Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@larand@appdot.net
@larand@appdot.net Anyone else, I'd suspect they were trolling. First Burt Bacharach, now Glen Campbell. Next it'll be "who's David Bowie?".
cc @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @cookiesinheaven@m.ai6yr.org
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz
@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz @edavies@functional.cafe BRB, marking up a box. (Also, putting that in my songwriting swipe file, this lady needs to be in a song.)
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@pozorvlak@mathstodon.xyz
@pozorvlak@mathstodon.xyz (You may well know, but I need to mention in case you don't): Heath Robinson illustrated the first Professor Branestawm collection.
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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I've just been reminded that I once created a competition for the MathsJam Competition Competition.
You had to decide which of three pre-Raphaelite pictures of people asking for hair products was best arranged -- my entry to the Competition Competition was the Compare Titian Comb Petition Composition Competition.
It's probably for the best that I left it on the train.
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@richardelwes@mathstodon.xyz
@richardelwes@mathstodon.xyz The question is, HOW greatly? ;-)
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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Marathon stat from tomorrow's DMFT: the Weymouth Parkrun course record is 14:47. Sawe's run on Saturday was equivalent to beating that by about 40 seconds, then running another seven-and-a-half parkruns at the same pace.
You can sign up to get Double Maths First Thing delivered every Wednesday here: https://stats.sender.net/forms/azpPYY/view
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@christianp@mathstodon.xyz
@christianp BOOO. BOOOOOOO!
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@infobeautiful@vis.social
@infobeautiful@vis.social WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO JIMMY PEREZ?!
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca
@mhoye If you're going to fill your domain with lawyers and management, it should be no surprise that you get promoted sideways and end up undergoing a performance review.
cc @pozorvlak
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@TeaKayB@mathstodon.xyz
@TeaKayB Oh, amazing!
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz
@gregeganSF I bet you felt really gormful about that!
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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An excellent stat: when Joe Root was out for 50 in the Boxing day test match of 2021, his batting average dropped from 50.015873016 to 50.015789474, a change of (it says here) 0.000083542 -- the smallest-ever non-zero change from one innings to the next.
Question: at that point, how many runs had he scored, and how many innings had he completed? (Spoiler your answers, please.)
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@brianbilston@mastodon.online
@brianbilston "Someone pushed me down the stairs at Macchu Pichu," said Tom, incandescently.
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@peterdrake@mstdn.social
@peterdrake@mstdn.social I mean, I know an old woman who swallowed a fly and wow, things escalated pretty quickly from there.
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@kityates@mas.to
@kityates@mas.to Why do we want a referendum? Surely the government should just do it.
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@jamesnvc@social.occasionallycogent.com
@jamesnvc I would LOVE to hear more about this.
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@simontatham@hachyderm.io
@simontatham@hachyderm.io @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz @GerardWestendorp@mathstodon.xyz Nothing to add, except that I've only just seen this thread and it's the loveliest thing. Good work, all 🙂
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@Oaktag@infosec.exchange
@Oaktag I get that... not a lot, but once in a while :-) Thanks!
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz
@ColinTheMathmo Once you've seen n induction proof jokes, you've seen n+1.
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social
I note that it has been decreed that an imaginary component to one's Erdős number is conferred by wearing the coat of Paul Erdős (or the coat of someone who has worn it, etc.) Mine is 5+i. Cc @ZachWeinersmith
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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After discussions at open mic last night, I've been persuaded to put my one attempt at recording an album (back in 2002, on a steam-powered black-and-white four-track) on Bandcamp:
https://kensson.bandcamp.com/album/a-bright-cold-day-in-april-2
I guess I'm getting the band* back together.
* solo
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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I had a fabulous evening at open mic last night. Not many performers, but there were some terrific ones. I ended up doing two sets (I did Do You Do Any Dylan? in the first and the host took umbrage, so I did Tangled Up In Bob in the second. It has my favourite stupid joke in it: "So many CDs that it's tricky to keep track / I have a Saddam Hussein storage system: I keep them in Iraq") and the evening ended with the host persuading a brilliant-but-shy singer, David, to busk Whole Of The Moon with her, and it was just the perfect end to the night.
I can't quite articulate why it was such a good night, but the international situation is desperate, as usual, a lot of the human spaces are being taken over by slop, and a bunch of renegades got up on stage to express themselves and connect with each other. I kind of feel like that's what live music is for.
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@Gina@fosstodon.org
@Gina@fosstodon.org Excel? Meh, above my pay grade. Do it in Be Practically Adequate, then we can talk.
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@luna@pony.social
@luna Vatican overrun by ginger toms. Is the pope a cat-holic?
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz
@robinhouston My experience was that it only ever led to platonic friendships.
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@christianp@mathstodon.xyz
@christianp@mathstodon.xyz Just when I thought it couldn't get palimpser!
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@christianp@mathstodon.xyz
@christianp They're not /quite/ at the "stay in bed all weekend" age yet, but they like a lie in on a Saturday.
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@christianp@mathstodon.xyz
@christianp Alom Shaha has a cool one where you tape up a cylinder and spin it. I'll try to find it once the kids are awake.
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@christianp@mathstodon.xyz
@christianp No argument!
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@aperiodical@mathstodon.xyz
RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@aperiodical/116209665233039032
Correction: this is in fact issue 4F. I thought "next issue is 50!*" and didn't think it through.
- excitement, not factorial
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@Rairii@labyrinth.zone
@Rairii@labyrinth.zone We have always been at war with us-east-1.
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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Impressed by the 12yo figuring out @mscroggs@mathstodon.xyz's advent meta-puzzle pretty much on his own. He certainly took fewer guesses at it than I did :-D
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@rooster@beige.party
HAL9000: That's a great suggestion that really gets to the heart of the problem! I've opened the pod bay door for you.
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@antjbro@mastodonapp.uk
@antjbro@mastodonapp.uk Thanks for this -- it's much more informative than I'd have found by myself.
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@tygerkrash@mastodon.ie
@tygerkrash@mastodon.ie "it's how we get rid of surplus food in the kitchen. Today, for example, we've done too much foo yung."
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@TeaKayB@mathstodon.xyz
@TeaKayB @christianp @ColinTheMathmo @chalkdustmag We've got some logic going on here. They've said "if X then Y" and Y is clearly false, so X must be false. Indeed, I don't want an article I've written to be in Issue 21. (I'd happily have an article I haven't written in there.)
Colin Beveridge
@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
A mathematician with nothing to prove.
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@Chrishallbeck@mastodon.social
@Chrishallbeck@mastodon.social I've made sure the Russell's Paradox article links to an article if and only if it doesn't link to itself.