@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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Finlay McLaren@fin_lay24
Sep 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, 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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TFW you gave your Zelazny "Amber" books (first sequence) to Oxfam ten years ago then spot then in a bookshop in an omnibus edition for £14.99. And now I know what I'm going to be binge reading for the next several days.
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Looks like the Butlerian Jihad is actually about to begin.
Andrew Curran
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Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar today announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act. All AI development in the United States will be paused. Systems that have capabilities that match or exceed human cognitive performance will be banned. Violators will face 20 years in prison.
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And another one goes :-(
Hello, This is Ivan@hellothisisivan
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The fondest of farewells to the most likeable man ever to appear before a camera
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I wonder if in the not-too-distant future, when we are talking about how 'good' a mathematician is, the questions will have changed from 'what theorems have they proved?' to 'what useful definitions/interesting questions have they come up with?'
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Weird meteorological phenomenon—water falling out of the sky in vast quantities.
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Dolly Parton, then Tim Curry... I'm scared to get up and look at the news tomorrow :-(
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Country music legend Dolly Parton has died aged 80 bbc.in/3U8OBTt

'Glam, funny, kind': World remembers Dolly Parton as star dies from cancer aged 80

The legendary country music singer died surrounded by loved ones, her representatives said.

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Robert Low retweeted
Peter
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1) Happy 85th birthday to Hawkwind founder Dave Brock. Here he is with Dame Vera Lynn, backstage at the Crystal Palace Bowl, after a gig they co-headlined for the GLC's 'Anti-Heroin Campaign' benefit in August 1985.
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Apropos of nothing in particular: Hissing Sid is innocent.
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