Beneath Hill 60
Beneath Hill 60 is an Australian war film from 2010 based on a true story about miners who dug tunnels under enemy lines in order to plant explosives. The story cuts between the situation in the trenches and the principle character’s love interest. I’d suspect the latter is to make the film more palatable to [...]
Harvard Justice: Lecture 1 – Murder and Cannibalism
I watched the following hour (2 episodes), that addressed murder and cannibalism. The 1+ million views on youtube point to the exceptional quality of the lecture. Is the death of 1 to save 5 right? When? Is the death and consumption of 1 to save 3 (or 300) others, right? Under all, or any circumstances? [...]
Knuth @ Glasgow
It was more a Q&A than a lecture, but I was seriously impressed with a lot of what Knuth had to say. Rob Irving got polynomial time alg for stable marriages after reading a paper by Knuth in French posing the problem, so he got a mention & asked a Q. David Manlove asked if [...]
When your life depends on it, you’ll innovate or die
I watched an interesting channel 4 documentary about the development and progression of the use of the plane in the First World War. The 75 minute documentary has some interesting footage of dogfighting, and explains how this progressed from the skilled amateur pilot to professionals – those who wouldn’t pursue an enemy without being sure [...]
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