Nick Clarke

Champion of unfashionable and forgotten writers: Wells, Greene, Buchan, H. E. Bates, Ambler, Conrad, Olivia Manning. Quantum theory, guitar, nature. Retired CTO

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@clarescastle @TimesRadio I'm nearly 60. My lifetime has been Rolf Harris, Jimmy Saville, Stuart Hall, abusive priests, sadistic teachers, Harvey Weinstein, Radio 1 DJs, old boys network covering up each other and controlling access to power. Was it really so much better in your past? Lucky you then

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@psybertron @martinmbauer Location doesn't help because you can't identify which one is at a given point in space. It's a labelling restriction with huge consequences

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@curiouswavefn Bethe and Salpeter
Margenau and Murphy
Herzberg
Slater (molecules)

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@curiouswavefn Or was that phenomenological?

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@CamillaTominey @DPJHodges I thought most of them were former Tory cabinet ministers or chairmen?

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@MadelaineLucyH I think he meant Steve Austin

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@SaraByorkscat @Saskiaaa_____ @YourSouthend So why is it happening now? Hasn't always been like this and there wasn't "beach police" then. You can't police all behaviours and maintain a sane society. People have to self police or apply peer pressure

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@martinmrmar So where do you write your great thoughts? Martin's marginalia should be a future PhD in it's own right

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@ZiaYusufUK I can see that you plan to govern for the whole country. Will you also quote Francis of Assisi on the steps of No 10? 🤣

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@curiouswavefn Yes that's all fine, but why aren't they organised by colour? 😏

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@PulpLibrarian We do in this house. Top class thrillers

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@SpringerMath Courant and Hilbert

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@grahamscheper It's days like this that makes life worth living. Very happy for you

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@curiouswavefn AI won't help you understand Kato's seminal paper on cusp conditions for wavefunctions. Without that you can't understand correlation or convergence criteria. AI might help basis set selection for mature techniques...

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@KozuchSebastian @curiouswavefn Did you know what a coulomb hole was though?

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@curiouswavefn Did he not rate (future Laureate) Neville Mott in Bristol then? Mott appears to be a forgotten man

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@OliverCooper But this policy has been devised by a group of Tories, who are obviously an economically competent uber-race according to previous propaganda

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@martinmrmar Those are not real words

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@martinmrmar You need help!

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@martinmrmar Um. It was a poor attempt at a joke...