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- Sun May 21, 2023 12:00 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH and slavery
- Replies: 15
- Views: 51989
Re: CH and slavery
It is a well known principle in statistics that selection results in nonsensically biased conclusions. While it may be undeniable that CH benefitted from wealth acquired through slavery the question that must be posed by the investigation into the finances of independent schools is whether that bene...
- Sun May 21, 2023 9:45 am
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: AI the future or the end?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 19663
Re: AI the future or the end?
The problem with AI is that we can't see it, only its intended effects rather than its unavoidable ones. Consequently we don't understand just how inefficient it is. It is fundamentally artificial, so by definition requires artefacts to exist. These include electronic devices manufactured by process...
- Fri Apr 07, 2023 11:43 am
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: New daily maths puzzle - give it a go and share?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10152
Re: New daily maths puzzle - give it a go and share?
Go Forth and multiply (and divide, add, subtract, swap etc) to reduce the average age of such geeks.
- Sat Mar 11, 2023 5:46 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Just a coincidence?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3720
Re: Just a coincidence?
Thanks for your coincidences, if that was what they really were. Research into whether such things are simply random continues. I set up my website because I was encountering so many but mainly because I couldn't understand why and how I wrote an entire novel when I have never had any aspirations to...
- Wed Mar 01, 2023 12:34 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Just a coincidence?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3720
Just a coincidence?
Have you encountered strange coincidences in your life? Have you even noticed them or have you just ignored them when they've happened? Mine got to the stage where I felt obliged to consider them more carefully and I have recently documented many of them on my website https://www.menstemporum.uk/ , ...
- Wed Dec 15, 2021 9:10 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Article about the Tube
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4849
Re: Article about the Tube
I'm catching up on old threads again. I really ought to visit the site more often. Thanks for the article. My wife and I also did the tour of the tube some years back. In my time at the school it was used regularly and I remember the enormous hot water pipes with their sometimes crumbling asbestos l...
- Tue Dec 14, 2021 10:34 am
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Pilgrim Fathers 1620 -- 400th anniversary -- any connections?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5223
Re: Pilgrim Fathers 1620 -- 400th anniversary -- any connections?
No, it was purely a case of mistaken identity. During my first year at CH I went back to my old primary school in southeast London in my Housey uniform to meet my past school mistress again and show the class the unique uniform. Afterwards as I was walking back home along the streets a youth shouted...
- Sat Dec 11, 2021 6:19 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Gaia Week at Christ's Hospital
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8106
Re: Gaia Week at Christ's Hospital
Sorry, I forgot to mention that that aforementioned handbook on parapsychology also mentioned that of the romantic poets it was Coleridge who in particular made a clear distinction between Imagination, which he regarded as a higher faculty of the mind, and mere Fancy, i.e. fantasy. I would say that ...
- Sat Dec 11, 2021 4:08 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Gaia Week at Christ's Hospital
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8106
Re: Gaia Week at Christ's Hospital
Any theory based on parapsychology has to meet the “Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof” test. For decades, the Randi Foundation has had a standing offer of $1,000,000 for ANY proof of any such claim, with no takers. I apologise for resurrecting a dormant topic but I seldom visit this for...
- Mon Aug 27, 2018 6:48 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: CH and flu
- Replies: 33
- Views: 20797
Re: CH and flu
There was a severe outbreak in1957 - no vaccines then. I did not catch it and remember helping in the infirmary. Several houses were used for emergency beds. Can anyone shed any more information about this? My memory is poor. Er yes, because I apparently started it. Anyway, at the time that's what ...
- Fri May 27, 2016 5:44 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Your nickname
- Replies: 136
- Views: 66126
Re: Your nickname
My nickname? Now therein lies a tale and I am not known for my brevity, so ... When I became a pupil at CH I quickly gained the nickname Wonky Pooh because I had a dense mop of unruly hair, which a comb would not penetrate. For the less well read here, Wonky Pooh was a persian cat in Agatha Christie...