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Sunday quiz: what did Kenny Everett, Alma Kogan and trombonist Dean Hubbard each provide?

As well as singing on the radio show Take it from Here, Alma Cogan (sorry for mis-spelling her name above) provided the snarls of Mrs Glum

Dean Hubbard's trombone provided the voice of any adult in the Peanuts animations

Sunday quiz: what did Kenny Everett, Alma Kogan and trombonist Dean Hubbard each provide?

en.wikipedia.orgMaryam Mirzakhani - Wikipedia

They each provided the voice of an unintelligible character. Kenny was the voice of Charlie the cat in the "Charlie says" child safety films of the seventies

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Melody

@melody-lane.bsky.social

Instead of discussing racist comments from asshats, read about Iranian Fields Medal winner, Maryam Mirzakhani. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_...

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Sean Walters

@seanwrite.bsky.social

Four-Song Peel Session of ska band The Bodysnatchers from April 8, 1980. Includes the song "The Boiler". Length: 14:00. #Ska #SkaMusic m.youtube.com/watch?v=kyhD...

m.youtube.comThe Bodysnatchers - Peel Session 1980YouTube video by Vibracobra23

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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙

@e-infinity.space

Everyone: Still everyone: nlab: Who wants a hyperbolic tangent and a limit in their absolute value definition?

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A history of the definition of absolute value according to nlab

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Sunday quiz: what did Kenny Everett, Alma Kogan and trombonist Dean Hubbard each provide?

SIDS is rarer than it was, though still not rare enough

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

irishtimes.com‘Very heartbreaking’: The Cedar Tree, Ireland’s first Lebanese restaurant, set to closeManager of St Andrew’s Street eatery, which opened in 1986, says ‘it was fun while it lasted but every good thing must come to an end’

Such a shame, one of my favourite eating places when I lived there. They had a dish that they claimed involved a hundred spices. We asked if it was free if we named them all, needless to say we couldn't

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‘Very heartbreaking’: The Cedar Tree, Ireland’s first Lebanese restaurant, set to close

bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 3 - The Essay, John Foxx - Key Moments, The Piano of the FutureMusician, singer and composer John Foxx on five evolving pianos which changed his life.

If, as we're frequently told, there's no such thing as a fish, why is it such a big deal that whales aren't fish? Apparently neither's anything else

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Andrew McPherson

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Tonight at 9:45pm UK time, I'll be appearing on a BBC Radio 3 programme by John Foxx on "The piano of the future". Will also be available for streaming after the live broadcast: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A query from a student has prompted a deep dive (as they say) into the history of the word 'phasor'

"It may be of interest to mention that the European engineers have been using for many years a term, which in translation would be called "pointer" (referring to the pointer or hand of a meter or a clock)."

So: who first coined the word phasor, and who first used it in either of the senses given up-thread? Grateful for any insights

A query from a student has prompted a deep dive (as they say) into the history of the word 'phasor'

The earliest reference the OED gives is a 1944 letter to Proc IRE, which doesn't use complex numbers but does refer to "the instantaneous angular velocity of the voltage phasor"

A footnote adds that " The term "phasor" is preferred for vector, which thus could be reserved for exclusive use in the vector analysis. The term "phasor" is used by the American Institute of Electrical Engineers."

A query from a student has prompted a deep dive (as they say) into the history of the word 'phasor'

"... as it allows us to represent the alternate current , the sine-function of time, by a *constant* numerical quantity , and thereby eliminates the independent variable "time" altogether from the calculation of alternate current phenomena"

So he was using complex numbers to represent sinusoidal signals (and not rotating points). But he didn't use the word phasor, here or anywhere else I can find.

A query from a student has prompted a deep dive (as they say) into the history of the word 'phasor'

Wikipedia says that Steinmetz ("the most valuable piece of apparatus General Electric had" - dos Passos) introduced phasors. He certainly introduced the idea in 1893 at the International Electrical Congress in Chicago

His paper begins "In the following , I shall outline a method of calculating alternate current phenomena , which, I believe, differs from former methods essentially in so far,..."

A query from a student has prompted a deep dive (as they say) into the history of the word 'phasor'

My strong preference is for the first definition, so that a phasor is a complex number with no time-dependence, not a rotating point on the complex plane

Furthermore, if v(t) and i(t) are voltage and current signals, both sinusoidal and with phasors (defn 1) V and I, I would say that the impedance Z = V/I (a complex number with no time-dependence by either definition) is not a phasor, because there's no signal Re{Z exp(j omega t)}

A query from a student has prompted a deep dive (as they say) into the history of the word 'phasor'

ironeconomist.bsky.social

Annoyingly it's used in two senses - if a sinusoidal signal A cos(omega t +phi) = Re{C exp(j omega t)}, some people call C the phasor, while others call C exp(j omega t) the phasor

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Replying to @rickchasey.bsky.social

We should totally have drone shooting as an Olympic event.

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Frances Ryan

@francesryan.bsky.social

My review of The Experiment is now the most read article on the whole of The Guardian website. It is genuinely one of the most shocking, disturbing, and timely things I’ve ever watched. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

theguardian.comThe Experiment review – easily the most disturbing thing on TVAs members of the public tour a fake ‘residential home’ for disabled people riddled with Nazi ideology, you desperately hope someone will speak up. Prepare for the most excruciating viewing of your li...

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Colm Mulcahy

@cardcolm.bsky.social

Staggering good cover of a Richard Thompson song (and his own fave such): Swan Arcade doing "The Great Valerio" www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsgK...

youtube.comSwan Arcade ( Live 1981) The Great ValerioYouTube video by MendAtone Treasures

By the time I finally clawed my way up to prof they'd abolished naugy lecs, but when I retire I might organise my own exaugural lecture

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Davenant 📸@marcdavenant.bsky.social

A woman weeps over the genocide in Gaza as she waits to be arrested as a terrorist for holding up a piece of cardboard. Parliament Square today.

bbc.co.ukStudent who spells by blinking is denied chance to sit examRomi Loffler is battling to take her history exam with reasonable adjustments allowing for her condition.

There's a story that Weinstein greenlit Boondock Saints because he despised Duffy and could see that success would make him humiliate himself - did the BBC do the same to Rajan?

Daniel McElroy@danielmcelroy0.bsky.social

Amol Rajan’s membership tiers…that is scandalous.

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Martin Paul Eve

@eve.gd

"QS had expressed concern that Romi would get an unfair advantage over other candidates" SHE HAS TO WRITE BY BLINKING. WHAT ADVANTAGE? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6zxj8grer7ro

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Richard Smyth

@rsmythfreelance.bsky.social

My favourite Ishiguro novel that's about contemporary trends in electronic music is probably Theremins Of The Day.

Marking homework in which a student finds the real and imaginary parts of a complex exponential with what they call "Edawg's formula"

If you hear a sudden cry of "Oh Fuck!!!" I might not have fallen, I might just be remembering almost anything I've said or done

@thisisjofrank.bsky.social

November's coming, so get ready confuse your local fash by wearing a covid mask with a poppy design

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Jo Franchetti

I gave a talk at EMF titled "Men in Tech #YesAllMen", in which I told my experience of being a woman in tech. I was afraid to publish it in case it affected my current or future employment. With all the current news I would like to add my 2¢. So here is the recording: youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0?...

youtu.beMen in tech #YesAllMen - EMF 2026YouTube video by Electromagnetic Field

@alistaircoleman.bsky.social

Some years ago, in a fit of enthusiasm, I installed Linux Mint on an old laptop, and every few months I boot it up, install all the upgrades, and then pressure of work makes me go back to my Windows one. I've basically got a fancy Tamagotchi

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No she hasn’t. I’m standing on it.

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Colm Mulcahy

@cardcolm.bsky.social

1. Possibly their best song ever. 2. Rarely done live. 3. Was not a hit (should have been massive). 4. William Walton wrote to Pete to tell him how impressed he was. 5. Pete lost the letter.

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Jessica Ellis

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Yeah anyone with an energy-related disability can let you know, if we don’t let our disabilities stop us, we can completely ruin our ability to function at all, sometimes permanently.

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Colm Mulcahy

@cardcolm.bsky.social

Outstanding Holy Grail Halloween yard display in Atlanta. @montypython.bsky.social

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Frances Ryan

@francesryan.bsky.social

This is incredibly sad. I once interviewed RJ Mitte on the Southbank and he was very friendly and joyful on a sunny day by the river. He leaves a legacy of disability representation on the screen; something that is far from easy to achieve and still too rare. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

theguardian.comRJ Mitte, actor best known for Breaking Bad, dies aged 34Actor who played Walter White Jr on the acclaimed show and advocated for disability representation remembered by Bryan Cranston as ‘my sweet son’

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BUCKERS

@deathofbuckley.bsky.social

You call him a Minotaur, I call him Half Man, Half Brisket x