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As for Tetris storage, see also: Harder Drives - https://youtu.be/JcJSW7Rprio

The Tetris part starts at 15:00, but I'd highly recommend watching it all.

Suckerpinch is one of the best youtube channels out there, I love his work. I came here to link this once I saw the title, but you've already done it!

He reminds me of what Forth people get so excited about, fitting so much into such small places.

I'm out of the loop, mind sharing a link to what you're talking about?

My post is a reply to one of Suckerpinch’s videos. You can just click the YouTube link in the parent post to mine.

If you like his stuff you should check out the sigbovik proceedings each year. Most of his videos are about his papers there and he has even more papers he doesn't make videos about! I don't think anybody else is making papers as interesting as his (about half are just jokes with no real content) but there are other gems of a similar "work hard on a fundamentally silly problem" vein.

One of my favorites was an old one (I think 2013?) about "DollarCoin", a new cryptocurrency that is minted using a video of someone lighting a dollar bill on fire.

Is there an easy way to look all of them up?

PDFs here: https://sigbovik.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLRdruqQfRk (Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning])

Is pure gold. I don't wanna spoil it, it just keeps getting better and better as the video progresses. I laughed so hard.

If by some freak chance I ever become wealthy, I want to sponsor this sort of research.

This one is my least favorite one of his, actually. The big problem is that it just didn't actually really work. Tom7 seems to start these projects only a couple weeks before sigbovik deadline (an incredible feat I marvel at regularly) so it is no surprise that some of them end up falling apart (harder drives with the cue carts failed too) but I really wish this one had worked.

The C Compiler that only emits the printable bytes is my favorite one by a mile. The executables can only jump forward and only by an offset between two modestly large numbers. This makes laying out the code in the executable a really interesting problem and relies on weird old behavior where the instruction pointer can wrap on overflow. Wild!

Came here to post this myself, too. Tom7 is a treasure.

The same idea appeared earlier on this page:

https://meatfighter.com/tetrisprinteralgorithm/

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