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"The title is the same as that of a very well-known book by Professor L. E. Dickson (with which ours has little in common). We proposed at one time to change it to 'An introduction to arithmetic', a more novel and in some ways a more appropriate title; but it was pointed out that this might lead to misunderstandings about the content of the book."

            G.H. Hardy and E. M. Wright "An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers"

Looks like they're here:

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/info/exercises.html

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/flphandouts.html

Unlike the commercial audio CDs of the lectures the recordings here have the chat before and after the lecture which is fun.

My favourite lecture is the standalone "The Principle of Least Action" at

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_19.html

Audio: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_19.html#Ch19-audi...

Browsing this on my iPhone shows me garbage and tells me if im not an AI scraper to contact Codeberg. Goodbye.

For UK readers, the government land registry alert service can alert you if anyone attempts to mortgage sell properties youve registered with it:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/property-alert

Definitely listen to the 1981 radio version if you like them.

Bilbo's Last Song scene here(spoiler warning for those who haven't read it as its at the end of the book).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIsHshR1Ig8

'The Housekeeper and the Professor' by Yoko Ogawa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Housekeeper_and_the_Profes...

is a beautiful novel about a mathematician with a short term memory condition, that should appeal to HN readers.

I enjoy

https://destevez.net/about/

from a Phd maths guy, who's worked in satellite comms, and blogs on software defined radio and comms protocols (eg error correction and radio modulation, often in space related contexts, eg decoding Voyager comms).

My alma mater (University of Nottingham UK) has just stopped all music and modern language teaching, which (for a very popular, respected, large campus institution) seems a bad sign for universities generally.

I think it means 'Given a district of 300,000 people in Britain (in 1986)...'

Roald Dahl said it best:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles:_A_Dangerous_Illness

'Here in Britain, because so many parents refuse, either out of obstinacy or ignorance or fear, to allow their children to be immunised, we still have a hundred thousand cases of measles every year. Out of those, more than 10,000 will suffer side effects of one kind or another. At least 10,000 will develop ear or chest infections. About 20 will die. LET THAT SINK IN. Every year around 20 children will die in Britain from measles. So what about the risks that your children will run from being immunised? They are almost non-existent. Listen to this. In a district of around 300,000 people, there will be only one child every 250 years who will develop serious side effects from measles immunisation! That is about a million to one chance. I should think there would be more chance of your child choking to death on a chocolate bar than of becoming seriously ill from a measles immunisation. (Dahl 1986)[4]'

Yes, it made me think I'd already watched it and had forgotten about it...

I like the recent variant on websites and apps where a random neutral start position (about ten normal ply moves in) is used to reduce the effect of opening books.

It's turtles all the way down.

I always think about this when alien technology gets reverse-engineered in a remarkably short time in SF novels.

It makes the biggest dinosaurs (50-70 tons) gigafauna...

It would be funny to reverse generate Stratomatic card picks and dice rolls from the real data.

Here's one - happy to hear about the lots more:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dj1zlvxglo

Talk (with rubbish sound sorry) on how Ian Livingstone plotteed fighting fantasy gamebooks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNSL7zTAy44

I hope he does something like Death of Stalin again.

Video of maths one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTAUsTZbiZk

It's scary how relevant a 1970's/80s comedy show is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgkUVIj3KWY (Salami tactics)

Helping someone practice Oxford Maths Assessment Tests at present, and whatever else may be happening in the admissions process, those test papers are not getting easier over time.

It has ringers taking breaks (for beer, I think) during peals and handing off to other ringers which I was surprised was allowed (till bellringing friends told me it wasn't...). Still a good book though.

There's nothing wrong with these terms, its just that in popular conversation, the "secret" code usage would be quite common. For instance I just googled "enigma machine documentary" and I've seen around twenty separate occurrences of "code" and only a single "cipher".

Is the term codebreaking familiar to you?

The video lectures are excellent too. Anyone interested in this stuff could do far worse than start here (though a little dated now - fundamentals fine though)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLruBu5BI5n4aFpG32iMbd...

Secret code E.g. The Enigma code.

He has a joint paper using one here:

https://www.dafx17.eca.ed.ac.uk/papers/DAFx17_paper_21.pdf