Niall MacKay
@YHWAGniall
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Professor at York. Mathematician, theoretical physicist and part-time historian, separately and together. DCFC, sailing, swimming, hillwalking, drums.
York, UK
Joined April 2023
A good review: our book "lays the groundwork for . the field by presenting a strong defense of counterfactuals and positioning them as a fundamental aspect of historical analysis"
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RT @s8mb: Foundations: Why Britain Has Stagnated. A new essay by @bswud, @SCP_Hughes & me. Why the UK's ban on investment in housing, inf….
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Superb article by @jburnmurdoch today, exactly the sort of data-driven article with superb stats visuals which makes the @FT special.
NEW: Does the American Dream foster inequality?. Let’s start with a shocking stat:. These two things are simultaneously true:.• The richest Americans are the richest in the world.• Food poverty is more severe in America than in any other developed country
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RT @Franke_schrijft: SIX DAYS OF TRUTH - It's been 6 days since I made a big decision and published about my first hand experiences at #Al….
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RT @KatharineEdgar: Omg I have just discovered a museum object that combines one of my interests (lace) and one of @YHWAGniall’s. https://t….
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Here are the slides:
Enthused by our own talk last night at the @dupuyinstitute Historical Analysis conference on Operation Sea Lion with YHWAG colleagues including @2jamiewood . (Not a huge audience, but they too seemed to enjoy it.) Based on Adarsh Bura's thesis,
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Enthused by our own talk last night at the @dupuyinstitute Historical Analysis conference on Operation Sea Lion with YHWAG colleagues including @2jamiewood . (Not a huge audience, but they too seemed to enjoy it.) Based on Adarsh Bura's thesis,
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The British got lucky at Dogger Bank - we proved it! @2jamiewood.
This week we have a change of pace with the Battle of Dogger Bank, 24 January 1915! An indecisive clash but fraught with implications for the future! Out Thursday!
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The USA might have achieved a better outcome in Vietnam if they'd understood their Hamlet Evaluation Survey data better.
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"New infrastructures for energy, housing, transport [will be] built not by the middle class but blue-collar industrial workers." In the various current re-imaginings of the political spectrum, this one seems important.
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The most bonkersly inventive thing I've seen for ages. Does android/human relationships better than #BlackMirror. @thesjt @Ayckbourn
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This, I think, - on health, transport, education; everything - explains how provincial England, especially the North, feels. Until London "gets it" they'll get continual shocks like Brexit and Boris.
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"It is a great talent to be able to lie so as to convince other people. It is an even greater talent to be able to lie so as to convince oneself." - Richmal Crompton, of her character "William".
Kim Jong Un: "Russia is now fighting to defend its national sovereignty and protect its security." We have always supported and continue to support all decisions of President Putin and the Russian government. I hope we will always be together in the fight against imperialism."
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A plea for the study of military history and thus also for the branch of operations research known as "historical analysis"
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