barry stopford

Retired accountamt thank god, loves sportt & horse racing. supporter of the common man

[Paroles d'auteurs @Paroles_auteurs]

"Si votre salaire ne suffit qu'à manger et dormir, ce n'est pas un travail ; autrefois, on appelait cela de l'esclavage."
George Orwell

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

Remembering the late great DONALD SUTHERLAND — who left us 2yrs ago today, aged 88

[The Farmer's Dog @FamersDog]

An update and a message from Jeremy.

“Thank you so much for all the kind messages I've had but now, an announcement.”

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

ANN-MARGRET delighting Johnny’s male viewers especially whilst showing she was in a genre of her own making — on The Tonight Show in 1975.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

Trump is desperately trying to get this picture removed from social media!

You know what to do! 🤣🤣🤣

[barry stopford @StopfordBarry]

Must confess these i dog races are great not sure where the rest were great start to Saturday

[UK Greyhound Tips @OnTheGreyhounds]

BOOOOOOOOOM

THIS MORNINGS ONLY BET GETS THE JOB DONE!

[Phil Rostron ⚽️👍🍻 @bigphil321]

Morning😃😃
Cricket commentary at its best 😂😂😂👏👏👏🏏🏏🏏

[barry stopford @StopfordBarry]

Love it

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

En 1925, un año antes de su fallecimiento, Claude Monet se encontraba en la etapa final de su vida residiendo en su famosa casa de Giverny, Francia, el lugar que fue su hogar y máxima fuente de inspiración durante 43 años.

A pesar de sufrir graves problemas de visión debido a las cataratas, este período consolidó algunas de sus obras y registros fotográficos más íntimos y memorables.

[barry stopford @StopfordBarry]

@AlanOlive1 Despite all that the voters actually saw through your synergism yours is just noise

[barry stopford @StopfordBarry]

Another great run managed to steal 17/1 on the exchange

[optimum racing @optimum_racing]

12/1 when advised, another nice winner following 2nds at 11/1 and 12/1 https://t.co/gNcNSJi2vh

[barry stopford @StopfordBarry]

GREAT WIN

[optimum racing @optimum_racing]

Winning day for https://t.co/gNcNSJi2vh with Daiquiri 7/1 when advised landing the lucky last #RoyalAscot

[Phil Rostron ⚽️👍🍻 @bigphil321]

Morning😃😃
This is fantastic from John Cleese👏👏👏🤣🤣🤣
Fawlty Towers remains my favourite ever sitcom 👌👌

[Matty Dread @MattyDread]

Found it mate. @theemews1
This was a classic moment that ended Stans TV career.
#Comedy #Adulthumour #ClassicComedy #UKcomedy #Jokes

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

Rommel gave them one chance to surrender. They said no.

3,600 Free French soldiers held a desert fortress called Bir Hakeim against the full weight of Rommel's Afrika Korps for 16 days. They were surrounded, outnumbered, and running out of everything.

On the night of June 10-11, with the position finally collapsing, General Koenig ordered a breakout into the open desert in total darkness.

The Germans discovered the movement. The retreat became a brutal close-quarters fight. Men broke into small groups. Some crawled for miles. Most of them made it out.

What they bought with those 16 days: enough time for the British Eighth Army to withdraw to El Alamein, where the tide of the entire North African war would eventually turn.

Rommel later said the Free French fought magnificently. It meant something, coming from him.

France had been occupied for two years. These men had no country. They held anyway.

[THIERRY D "ardéchois et français" @ThierryTout]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥁
Quand un chef écossais conduit son clan en centre-ville (ici, le clan Innes), pour perpétuer la tradition de manière festive, c'est vraiment impressionnant !
Waouh ! 😲
Préservons nos cultures locales et nationales ! 👍

[Duncan Armfield @ArmfieldDuncan]

What a hero. Courage and valour with humility.

[barry stopford @StopfordBarry]

Sorry as well got 7/1 its just 1 of those winning days

[barry stopford @StopfordBarry]

stalking horse won will great spot as usual maintains your high standards

[barry stopford @StopfordBarry]

stalking horse won will great spot as usual maintains your high standards

[Uk Racing tips @ukRACINGtipss]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOM

6/1 winner for all members!!!!!!!!

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A self-taught Irish schoolteacher wrote a book in 1854 that almost nobody read for 80 years, until a 21-year-old MIT student picked it up and realized it could be used to design every computer in human history.

His name was George Boole. The book is called An Investigation of the Laws of Thought.

Boole was born in 1815 in Lincoln, England. His family was poor. He left school at 16 to support them. He taught himself Latin, Greek, French, German, and Italian.

Then he taught himself mathematics. By 19 he had opened his own school. By 24 he was publishing original papers in the Cambridge Mathematical Journal, competing with men who had spent decades inside the best universities in Britain.

He never had a degree. He never had a mentor. In 1849, Queen's College in Cork hired him as a professor anyway.

In 1854, he published his masterwork. What he built inside it was something nobody had attempted before at this scale. He turned logic into algebra.

Before Boole, logic was philosophy. You argued in sentences. You reasoned in paragraphs. It was powerful and completely impossible to automate, because there was no formal system underneath it, just language.

Boole stripped it down to arithmetic. He showed that every act of human reasoning could be reduced to operations on two values. True or false. One or zero. AND, OR, NOT. If both conditions are true, the result is true. If neither is, the result is false. Every judgment a human mind makes, every decision, every deduction, could be written as an equation following those rules.

Logicians read it. They found it interesting. Engineers building machines had never heard of it.

For 83 years, the book sat there.

Then in 1937, a 21-year-old MIT master's student named Claude Shannon was working on a thesis about electrical relay circuits. Switches that could be open or closed. Current that either flowed or didn't.

He read Boole and understood something nobody had connected before.

An open switch is a zero. A closed switch is a one. A circuit with two switches in series only carries current when both are closed. That is AND. A circuit with two switches in parallel carries current when either is closed. That is OR. Shannon proved that every possible logical relationship Boole had described could be physically built using wire and switches.

That single insight is the foundation of every computer ever made.

After Shannon, chip designers stopped thinking about electricity and started thinking about logic. Every transistor on every processor running right now is implementing a Boolean operation. Every if-statement in every codebase is Boolean logic. Every database query using AND or OR. Every neural network threshold that fires or doesn't fire. All of it is running the algebra of a self-taught schoolteacher from Lincoln who died 160 years ago.

The strangest part is what happened to Boole at the end.

He was walking to class in November 1864 when he got caught in a rainstorm. He lectured for hours in wet clothes. He went home sick. His wife, Mary, believed in homeopathic medicine and thought the cure should mirror the cause. She wrapped him in wet sheets and poured cold water over him repeatedly.

He died a few days later. He was 49.

He never saw a transistor. He never saw a circuit. He never saw a single physical machine run a single one of his rules.

His book is in the public domain. Free to download. Most engineers use the word Boolean dozens of times a week. Almost none of them know who they are saying.

The man whose logic runs inside every phone, every server, and every AI model on Earth died soaking wet in a small Irish town, 83 years before anyone figured out what he had actually built.