Smiley's People (TV series) Updated 2025-07-16
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This is perhaps slightly worse than the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, but still amazing.
Some difficult points:
  • how did the general deduce that the old woman's daughter had a link to Karla? It must be linked to the fact that the Russian agent who made the offer was a Karla-man.
  • some things are hard to understand without having seen the previous Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, e.g. they say nothing clearly who Toby Esterhase is, he now works on art sales
  • but others are inconsistent, e.g. they changed the actor for Peter Guillam...
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Smiley's letter to Karla scene from Smiley's People 1982 BBC miniseries John le Carré adaptation EP6o
. Source. Fan-uplod by Ciro Santilli, one of the greatest television scenes ever. Blocked in the UK.
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Evil demon Updated 2025-07-16
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Loop (topology) Updated 2025-07-16
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Classification of simple Lie groups Updated 2025-07-16
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A bit like the classification of simple finite groups, they also have a few sporadic groups! Not as spectacular since as usual continuous problems are simpler than discrete ones, but still, not bad.
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Shimano product lines Updated 2025-07-16
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Pocono conference Updated 2025-07-16
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Followup to the Shelter Island Conference, this is where Julian Schwinger and Richard Feynman exposed their theories to explain the experiments of the previous conference.
Julian made a formal presentation that took until the afternoon and bored everyone to death, though the mathematics avoided much questioning.
Feynman then presented his revolutionary approach, which he was unable to prove basic properties of, but which gave correct results, and people were not very happy.
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Sex (trait) Updated 2025-07-16
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This section is about the male/female trait.
For the act, see: sex.
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Why are there two sexes? Updated 2025-07-16
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It is not obvious why there have to be two sexes.
Sex itself is obvious: by mixing genes we increase variability.
But having two sexes rather than just being able to reproduce with anyone reduces the possible mating pool by half!
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There are two sexes because of mitochondria Updated 2025-07-16
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Analects translation by Robert Eno (2015) 16.7:
The Junzi has three cautions.
When he is young and his blood and energy are not yet settled, he is cautious about sex.
When he is in his prime and his blood and energy have newly achieved strength, he is cautious about combativeness.
When he is old and his blood and energy are declining, he is cautious about acquisitiveness.
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