@RobJLow

Ex maths lecturer. Classics under^H^H^H^H^Hpostgrad @ClassicsWarwick. Tweets about maths, classics and other random stuff. Now also @RobJLow@mathstodon.xyz.

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Joined August 2016
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gerardus.a@a_gerardusOct 18
Epitaphium Hic iacet Instabilis; multum puer ille cadebat surgebatque; senex denique nunc cecidit.
Paul McKenna@PaulMcKenna4Oct 16
Replying to @increpare @RobJLow @drvalerieisin
“He fell, and stayed fallen.” It’ll happen to us all but only once. 😊
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Jeffrey Goldstone (1933-2026) physics.mit.edu/news/jeffrey…

Jeffrey Goldstone, pioneering theoretical physicist and MIT professor emeritus, dies at 93

The Physics Department is very sorry to report that our colleague Jeffrey Goldstone, Cecil and Ida Green Professor Emeritus of Physics, died on October 12 at the age of 93. Jeffrey began his career...

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@chesswoodseatsOct 15

Of a Disputation at the High Table, concerning Homer & Virgil, & of what befell the Claret

Article · @chesswoodseats
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@renegadesiliconOct 13
Replying to @ArmandDAngour
I’m still amazed that Griko is extant in pockets of southern Italy! youtu.be/5QpV299gFKA?si=aF9S…

How is this language still alive?

Hidden in southern Italy, in the mountains of Calabria, a rare lang...

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Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, somehow writing about LLMs in 1983: Some of them want to use you Some of them want to get used by you Some of them want to abuse you Some of them want to be abused
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Very very silly but I admit, I laughed...
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It's not just Green and Yellows: and to rub salt in, the actual printed area of the page in the two books is the same.
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Replying to @curtis_yarvin
Gimel, the Phoenician letter that gave rise to C and G, almost certainly didn’t mean ‘camel’ despite the appealing resonance. armanddangour.substack.com/p…
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TIL: the Greek οἶδα, once you give it back its initial digamma becomes ϝοῖδα, practically identical to the slightly archaic English wot. From Homer to us, with almost no change.
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Dear sir or madam, will you read my book? It took an hour to write, won't you take a look? It's based on the corpus of English texts and I want some cash so I want to be an AI book writer.
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Finlay McLaren@fin_lay24Sep 20
First broadcast fifty years ago today, I Claudius is still one of the finest pieces of television ever made. Here's me for Lion & Unicorn on what today's TV industry can learn from it. thelionandunicorn.com/2026/0…

Last night on iPlayer: I, Claudius

Fifty years on from its first broadcast, ‘I Claudius’ is still magnificent and should be a model for today’s TV, says FINLAY McLAREN.

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Listening to some Fairport Convention tonight. My goodness, what a voice Sandy Denny had.
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Spent a couple of hours unsuccessfully trying to do in Cartesian coordinates a calculation that was trivial in polar coordinates. Left the room in despair. 1/2
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Came back in, glanced at the current version and immediately saw the sign error I'd made on every previous attempt. Aaargh! 2/2
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RIP Rafael Sorkin (1945–2026): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael… "He was best known as the initiator and main proponent of the causal sets approach to quantum gravity. He was also known for introducing entanglement entropy as a source for black hole entropy." (h/t K. Anagnostopoulos)

Rafael Sorkin - Wikipedia

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While walking to work, I just had a chat with ChatGPT to make sure I understood what the claimed singular solution to Navier-Stokes would mean *physically.* Here's a tweet thread it generated for me. Hope you find it helpful. (I rewrote it a bit to clarify what's surprising.)
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The Chinese use of the method of exhaustion and the determination of the value of pi #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/09…

Take it to the limit one more time – a history of calculus IV

Take it to the limit one more time – a history of calculus IV Today, I’m going to deviate slightly from course and talk about something that didn’t actually play a role in the development of c…

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What a difference some rain makes... #BloomScrolling
Japanese anemones in flower.

ALT Japanese anemones in flower.

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Surely the winner in this year's "ambiguous headline" competition. theguardian.com/politics/liv…

Burnham says Britain will ‘continue to act in support of our values’ after UK launches sanctions on...

Israel’s foreign minister, Gideon Saar, earlier claimed that the UK was ‘systemically working against the state of Israel’

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AI is apparently rubbish because it can't do <thing that 99.999% of humans also can't do>.
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