Stuart Presnell

Mathematics, CS, physics, philosophy
Most recently : Teaching logic and phil math in @PhilATBristol at @BristolUni

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@gregeganSF The slowness of their bureaucracy is enough to make you want to give up your Oort Cloud citizenship altogether

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@MikeBenchCapon I think we're just relying on the menswear guy to deal with them case by case

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@MikeBenchCapon I think it's nice that we regularly have a day when a celebrity feels like they have something important and powerful to say to the world but turns out to be painfully shallow and cringe — it's the perfect way to honour the memory of John Lennon

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@quendergeer Oh damn it I was using that

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@RiverTamYDN And he'll have something to announce in two weeks

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@littmath Disproving the infinite monkeys theorem by an application of the pigeonhole principle, but now I have a lot of angry uncomfortable monkeys

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@aaaronson electronic engineering cummings
Electromagnetic Forster
Remote Desktop Blackmore
Mark Technology Without An Interesting Name

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@MikeBenchCapon @js_thrill John Mayberry used to say: When people say "*In theory*..." or "*In principle* you could write down an arbitrarily large number" — I want to know, *what* theory? *What* principle? Unless you have a particular principle in mind you're just assuming what you're meant to be arguing

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@MikeBenchCapon @js_thrill I'd say it's at least consistent to believe in, say, a googolplex without being committed to the existence of all the numbers below it

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@MikeBenchCapon @petemandik There are some finitists who disallow all integers between 3 and 98 inclusive, but these Skip-a-Fewists tend to be disqualified from playing hide and seek

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@SaraLUckelman The explanation in forallx isn't particularly clear, it took me a lot of head-scratching to figure out how to translate the rules for modal logic into something I could explain to a student

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@baseballot Also: clearly indicate how much of the vote has been counted and how much remains
Don't just say "Candidate A leads by 57% to 43%" — that's a misleading artifact of the order in which votes are counted
Show the full situation as the count progresses:
🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟥🟥🟥

[Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz]

It was so much fun chatting with @veritasium about the principle of least action! And what a great video Derek and his team made. Hope you enjoy it! https://t.co/WkMIrEbZ9t

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@h_blaubear I take a photo of the page which I can then have open on the screen. I find it easier to look back and forth between two windows on the screen than down at a book. Also means I can later find the original text when I need to without having to find and flip through the book

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@js_thrill @lastpositivist Spider-Man Cinematic Penumbraverse

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@sandydell123 @QuantaMagazine You could ask the person who made them :)
https://t.co/otIfhKDeBL

[dave @beesandbombs]

made a little animation for this article

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@biggesttwitch

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@Dorianlynskey "Only 120 people watched Robert Jenrick give his Tory Conference speech, but every one of them went on to found their own political party"