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Mrs. Cadwallader: Edward Casaubon is great...a great bladder for dried peas to rattle in!

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So the 'progress' model of pingolf is definitely capturing something interesting, but since it's based on the distribution of (assumed independent) ball scores (here, chi-squared df 1), I don't know how to fit it in general. How do you make distribution families into a parameter?

Time Dilation kind of makes the whole “datacenters in space” idea more fun.

 Technically… a GPS Block III CPU runs an extra ~7,000 clock cycles per day compared to the same machine on earth.

 Extend to the extreme, and you get the whole subfield of CS+physics called relativistic hypercompuation.

"He had one caffeine-fueled week to prepare a full concept — playfield layout, characters, assets, mechanisms, and required audio/video clips." That's so short. I'd be curious to hear how long other designers take to get a layout concept worked up, and how close to final the concept is.

“Wrestling’s fake!” Oh yeah? Then explain this

I was animating contour lines on a likelihood and had a fun idea to use the old palette cycling technique to animate a function. I don't think it works as well as cycling contour lines, but it was an interesting idea.

the subtitles are off sometimes but she made it in like a day so idk spanakopedia.ordoliberal.com

welp this is becoming part of my vocabulary forever

I read Melville's 'The Bell Tower' today and wasn't expecting a pretty tight mystery! It's got creation, Babel, and Cain all mushed together. I don't know if this is what I'm supposed to take away, but one big difference between Bannadonna and God to me is, God rested.

Read Foner's Reconstruction and take a shot every time he says"upcountry yeomen."

Someone is going to write a Sneakers O'Toole version of Ozymandius and it's going to do big numbers.

John Popadiuk is the greatest pinball designer of all time. His use of magnets is unparalleled.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

Does ACAB include the X Middle School safety patrol?

War crime tribunals aren’t enough we gotta put him in a Harlan Ellison short story.

#InvisibleNetworks 4 what did you think "financial responsibility" meant

The first two sketches of The Encantadas were kind of a snooze, but then Melville's narrator breaks out his stand up routine making fun of birds. Pelicans have lugubrious expressions, penguins are nature's mistake, albatrosses are unpoetic. (I will fight him on that last one)

New kind of guy: a radical formalist who doesn't use page numbers because they're outside the text.

The Supreme Court ruled that nobody is a U.S. citizen Chief Justice Roberts stated “No person can be in this country. We all have to leave. Now.” The judges packed up their robes and are getting on a boat

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

It's been some time since I shared a making of video! Here is one for last week's #TidyTuesday

The new Parsewords game from the Wordle creator feels like a martial arts class that leaked from the world of the Counterfeit Monkey interactive fiction.

Ok, I think I can write this thread after deleting it a couple times. I finally have finals data for #PAPA 7-22 (except 20 which I can't find) and #INDISC 2015-2026 (excluding 2021 when it was cancelled).

YES

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Void Stranger is so damn good. eebrozgi.bandcamp.com/album/elegy-...

Not many games have been played in more than one of the last few IFPA pin-masters, but different setups and target scores do change the distribution of strokes

If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz

Still thinking about pingolf after IFPA Pin-Masters, if you start with what G.H. Hardy did for real golf and think about strokes as independent progress toward a goal but with more variation than 0/1/2, you can get something like this. It's a bad model, so far, but it is something.

The only thing prohibiting you going out through this door right now is the goose attacking. It is open for going out should the goose not do that

My strategy of waiting to upgrade to new R version until I have an error I don't want to troubleshoot pays off again. I get to use ggtext and also live out another few quarters in ignorance of whatever namespace 'xfun' is.

this @keithstack.com comic is both 4 years old and topical again which is giving me low-grade anxiety

I watched IFPA Pin-Masters this weekend. Genesis was difficult.

Guy Maddin's Moby Dick.

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'we just should have been more brutal' can't ever be empirically disproven, and appeals very strongly to people who are already kind of brutish and cruel by nature

Urging some enterprising indie devs to replicate this look with hi-def digitized sprites.

I can't laugh at them because I have strong opinions about how much better the stakes in Her Interactive Nancy Drew games were when Nancy 'died' instead of phoning Bess and George about how she got bonked on the head too hard and had to bail on the mystery.