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@Kaumudi.H Hi :-)

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Hi! :-)

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How goes it? How was the drive and all? Is ur house all dusty now?

Apart from a massive pile of junk mail inside the front door you wouldn't know I'd been away for two weeks :-)

But ... it's good to be home!

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Ah :-)

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2:33 PM

@JohnRennie Yay! :-)

Though I'm going to miss my Mum's cooking.

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Oh, yes :-(

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At least now it will be easier not to eat everything though.

I weighed myself when i got home and I was 69.9kg.

When I left I was 65k.

5kg in two weeks!!!

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^ YES!! :-o

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2:35 PM

Your mum must be one hell of a cook!

On Friday she made the best kedgeree I've ever tasted!

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::Googles "kedegree"::

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> Kedgeree is a dish consisting of cooked, flaked fish, boiled rice, parsley, hard-boiled eggs, curry powder, butter or cream and occasionally sultanas.

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Oh, wow, that's a lot of stuff!

The name comes from kitchuri.

2:38 PM

@Kaumudi good luck on trip to darjeeling

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@JohnRennie Ah, I see...

The dish originated in the days of the Raj as a variant of kitchuri.

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@BalarkaSen :-( Are u mocking me? I'm broke at the moment.

not well-informed on the news i see

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@BalarkaSen Not at all.

2:39 PM

google darjeeling news

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Sigh. What's going on there? ::Googles::

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MONTH LONG BANDH?!?!

"See you on Darjeeling"

What does bandh mean?

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@BalarkaSen Wtf, man? It was a mistake trusting you -_-

John Doe

2:43 PM

@Mithrandir24601 Hi, are you at all familiar with the concept of a 'typical sequence' in information theory?

Anonymous

Can someone suggest me a Classical Mechanics book suitable for self-study? I checked goldstein but it seem all the problems are unsolved in it.

@Kaumudi It's one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite horror films.

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@JohnRennie It means a strike during which shops and transport isn't functional

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^ YES. Strike! That's the word I was looking for!

Aha, thanks.

Bandh

Bandh is rooted in Sanskrit word 'Bandhana', meaning "a bond". Also used in a Urdu word meaning "closed". It is a form of protest used by political activists in South Asian countries such as India and Nepal. It is similar to a general strike. During a bandh, a political party or a community declares a general strike. A Bharatha bandh is a call for a bandh across India, and a bandh can also be called for an individual state or municipality. Often, it is going to be the best community or political party declaring a bandh expects the general public to stay in at home and not report to work. Mo...

2:45 PM

indeed

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@BalarkaSen Damn.

Maybe I was lying. It's still a damn good movie.

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@BalarkaSen I had the better fortune to watch another scene from the movie and nope, it's a bit too gruesome for my taste.

lol

It is body horror. A genre which isn't for everybody, but can communicate ideas no other genre of film can.

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@BalarkaSen How so?

3:01 PM

Well, per se, I suppose not many horror directors actually exploited this genre - most of non-Cronenberg movies boiled down to slasher, which is like, action movie with a lot of blood.

But the point of the genre is to inflict horror from bodily transformations, and Cronenberg at least uses it symbolically.

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> uses it symbolically

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Guess I'd have to watch the film but I don't want to subject my brain to more of what I just watched >.<

haha. well, the scene you just watched (i don't know what the other one is) is basically a violent hallucination

His artistically best movie from this genre is unquestionably Dead Ringers, which is not very violent, but I am not sure if many people are comfortable with the subject matter

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A violent hallucination? Oh, wow, I see.

(Videodrome is not artistically significant, but contextually awesome)

SBM

3:04 PM

hallucinations? scary

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@BalarkaSen Oh, I see...

The popular joke is that Jeremy Irons won Oscar for Dead Ringers, just on the next movie he did :P

I want to make a movie named 'Canceling the d's in dy/dx'

I would watch that movie.

Thank you. I knew I could count on you

SBM

3:13 PM

@Avantgarde Fallacious title

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I would too x'D

SBM

I'll also go watch it.

:')

Canceling the d's in dy/dx: The return of the genius

Mostafa

@Avantgarde I'm gonna pirate it

It's ok. It's an independent movie made just by me. I give you all them rights

Mostafa

3:18 PM

String theory debunked in 50 seconds:

What Is Reality?

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lol the second comment goes "What's with all the drama?"

some youtube comments are precious

@Avantgarde It would have to be an 18 certificate. You couldn't risk impressionable young mathematicians being corrupted by such extreme material.

hahah

hehe

the new X-rated movie which divides by 0

3:27 PM

The sequel is widely believed to be a horror

exploitation film brah

exploiting the fact that Z isn't a field

going down in history for being a very bold, experimental film back in the day

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@Avantgarde Any idea about a good self study book for classical mechanics (with solved problems) ?

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I saw goldstein but all problems in it are unsolved

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Is L&L series good?

3:39 PM

Yes, it's a hard book too. That's the one I used. And lecture notes.

It's supposed to be, yeah. Though I've never studied from them

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@Avantgarde Do you recommend any other book?

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And is the solution manual for goldstein available?