballs, PJ had to be shot in both eyes simultaneously. Ladies and gentlemen, Byker Grove was an inside job!

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I'm down the rabbit hole now. Everyone is involved. Where was that fat man from The Machine Gunners on the day PJ was shot?

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That went rather well. I think the recreational maths seminar is a goer. Thanks to @icecolbeveridge for sparing time and brainpower.

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In reply to @TweetsofCushing

@TweetsofCushing 874 - gist.github.com/3983772

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oh no my mind's started pronouncing 'skeleton' as if it's a kind of fundamental particle. Now I can't stop thinking about boogly death rays

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arXiv submitters: I love it when you use your home-made LaTeX macros in your abstracts. Deciphering two-character names is my fave hobby

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I pledge my patronage to the first clothes shop to put out an advert backed by the song "Jumpers", to the tune of Dizzee Rascal's "Bonkers"

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Spent the morning baking instead of working. Can't baking be my job?

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Terrified that children will knock on my door and I'll have to give away these choco crinkles before I can give them to my grownup friends

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Fenwicks window! Fenwicks window! Winwicks fendow! Fendow wenwicks!

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Boo!

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In reply to @pelagikat

@hornmaths no, more like a cookie crossed with a brownie

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I have learnt from the master RT @TweetsofCushing: @christianp is now a fellow aces up master after my tutoring

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch saw it on Sunday, and I'm at a Halloween party tonight, sorry. Pizza on Friday?

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch Ahh, peanuts to you then

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it's wednesday and I've just realised I haven't read any comics this week. Not even Dinosaur comics! Re-re-re-rectify!

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WHAT IS THIS VOODOO?!

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November

Why is the new iPlayer radio so totally worse than the old one? They've stripped out loads of useful information and views

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Facebook suggests I might like the page for Rethink Mental Illness. Man, I wish I could just reconsider my decision to be mentally ill.

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(I'm sure Rethink Mental Illness does good work and I'm going to look at it so thanks Facebook, but I am compelled to misinterpret the name)

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Oh no I'm still Gove!

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Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who turns up for maths-aid on time. (I am)

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TIL the symbol produced by \cdot is called an interpunct. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpunct. More dottery: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1918…

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In reply to @TweetsofCushing

@TweetsofCushing NO WAY

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In reply to @helenarney

@helenarney try bethere.co.uk

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oh man, I copied my local copy's address instead of the one on the web! #meganoob

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can someone test a little cellular automaton for me please? somethingorotherwhatever.com/spirallife/

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In reply to @alnelson_writes

@MuseGarden thanks. I'm not really using d3 properly, or for anything that wouldn't be easier in jquery. Changed what I was doing halfway!

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In reply to @alnelson_writes

@MuseGarden I will engithub it forthwith

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In reply to @alnelson_writes

@MuseGarden github.com/christianp/spi…

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Everyone should talk like Aisling Bea. bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… That would be just wonderful.

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In reply to @alnelson_writes

@MuseGarden yeah, Cell.update

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In reply to @walkingrandomly

@walkingrandomly less of a generalisation and more of an analogue, if you'll excuse the excellent pun

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errors caused by whitespace are the hardest errors to find

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everyone pick an offensive foreign stereotype card from this old Happy Families pack! bibigreycat.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/happyf… I'm going to be Mr Jham Jhar

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If you're interested in taking part in my google+ recreational maths seminar, please tell me what times would suit you: aperiodical.com/2012/11/a-recr…

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge can you add +The Aperiodical on google+ so I can add you back, and then mention you in a post?

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In reply to @TweetsofCushing

@TweetsofCushing NO WAY!!! Mine ends in 5 :(

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In reply to @TweetsofCushing

@TweetsofCushing there are quite a few LaTeX errors in your post

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INSPIRED! cuteoverload.com/2012/10/22/thi… (but you shouldn't dock tails)

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I feel left out with everyone saying their phone number is prime. My mobile number ends in a 5 :(

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What's the deal with Americans writing numbers like "one (1)" on forms? Do a significant number of Americans not learn how to read numbers?

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hooray slow internet hooraaaaaaaaay

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In reply to @LargeCardinal

@LargeCardinal would you like to write something about Wow-Cards for @aperiodical? I don't really get the idea, but it's symmetry, right?

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well I'm not going to not use the Bourbaki dangerous symbol now I know about it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbaki_…

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Are attitudes to presenting proofs different between France and UK? I've seen lots of French authors point out tricky parts; none in English

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths they even had a reference to copy on the window next to it!

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Oi! Lagabouts and dragalarks, upload your photos of last month's MathsJam to mathsjamphotos.tumblr.com/submit or ELSE

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Is it a coincidence that a deck of playing cards is the same size as two alphabets?

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge ahh, so that's the secret to podcasting success: mention each listener by name. So simple!

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm As I typed: not going to not use. It's very simple, Colm!

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In reply to @HoeJodgkiss

@HoeJodgkiss and start a bootleg record label called Ruff Trade

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Newcastle MathsJam October 2012 Recap checkmyworking.com/2012/11/newcas…

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In reply to @n1vux

@n1vux @peterrowlett @reflectivemaths very interesting!

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @aperiodical hahahaha! If I ever need you to turn your phone off I know what to do

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect Ahh, now I do too!

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How the religious manage to listen to Sunday on radio 4 every week and manage not to be bored into apostasy is a real mystery to me.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett what time are you recording? I'm going to post in a bit saying rec. math. seminar will be Sunday 6pm, but need to pick a paper

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett (first one next Sunday, not this one, but I'd like you to announce it on mathmaths)

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In reply to @alexbellos

@alexbellos worse: in a woeful display of subediting, they capitalised 'maths'. Hang 'em from lampposts!

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In reply to @LargeCardinal

@LargeCardinal @aperiodical an intro to what they are and why they're mathematically interesting would be good. Could be text+pics or video

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen has anyone else complained about the download for the latest ep of relprime cutting out halfway through?

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen would you believe that the 10th attempt, started after I tweeted, has worked?

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Please join in with my recreational maths seminar on google+ next Sunday! aperiodical.com/2012/11/recrea…

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All you haters can do one, Emacs Hart is the best at making maths videos.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett whoops, forgot I had two links!

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In reply to @aPaulTaylor

@aPaulTaylor this-is-my-gif-folder.tumblr.com/post/6751617169

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In reply to @benjamintormey

@BenTormey do have some of that ice cream though. It's amazing

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan yo dawg, I heard you like writing code while you write code, so switch to python, where you don't need to do that

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan you seem to be complaining about ruby's module system a lot lately. Python's had a working one since the start.

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In reply to @LargeCardinal

@LargeCardinal email root@aperiodical.com and I'll send you the "how to write for us" doc. Any length is fine.

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watching the tracker for a thing I ordered from the US. How does it take a week to get from Maryland to New York? They're like 4 hours apart

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In reply to @TweetsofCushing

@TweetsofCushing aaaaaaaa it was 08:08 when I read that tweet!

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In reply to @pelagikat

@hornmaths oh yes! I completely forgot

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have been re-appraised of the situation vis a vis hurricanes on the east coast of the US. Well done USPS for holding on to my package! #fnar

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I've made a huge mistake

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall I need IE for testing!

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what was wrong with right-click menus popping up where the mouse is? I quite liked that. It meant I didn't get RSI.

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I'm well impressed with how often the interface freezes so far. Gives me time to gather my thoughts.

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I've worked out how to close programs! Happy dance!

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In reply to @gingerbeardman

@gingerbeardman pretty terribly so far. They weren't kidding about metro not being adapted for desktops. No keyboard shortcuts!

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WHAT WAS WRONG WITH WINDOWS?! THE RUDDY THING IS NAMED AFTER THEM!

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oh I give up. I'm going in to work. That's how bad windows 8 is.

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Dell "Express Service Tags" out by 1 digit correspond to different PCs. Did nobody teach you Hamming codes, Dell? #angerday

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In reply to @matthen2

@matthen2 what do tides look like if the moon's orbiting fast enough to be 10m above sea level? Do waves have time to fall?

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Following much whinging by @TweetsofCushing, I've edited my MathsJam recap to credit him for more things. checkmyworking.com/2012/11/newcas…

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In reply to @vickytnz

@vickytnz there are so many other nice coffee places in the city centre!

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In reply to @alexbellos

@alexbellos I interviewed the director for The Aperiodical: aperiodical.com/2012/10/the-ca…

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Congratulations to the family with the bonfire 6 feet from their front door and 3 feet from the public footpath.

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hooray, graphics! My mining and crafting days are not yet over

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In reply to @wormboyslim

@wormboyslim @aperfect worse: I installed windows 8 on my laptop

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks do you have a copy?

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Ordering a very particular kind of toothpaste from amazon. #autismlife

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen you didn't vote for Nimrod Y.U. Allen, III! Bad voting

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks re free time: I play minecraft to clear my mind. I suppose other people would take a nap.

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#hateIE #hateIE #hateIE #hateVML #hateIE

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potatoes-which-have-been-boiling-for-fifteen-minutes-are-unpeeled-realisation. #germanemotions

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge what was that idea for an aperiodical post you had last week?

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge both good ideas

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In reply to @treasa

@treasa crumbs! I just about remember that. Were they really that old?

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In reply to @treasa

@treasa ahhh, you mean these! kellscraft.com/BlackboardDraw…

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In reply to @treasa

@treasa that's a good prompt for me to save it in mendeley

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In reply to @DanielColquitt

@DanielColquitt that's actually a pretty good ratio for proofreading

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In reply to @vickytnz

@vickytnz don't do it! They're all on 4od for free!

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No matter how you kern it, burnspet.co.uk reads like a terrible description of what the product does

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect your mission: find this stellated dodecahedron in the church of San Pantalon mateturismo.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/los…

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eugh, the raphael.js API is yucky

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raphael.js: why is paper.path('a stupid string for stupid people') better than path.move(x,y).line(x,y)... ?

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In reply to @maanow

@maanow The solution is rounded incorrectly (or just down to 3 dp).

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In reply to @robrolfemaths

@robrolfemaths @maanow I was trying to avoid giving the answer in a tweet. Anyway, 30/31 is more like 0.9677419...

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In reply to @alisonkiddle

@ajk_44 are you familiar with Simon Tatham's portable puzzle collection?

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suddenly-remembering-you-do-have-chocolate-hidden-somewhere-after-all-exultation. #germanemotions

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aaurggg what's this madness? I had no idea minstrels were coated in hard icing

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Decided my walls need some new posters. This Gauss went a bit wrong, but I think I'm on the right track.

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Take 2: Turing!

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett how are you getting on with Numbas? Have your students handed in that assignment?

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks all in good time

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The PM has a new app which constantly scans twitter. So let's get "short-term populism is no way to run a country, Mr Cameron" trending.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett just checking up on it!

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett another question for the tiny-maths-surveys site I really need to make one day

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(actually though, stick some significance figures on the aggregated data and it's a decent idea)

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In reply to @jgrahamc

@jgrahamc thank you! My feelings exactly. The end had the structure of a Marvel superhero movie

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In reply to @KSCMaths

@KSCMaths that's a rather obtuse 65 degrees!

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just computing the volume of the Earth in pecks, nothing crazy. wolframalpha.com/input/?i=volum…--

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In reply to @alisonkiddle

@ajk_44 one of the newest ones, called "Pearl", is very good

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In reply to @KSCMaths

@KSCMaths best pun! And since it's a wrong angle, not a length, "not conformal" would be a better disclaimer. I'll stop being pedantic now

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In reply to @haggismaths

@haggismaths ahh, I had a really good one yesterday but I came in today to find the board wiped because of A Scandal.

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect prima!

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen I would if your server could stay on task for more than a minute!

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In reply to @haggismaths

@haggismaths alas not.

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths not even going to email you. Newcastle MathSoc - nclmathsoc.com/home

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths while I have your attention: will you be around for drinks before or after the Stockton show on Saturday?

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Would it be profitable to set up as a bounty hunter tracking down skiving contract workers? I'd call it A la Recherche des Temps Perdus

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In reply to @vickytnz

@vickytnz Denksführer!

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ok, who's going to buy me one of these? bbc.co.uk/news/education…

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In reply to @JPickford

@JPickford time for me to get back into game dev!

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In reply to @aPaulTaylor

@aPaulTaylor if you haven't already sorted it: can you post the sequence of numbers of lights? It's hard to tell from the video

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The marimba solo in the Fenwicks window song is driving me to violence

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Does anyone want to do something mathematical with me? RT @ScienceFest: The call for UK Maker Faire is NOW OPEN fb.me/VmHB7o9f

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett whatever twitter client you're using to send stuff into aperiodical is messing up the URLs since they got rid of the #! bit

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has anyone heard of IE, on first loading a page, calling JS object constructors before attaching their prototypes? Doesn't happen on refresh

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I also have a problem with the last text node attached to a VML diagram with raphael.js not showing up

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PS: in case it wasn't clear, #hateie #hateie #hateie #hateie

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In reply to @tanurai

@tanurai I've added Sheffield to the MathsJams map: maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=2…

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wow, vodafone make it cartoonishly hard to leave them.

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perfect timing. My phone's screen has just died.

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A little reminder: tomorrow at 7pm GMT I'll be hosting the first recreational maths seminar on google+. plus.google.com/events/cejb0m6…

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In reply to @Dr_Lucie

@Dr_Lucie @standupmaths cutting-edge Teesside style. They need something to distract from the industrial horrors out the window

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notifications in windows used to be in the bottom-left, where no mission-critical buttons live. Now they're in the top-right, where Close is

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In reply to @decaf_unicorn

@fumbleweeds you'd love England. It's 46F here (if I've done the conversion right) and people think it's warm enough to go surfing.

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I have set up a little minecraft server for me and my bro. Twitterists, you can be my bro from another mo! DM me if you'd like to play

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Well, the Recreational Maths Seminar was fun! So glad the idea worked. Video up on the @aperiodical soon. Thanks to those who took part.

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In reply to @Htbaa

@Htbaa I meant bottom-right, yes.

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today's bug was caused by my stupid brain and not IE's. So, for a one-time only showing, I am obliged to use the tag #hateSelf

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In reply to @Rosalot

@Rosalot you're married? Congratulations!

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A big metal box in the lunch room marked "Health and Safety" is beeping. Twitter, should I run away?

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In reply to @jgrahamc

@jgrahamc in 3rd form Latin I remember reading about a dude who was pretty pleased with central heating

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In reply to @HilariousCow

@HilariousCow Guile theme! youtube.com/watch?v=sDQ5ep… I blame you for the fact I'll have this in my head the rest of the day

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New @TweetsofCushing phone number braggadocio: how many square numbers does your phone number have? Best in the office is 3625, which has 3

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Trying to get Fearne Cotton to endorse my new back scratcher design. I'll call it the Fearne Itcher.

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Why do computer scientists only ever get to second base?

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Productive day in the office. I think we've covered all possible π puns.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan lamely attempting to join in with a twitter joke as a service

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In reply to @Sa3eedo

@Sa3eedo reaching sixteenth base sounds like a fun time

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Discussing whether the set of yo mama jokes is countable. If I can make one about each of @TweetsofCushing's mum's ex-lovers, it isn't.

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(that was yo mama joke ω+1)

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths did you make your venue bookings through Easyjet? Was Stockton sold as "Newcastle South"?

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Does the IRS have an Erdős number of 1?

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what do you call the dude in a rap song who fills in the gaps with uh-huhs and aww-yeahs? There is a word for it I know

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In reply to @HoeJodgkiss

@HoeJodgkiss I think it might be on the red button

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In reply to @HoeJodgkiss

@HoeJodgkiss (but I'm going to bed now so I don't even care if I'm lying)

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Woman and her mother, made up like panto dames, facing the wrong door to get off the train. "It's behind you!", I almost shout.

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talking to tech support for a phone company is like character generation in an RPG: keep rerolling until you get a good guy

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In reply to @jjaron

@jjaron now I want to play probabilistic quantum golf and get a hole-in-one-in-four

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maths: basically magic. zurich.disneyresearch.com/~wjarosz/publi…

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect haha, it's like sixth form all over again

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Just sent out the reminder email for Newcastle @MathsJam. (this is the reminder for other MathsJam organisers to send out theirs)

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo Asking the University of Waterloo is out of the question?

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo coincidentally, I gave a talk on zero-knowledge protocols recently which used three-colouring graphs as an example

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo here: checkmyworking.com/2012/10/slides… (warning - posh modern browser-based slides which you might have trouble with)

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In reply to @plusmathsorg

@plusmathsorg the brackets on the last equation aren't balanced.

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Unexpectedly vegetarian dinner after I forgot to cook any of the three kinds of meat I just bought

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This'll be right up @standupmaths' street: a book about snowflakes, with accurate diagrams, from 1863. openlibrary.org/books/OL709037…

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @Samuel_Hansen top tagging.

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen I assume that signing that as a foreigner would be counter-productive.

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen oh. I thought I could remember foreigners being encouraged to sign the open access one.

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Dear Diary, I made terrible nachos today. Tonight I'll dream about the nachos I could've made. And it'll make me sad.

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So that's what windows 8's BSOD looks like. Wasn't expecting to see it so soon.

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm @pickover did you see it was mentioned on the last episode of QI?

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In reply to @sfh10

@sfh10 my opinion on STEP maths: I would've loved some proper help with it when I did it.

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In reply to @CardColm

@CardColm oh, I thought you would've heard of it at least. It's a *fantastic* comedy panel show presented by Stephen Fry

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In reply to @vickytnz

@vickytnz nope. Nope nope nope. No way no how.

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In reply to @miclugo

@madcaptenor it isn't even our first one. @MarcusduSautoy presented one a while ago. I've forgotten what it was called.

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In reply to @miclugo

@madcaptenor you've made me go to IMDB now. It was called "Mind Games", and wasn't just maths. imdb.com/title/tt035207…

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Already in @MathsJam mode. Students wanting numeracy help tomorrow might learn about woollen applications of group theory instead.

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In reply to @alisonkiddle

@ajk_44 @samholloway I would follow Sam, but he's following exactly as many people as he's being followed by, and it's a triangular number!

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Today's the day when everyone's @-replies end with "will you be at MathsJam tomorrow?"

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity numbergossip says it's evil, deficient, and untouchable.

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In reply to @DanielColquitt

@DanielColquitt "Lagrange Multiplier" has always sounded to me like a combo move in Maths: The Game

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge ok, Monday, but I don't get the reference

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There's a petition to sign if you think the elected PCCs are a bad idea: epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/41806

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I did not know about this! Multiple user profiles for debugging in Chrome plus.google.com/u/0/1151336532…

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks Pudsey's fundraising powers don't stem from his injuries! And even if there's a link, it hasn't been shown to be monotic increasing!

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks oh bum. I thought I was so clever getting that in exactly 140 characters and I missed two from "monotonic".

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In reply to @bluecombats

@bluecombats a pair of scissors usually comes in handy.

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looking up names for a randomised question. "Blossom. Meaning: Flower Blossom"; "Bluebell. Meaning: Grateful". WAAAAAA?!

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks @aperiodical @SciencePunk what to call it?

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In reply to @SciencePunk

@SciencePunk @stecks @aperiodical Twiterator? @ccumulator?

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Talking about education resources conversation template: "Well, (organisation X) were doing good stuff, but they've been bought by Pearson)"

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Did you know that the very first MathsJam took place in Holland in 1690? rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/R…

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In reply to @mathsatschool

@mathsatschool oooh, glue, I didn't think of that! I do have cards and string though, so the union of our packs probably covers everything

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OK, #mathsjam, what have I forgotten? Most of what I own is in this bag.

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Right then. To Crewe! #mathsjam

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In reply to @MathsJam

@MathsJam what's yellow and equivalent to the axiom of choice? #mathsjam

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Why is the contour integral around western Europe zero? #mathsjam

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there aren't many dirty logicians: “Kleeneliness is next to Gödeliness” #mathsjam

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In reply to @charliesgames

@charliesgames you should have a dental hospital nearby

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An easy way to get mathematical symbols to paste into tweets: unicodeit.net #mathsjam

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I had no idea mcdonalds got so busy on Sunday evenings

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I'm back at my home. MathsJam was great.

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Allen Knutson used to have a webcam pointed at a whiteboard in his office. Its last image is of his hand taking it away math.cornell.edu/~allenk/webcam…

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths one of the Bernoullis has created a mechanism to help you draw the infinity symbol properly plus.google.com/11620307109909…

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In reply to @samholloway

@samholloway not too many records on sale these days. It's a fairly even split between chintzy vintage and semi-professional photographers

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 Mockus, mayor of Bogota, is my hero: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanas_M…

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@nulibsage that statistic doesn't make any sense.

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@nulibsage more likely a hard-working press officer. I have a collection of gloriously overstated research press releases

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@nulibsage actually, I have a question for you! Yesterday I was told of the existence of the Wallis collection. How do I see it?

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge just putting that at the end of the URL ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/service/timesa… works

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I'm thinking of starting a series on badly overstated popular maths. I would call it poopular maths. Today's example: slate.com/articles/healt…

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1) claims animals "solve" maths problem. 2) describes problem as "wildly complex", but not in the technical meaning of the phrase.

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3) claims mathematicians "discovered" basic fact about graphs. 4) repeats decade-old press release claiming a human has "solved" TSP.

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5)finally and worst of all, gives no hint that "hard" for mathematicians has a very different meaning to "hard" for regular people (or bees)

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A person called Dana and a person called Daina have favourited my last tweet. I assume one is the imaginary complement of the other.

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In reply to @icecolbeveridge

@icecolbeveridge yes please. Put it in the system!

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Newcastle @MathsJam is tomorrow, 7pm at the Charles Grey pub (outside Monument metro station). All welcome, just bring your brain!

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did everyone suddenly agree that the past participle of "lead" is no longer "led"? What's going on?

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 I saw "lead" in a newspaper (though I think it might have been the Grauniad) recently, and I've seen it in several articles since

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In reply to @TweetsofCushing

@TweetsofCushing where? The top post is still the prisoners

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In reply to @TweetsofCushing

@TweetsofCushing now so do I. Most peculiar. Gavin says you might be ill. Are you?

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In reply to @pelagikat

@hornmaths 'lead'

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In reply to @C_J_Smith

@C_J_Smith it's WHAT?! I'm not prepared! HOW WILL I DO ANYTHING ELSE TODAY?

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I've lost my rather expensive bluetooth headphones. I'm quite displeased.

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'...the use
of "percision" as defined in the SQL specification can be confussing.' I agree, SCORM spec. I am very confussed.

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In reply to @samholloway

@samholloway there's a hill in Cambridge?

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seeds in clementines: basically the worst experience in food

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picked my nose, unleashed a pint of blood. Will never pick my nose again.

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Helpful definition of notation from the SCORM 1.2 spec: "If not preceded by a minus sign, the number is presumed to be positive."

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No mention of required precision, base system, or which character should be used for the decimal point. Hooray!

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Found this little curio hiding in the school library. Unfortunate surname, though.

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths so what does 2,000 Rubik's Cubes being solved at once sound like?

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Some lovely geometric wallpapers designed for iPads simoncpage.co.uk/blog/2012/03/i… (note: many other devices are capable of displaying bitmaps)

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The @aperiodical is looking dangerously well-organised at the moment.

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In reply to @mathsinthecity

@mathsinthecity @icecolbeveridge to paraphrase JFK, we have nothing to fear but vier itself, so 4 should be the sole terrifying number.

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"I genuinely love Internet Explorer's debugging tools. They always help me quickly get to the bottom of any problem." - nobody, ever.

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In reply to @mjdominus

@mjdominus oh well. Three letter President: close enough.

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Testify! RT @HilariousCow: While there are no Americans around to see this, I'm just gonna say it: I hate America's freedom. Repatriate!

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In reply to @haggismaths

@haggismaths thank that person from me. Typewritten maths is a terrible artefact of the mid-20th century.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett is it constructive to rant about someone's mistakes at length? I think twitter is ok because it's ephemeral

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett I also meant "permanently"

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In reply to @benjamintormey

@BenTormey Get a pair of boxfresh. They last so much longer than Converse.

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts top idea! For lunch, or breakfast?

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths I was planning on using "Chum-in-Chief" but @stecks wrote the article. Which do you prefer?

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts ahhh, I need to get the metro at 11, but you've stirred beachy feelings in me. Mind if I join you?

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @icecolbeveridge @standupmaths would you believe I was literally about to tweet that myself before I saw Col got there first?

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Either chewing bubblegum in an otherwise quiet office should be illegal, or it should be a valid extenuating circumstance in murder cases

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In reply to @altweet_pet

@altweet_pet what's the record he's attempting to set?

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Telling me there's nothing to watch on telly.. I have watched Hot Shots! enough minus infinity times.

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Our table number is "a snowman doing a painting".

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In reply to @helenarney

@helenarney @standupmaths is that Matt's snowfake-fighting superhero costume?

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getting back to sleep is exceedingly hard with this hipster nonsense on Peter Day's World Service programme.

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Does anyone else own Running with Rifles? It's a good game: modulaatio.com/runningwithrif…

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Twin prime time! 11:13 means PARTY LIKE IT'S A REALLY OBSCURELY INTERESTING SIXTY SECONDS

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In reply to @robotmaths

@AdamCreen really? How so?

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In reply to @robotmaths

@AdamCreen oh, you mean there are 11 more prime minuteses. I use "twin prime" to mean two primes (n,n+2)

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In reply to @daveowhite

@daveowhite if you apply yourself, you can give back 60,000 portions as an Easter present (we did the sums a while ago) aperiodical.com/2012/05/grow-y…

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In reply to @daveowhite

@daveowhite we didn't dare work that out. Not much longer.

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In reply to @jjsanderson

@jjsanderson @elinoroberts well, if you live in Tynemouth, this is what happens. You'll have opinions about on-street parking next

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In reply to @jjsanderson

@jjsanderson @elinoroberts depends. Which way round the metro do you go? If you go via Gosforth, it's already too late

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Using bootstrap. I give up. Web design is not for me.

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 do they have any of that special chalk that is incredibly hard to get outside Japan?

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They're selling what now? Coming soon: Epistemologue, your one-stop-shop for mail-order trivialities.

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This is a bit iffy, isn't it? thejc.com/lifestyle/how-…

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Anyway, don't buy a theorem or a symmetry group, get yourself a bespoke artisanal hand-crafted integer for free brooklynintegers.com

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And lo, with a lightning-quick "works for me" did he smite the bug report, banishing it forever to the cursed land of Won't Fix.

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In reply to @DanielColquitt

@DanielColquitt nah, sorted it out.

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In reply to @numberphile

@numberphile now do base 4! checkmyworking.com/2012/01/the-ac…

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan stacked Unicode diacritics. stackoverflow.com/questions/9310…

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan sad, because as yet there's no helpmyeyesareburning.stackexchange.com

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths @MathsJam do we have MathsJams sufficiently far apart to do some geometrical calculations?

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When I close my front door I can either turn left for the metro station or right for the beach. Sometimes it's very hard to turn left.

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Thought I had more eggs. Sad little omelette :(

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omelette saved with god's own ingredients: bacon and paprika!

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In reply to @HoeJodgkiss

@HoeJodgkiss that's the most coherent Newcastle transfer punditry I've ever seen. You should work for the Chronicle, you should.

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"Works at: Team Leader at Brewers Fayre". "Works at: cannabis farm lol". I'm not sure which of my mid-range relatives is more underwhelming

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Newcastle @MathsJam November 2012 Recap: checkmyworking.com/2012/11/newcas…

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suddenly my flat smells really strongly of eggs. Where is it coming from? Am I in danger? Aaaaaaa going to be killed by Chuckie Egg aaaaaaaa

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oh HANG ON, I just ate an omelette. Panic over.

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and why did I go for Chuckie Egg instead of Dizzy? Have I ever even played Chuckie Egg? How do I know about it? EGGSTERNAL INFLUENCES

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan in something like `<a href="[%=str%]">`, where am I asserting that `str` is a URL, or is that not what you're getting at?

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo yeah, I thought that was it, but I couldn't remember if Ji had given a different variation

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Soupremum. Simpleggs. Identitea. All on the menu at my new mathematical bistrho.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan establishing context in arbitrary environments: "parse ALL the strings?"

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts yes! Do it!

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In reply to @MathsJam

@MathsJam Newcastle is not happening in December

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch yeah, but the hologram Compaq at CES last year was quite crass. #notoriousbigblue

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In reply to @jjaron

@jjaron @igblan trace a line from the bit of the hook socket facing you, along the surface. You end up on the other side.

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In reply to @jjaron

@jjaron @igblan yep, I had the same problem

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This nexus 4's screen is so beautiful, I'm going to weep openly

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put cocoa in milk before milk was hot. Hyperfailure.

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In reply to @helenarney

@helenarney that's not my mane!

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In reply to @helenarney

@helenarney unless you were already going for that double-pun, in which case I apologise

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In reply to @helenarney

@helenarney @andy_tea that's OK, I know when to swallow my pride.

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cooking for slimming world dieters tonight. The recipe they have given me is like a real recipe, minus the ingredients.

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In reply to @pkrautz

@pkrautz my German isn't good enough. It looks fairly innocuous; what's wrong?

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December

In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 but all chalk is made of ground-up shells!

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths @Dr_Lucie trees are old hat. I'm going with a Christmas treap this year

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I'm hosting another recreational maths seminar tonight, about "seven staggering sequences". 7pm GMT, Google+: plus.google.com/events/co36qi8…

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 ooh, that'll go nicely with something I've got saved for the next aperiodical round up. Ta!

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts @gjchocolatier it makes me sad to think of all the time you haven't known that. Have you tried the brownie?

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Join me in 5 minutes on google+ for the @aperiodical recreational maths seminar: plus.google.com/events/co36qi8…

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With a puzzle by me, CP! RT @aperiodical: Post: Puzzlebomb - December 2012 wp.me/p2cimT-1Fx

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Oh no, youtube has remembered that day I spent watching Oesch's die Dritten videos. My recommendations page is nonstop yodels.

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After posting basically nothing all last week, I fear we may have overdone it with "sort your mess out Monday" at the @aperiodical.

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If I see the Newcastle University Login Gateway one more time...

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In reply to @StudentsNCL

@StudentsNCL @NU_ITservice I don't think there's anything wrong, I just have to go through it each time I go to any of the many sites I use

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David filled in a questionnaire online and it turns out I'm the best dad in the office. Ladies.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan not a WordPress apologist, but it'll be a plugin causing the crashes. Because of the unique way php works, that's possible!

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan some combination of turning plugins on and off, and turning on PHP debug logging. Prepare to go back to 90s debugging methods

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan there might be a plugin that adds a "don't show comments" flag to posts and modifies the get-post-comments function

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Just had a filling done. My cheek is still numb, but my tooth absolutely knacks. Do I need to go back?

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In reply to @TweetsofCushing

@TweetsofCushing don't you dare

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aaargrggrg python why is installing pip on windows still such a hassle? Just include it with the standard distribution!

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Today @TweetsofCushing is looking for the person with the most of one letter in their name. Currently top: Reece Burgess-Creen with 6 Es

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where's the GIF for when someone does a test with string operations instead of writing a proper routine to do what they mean?

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Useful javascript library implemented as a jquery method. My anger level has risen to 32 milli-@jcoglan.

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch @Electrokittie Sightseers tomorrow?

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch @Electrokittie that would also be a good choice for me, but it doesn't star Alice Lowe, so...

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In reply to @TweetsofCushing

@TweetsofCushing !!!

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Trawling amazon for hours looking for a replacement for the lost headphones you spent hours choosing last time. #autismproblems

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there's some pretty lovely music on @laRadioNova at the moment

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oh great, so they put some 80s nonsense on just after I said that.

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch @Electrokittie sightseers 2020

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If 100 people star JSXGraph on github, it can be hosted on CDNJS: github.com/jsxgraph/jsxgr…

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In reply to @jamesgrime

@jamesgrime first thing I noticed on audible was this Car Talk compilation, I assume of the puzzles they often pose mobile.audible.com/productDetail.…

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In reply to @alisonkiddle

@ajk_44 I don't know how you should celebrate, but you should do it at ten to nine.

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Well I'm *trying* to write a really good post for the @aperiodical today but the uni wifi isn't helping

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Eureka! Santa only visits one house on Christmas Eve, but infinitely many universes, each containing a different Santa, collapse at midnight

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Is it a special autism superpower to spot typos in a page of text at a glance, or does it happen to everyone?

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Because I've been editing a very long post and spotting typos in very unusual words just as I scroll past them, not even looking for them

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Teehee! beautifulcentury.tumblr.com/post/371080808…

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In reply to @helenarney

@helenarney yes yes very funny, intentionally misunderstood. Now where's this bar? I'm a huge sporks fan.

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If there isn't already a travelator company called Thousand Yard Stairs then I am going straight to Companies House first thing tomorrow

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the address of the University of Athens' maths department is noether.math.uoa.gr. Because they couldn't name a Greek mathematician?

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In reply to @alexbellos

@alexbellos whoops, we both made 3d-printing christmas present posts today

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There's a version of HyperRogue for android! play.google.com/store/apps/det… FRABJOUS DAY! via @mathpuzzle

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@Nathan1123 @MuseGarden I used that page once when in a beds shop with a friend who didn't know what size his bed was!

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@Nathan1123 to be fair, he'd just moved in to a rented flat and British bed size names are mental.

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Thanks, textbooks! thankstextbooks.tumblr.com

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In reply to @My_Metro

@My_Metro I'm on one of the new trains, and the lights on the wrong side of the carriage lit up when we stopped. Better look into that!

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts the first shop to produce an app which puts your shopping list in order for a shortest traversal will earn my patronage.

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In reply to @matheknitician

@matheknitician posted! Thanks for letting me know

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Tonight, we dine... quite well!

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks @aPaulTaylor you know, I wasn't going to have it but then I thought since I'm tweeting it someone might complain if it wasn't there

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Step 1: cook double meal, so you can have leftovers tomorrow. Step 2: forget you finished the cling film yesterday. Step 3: food bags!!!!

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In reply to @DanielColquitt

@DanielColquitt @ben_nuttall it's the real thing - pause it, maximise, and draw a pattern

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In reply to @MouldS

@MouldS @dan_physio @standupmaths hey, that's just the first few digits! "Approximation to pi pie" doesn't sound very appetising

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Going to Tynemouth market to look for a secret Santa present. Must make a big effort not to buy anything too ironic

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Worst trendy name so far: "Gosforth bakehaus".

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Alas, the pewter cowboy hat chip'n'dip tray is outside my budget

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youtube's algorithm to make a video unshaky leaves it looking really trippy instead

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There was a horrific animatronic koala for sale at the market today. I should've bought it. I didn't. Got to live with that.

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch I didn't dare. I was scared of a Ringu type situation

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch I'll see if it's there again tomorrow

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 haha, what are you thinking?

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 go for it

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In reply to @HilariousCow

@HilariousCow do a flamboyant loop on the letter O

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The internet has taught me to love humanity. Giant Pants of the '30s: giantpantsofthe30s.tumblr.com

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Went back for the eldritch koala. It's been sold! Life is not worth living any more ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ

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In reply to @stecks

@stecks are The Sinks a new fraternal society, like the masons or the rotary club?

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan pandoc turns most things into most things

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan though if you're writing a book, learn LaTeX.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan pdflatex comes with any latex distribution. On ubuntu, try tex-live

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan all these variants exist because almost everyone, after using TeX for a while, thinks "I can do it better!"

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan the stuff they have in common is basically all you need, so just stick with TeX-live and don't try to be clever with it

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan TeX is like the English language: nobody uses it perfectly, there are a million ways to say anything, ...

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan and far too many people who should know better hold very strong opinions about tiny aspects of usage

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In reply to @Bishnavitch

@Bishnavitch true facts

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haha hooray! stackoverflow.com/questions/2624…

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In reply to @DainaTaimina

@DainaTaimina I think that's actionable libel

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In reply to @divbyzero

@divbyzero oh man, I need to get into control systems! There could be a "Perfect timing" algorithm

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In reply to @Dr_Lucie

@Dr_Lucie 197th.

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general lazy evaluation was too beautiful a dream for someone as uninterested in proper type analysis as I. Oh well...

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths not impossible: the other hemisphere could be really crazy

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett @standupmaths I don't get it

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Can't decide if I'm wasting my life or living it exactly how I want. somethingorotherwhatever.com/interesting-ti…

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In reply to @WWMGT

@WWMGT c) a quart of pounds

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So, ladies and gentlemen of the Academy, in summary: PHP is just the worst and I propose that we throw it into the Sun

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Hooray, futurama's on! Oh no, it's Jurassic Bark. Sad evening :'(

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In reply to @sxpmaths

@sxpmaths someone else's code I depend on was using '!empty($x–>p)' to test if $x->p is set. Which fails when it's the string "0".

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Please tell me I'm not the only one who gets angry about adverts recorded in NTSC

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oh snap! Today's Dinosaur Comic says Santa collapses realities to deliver presents! qwantz.com/index.php?comi… The evidence mounts!

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Favourite picture of the day! flickr.com/photos/nationa…

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In reply to @jhylmb

@jhylmb haven't tested it, but it should be possible

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Oh god! All these Top 50 Tracks of 2012 lists mean I have to listen to Gotye again. #whyhastthouforsakenme

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In reply to @henryseg

@henryseg were you paid for that article? It would cost me £30 to read if I didn't have a uni account

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In reply to @henryseg

@henryseg super! It's a good article.

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect fog on the Thames is all them's all them's, fog on the Thames is all them's.

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect oh em gee I am going to start a faux-ironic hipster band called Londisfarne. We will gig exclusively in corner shops

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In reply to @Electrokittie

@Electrokittie good intel. I will wrap up warm when I head in from the balmy coast

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whaaaaaaat. Ctrl+Alt+Tab in windows shows the switchy-window thing even after you let go of the keys.

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hey guys it's 10:10. Duodecimalists gonna hate.

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#inexpertlycopiedpunchcartoons

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I felt quite bad about the @aperiodical's visitor numbers until I looked at the Mathematical Intelligencer's circulation figures

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In reply to @jamesgrime

@jamesgrime true fact. I got a good one of you a while ago from the @numberphile Rubik's Cube video: aperiodical.com/2012/09/rubiks…

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan CET was the 12th time zone to have 12:12:12 12/12/12. Germans are the chosen people after all!

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 oh, you could've said! I'll have a look

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In reply to @ben_nuttall

@ben_nuttall "Although braggadocio doesn't come naturally to most computer programmers, ..."

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No chocolate in the kitchen. Spend 10 minutes checking the Secret Chocolate Locations, or go to the shops?

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Right. Let's do some things to things until there's food to eat. #homecookin

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 oh, NOW I get that pun! Sorry for changing the title to an inferior one

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In reply to @elinoroberts

@elinoroberts accidentally swallowing a pea is big trouble: you have to swallow a fly to get it, then a frog to catch the fly, ad infinitum

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Having a little rage about the Moodle SCORM module. Not a single line of the code is good.

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In reply to @vickytnz

@vickytnz it's free, which is good, and open-source, so I can see *why* it's buggy. We're on Moodle because BB has broken SCORM support

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In reply to @vickytnz

@vickytnz Moodle 2 is considerably less bad than old Moodle. It's barely tolerable now, but still lots of really annoying and bad things

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In reply to @vickytnz

@vickytnz yeah well, it's for academics :P

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"Hm, how shall I implement this hierarchical data structure, with well-defined elements and values? I know! Strings and regexps!" #hate

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I don't know how it's possible to write this much bad code without Nature itself reacting violently against you.

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If a student handed this in as homework I wouldn't mark it wrong. I'd encourage them to join al qaeda or the communist party or something

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1) they'd make MI6's job much easier; 2) no self-respecting terrorist would want to be associated with them, and would lay down their arms

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett just remembered your Numbas email. Will do that later today.

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A scotch egg and a frijj. I operate on the frontiers of cuisine.

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Please support the kickstarter for my self-published transvestite medieval epic, "The Song of Roland's Dirndl"

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Trying to synopsise that Jim Carrey film where he's a pet detective, but every time I try I get the plot "farce about Ace"

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well! Since nobody wants to go christmas shopping with me, I think I'll go for a walk round Tynemouth instead

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HAHAHA I AM NOT A FAMILY I AM A SINGLE MAN!

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In reply to @treasa

@treasa believe it

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Off to seek my fortune in the tatatoria of Newcastle upon Tyne.

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If you spoonerise "Hooke and Wren" the number of bird names increases from one to two. I'm pleased by this but don't know what to do with it

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a Kinect physics game where you stack boxes but it's two-player and you each control the other's arms

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths you are this guy youtube.com/watch?v=yX_AHV…

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This is why I keep trying to introduce German as a second language in the department youtube.com/watch?v=YcMT39…

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I keep forgetting it's the office christmas lunch today and making plans for work to do and food to eat.

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean if you keep calling that a biscuit Ed Miliband might try to integrate you

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In reply to @brittneybean

@brittneybean but it does look VERY tasty. What's going on there?

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In reply to @TweetsofCushing

@TweetsofCushing I told you I don't have a suit

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In reply to @TweetsofCushing

@TweetsofCushing I even forgot to wash my jumper so I'm going to look extra scruffy

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In reply to @TweetsofCushing

@TweetsofCushing proving to whom?

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In reply to @TweetsofCushing

@TweetsofCushing that reminds me - I tried to prove the same facts to your momma but she kept asking me if there are any even primes

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In reply to @JPickford

@JPickford "The games has jumped".

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Who hates standing on the metro? CP hates standing on the metro. Is it true? I do I do I do-oo!

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In reply to @helenarney

@helenarney or you're living in Newcastle 6 years ago

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Go ahead. Spell it "chaise lounge". Make my day.

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Your reminder that there's no Newcastle @MathsJam tonight.

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In reply to @HilariousCow

@HilariousCow just play Just Cause 2 instead.

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In reply to @HilariousCow

@HilariousCow I played it on the xbox, so don't know about that.

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan #unhelpfulneckbeardadvice?

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan but the problem with instagram isn't 'we own the servers', it's 'you're not the one paying our salaries'.

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That sneeze crept up on me completely unnoticed but now it's over, I feel like I've needed to do a sneeze that big for a long time.

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#catarrhsis

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KABLOOM! OUTTA THA PARK AND INTO THE STREETS OF NEW YORK CITY!

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In reply to @amazingradio

@amazingradio I am very much enjoying "Tyrannosaurus Rex For Christmas". It's my new favourite Christmas song.

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it's 12:36! Dance about like you've got all your divisors within easy reach.

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We're making good use of our last proper work day by playing LAZA KNITEZ lazaknitez.com

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"Cost-per-gigabyte is down more than 300% in three years". computerworld.com/s/article/9234… #what

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In reply to @Kit_Yates_Maths

@Kit_Yates_Maths @MathsWorldUK I meant to catch someone at big mathsjam - would anyone like to write about the plans for @aperiodical?

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In reply to @Kit_Yates_Maths

@Kit_Yates_Maths @MathsWorldUK yes! It would be good just to get the name out, wouldn't it?

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan I'll go with: generics work on objects, and ints aren't objects.

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In reply to @miclugo

@madcaptenor order a single box of chalk. I haven't dared to do it yet and I've had prime for years

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Buying stock for my new kids' clothing shop, Newcastle upon Tiny.

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In reply to @jamesgrime

@jamesgrime they're very different films, but I agree.

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett quick! Make a Klein bottle!

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Watched a video from the ISS. Moved to poetry: I love the Earth / and all the people on it. / You could even say / it's my favourite plonet

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect which company is it?

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect that isn't even a real company.

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In reply to @aperfect

@aperfect hah, their homepage has a megabyte of stock images

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In reply to @mutedestro

@mutedestro @MathsJam sadly it looks like there isn't one near you - maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=2…. Nothing to stop you starting one!

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Last night I dreamt about a really fast slug! Is today the day we rethink our metaphors?

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths so clearly we need to start a campaign to register Unicode codepoints for common English words

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This Christmas card's so charming I wish I could send it to myself.

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In reply to @daveowhite

@daveowhite Monetize your front window. Monetize your beard. Monetize smalltalk.

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In reply to @GhostMutt

@GhostMutt which cards do you have turned on? I just have the weather and football scores. Is there something more to it I'm missing?

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In reply to @TweetsofCushing

@TweetsofCushing proof or it isn't true!

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In reply to @TweetsofCushing

@TweetsofCushing and by "quintics" do you mean fifth powers?

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This is how I roll

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Pick a natural number N. Find p_N, the first prime which is the difference of Nth powers. $\ln(p_53)/53 = \ln(p_59)/59$, to 10 dp

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In reply to @C_J_Smith

@C_J_Smith ternary decimal?

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In reply to @C_J_Smith

@C_J_Smith next question: 0,1,2 or +,-,0 ?

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In reply to @C_J_Smith

@C_J_Smith my least favourite ternary representation

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-.. .- ... .... -.. --- - -.. --- -/-.. --- - -.. .- ... ..../-.. --- - -.. --- - -.. --- -/-.. --- - -.. --- - -.. --- - -.. --- -

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@DanaKazim did I get it right?

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@DanaKazim fantastic

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gosh it's grim outside!

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It's pretty ridiculous how long it take windows 8 to show the task manager

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I'm playing my "justify my obnoxious prejudices with pop psychology I read in a non-scientific outlet" card. theatlantic.com/business/archi…

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Whenever I hear about economics, I think of this scene from futurama youtu.be/DdRC8ljHtCQ?t=…

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"a third of Men will get their Christmas presents from a service station" - according to a study in a service station on Dec 24th last year?

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Pretty much certain you can do better, Woman's Hour

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Sorry, it's You and Yours, not Woman's Hour. Disappointment levels back to normal, and I need to look at my watch

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The only paper I could find to pad this present with was pages from the LRB. #truestoriesfromupmyownbumhole

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I think this year I can do my present wrapping in two or fewer ragequits

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan isn't it weird how when the economy's good the poor suddenly start trying harder?

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In reply to @HilariousCow

@HilariousCow did you have a gravis gamepad? When I saw the graphic of it in the wolf3d options I wondered how it could ever be suitable

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Today I learned that a <redacted> needs about 3cm more wrapping paper than you think.

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In reply to @outofthenorm2

@outofthenorm2 Please finish your bees post!

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You don't wrap presents with the wrapping paper you want, you wrap presents with the wrapping paper you've got. - Donald Rumsfeld

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oh, so Big Society was always meant to be a pejorative, like Big Tobacco or Big Pharma.

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why do journal publishers think it's a good idea to make supplementary material a separate PDF from the article?

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Need to eat all the food in the flat before going home for Christmas. My stomach is being marvellously cooperative

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Remember, HE KNOWS plus.google.com/photos/1113006…

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I'm pretty pleased with my Christmas cards this year flickr.com/photos/christi…

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I think Father Christmas might be my favourite thing to draw

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In reply to @DanielColquitt

@DanielColquitt you've completely inverted the "go away and read a book while your computer is doing something" meme

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In case you haven't experienced windows 8 yet, this guy explains what's wrong: youtube.com/watch?v=WTYet-…

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I've owned hotmathematicians.com for a year and done nothing with it. It expires in 3 days. Has anyone got any ideas?

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(The original idea was to have christian@hotmathematicians.com, so my arXiv submission could be from the "Institute of Hot Mathematicians")

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo but why? I'm not doing research any more, so no opportunities to use it forthcoming

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In reply to @ColinTheMathmo

@ColinTheMathmo selling unused domain names is on my list of Terrible Internet Behaviours. If I let it expire, whoever wants it can have it

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In reply to @walkingrandomly

@walkingrandomly I thought that was a good idea and then I saw it was by Stardock. I've learnt my lesson with them

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I FORGOT TO RETURN A LATE BOOK TO THE LIBRARY AAAAAAAAAAA

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In reply to @walkingrandomly

@walkingrandomly what I'm doing is: close eyes, press windows key, type program name, press enter, open eyes. It's almost the same

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In reply to @vickytnz

@vickytnz were you around when it was Belle and Herb's? Times were better then

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In reply to @peterrowlett

@peterrowlett literally LOL

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Leo says I have no neck. Vicious fibs.

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I'm in Windsor! The air smells funny down here

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Such pleasant people down here

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There isn't a craft supplies shop in Windsor?! Surely I'm mistaken.

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In reply to @apontzen

@apontzen @standupmaths did you work that out by hand, or did you use a script like this: gist.github.com/4368409 ?

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I'm pretty ecstatic about how this 80k file won't upload to my ftp server over this flat's wifi

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Let's see if giffgaff throttle ftp connections as well...

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hahahaha my phone's connection is so much ridiculously quicker than this Zen broadband

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I've added a question to The Aperiodical's Very Important Mathematical Survey about how you eat corn on the cob: survey.aperiodical.com/question/50d81…

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In reply to @alimcg86

@alimcg86 chin up, McGlen!

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WHERE ARE ALL THE FILMS? I don't want to watch Open All Hours, I want a film!

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths @Dr_Lucie the dog started melting when he was near the fire. That's way closer to physical realism than I was expecting

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In reply to @samholloway

@samholloway there definitely used to be one!

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In reply to @monsoon0

@monsoon0 mega jealous!

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Pretty unexpectedly radical present

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I'm going to see Scrooged! Channel 4 now. I'll have depleted my Christmas film to-watch list by at least one this year.

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Round 2. Nobody else wants leg! Excellent crimblus

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Scouting for locations for my new concept café with a chess board at every table, "En Croissant".

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Try saying "tuna mayo jacket potato". It's wonderful, like the start of a beat poem about my favourite foods.

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Congrats to @TweetsofCushing for getting his first integer sequence accepted by the OEIS: oeis.org/search?q=Cushi…

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths you can keep going with Step 4: work out how many different patterns you can make by swapping pieces of the same shape

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Hiring bar staff for my new underground opera hall, "Grotto Voce"

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In reply to @JohnAllenPaulos

@JohnAllenPaulos it's a vanity publisher, not a real journal!

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan there's probably an emacs command 'Cmd-a-t untweet cheap pun'

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Beginning to fear I've been trafficked to Slough. Will I ever see my beloved Northumberland again?

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What a lovely book behance.net/gallery/Where-…

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I can't decide if Planet 51 (channel 4 right now) is alright or terrible

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In reply to @Rosalot

@Rosalot I'm having trouble accepting Dwayne 'the Rock' Johnson as a cowardly ginger man

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Etymonline's etymology of 'omelette' is basically to wave the "nobody knows" card: etymonline.com/index.php?allo…

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A marvel of the last age of austerity - one of the last concrete lampposts in Slough.

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The proportion of films on the telly that nana has misidentified as The Gruffalo this Christmas is rapidly approaching Legendre's constant.

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Forget about convergence. If a million specific gadgets for each conceivable task was good enough for 60s Batman, it's good enough for me

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Wow, sky captain and the world of tomorrow hasn't aged well at all

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In reply to @standupmaths

@standupmaths I've held the patent on that idea since I was 12

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In reply to @alisonkiddle

@ajk_44 @samholloway how long are you two up North for? I've just arrived back from Slough

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In reply to @Samuel_Hansen

@Samuel_Hansen just when I thought I had all your many show formats clear in my head...

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!!!

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wikipedia's picture for the King of the Belgians is ace et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilt:HM_K…

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan the problem is probably with your router (or OSX's drivers, depending on perspective). OSX takes exception to some brands of router

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In reply to @mountain_ghosts

@jcoglan yeah, it's OSX's problem, but its problem is with the router.