@MichaelRybkin Yeah, it's a bit dense but you'll see that sort of thing in education courses.
Better might be: "Self-directed learning is a method by which the student supplies the initiative for learning." Or: "In self-directed learning, the student supplies the initiative for learning." And so on.
There is a Russian saying "милые бранятся - только тешатся", meaning that when lovers/spouses are fighting(verbally!)/arguing/swearing at each other, they are merely having fun/enjoying themselves.
This is usually said by 3rd parties to calm themselves when they observe vicious marital arguments...
Anyway it was a large oak; he was in charge of doing the tree work. and he did it well.
I hope the u.s. top brass has the guts to ger it, analyze it and keep it. And tell us all about it. Make it a travelling school display.
china apologized. So sweet, so courteous.
@CowperKettle They may be just having fun, or they may find that an all-out fight, physical as well as verbal, to the point close to rage, is sexually exciting. This is a theme in the movie “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
It strikes me that a lot of the border drug traffic may be separate from the border-crossing efforts.
"The Truth About Pyecraft" is a British fantasy-comedy short story by H. G. Wells. It was originally published in The Strand Magazine (April 1903), and then included in the Twelve Stories and a Dream story collection, in 1903. It has been frequently reprinted.
== Plot summary ==
The repellently fat Mr. Pyecraft is a patron of a London club, who usually pesters Mr. Formalyn, to the point that the latter eventually decides to write Pyecraft's true story, for revealing an unbelievable, yet embarrassing, secret which is shared by both.
In the beginning of Formalyn's account, the rotund Pyecraft usually...
> De voorbije week beloofden tal van westerse landen tanks en pantservoertuigen te leveren aan Oekraïne. Rusland reageerde naar goede gewoonte verongelijkt, maar liet de nucleaire dreiging achterwege. De mogelijke inzet van kernwapens blijft een rol spelen in de strategische overwegingen van westerse landen om Oekraïne te steunen, maar het geloof dat Poetin echt bereid zou zijn om kernwapens in te zetten, is gevoelig afgenomen.
When the West promised tanks, Putin omitted any nuclear threat in his response.
The number of those who thought Putin might use atomics in this war has decreased.
> Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said the supply of more advanced US weaponry to Ukraine will only trigger more retaliatory strikes from Russia, up to the extent of Russia’s nuclear doctrine.
I'm just listening to a conversation with Stephen Wolfram, and understand about 1% of it. I tried reading up on Wikipedia, and understood about 1% of it.
This reminds me of the time when, after the abortive introduction of "cold fusion" and prior to its debunking, MIT announced that they had already begun filing patents on technology relating to this "important new breakthrough."
A Russian cake. He is from Ukraine, and speaks Russian
> His father, plasma physicist Alexander Fridman,[5] was born in Kyiv and serves as the John A. Nyheim Chair Professor and Director of the C.J. Nyheim Plasma Institute at Drexel University's College of Engineering.
«Муравейник» — домашний торт, получивший распространение в России примерно в 1980-х годах.
Аналог для финского tippaleipä неверен. С финского соответствие будет хворост, а не муравейник.
== Технология приготовления ==
Замешивают крутое песочное тесто и выдерживают в холодильнике 1—2 часа. Раскатывают его в тонкий корж, выкладывают на противень и выпекают до готовности. Корж остужают и измельчают на мелкие кусочки, которые перемешивают с кремом, состоящим из смеси горячей варёной сгущёнки и размягчённого сливочного масла. Часть крема оставляют. Из кусочков коржа и крема выкладывают горку, которую...
The interwiki link to the English article is botched.
A lot of links are now botched, and I can't fix them, because I find the new mechanism too complicated for my brain.
They set up some smart system which makes it a pain in the brain to change links.
For example, “changing rooms” or “fitting rooms” where customers in stores put on the store’s clothes to see if they are the right size must have a place that is accessible for people in wheelchairs or other disabilities.
Maybe it is better to say "for people in wheelchairs and other disabilities"?
@CowperKettle Are you reading his latest article about the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics?
1) Wolfram was a boy genius (PhD Physics before 20?)
2) Mathematica is (his thing) is an amazingly good product.
3) he is super bright and knowledgeable
4) He hasn't really produced anything original academically beyond making cellular automata a little more well-known (and I'm not sure but I think he proved the Turing-completeness of a couple automata)
5) His book A New Kind of Science is, while interesting and informative about cellular automata and Turing-completeness in a science popularization kind of way, makes claims to originality and ownership of some ideas in computability that were created well before him.
6) His ego and self aggrandizement go well beyond his abilities (which implies that his ego is galactic)
I haven't read the whole article but it looks a lot like AKNS and if that is any indication, there is about 20 pages of useful exposition, and the rest is just a long long list of incremental mathematical experiments and lots of graphics showing the results.
I wonder what identifiable differences in meaning, connotation, register, tone or dialect there are between the words "everyone" and "everybody."
It seems to me like the words have exactly the same meaning, and there's no difference in connotation or in dialect—both words are accepted universally.
The only difference I can identify is that "everybody" sounds slightly informal, so I would expect people to usually prefer "everyone" over "everybody" in formal writing.
@MichaelRybkin I admit that you didn't ask me, but I'd say that the sentence sounds like an error, but as far as errors go, it's a pretty normal error.
There is little or no difference between the -one and -body variants.
However, there is a major difference between somebody and anybody--anybody is one of the "negative valency" words in English, which is required when the main verb of the sentence is negated.
I haven't seen anybody. [Correct]
!...
Somebody is somewhat more common in spoken contexts, someone is written ones. But in interrogative contexts, it depends a little on whether you're expecting an affirmative answer or a negative one, or whether you know the person whom you're imagining or not.
@Mitch Oh! I should not even listen to his interviews then. No wonder I understood nothing. I'll take a look at his article, but I'm not bright in this :)
@CowperKettle Most of what he talks about should be accessible to someone with an undergrad in physics or computer science (specifically and respectively 2nd law of thermodynamics and Turing-completeness). So he's not being overly technical. He's not writing a journal article which would require lots more background (a PhD in that very specific subject).
> And I spent much of the summer of 1972 writing my own (unseen by anyone else for 30+ years) Concise Directory of Physics writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/…
The best way to spend the summer at 13 years of age is writing a concise directory of physics.
The reason you may not want to spend the time reading the whole thing is that is is extremely long with nothing new after the first few pages (OK you may want to look at the first few pages). I'm not sure about the reliability of his science history (it 'looks' reasonable) but if he ever mentions himself "in 1973, when I was 7 years old and the first to prove the Ulam-Borsuk conjecture..." It's almost guaranteed that 1) he was not the first and 2) he had a graduate student prove it for him.
@CowperKettle OMG. jinx
I was just making up my example and hadn't seen your quote
He is notorious for, in the copyright page in ANKS, ludicrously claiming copyright on proofs future and past tangentially related to the book. (or something like that, I'm making stuff up in spirit).
Borsuk means "badger", I guess. In Russian it's барсук
> Animal Husbandry, an educational dice game published by Borsuk at his own expense in 1943 during the German occupation of Warsaw. The original game was lost during the Warsaw uprising in August 1944.
Animal Husbandry (Polish: Hodowla zwierzątek) is a dice game invented and published by the Polish mathematician Karol Borsuk at his own expense in 1943, during the German occupation of Warsaw. The game was later released as Have You Herd? and Super Farmer.
== History ==
Sales of the game were a way for Borsuk to support his family after he lost his job following the closure by the German occupation authorities of Warsaw University. The original sets were produced by hand by Borsuk's wife, Zofia. The author of the drawings of animals was Janina Borsuk née Śliwicka. The game was one of the first...
(ANKS is Wolfram's master work, a real doorstppper. Very much like the recent 2nd law article, but ten times as long.
It takes him 1000 pages to say that 1) he himself should be recognized as the Newton of the 20th and 21st centuries, 2) the universe is a computer, and 3) the computer is implemented as .cellular automata
Which is really strange because Mathematica is -amazingly- good.
He's sort of like Bobby Fisher, the great but eccentric chess player.
@CowperKettle I had the impression Borsuk was Polish, like Ulam.
A Fire Upon the Deep is a 1992 science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge. It is a space opera involving superhuman intelligences, aliens, variable physics, space battles, love, betrayal, genocide, and a communication medium resembling Usenet. A Fire Upon the Deep won the Hugo Award in 1993, sharing it with Doomsday Book by Connie Willis.Besides the normal print book editions, the novel was also included on a CD-ROM sold by ClariNet Communications along with the other nominees for the 1993 Hugo awards. The CD-ROM edition included numerous annotations by Vinge on his thoughts and intentions...
Actually, that was a pretty good novel. I liked the shared consciousness of animals in it.
@CowperKettle Yeah. And I've probably said it before, but in Robert Heinlein's Glory Road the main character needs to check some math with ... a slide rule!
Maybe people don't choose whether they would grow up with a huge ego or a small one.
So if one manages to write a useful book despite his huge ego, it's as if he produced some useful art despite being quadruplegic, and we should applaud this.
@CowperKettle Well, except Stephen Hawking fits the latter qualification (quadruplegic) yet with readable yet revealing (and deep) publications to his credit, and yet he was all about the science, not the ego.
The Dreams That Stuff Is Made of: The Most Astounding Papers of Quantum Physics and How They Shook the Scientific World is a 2011 book by English physicist Stephen Hawking.
== Overview ==
The book compiles the essential works from the scientists that changed the face of physics, including works by Niels Bohr, Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman, and Max Born.
== References ==
Catherine Lucy Hawking (born 2 November 1970) is an English journalist, novelist, educator, and philanthropist. She is the daughter of the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and writer Jane Wilde Hawking. She lives in London, and is a children's novelist and science educator.
== Early life ==
Lucy Hawking was born in England to scientist Stephen Hawking and author Jane Wilde Hawking. She has two brothers, Robert and Timothy Hawking, and was raised in Cambridge after a few years spent in Pasadena, California, as a child. She attended the Stephen Perse Foundation. As a young adult she was a...
Calculating Space (German: Rechnender Raum) is Konrad Zuse's 1969 book on automata theory. He proposed that all processes in the universe are computational. This view is known today as the simulation hypothesis, digital philosophy, digital physics or pancomputationalism. Zuse proposed that the universe is being computed by some sort of cellular automaton or other discrete computing machinery, challenging the long-held view that some physical laws are continuous by nature. He focused on cellular automata as a possible substrate of the computation, and pointed out that the classical notions of entropy...
I only knew about Zuse as the inventor of the first computer.