JoeDaDude

Symbol hunt is broken :( (FWIW, I had the same error on my website, seems PHP needs to be updated)

Is this not one of the Miyake Events[1]? This particular one was reported in 2023 [2].

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyake_event

[2]. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02624...

Tempting, but I'll need to hurry. Submission deadline is May 20th!

Jolt Cola! I drank boatloads of the stuff in the 1980s, even had a bright red t-shirt with their slogan: "All the sugar and twice the caffeine". All this time I had no idea it was part of the hacker scene in Sweden.

I'm just going to recommend the biology books written by Lewis Thomas. The books are collections of essays rather than science or text books. They blew my mind and opened up a deep respect for the field of biology and gave me a deep appreciation of life in all its forms, so many of which I didn't know existed.

Look for:

The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher

The Youngest Science

...and a couple of thers.

The tool url is not listed in TFA, but a simple google search results in the following:

https://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/TLHdig/

I'm sure most science fiction fans will know that Hugo Gernsback, mentioned prominently in TFA, is the person the Hugo Award is named after.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award

Why is it "music for developers"? I was expecting one of those Lofi music videos designed to enhance concentration or similar. These are typically instrumentals, ostensibly because they are less distracting, something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5QY2_8704o

RIP the Ad Accelerator, which would up the speed upon detection of an ad. Youtube has found a way around it and it no longer works.

https://github.com/rkk3/ad-accelerator

This is not the only service of its kind. There is also the Video Gist:

https://www.videogist.co/

I can't speak to the differences between the two. Once casual observation is that the one posted by the OP seems to be a lot faster..

The best one is the one you make yourself. I made my first one using a BASIC compiler for the Timex Sinclair 2068. The compiler only supported 1-dimensional arrays and I used special characters so I could get 4 pixels in each alpha numeric character position. That required a lot of (for my age) clever programming but it worked so well, I would let it run for hours and just watch the patterns it produced.

You may, or may not be asking in jest. In any case, I think you are alluding to the fact that Luke Farritor, winner of the Vesuvius challenge in 2023 and former SpaceX intern, is now employed by Elon Musk in the Department of Government Efficiency, ostensibly to find waste, fraud, and abuse in government spending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpflT8XuSyg&t=11s

I read somewhere that you can place a candle under a bowl (with allowance for oxygen to get in) and you can capture the plasma given off by the candle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5BFIVDUQPE

An AI would be nice for solo practice, though I have a hunch an AI would be unbeatable. Have you given any thoughts to implementing an AI player?

I agree, it was very dark. They prohibit photography but some people manage to take a few pics or videos, like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwDqKWMLSIM

A detailed and lengthy explanation of the necropolis, excavations, and findings is available here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kN-6smut2A

The necropolis of Roman tombs, over which the Basilica was built, and what is claimed to be Peter's Tomb, can actually be visited, deep in the bowels of the Basilica. To do so one must sign up for the Scavi Tour and book well in advance as only very small groups are taken.

Nice! Hopefully it will grow to include circuit bending [1] techniques, those typically used for altering music machines and similar.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_bending

I made jokes about having a dead man's trigger that would automatically send out resumes as soon as a paycheck was not deposited on schedule. This is half of it right here.

What seems to be a related project, Project Scan 8, is mentioned briefly in this 1980's Nova episode about scientific research into ESP. See it at about the 44 minute mark.

https://archive.org/details/TheCaseofESP

I'm sure language learners all over have felt this way. Once one starts learning another tongue, one realizes that languages do not exist in isolation, they are part of a larger culture and the language comes with customs, traditions, norms, and even beliefs from that culture. In learning a language, you internalize that culture and, even if just a tiny bit, develop an identity as a member of that culture.

Phoenix Ho said it better than I can is this video:

Learning Languages Ruined My Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ_4gzoDDAE

I remember reading the following anecdote about Grainer, repeated on Wikipedia, though neither I nor Wikipedia have a source for it: "Grainer was amazed at the resulting piece of music and when he heard it, famously asked, "Did I write that?" Derbyshire modestly replied, "Most of it." [1]

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_theme_music#:~:text....

I can't make a fair comparison between the object in TFA and Oumuamua, the presumed interstellar object that passed through our Solar System not long ago. For the latter, a "Project Lyra" study [1] posits a combination of Earth and Jupiter gravitational assists to catchup with Oumuamua. Could a similar approach work for this comet?

[1]. https://i4is.org/project-lyra-a-solar-oberth-at-10-solar-rad...

Maybe. But sign a new lease (or mortgage!), pay moving expenses, relocate away from friends/family/social network/what have you and then the job disappears after 18 months, leaving you to relocate again....

Just a nit: The Spanish deck of "naipes" is not just a historical footnote, the deck is still in use today. The same may be true for some other historical variants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish-suited_playing_cards

Came here to point folk to this video. The article seems to gloss over a lot of how modern rice cookers actually work. It involves latent heat of water, magnetism, and the Curie point, as explained in your link.

Indeed! Why [doesn't Barnes and Noble] take a flying fuck at the mooooooooooooon? [1].

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slapstick_(novel)#Anthropologi...

The path to getting this game published was not easy. At one time, Barnes and Noble rejected the idea of publishing and selling the game because “Not enough people know who Kurt Vonnegut is” [1].

[1]. https://web.archive.org/web/20211201220314/https://www.getre...

This is fun, but how do I get more credits? I don't see way to add any.

When I took an AI class, the first thing they taught was Prolog and for exercises we all had to write adventure/colossal cave style games in it. Prolog turned out be well suited to the task. The variety of simple games made in the class was astounding and I wish I could have collected the all the games made by the other students. We only spent a couple of weeks before moving on to other topics, like CLIPS and Lisp. In my own assignment, I made a Bureaucratic Maze [1], again, fairly straightforward in Prolog.

[1]. http://logicmazes.com/bureau/index.htm

Excellent! Upon further digging, I found out that a chess grandmaster, one Savielly Tartakower, was defeated by El Ajedrecista [1], a machine that could play chess endgames. This was 1951, so before the Los Alamos lab assistant, but a bit after the defeat of customers by Bertie the Brain.

The Ajedrecista had been around since 1912, so I would expect somebody must have been defeated by it in the years before 1951.

[1]. https://www.chessprogramming.org/El_Ajedrecista