Icy North

IT manager, puzzle setter and heretic

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AI dispels another myth …. #TheOneShow

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@HWFCOfficial The released players above a “Let’s go for a little walk” footer…

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@FACupFactfile @gorlestonfc @LarkhallAFC @cambridgecityfc @BPAFCOfficial @FCTrafford @vcd_club @afc_stoneham @MouseholeAFC @WorcsRaidersFC @JerseyBullsFC @FairfordTownFC @kendaltownfc @GWRovers @TadleyCallevaFC Nice stats 👍 What are the records for 2 teams successively meeting in the FA Cup, and/or with one defeating the other?

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I can’t make the Forteana festival this year, sadly ⁦@d_gheorgheni⁩ https://t.co/ps3DJVYH24

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@susie_dent You’ll be fine - I haven’t signed up 🙂 Hope it goes well!

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@Rainmaker1973 It’s impossible to tell.

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@pickover a) too easy b) who knows? c) who cares?

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@pickover You can prove it does, but you cannot prove it doesn’t.

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@d_gheorgheni @alioop326 I’m as Brit as they come, and I’ve never heard of it. But I’ll check it out 🙂

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@pickover This is a fact, so why the opinion poll?

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@pickover It’s that there is no connection. Everything observable is through the lens of the models we create to understand it, and could be entirely different to another observer. Maths (logic) on the other hand applies consistently and independently.

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@BrianSm57551640 @pickover You’re conditioned to the English language of puzzle syntax 🙂

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@BrianSm57551640 @pickover That would need an unstated assumption

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@pickover If the clock is working, then it can never be pi o’clock (as time is discrete) however if it stops working, you could theoretically set the hands to point to it.

[That’s So Village @ThatsSoVillage]

So another wonderful season of cricket comes to an end here in the UK.

Time to recap a few of the most village moments of the year. A thread —

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@pickover I suspect it could only be conscious if it had mortality.

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@FarnboroughFC @tadleycallevafc You can only play what’s in front of you.

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@pickover I tried it and got “Living Doll”.

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@pickover You’ll need a hypothesis before you can design a test for it, and that test design should be within the conventions of the scientific community. In fact, I wouldn’t bother designing a test until you’ve had the funding agreed. So don’t touch that dice yet, Clive.

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@susie_dent Ooh, is it back? I was incurably addicted to the old game, so I’ll have to think twice about this. Good luck with it!