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Take a right-angled triangle with hypotenuse c and the other two sides a and b. Pythagoras’ Theorem tells us that c2 = a2+b2. Let the area of the triangle be A. We know that A = ab/2 (since an a×b rectangle is cut into … Continue reading →
Many of my projects become courses in cabinet making, with everyday other woodworking thrown in for good measure. My work balances out the machinist in us–that couch-potato, tube-watching that's interesting but non-active. My quest for...
More snow finally came on Tuesday night, two months later than it was supposed to finally come, and it is too late, but it is better than nothing. That’s what everyone is saying. “I’m so grateful for the moisture.” “I hope the flowers I...
Trafalgar Square 320 million years ago If I could travel back in time to around 320 million years ago (about 318 million years before the first humans appeared) I would find the ground beneath my London home lying some 6 degrees south of...
Veteran super-coder Jez is back, and claims he has "finished" implementing Cell, Andy's toy language, in Rust. Jez and Andy basically gossip a bit, about code type stuff. Read Jez's blog at https://www.jezuk.co.uk/ Read my blog at...
Leaping from tree to tree is easy. I encountered something in a game which should be rather harder.
Ever wondered how difficult it would be to communicate with aliens? Probably a bit harder than Star Trek makes it appear - in fact a person might have to change her whole view of the space-time continuum to truly understand their point...
Most commercial LLMs – that is to say, the ones with expensive lawyers – display a disclaimer along the lines of “ can make mistakes. Check important info.” They’re not kidding. Every token of text an LLM generates should be considered...
The title of Nicola Cornick’s latest novel, The Fourth Queen, refers, as you may have guessed, to the fourth wife of Henry VIII – Anne of Cleves. However, although she does feature in the book, this is really the story of a fictional...
Sir David Attenborough is 100 years old and formed a large part of my love of nature through is TV documentaries through the 80s and 90s. I can remember when TVs went HIGH DEFINITION and Planet Earth (I think) was one of the first shows...