George Jones
@georgeljones.bsky.social
Taught more than 3 dozen different physics, math, and engineering courses in my career.
Why? In what context? The 2-body problem?
December 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Why? In what context? The 2-body problem?
Removal of cockies - must be a cock-up.
December 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Removal of cockies - must be a cock-up.
People on dating apps are increasingly using AI to compose the first messages that they exchange. They then meet in person and are disappointed when the conversation isn't the at the same level as the messages, 🤣
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder
Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
People on dating apps are increasingly using AI to compose the first messages that they exchange. They then meet in person and are disappointed when the conversation isn't the at the same level as the messages, 🤣
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Decades ago, one of my uni instructors used to say "every student deserves the right to fail."
December 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Decades ago, one of my uni instructors used to say "every student deserves the right to fail."
In the 10 years we have been in our house we have had black bears in our front and backyards, and up our apple trees, multiple times. No grizzlies, though.
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
In the 10 years we have been in our house we have had black bears in our front and backyards, and up our apple trees, multiple times. No grizzlies, though.
Two nights ago, I used 15x70 bins to view it inside a city of 80000.
October 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Two nights ago, I used 15x70 bins to view it inside a city of 80000.
Wearing face-concealing masks - seems like it's the same folks who are kidnapping people off US streets.
October 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Wearing face-concealing masks - seems like it's the same folks who are kidnapping people off US streets.
2/2 The book Mathematics for Physics and Physicists by Appel has a higher level of mathematical rigour than is typical, which makes it very appealing as a read for me. I doubt that it is appropriate for a US/Canada course. Read the praise link (if interested) at
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Mathematics for Physics and Physicists
press.princeton.edu
October 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
2/2 The book Mathematics for Physics and Physicists by Appel has a higher level of mathematical rigour than is typical, which makes it very appealing as a read for me. I doubt that it is appropriate for a US/Canada course. Read the praise link (if interested) at
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
1/2 I used Boas for an undergrad mathematical methods course that I taught at WVU in 2003. Afrken was the text for the grad course at the time. I liked Boas, but it might not be at a high enough level for your course.
October 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
1/2 I used Boas for an undergrad mathematical methods course that I taught at WVU in 2003. Afrken was the text for the grad course at the time. I liked Boas, but it might not be at a high enough level for your course.
Daughter just turned 19, and is in second-year uni. Drama hasn't ended. 🤣
September 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Daughter just turned 19, and is in second-year uni. Drama hasn't ended. 🤣
Learned fortran long ago in high school. 3 days for each (attempt at a ) run of a program. Cards sent by bus to nearest uni, program run on computer, cards sent by bus back to high school. Had an amazing teacher; CS grad from U Waterloo. We worked on several projects at once, so we we always busy.
September 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Learned fortran long ago in high school. 3 days for each (attempt at a ) run of a program. Cards sent by bus to nearest uni, program run on computer, cards sent by bus back to high school. Had an amazing teacher; CS grad from U Waterloo. We worked on several projects at once, so we we always busy.
Doesn't seem light a bright idea to me.
August 22, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Doesn't seem light a bright idea to me.
Temperature here 6 days ago
August 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Temperature here 6 days ago
"I have been in the PI business"
Pun intended?
Pun intended?
July 31, 2025 at 7:25 AM
"I have been in the PI business"
Pun intended?
Pun intended?
What happens in Vegas ...
July 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
What happens in Vegas ...
Example: My 19-y-o Canadian daughter ticks? I am white. My white father moved to Canada from the UK at 14. My mother's father is french Quebecois. My wife is brown. She moved from Pakistan to Nigeria when she was 14, and from Nigeria to Canada when she was 17. Daughter speaks English, French Urdu.
July 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Example: My 19-y-o Canadian daughter ticks? I am white. My white father moved to Canada from the UK at 14. My mother's father is french Quebecois. My wife is brown. She moved from Pakistan to Nigeria when she was 14, and from Nigeria to Canada when she was 17. Daughter speaks English, French Urdu.
I like South Asian spicy. When ordering, I point to my Pakistani wife and say "I like it spicier than she does."
Wife's father's friend said to wife's father " What does George eat when he stays with you?" Wife's father's reply "George eats what we eat."
Wife's father's friend said to wife's father " What does George eat when he stays with you?" Wife's father's reply "George eats what we eat."
July 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I like South Asian spicy. When ordering, I point to my Pakistani wife and say "I like it spicier than she does."
Wife's father's friend said to wife's father " What does George eat when he stays with you?" Wife's father's reply "George eats what we eat."
Wife's father's friend said to wife's father " What does George eat when he stays with you?" Wife's father's reply "George eats what we eat."
Woke up to this sad news.
July 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Woke up to this sad news.
One of my favourites.
June 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
One of my favourites.
2/2 But I agree that the influence needs to be earlier - more female elementary school teachers who are confident with math.
June 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
2/2 But I agree that the influence needs to be earlier - more female elementary school teachers who are confident with math.
1/2 Role models matter. Anecdotal evidence: my wife's mother was a high school maths teacher in Pakistan, my wife is a high school maths teacher here in BC Canada, and now our daughter, who just finished 1st-year uni, wants to be a high school maths teacher.
June 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
1/2 Role models matter. Anecdotal evidence: my wife's mother was a high school maths teacher in Pakistan, my wife is a high school maths teacher here in BC Canada, and now our daughter, who just finished 1st-year uni, wants to be a high school maths teacher.
The investigative journalist Catherine Heathcote from the 2008 mini-series Place of Execution.
June 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The investigative journalist Catherine Heathcote from the 2008 mini-series Place of Execution.
Stayed up reading an Icelandic murder mystery until the Moon reached its "highest" elevation. Wow! So low. Murder mystery, eerie full Moon - had to look under the bed before I went to sleep.
June 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Stayed up reading an Icelandic murder mystery until the Moon reached its "highest" elevation. Wow! So low. Murder mystery, eerie full Moon - had to look under the bed before I went to sleep.
2/2 Kate Owens: "When you finish a PhD in mathematics, they take you to a special room and explain that i isn't the only imaginary number - turns out that all the numbers are imaginary, even the one that are real."
June 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
2/2 Kate Owens: "When you finish a PhD in mathematics, they take you to a special room and explain that i isn't the only imaginary number - turns out that all the numbers are imaginary, even the one that are real."