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A look at the engine that made the SR-71 Blackbird possible: youtu.be/MJrXUh0eZ...…
Magnatiles
Each time I think I’ve exhausted the possibilities of the set of magnetic tiles we have at home, something new comes along. Made this while playing with my daughter today: Two factors seem to contri…
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Surprised I never came across this earlier: Cliodynamics (Reminiscent of psychohistory !)…
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A look at Racket and Rhombus gopiandcode.uk/logs/log-...…
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Under siege…
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“Planta Sapiense”: www.theguardian.com/books/202...…
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Some interesting comments in this post on what was lost with the loss of the old Usenet: news.ycombinator.com/item…
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Magnatiles fun with my daughter…
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Fun fact: Alligators can go up to two years without food !! www.totalreptile.com/how-long-...…
On Citizenship, and the Republic
I was reflecting on a process which began fifteen odd years ago and recently came to a conclusion. There is a mixture of feelings about what constitutes “America”. On one hand, I feel a broad agreem…
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Fun fact: a Russian team was hunting for Atlantis near Britain in the late 90s 🤷♂️ BBC article A paper about it: www.shimajournal.org/issues/v1...…
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Interesting overview of the types of computation in games (simulation + numerical + shading) and the varying performance aspects of each, and musings on "language suitability": www.st.cs.un…