May 2012
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Twitter talk on the world chess championship 2012
Levon Aronian @LevAronian: Congrats to World Champion Anand! Great comeback in the later stage of the match! Gelfand deserves a praise for his creative & dynamic play!
Mig Greengard @chessninja: @LevAronian What, did they play another match? ; )
Levon Aronian @LevAronian: @chessninja How come the less a person knows about a subject, the more he treats it with disrespect.
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April 2012
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Precious Manuscript Fragments Found - After 100... →
Ancient manuscript found in Brisbane
The Queensland Museum has been revealed as an unlikely resting place for the missing pieces of a rare manuscript from ancient Egypt. Archaeologists had been searching for the missing fragments of the rare Book of the Dead for 100 years when a visiting Egyptologist stumbled across them while in Brisbane to open a mummy exhibition.
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p is true
theforgottensemicolon:
“In all sentences in form ‘p is true’ the phrase ‘is true’ is logically superfluous. To say that a proposition is true is to just assert it, and to say that it is false is just to assert its contradictory.”
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J.L. Austin, Truth (via philphys)
also applicable in: computer science. boolean conditionals need not be compared. ie the conditional ‘if(a != b)’ is more...
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The BBC have outdone themselves with this year's...
This literally made me LOL!