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I. J. Good

Irving John Good (9 December 1916 – 5 April 2009)was a British mathematician who worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing. After the Second World War, Good continued to work with Turing on the design of computers and Bayesian statistics at the University of Manchester. Good moved to the United States where he was professor at Virginia Tech. He was born Isadore Jacob Gudak to a Polish Jewish family in London. He later anglicised his name to Irving John Good and signed his publications "I. J. Good." An originator of the concept now known as "intelligence explosion," Good served as consultant on supercomputers to Stanley Kubrick, director of the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. (Wikipedia).

I. J. Good
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How to Be a Good Friend

We all know how lovely friendship can be, but we seldom focus properly on what a good friend should actually be like. As a result, we miss out on opportunities to become precisely that sort of friend - and enrich the social lives of all those we meet. A short masterclass in the art of frie

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The Advantages of Being 'just Good Friends'

We're used to thinking of the state of friendship as hugely inferior compared with that of being in a relationship. But comparing how most people behave in a couple, compared with how they are in a friendship, should perhaps lead us to reconsider our choices. For gifts and more from The

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Vodafone-Happy to Help Ad (full)

In some very special way I still remain loyal to this brand,yet another spectaculary meaningful ad from O&M..gd going

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How to become a better person

It sounds normal to say one's out to become a fitter person; but it sounds weird to say one would like to be a nicer or better person. It shouldn't - so here is a guide to 10 virtues of a nice person. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/jpBF

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How To Be A Good Listener

Listening is something we’re very reluctant to do, not because we’re lazy, but because we have never actually been taught how to do it properly, in a way that can be interesting and rewarding for us. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/DQIzx5

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Love Me for Who I Really Am

One of our greatest demands in love is that our partner should love us 'for who we really are'. It sounds Romantic enough, but in truth, none of us should ever expect another person to admire and adore us in our totality, with all our flaws and questionable sides. True love means being gen

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How Being A "Nice Guy" Is Sabotaging Your Relationships

The Nice Guy Paradox: How Being A "Nice Guy" Is Sabotaging Your Relationships And How To Get More Of What You Want In Life. Subscribe to Charisma On Command’s YouTube Account: http://bit.ly/COC-Subscribe The "Nice Guy" gets harpooned in today's society. We're told that nice guys finish

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Is It Better to Be Polite or Frank?

We live in an age that thinks highly of frankness and directness. But there are – nevertheless – a few reasons why politeness remains a hugely important quality. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/hMBQQs FURTHER READING “For most of hu

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Stop Trying to Be Nice All the Time

Nearly all of us wish to be known as 'nice' people. Yet our happiness may depend on a willingness to be — at points — strategically selfish. Sign up to our new newsletter and get 10% off your first online order of a book, product or class: https://bit.ly/3HpVdSa For books and more from Th

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Online Bipartite Matching and Adwords - Vijay V. Vazirani

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I Topic: Online Bipartite Matching and Adwords Speaker: Vijay V. Vazirani Affiliation: University of California Irvine Date: March 21, 2022 Over the last three decades, the online bipartite matching (OBM) problem has emerged as a central prob

From playlist Mathematics

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Number Theory | Quadratic Reciprocity

We prove the quadratic reciprocity theorem. http://www.michael-penn.net http://www.randolphcollege.edu/mathematics/

From playlist Number Theory

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Elliptic Curves - Lecture 20b - Elliptic curves over local fields (potential good reduction and j)

This video is part of a graduate course on elliptic curves that I taught at UConn in Spring 2021. The course is an introduction to the theory of elliptic curves. More information about the course can be found at the course website: https://alozano.clas.uconn.edu/math5020-elliptic-curves/

From playlist An Introduction to the Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves

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PrepTest 4 Game 4: Ski Chalet Mapping Game // Logic Games [#16] [LSAT Analytical Reasoning]

This is the fourth and final game of the February 1992 LSAT. It's a mapping game, but even more than that, it's a great example of a game where you are *given* the diagram you need to answer the questions. Nearly any time you are given the diagram up front, it's best to use theirs rather t

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Lecture 13: Walrasian Equilibrium and Trade

MIT 14.04 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, Fall 2020 Instructor: Prof. Robert Townsend View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/14-04-intermediate-microeconomic-theory-fall-2020/ YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSTSfCs74bg&list=PLUl4u3cNGP63wnrKge9vllow3Y2

From playlist MIT 14.04 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, Fall 2020

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Chris WENDL - 2/3 Classical transversality methods in SFT

In this talk I will discuss two transversality results that are standard but perhaps not so widely understood: (1) Dragnev's theorem that somewhere injective curves in symplectizations are regular for generic translation-invariant J, and (2) my theorem on automatic transversality in 4-dime

From playlist 2015 Summer School on Moduli Problems in Symplectic Geometry

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Abstract Algebra | Subgroups and quotient groups of the quaternions.

We present a description of all subgroups and quotient groups of the quaternions. http://www.michael-penn.net http://www.randolphcollege.edu/mathematics/

From playlist Abstract Algebra

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An Oxford Mathematics Graduate Supervision - Geometry and Physics in 7 Dimensions

So how do supervisor & graduate student work together? What happens in a graduate supervision? To find out, we filmed a supervision. Introducing Professor Jason Lotay & graduate student Izar Alonso Lorenzo as they discuss geometry in seven dimensions related to special holonomy, gauge the

From playlist Oxford Mathematics Student Tutorials and Graduate Supervisions

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“Choice Modeling and Assortment Optimization” - Session II - Prof. Huseyin Topaloglu

This module overviews static and dynamic assortment optimization problems. We will start with an introduction to discrete choice modeling and discuss estimation issues when fitting a choice model to observed sales histories. Following this introduction, we will discuss static and dynamic a

From playlist Thematic Program on Stochastic Modeling: A Focus on Pricing & Revenue Management​

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What Do You Love Me For?

Sometimes, in a cosy moment, one lover might ask another: What do you love me for? It's a moment of huge and philosophical importance: what is a good answer to this complicated question? There are a range of things one should never say - and one or two that will stand the best chance of ce

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