I've always had watch history off, but my searches now return a couple of pages of short form nonsense, before my actual results.
Absolutely. Key for me was to invite children's friends (and family) along, host it in our house and make it a recurring weekly thing. The books (presumably you also have these from the MSRI's 'Mathematical Circles…
It's been really rewarding. I definitely recommend jumping in. I started with my reception-age child (+ school friends), and have just extended it to their younger sibling (+ friends from nursery). Your 3.5 year old…
Practically speaking (running a little maths circle in the UK for my children, and some of their friends from nursery and primary school), I have found the Nrich website to be the single best source of resources:…
What do you not like about Feynman's "little arrows" / rotating clock hands in the QED book? I can't think of a more simple metaphor for the exponential of a complex phase, exp(i omega t). I suppose you could try and do…
That's great! Their motivation & updates seem very sensible. Calculus Made Easy is a very nice compact book for university students who have started to forgot their high school training, and I will certainly point…
Water is incredibly efficient at transmitting sound.
The mug will attenuate almost all the signal. Maybe try with a disposable plastic cup?
This is super useful to know about! The sprite designer & waveform editor / tracker is a really good creative introduction to computers for small children. And you can jump straight in to doing this with the above web…
But it is theatre. A single £0.01 Zener diode can generate vastly more guaranteed (by quantum mechanics!) randomness, without all the possibility of failure, entropy leaking etc.
Yes, but what you are missing is that behaviour has changed! We have that level of net road deaths today, given that kids are being driven everywhere. So you can't state from your data that it has got safer: you need…
The speed of sound does not depend on pressure, only temperature. I suspect this is occurring because the (sonic) flow through the nozzle cools as it expands, therefore the speed of sound drops, making the same flow now…
There's also a fantastic Youtube video in a neutron beam facility of a Moka pot, in which you can see the full process of brewing. The water and plastic handle appear 'black' as hydrogen scatters neutrons so strongly.…
A key quality of life improvement for me was to realise that you can eject the grounds from the filter funnel by putting the tube to your lips and blowing gently, ejecting the coffee puck into the food waste / compost…
I'm certain all the reactors will SCRAM (shut down the nuclear chain reaction), but then every large (i.e. all) power reactors need active cooling to remove the decay heat and prevent a core meltdown. (This is what…
Strangely this piece doesn't mention nuclear power plants: with 400 or so operational nuclear power plants worldwide, that's a lot of core meltdowns. Similarly I would imagine there would be a lot of oil in the sea, if…
My experience is a first implementation / novice programmer will write Julia code of a similar speed to python. But then an intermediate Julia programmer can adapt that same code to be of order C / Fortran performance,…
Why would you want control? That means more bureaucracy you need to do yourself. In the UK (and I believe everywhere with a well functioning research culture), the 'Haldane principle' means that research funding is…
https://github.com/whitead/paper-qa >This is a minimal package for doing question and answering from PDFs or text files (which can be raw HTML). It strives to give very good answers, with no hallucinations, by grounding…
Interestingly, in the UK I get this: Me: As a part of Google, do you have my personal info? Bard: I do not have your personal information. I am not able to access or process any personal information that you have not…
It's certainly not perfect (still a bit coarse, doesn't state what % of the work is done, doesn't state which parts of the paper the author worked on), but CRediT statements are gaining increasing traction in the…
I don't think this is true, at least in the UK. The BBC computer literacy project meant that there were BBC Model Bs in every UK school, with tie-in educational materials. In the early 90s my entire class at a run of…
Well write it up and put it on the ArXiV / send it to the author for version 2!
The web plugin actually falls back to 'web page with snapshot' if it can't detect a journal paper, which in many ways is better than trying to drag around big PDF binaries.
You're also missing 'soon' and 'imminent' (along with 'later' have a very specific and important meaning). And no 'sea states'? Currently there's 'Very rough or high, occasionally very high later in northwest Rockall.'…
I've always had watch history off, but my searches now return a couple of pages of short form nonsense, before my actual results.
Absolutely. Key for me was to invite children's friends (and family) along, host it in our house and make it a recurring weekly thing. The books (presumably you also have these from the MSRI's 'Mathematical Circles…
It's been really rewarding. I definitely recommend jumping in. I started with my reception-age child (+ school friends), and have just extended it to their younger sibling (+ friends from nursery). Your 3.5 year old…
Practically speaking (running a little maths circle in the UK for my children, and some of their friends from nursery and primary school), I have found the Nrich website to be the single best source of resources:…
What do you not like about Feynman's "little arrows" / rotating clock hands in the QED book? I can't think of a more simple metaphor for the exponential of a complex phase, exp(i omega t). I suppose you could try and do…
That's great! Their motivation & updates seem very sensible. Calculus Made Easy is a very nice compact book for university students who have started to forgot their high school training, and I will certainly point…
Water is incredibly efficient at transmitting sound.
The mug will attenuate almost all the signal. Maybe try with a disposable plastic cup?
This is super useful to know about! The sprite designer & waveform editor / tracker is a really good creative introduction to computers for small children. And you can jump straight in to doing this with the above web…
But it is theatre. A single £0.01 Zener diode can generate vastly more guaranteed (by quantum mechanics!) randomness, without all the possibility of failure, entropy leaking etc.
Yes, but what you are missing is that behaviour has changed! We have that level of net road deaths today, given that kids are being driven everywhere. So you can't state from your data that it has got safer: you need…
The speed of sound does not depend on pressure, only temperature. I suspect this is occurring because the (sonic) flow through the nozzle cools as it expands, therefore the speed of sound drops, making the same flow now…
There's also a fantastic Youtube video in a neutron beam facility of a Moka pot, in which you can see the full process of brewing. The water and plastic handle appear 'black' as hydrogen scatters neutrons so strongly.…
A key quality of life improvement for me was to realise that you can eject the grounds from the filter funnel by putting the tube to your lips and blowing gently, ejecting the coffee puck into the food waste / compost…
I'm certain all the reactors will SCRAM (shut down the nuclear chain reaction), but then every large (i.e. all) power reactors need active cooling to remove the decay heat and prevent a core meltdown. (This is what…
Strangely this piece doesn't mention nuclear power plants: with 400 or so operational nuclear power plants worldwide, that's a lot of core meltdowns. Similarly I would imagine there would be a lot of oil in the sea, if…
My experience is a first implementation / novice programmer will write Julia code of a similar speed to python. But then an intermediate Julia programmer can adapt that same code to be of order C / Fortran performance,…
Why would you want control? That means more bureaucracy you need to do yourself. In the UK (and I believe everywhere with a well functioning research culture), the 'Haldane principle' means that research funding is…
https://github.com/whitead/paper-qa >This is a minimal package for doing question and answering from PDFs or text files (which can be raw HTML). It strives to give very good answers, with no hallucinations, by grounding…
Interestingly, in the UK I get this: Me: As a part of Google, do you have my personal info? Bard: I do not have your personal information. I am not able to access or process any personal information that you have not…
It's certainly not perfect (still a bit coarse, doesn't state what % of the work is done, doesn't state which parts of the paper the author worked on), but CRediT statements are gaining increasing traction in the…
I don't think this is true, at least in the UK. The BBC computer literacy project meant that there were BBC Model Bs in every UK school, with tie-in educational materials. In the early 90s my entire class at a run of…
Well write it up and put it on the ArXiV / send it to the author for version 2!
The web plugin actually falls back to 'web page with snapshot' if it can't detect a journal paper, which in many ways is better than trying to drag around big PDF binaries.
You're also missing 'soon' and 'imminent' (along with 'later' have a very specific and important meaning). And no 'sea states'? Currently there's 'Very rough or high, occasionally very high later in northwest Rockall.'…