For my new followers 😊: "Mathematics for machine learning" (CUP, 2020). 🎉Free PDF from mml-book.github.io A must-read masterpiece, nicely structured and richly color-illustrated!

When quantum mechanics posed a threat to the Marxist doctrine of materialism, communist physicists sought to reconcile the two Jim Baggott aeon.co/essays/how-sov…

The Higgs boson’s most captivating puzzle still remains We know its mass, charge, and spin, but discovering how the Higgs transitions from a restored symmetry to a broken symmetry could be the most important question in the Universe. bigthink.com/starts-with-a-…

Roger Scruton (1944-2020) was one of the most brilliant and incisive defenders of what he described as “high culture”, the West's great repository of art, literature, and philosophy that functions to bind people together into an ethical community. Here’s why it matters… 🧵

Music that whispers why it's crucial to embrace a life that's vibrant, tender, and inspired, while we still can. ABO #musicthatmovesyou youtu.be/EPaLxVVcmGY

Finally this review came out!! arxiv.org/abs/2405.19421

It's when the sublime transforms into the spiritual with Chopin, Shostakovich, and Barber played by the magical Yuja Wang Southbank Centre

The ultimate faculty recruitment list: Hermann Weyl recommending physicists and mathematicians as directors for the IAS in 1945. The competition is so stiff that Wigner and Bethe are considered second-tier. Oppenheimer is the "most inspiring for younger physicists."

My thoughts on Gustav Mahler's Symphony No.9 A Thread Part 1 I don't accept that Mahler was coming to terms with death in this symphony. It's known, wrongly in my view as a "dark night of the soul." I share Mahler expert Henry-Louis de La Grange's view expressed in this clip.

Our Design and Digital Media students are showcasing their final year projects at Oxo Tower Wharf until Saturday 16 June. Take a trip to the Southbank and be inspired by our amazing students. 😍 #brilliantbrunel

We are very happy to be co-hosting a free hustings on science, technology and innovation ahead of #GE2024 with Academy of Medical Sciences, The British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering, CaSE and The Foundation for Science and Technology. Chaired by Anjana Ahuja, representatives for the major political parties will outline their

Something to read for the weekend: link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s…

Solidarity with #Arundhatiroy who is a great writer, brlliant intellectual and brave activist. The persecution and prosecution of those who criticise their government is but one thing - the disease of totalitarianism. theguardian.com/world/article/…

Don't know how other authors feel, but seeing the first physical copy of your book, after years of looking at Word files and PDFs... Seems surreal. It's as if someone else wrote it... Anyway, this advance copy arrived in the mail. One more month to pub date

Hans Bethe on Enrico Fermi’s strengths and style of doing physics (Bethe was a postdoc with Fermi in 1931).

Double-header: Welsh National Opera ⁦Welsh National Opera⁩ has announced that the stage director Adele Thomas and the Royal Opera’s Creative Producer Sarah Crabtree will jointly take up the role of WNO’s General Director & CEO from January 2025.

Several months ago I was asked if I would like to detail my absolutely garbage experiences with Fermilab management for a document that would call attention to the myriad ways that the Fermi Research Alliance mismanaged the lab. The document is out now. arxiv.org/pdf/2407.13924🧵

Field medalist Richard Borcherd has got a great set of classes on Lie groups/Algebra for you to watch. Formal but very well explained. Love the examples. Love how Richard teaches. His channel is absolutely amazing. Take a look! youtube.com/watch?v=pAuRWd…

Simple Linear Regression exemplified for dummies👇🏻

'How to Write a 4* Article': excellent guest post from Mark Reed on what to consider when writing #REF outputs fundermental.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/how-to…