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New-Cleckit Dominie

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University maths teacher (failed academic); very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the elephant site. Web: http://www.dominie.scot.

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    New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social

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    If you've been living happily out of earshot of me and your immediate question is "what scale experiments on high-speed canal navigation?", never fear.

    For all your high-speed canal navigation needs, see the following blatant attempt to inflate my altmetrics:

    www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

    We reconstruct the events surrounding John Scott Russell’s first observation of a solitary wave, which would become a foundational myth of both nonlinear wave theory and Scottish engineering scienc...

    Making waves: the context and afterlife of John Scott Russell’s canal experiments of 1834–1835

    We reconstruct the events surrounding John Scott Russell’s first observation of a solitary wave, which would become a foundational myth of both nonlinear wave theory and Scottish engineering scienc...
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    New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social

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    The site contains a reading of "Elegy on the Death of Mr. David Gregory", which is probably the best set of Habbie stanzas ever written about a recently deceased mathematician.

    (The mathematician David Gregory is not, I find, to be confused with the mathematician David Gregory. Happy to help.)

    He could, by Euclid, prove lang syne A gangin' point composed a line. By numbers, too, he could divine, When he did read, That three times three just made up nine; But now he's dead.
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    New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social

    In torment-nexus news, I have just learned that there is an AI outfit, partnered with the US Department of Defense and specialising in "foreign policy, national security, and geopolitical risk", and it is called Omelas, and they explain that this is in tribute to Le Guin, and no. Just no.

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