He ‘made the war’ with his new name, and by the time it was over so many people knew him as Melville that there was no question of going back to Grumbach. ‘If I had been profoundly on the right, I couldn’t make the films I make,’ he told the Portuguese critic Rui Nogueira in Le Cinéma selon Melville, a book of interviews published two years before his death in 1973. Thanks to two recent books – Bertrand Teissier’s biography Jean-Pierre Melville: Le Solitaire and Jean-Pierre Melville, une vie, an unusually illuminating coffee-table book by the film critic Antoine de Baecque – we have a much fuller picture not only of Melville’s war, but of the ways it shaped his films.

Boundary conditions, and setup for how Fourier series are useful. Home page: to you by you: about the heat equation, with a derivation in terms of slope corresponding to heat flow from MIT you want to learn more about Fourier series, here are a few great videos/posts which I think you’ll enjoy:

Mathologer’s: Coding Train: Swanson: animations are largely made using manim, a scrappy open source python library: you want to check it out, I feel compelled to warn you that it’s not the most well-documented tool, and it has many other quirks you might expect in a library someone wrote with only their own use in mind. Download the music on the music on you want to contribute translated subtitles or to help review those that have already been made by others and need approval, you can click the gear icon in the video and go to subtitles/cc, then “add subtitles/cc”.

Plastic became the basis for a new relationship to the material world: it required consumers to buy things rather than make them, to throw things out rather than fix them. The microwave oven had not yet taken off and frozen foods were still in foil, ketchup still came in glass bottles, and the shift from paper to plastic at the grocery store was more than a decade away. None of us live in exactly the future that the Monsanto House designers envisioned, but plastic has indeed become the defining material of our time.

You can input a street width, block size and it will generate some simple statistics about the land usage and walkability of a particular grid. We can tell just by looking at it, that the streets and blocks of Portland (left) and Salt Lake City (right) are vastly different; 

One metric we can pull from the grid is how much land is dedicated to the streets versus the actual block. This can be observed when comparing Portland’s grid to that of Salt Lake City, despite Portland being ‘less efficient’ by allocating more land to streets (40.83%) than Salt Lake City (30.2%); 

Another metric we can gather from the street grid is how much of the street frontage is within walking distance (street frontage being defined as the perimeter of a block that faces the street.)

London bans cars for a day in the fight against air pollution

Graeme Paton, Transport Correspondent

More than 2 million people live in parts of London with illegal levels of toxic airCars will be banned from more than 12 miles of central London roads under plans to encourage the adoption of green transport in the capital. More than 2 million people live in parts of London with illegal levels of toxic air, including at least 400,000 children. More than half of the capital’s air pollution is caused by vehicles, particularly emissions from older petrol and diesel engines.

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Mike Simpson says his cancer is on the run

NHS patients with lymphoma have for the first time been given a pioneering treatment that genetically reprogrammes their immune system to fight cancer. The therapy, called CAR-T, is a “living drug” that is tailor-made for each patient using their body’s own cells
Doctors at King’s College Hospital, London, said some patients were being completely cured in a way that had “never been seen before”. Image copyright
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Yuvan, 11, had CAR-T therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

One reason the blood cancer work has been easier is down to acceptable collateral damage.

Boundary conditions, and setup for how Fourier series are useful. Home page: to you by you: about the heat equation, with a derivation in terms of slope corresponding to heat flow from MIT you want to learn more about Fourier series, here are a few great videos/posts which I think you’ll enjoy:

Mathologer’s: Coding Train: Swanson: animations are largely made using manim, a scrappy open source python library: you want to check it out, I feel compelled to warn you that it’s not the most well-documented tool, and it has many other quirks you might expect in a library someone wrote with only their own use in mind. Download the music on the music on you want to contribute translated subtitles or to help review those that have already been made by others and need approval, you can click the gear icon in the video and go to subtitles/cc, then “add subtitles/cc”.

The hedonic treadmill, also known as hedonic adaptation, is the observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes. Generally, hedonic adaptation involves a happiness “set point”, whereby humans generally maintain a constant level of happiness throughout their lives, despite events that occur in their environment. [7]

The “Hedonic Treadmill” is a term coined by Brickman and Campbell in their article “Hedonic Relativism and Planning the Good Society” (1971), describing the tendency of people to keep a fairly stable baseline level of happiness despite external events and fluctuations in demographic circumstances.

A system of speakers emits sound waves which scatter from a wall to a hidden object and back. Microphones capture the timing of the returning echoes, and we use reconstruction algorithms inspired by synthetic aperture radar and seismic imaging to recover the geometry of the hidden object. Our method can reconstruct hidden objects using inexpensive, off-the-shelf hardware at longer distances with lower exposure times compared to specialized, state-of-the-art optical systems.

It’s possible to purchase Lenovo’s high-performance ThinkPad systems with Ubuntu shipped from the factory, starting with 2019 models. ThinkPads have often been the laptop of choice for Linux users, as Lenovo historically does certify ThinkPad models for Linux use, though prior to this change, buyers were stuck paying the Windows tax for the unwanted bundled license of Windows. Lenovo announced 2019 models of the ThinkPad P73, ThinkPad P53, ThinkPad P53s, and P43s, as well as the ThinkPad P1 Gen 2 last week, powered by 9th Generation Intel Core CPUs.