Youtube comments of Gavin Tillman (@gavintillman1884).

  1. Jeez. I’m a Brit and know the difference between 1st and 2nd Amendment!
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  2. The body language, the way she looks at him... it seems obvious to me! Presume she only hangs around because of Barron, and he's practically of age now I think.
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  3. I wasn't expecting to find this on YouTube! If it's what I think it is (I've only seen the first minute so far, but it looks like it ma be) then it takes me back to my Cambridge post grad dissertation in 87/88
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  4. Amazed to find someone in my year at uni, and an exceptional bass player, at the heart of this.
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  5. Fantastic. I feel that I recognise the voice and am wondering who it is. Loved the timing of the word Spud just as the voiceover mentions root vegetables.
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  6. I’m overanalysing it. It’s just treating _ as a variable and doing the usual * unpacking. So *_ isn’t a Python symbol, it’s just the * unpacking operator applied to variable _. The whole _ is just a convention that it’s ignored, syntactically (outside of console mode) it’s just another variable - right?
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  7. Who do I blame? Farridge BoJo and Cameron. Cameron opened the box remember. If any one of those had acted differently, we wouldn’t be where we are.
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  8. My favourite mathematician. Quite a back story. Amazing.
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  9. Coming back to the binary thing. I know it’s going off at a tangent but I liked the ternary thing where you can count a weight negatively or positively (as you can put it in the same pan or opposite pan to thing you are weighing, on a pair of scales). So with 1,3,9,27 lb you can weigh any integer number of lb up to 40. Highly practical!
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  10. I was originally expecting to replace my current Model S with a new one before the engine/battery warranty runs out, but that's been scuppered by the RHD debacle, and you know what? I'm a single guy, I might just go now the MG route - that looks bloody good to me.
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  11. BoJo actually said “more cheaper?!”
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  12. Not heard of SoME. Will try and watch when I have more time.
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  13. Lots of good stuff here. I did start the Udemy course, but never finished - work and other stuff gets in the way (coding is something I do for fun, not my job, though I'm hoping to do more n ow that I am working part time, transiationing to retirement) -- I'll be sure to go back and finish the course!
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  14. While I kind of agree, many of the Commons don’t follow Nolan either.
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  15. It's all coming flooding back. Miracles? Steiner systems? Remembering the heartache of trying to render MOG in Plain TeX (I never learned LaTeX at the time though it seems a no brainer in hindsight)
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  16.  @AnotherRoof  i certainly wasn’t expecting to see it described as the most important diagram in maths, although I was aware of its importance in coding, sphere packing, simple groups etc
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  17. Just got to the end - was so please to stumble across this, especially as a) I wasn't particularly looking for it, YouTube's algorithm obviously deemed I might be interested and b) it looks like it's only been up a few hours!
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  18. You’ll be lucky to find a 0.5% house edge on the LV strip. You might find it downtown. Most houses pay 6/5 rather than 3/2 for a blackjack these days, and that ramps up the house edge.
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  19. At school, I found ä the easiest, then ö and then ü. We didn’t really talk about long and short versions so it was a little oversimplified, but we were taught: ä was like a closed e; ö was similar to o except push the tongue forward so it touches the bottom teeth (so it’s very similar to French eu); and ü, the tip you said about saying the ee sound with mouth rounded. One mistake I made and didn’t realise until I visited Germany, and had it explained to me, was that my ü and u were too similar but it was my u that was more wrong than my ü. I needed to close my mouth more to get the u correct.
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  20. Not sure I agree with your comment about Spanish words for weather. Subject pronouns are universally omitted from all verbs as they can be inferred from the ending of the verb. Not specific to weather.
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  21. That’s so cool - both presentation and content!
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  22. Love this stuff. Didn’t touch this material in my degree but got some intro to it from D E Knuth’s METAFONTbook.
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  23. Would like to see more on splines, definitely.
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  24. Around 2000 more than I would have expected!
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  25. Very informative. Will be doing my first build shortly - as such I’m only going to have one of everything so won’t be able to swap stuff out, so fingers crossed I guess...
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  26. I think the confusion arises becuase of historic data protection legislation prior to it being entrenched in European law. As you say, it seems clear that GDPR - European legislation, which we are currently retaining - applies to oindividuals, but I belive that, before GDPR came in, when we were just subject to the Data Protection Act, (I'm talking at the start of my career, perhaps 80s and 90s) I think that may have just applied to businesses, and perhaps other organisations, but not individuals?
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  27. Where this is really misleading is how you would in practice charge at home. You’d have a tariff that’s EV friendly. For example, Intelligent Octopus Go, where you’d pay 7.5p per unit rather than 30p per unit.
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  28. Would it be best practice for the PC or licensing officer to explicitly say “if you don’t comply, you are committing an offence and may be liable for a fine”. That might make the resident think twice and being about a better outcome for all - an executed search, avoiding an obstruction rap.
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  29. what units are you working in? In SI, f= q(E + v x B), not q(E + v/c x B) -- I know there are some approaches such as cgs where eps0 and mu0 are chsoen differently, and that might well introduce a '/c' term
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  30. Ah I see you answered this. The Q occurred to me in lecture 9 but you explicitly address it in lecture 10.
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  31. I learned the theorem at school but not the proof. At uni it was assumed that everyone knew the proof so it wasn’t proven to me there either. I commented to a fellow student that I’d never seen the proof, and he explained your second proof to me. Today at 56 is the first time I saw the first proof!
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  32. I’m guessing it’s only England because of devolution, it’s for local legislatures to implement in the rest of UK?
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  33. Could the .dotfiles directory be moved inside Library, or would that be a mistake (would macos clobber it, for example)? I think I'd rather it be in there than as a subdirectory of ~
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  34. Don’t say “perceived corruption”. Tell it like it is. Say “corruption”.
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  35. Don’t know if it leads to the “same” infinitesimals but I know JHC’s surreal numbers include these (and infinities). Must take a look at NSA
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  36. Table at 9:55 not quite correct. First three digits of 4th has a quantity of 198 not 99, and total of €198,000 not €99,000 as there are two numbers drawn as 4th prize. This also makes the total column sum to €14m.
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  37. Actually I see this is fixed later. Looks correct at 23:57.
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  38. I’ve come across both * and _ in an unpacking context, but never *_ together. Is that quite new?
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  39. I must rewatch this film. I saw it some time ago, ironically my non mathematical flat mate brought it to my attention, I’d never heard of it. As someone who did maths at uni for 4 years, this is possibly my favourite film with significant maths content, though I’m not sure how long that list is.
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  40. In the UK the deposit system on glass bottles was phased out in the 1970s. And many bottles were outside the deposit scheme, labelled “No deposit, no return”. Never seen a deposit scheme on cans here.
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  41. A video on dialects definitely sounds interesting!
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  42. I never voted for him!
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  43. Can't be a huge shock 🤷‍♂
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  44. It feels like the Govt policy has been deliberately left vague.
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  45. I don’t know why you’d declare q pointluess and then commission something to replace qu. Either just use kw in the first place or repurpose q to imply the u. Personally I’d keep consonants and vowels separate. What’s so special about qu that it gets it’s own symbol? The reason why some Asian languages have so many characters is because they often combine vowels and consonants rather than keeping them separate.
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  46. I’d like to call primorials primordials.
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  47. The British English is different again than the American English in some instances. American say “Jag-war”. We say “Jag-you-uh”. Americans say Amazon to rhyme with Bonn. We tend to not pronounce the o as an o. Think of the -en sound at the end of German plural nouns or German verb infinitives, it’s the same sound.
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  48. One of the best cars I ever had. In that sense I don’t regret. Touchscreen is buggy and I’m tempted to upgrade but won’t get that money back. But I don’t like what Musk is doing generally and what he’s doing with the brand, not to mention resale values. My model is no longer available in right hand drive so I’d already decided to switch to a different make before Musk lost the plot.
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  49. Touch wood I’ve not had any hostility recently.
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  50. Pretty standard in the UK I think
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  51. Every Brit knows the word wunderbar. We had the Two Ronnies sketch, Wunderbar Bavaria - check it out!
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  52. Actually, it's a bit dated - perhaps it worked in the 1970s when I first watched it, but watching it now, I'm cringing!
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  53. That absolutely sucks, so sorry to hear that. I’d say more, but I’ll heed the advice in your pinned post. If I was in your position I’d want to re-upload replacement content with new branding. But it’s up to you, it sounds a huge task, I wouldn’t judge either decision adversely. I wish you well with the channel and will try and check in more often.
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  54. Love your blue/green/orange gut friendly command prompt!
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  55. Love that you pronounce his name the same way that I do - “Farridge”.
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  56. Munich - one of my favourite cities, I visit most years. Last went in March 2020 just as lockdown was happening! Hope to get back soon, when travelling gets easier again, and I will definitely check out some of the places in the video.
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  57. Looks like I’ve visited Hofbräuhaus much more often than you!
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  58. Better than 12% James!
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  59. You mention 1729 without mentioning its best property.
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  60. It relates to how group M24 is constructed. One of the constructions takes the finite field F23 and extends it with infinity. I can’t remember the detail, it was so long ago. Something to do with Möbius maps and quadratic residues.
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  61. The labelling is arbitrary but over the years, different constructions are discovered, and the labelling is meaningful within particular constructions. The classic presentation involving Möbius maps on a finite field is going to involve elements of that field (numbers from 0 to some prime minus 1 such as 22) together with infinity. A different construction might have different labels but give you the same group.
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  62. I have a Ducky which I find unreliable. Every so often it dies, which you can see by the RGB going static, and lighting one row only. When that happens, you have to unplug and plug back in to reset it. I find it laughable that it is sold as a gaming keyboard.
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  63. I've been thinking about getting Warp for my Mac. I bought a PC recently and want to use it with the same shell that I use on my Mac, currently zsh. Presumably you can set PC Warp to work with sheels other than CMD or PowerShell, for example by going down the WSL route (new to me but contemoplating it) or getting git bash when I get git for it; I've been using zsh on my Mac and it would be great to use zsh, git, uv etcon my PC as well.
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  64. Bar culture? I always visit Hofbräuhaus when I’m in Munich, and spend several hours there.
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  65. He’s right to alter his position to make himself visible. However I wouldn’t have altered my position solely ti annoy the driver and create a confrontation. I’d have zipped left and gone behind him. More defensive. Not a lot of use being “in the right” when you’re in the morgue.
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  66. Interesting. Looks like Brits pronounce things a little better than Americans - I get Porsche, VW, LH, Audi, DB, Aldi, Adidas right. Many companies deliberately market themselves with the “wrong” pronunciation in overseas markets. Mercedes and Nivea market themselves in the UK using the pronunciation you mentioned in the video rather than the correct way. And any company known by its initials will always be referred to using the English version of those initials. Love Munich. Been frequently.
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  67. I think the point is moot for anyone other than serious cyclists. I have a 21 gear regular bike and a 2 gear e-bike. Clearly the former is not a motor vehicle so out of scope of the rules and I imagine the latter isn’t either as the power is so limited, only helps you while you’re actually pedalling, and cuts out above around 15 mph, so there’s no motor operating at the speeds we are talking about. I’ve never come close to a 30 or higher speed limit on these bikes. Even 20 is going some, bombing down a steep hill I might hit the very high teens. Of course I’m not close to being a serious cyclist. With the right kit and fitness some guys may exceed the limit. Tbh I’ve no intention of breaking the limit. I wouldn’t feel safe at such speeds. Eye opener though. Up until about 20 minutes ago I’d have thought cyclists were caught by speed limits.
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  68. I’m British and never found odd numbers going up and even numbers going down. They may be out of step but would both be going up. Or both down. Especially London where numbers tend to increase as you move away from Charing Cross.
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  69. Interesting. As you say, mind blown comparing div of ints and floats. Your comment about moduloing a hash to get a box number for something like a dict or a set, being expensive and a “hidden” div is interesting. You alluded to ways in which compilers ease this overhead and I’d be interested to see how. First thing that springs to mind is that the number of boxes is power of 2 so the modulo is just a bit mask.
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  70. The “three” thing with the fingers. I saw Tarantino use it as a plot device and wondered if it was genuine. Your “three” is definitely more comfortable than mine but “feels” wrong 🙂
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  71. I find the US limits baffling. Can’t conceive of going to university and not drinking...
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  72.  @jimzecca3961  well I’m pleased to hear it!
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  73. Definitely want the same number of sides on each die!
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  74.  @AnotherRoof  I'll probably rewatch this tonight. Thinking about this video prompted me to do some searches on YouTube. Started by looking for content on the Mathieu groups. I found videos on the sporadic groups and the Monster, but (with the exception of what appear to be spoken versions of the relevant Wikipedia pages)nothing specific on the Mathieu groups. That's a quite a gap to plug, don't know if that might be something that would interest you?? I guess this video is the closest thing on YouTube to the Mathieu groups but there is a fair bit more ontent that could be included, such as construction and highy transitive groups. Likewise (though not as relevant to the present video) a shout out for classical/Chevalley groups - I looked at some in my part III year at Cambridge (GL/SL/PGL/PSL, U/SU/PU/PSU. O/SO/PO/PSP, Sp all over finite fields) but would love to have gone deeper.
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  75.  @AnotherRoof  ah great - just watched the second part, hadn't seen that before. And as I said, I rewatched part 1 last night. This could well be my favourite YT channel. Certainly my favourite pure maths channel! Part 3 after breakfast.
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  76. Just finished the whole playlist. Brilliant stuff. Might have to watch the extended versions!
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  77. Some other areas I suspect we might find if mutual interest: Sym6 and Alt6 and why they buck the trend. And Coxeter/reflection groups.
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  78. Given that each location - left/centre/right - defines a ternary number 0/1/2 - and that there are three deals each yielding a ternary number - presumably the trick still works if, instead of dealing 21 cards, 3^3=27 are dealt.
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  79. I didn’t realise Hello Fresh were an international company. I’ve been using them here in the UK for several years now.
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  80. That guy is the doppelgänger of a friend of mine. I often tease him about moonlighting as an actor.
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  81. Hi. Just heard you say that you need at least a MacBook Pro for iOS development. What about Apple Silicon? Looks like Apple’s entry level machines are way faster with Apple Silicon.
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  82. Hopefully it will be bad for himself, Dacre, the Mail and the muppets that read it.
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  83. I’m fine with the pronunciation as I did German at school. I’ve drunk most of the Munich beers both in Munich and elsewhere. Been to Hofbräuhaus many times (and once to their Las Vegas bar) and like their beer. I think my least favourite is Löwenbräu. Been to Erding a few times as I like the Therme there and like Erdinger beer.
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  84. I thought the Rheinheitsgebot was only Bavaria? Not all Germany?
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  85. We are big on carpet in the UK!
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  86. A professional journalist voted for a drongo like that?
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  87. One thing that interested me when I studied German at school. I obviously learned the words deutsch and Deutschland very early on, and so was surprised to learn that Germans use the word Germanistik in some contexts - can’t remember the exact meaning, something like German linguistics.
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  88. I'm keen to get the NuPhy but it's not sold directly in the UK, though there are ways of getting one - some used ones on Amazon for example - and I think it's only available in ANSI.
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  89. That's elegant! Not made that connection before
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  90. I remember being told off and threatened with being thrown out of the Paulaner tent for standing on my table drinking Helles with my t- shirt off. They had no problem with me standing on the table, but they had a big problem with the lack of t- shirt. When I put the t-shirt back on, they were fine. I suspect it would have been the other way round back on the UK
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  91. Comments before hitting play, so you may well address these - how to formulate QM without them? The insights given by e^ix tying exp with sin and cos. The significant restrictions on a complex analytic function as compared to a real smooth function. Undoubtedly yes.
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  92. Bonkers to implement within an academic year - nSurely this should have been done with some notice, over a summer holiday
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