Progress

Nothing I can remember.

Articles

• Practices of Reliable Software Design
• Kernighan's lever
• The Stallman report
• REPOST: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs
• List of individual rocks - Wikipedia: oh man, I was in Amersfoort some years ago but didn't visit the rock.
• Why aren't smart people happier? - by Adam Mastroianni
• nisbett saying more.pdf: We have no idea of our own internal thinking processes.
• The web I want vs the one we have – daveverse
• The three-page paper that shook philosophy: Gettiers in software engineering -- the jsomers.net blog
• The Sundial Cannon of Åtvidaberg -- Amusing Planet
• The Weekly Challenge - Perl & Raku
• Big Advance on Simple-Sounding Math Problem Was a Century in the Making -- Quanta Magazine
• Challenging projects every programmer should try - Austin Z. Henley
• Escaping the Chrome Sandbox Through DevTools
• Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI concepts we've seen -- Creative Bloq
• Why birds do not fall while sleeping -- CNRS News
• Industrious Dice --
• Temple 26 and Excavation Tunnels, Copan -- Copán Ruinas
• Surely you can be serious - by Adam Mastroianni
• How to get 7th graders to smoke - by Adam Mastroianni
• The magic soup debacle is finally over
• Secret 3D Scans in the French Supreme Court
• Fixed timestep without interpolation -- Jakub's tech blog
• Spliit by the Stats: Usage, Costs, Donations · Spliit Blog
• Startling differences between humans and jukeboxes
• Engineering Geology of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) System, 1964-75
• From a 1979 IBM presentation: A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a Management Decision.: I love the quote, and in this article I love that it takes a turn in the wildest way, ending up calling governments "demonic external entities" and "which is the criterion for embarking on the journey into 5d light and life". Hilarious connection!
• Scratches in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Osyssey
• Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search - PrimeNet: New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)! October 13, 2024 — Yesterday, a participating GIMPS computer reported a successful Fermat probable prime test to the server! A proof of work was uploaded and certified
• RUBINGHSCIENCE.ORG / Using Euro coins as weights
• Using Free Hermes AI Service -- ai.unturf.com
• Kurt Vonnegut’s lost board game finally published -- Polygon
• Ants learned to farm fungi during a mass extinction - Ars Technica

Libraries, programming, etc

• PEP 736 – Shorthand syntax for keyword arguments at invocation -- peps.python.org
• GitHub - hugohadfield/kalmangrad: Automated, smooth, N'th order derivatives of non-uniformly sampled time series data

Games

• Factorio
• Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

Other media

• Radosław Paszkowski - Mesh Shaders - The Future of Rendering - YouTube
• dopamine IN TWO LANGUAGES AT ONCE?? (French/English) - YouTube
• NEW WORLD RECORD: The 49x49x49 Rubik's Cube - YouTube
• How climate change triggered a landslide tsunami in a Greenland fjord, vibrating Earth for 9 days - YouTube
• Riding The Worlds Biggest 3D Printed E-foil Board - Ep.2 - YouTube
• Debunking the Nuclear-Powered Manhole Cover - YouTube
• The Art Of Breaking Character (Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Ian McKellen) - Extras - YouTube
• Melting 50 Million Tons of Iron Ore! Process of Making High Quality Wire Rods in Korea - YouTube