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sites.pitt.edu 2mo ago

The Dome: A Simple Violation of Determinism in Newtonian Mechanics

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connectorbook.com 4mo ago

Identiconn Connector Identification Utility

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medium.com 1y ago

"This guy's arrogance takes your breath away" (J W Backus and E W Dijkstra 1979)

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www.lofibucket.com 1y ago

Quake on an oscilloscope: A technical report (2014)

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www.atariarchives.org 1y ago

Basic Computer Games (1978)

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olduse.net 2y ago

Olduse.net: Usenet replayed with a 40 year delay

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newdiscourses.com 2y ago

The Basis of Classical Liberalism

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www.facebook.com 2y ago

Yann LeCun: "Please ignore the deluge of complete nonsense about Q*."

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Tesla Bot Update – Sort and Stretch [video]

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www.insentricity.com 2y ago

Encoding Software in Barcodes, the Eight-Bit Magazine Way

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en.wikipedia.org 2y ago

Perplexity

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www.emlra.org 2y ago

Berlin Brigade Urban Paint Scheme

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twitter.com 2y ago

Klaus Schwab: “If you have nothing to hide you have no reason to be afraid.”

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en.wikipedia.org 2y ago

Extended Mind Thesis

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Levitation: Pyrolytic Graphite and Neodymium Magnets (2011) [video]

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www.files.ethz.ch 3y ago

An Oral History of Family Life Under the Khmer Rouge [pdf]

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www.telegraph.co.uk 3y ago

Britain to be left without emergency coal reserves this winter

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

Entasis

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

DSV Alvin

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Tesla Bot Update

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

Curse of Dimensionality

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

Oklahoma City sonic boom tests

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

BostonDynamics: Atlas Outtakes

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dmrthesis.net 3y ago

Dennis Ritchie – Personal Creativity, 1963-1968

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old.reddit.com 4y ago

Almost all men are stronger than almost all women

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Bellard's Formula

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Nothing to Hide Argument

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www.oxfordreference.com 4y ago

Biopower

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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

Cambodian Genocide Denial

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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

Doomsday Argument

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write fanfiction about what it thinks those best minds

I asked AI what Einstein would be working on today if he were alive, the result was a predictably rosy scenario of modern physics problems.

However the reality was that Einstein (in his later years) became isolated from physics developments.

One shudders to think of the difficulties of launching and landing space vehicles on these balloon-supported platforms.

Ada 2022 5 months ago

Ada doesn't even have a "++" operator to increment a number. SAD!

I seriously looked into it many years ago...

One problem with "literate programming" is it assumes that good coders are also good writers, and the good writers are also good coders.

Another problem is that the source files for the production code will have to be "touched" for documentation changes. Which IMHO is an absolution no-no for production code. Once the code has been validated, no more edits! If you want to edit docs, go ahead, just don't edit the actual source.

I think to remember something, you have to replay it in your mind from time to time. The more you do that, the more you remember. (Reminiscing is probably the right word).

I guess differentiator between the "style" of memories is your personality and what you dwell on.

Warfarin 1 year ago

I had long thought the name was based on the concept of warfare against rodents. Sadly, the etymology is far more mundane.

So (in theory) you could hear the chirp of merging black holes, if they were close enough.

In fact, everyone on the planet would hear the same chirp. Someone should comb the historical records (or even, mythologies) for a birdless chirp heard by many people.

The problem with these "house size studies" is that they ignore the nomadic people who lived in the surrounding areas and were (by definition), not housed.

How many nomadics were there, and how much wealth did they have?

This question would probably impact the conclusion that there was less wealth inequality back then.