Links van 26 juni 2014 tot 30 juni 2014

random thoughts: Dissecting the 128-byte raycaster
Lately a Reddit post caught my attention which is about a raycaster demo, animated, with mouse control and texture mapping,  in only 128 bytes. Out of curiosity, I took a look at the source code  and spent some time trying to figure out how it works.

Fontblog | Ed Sheeran’s Album Cover Fail
Ein Pa­ra­de­bei­spiel dafür, warum es in der Ty­po­gra­fie auf Klei­nig­kei­ten an­kom­met, die eine große Wir­kung haben kön­nen.

Discover more works by Bach – All of Bach
At the moment, The Netherlands Bach Society has re-recorded 14 of the 1080 works by Bach. A new number will be added each week.

Tchau Orkut – Orkut Blog
Another one bites the dust: "We will shut down Orkut on September 30, 2014."

Advanced A/B testing: Make more profit, learn more about customers | Customer Laboratories
In this article, I'd like to introduce 2 improvements over traditional A/B testing in the hopes that other people can profit from it as well.

Probabilistic Models of Cognition
In this book, we explore the probabilistic approach to cognitive science, which models learning and reasoning as inference in complex probabilistic models. In particular, we examine how a broad range of empirical phenomena in cognitive science (including intuitive physics, concept learning, causal reasoning, social cognition, and language understanding) can be modeled using a functional probabilistic programming language called Church.

Wikipedia Editors Hit With $10 Million Defamation Suit – Slashdot
Wikipedia is a MMORPG where the guy with most free time always wins. Anybody who takes it seriously is a victim of either ignorance or zeal.

Piano Phase
In "Piano Phase", [Reich] has the two pianists begin by playing a rapid twelve-note melodic figure over and over again in unison (E4 F♯4 B4 C♯5 D5 F♯4 E4 C♯5 B4 F♯4 D5 C♯5). After a while, one of the pianists begins to play his part slightly faster than the other. When he is playing the second note of the figure at the same time the other pianist is playing the first note, the two pianists play at the same tempo again. They are therefore playing notes at exactly the same time, but they are not the same notes as they were at the start of the piece. The process is repeated, so that the second pianist plays the third note as the first pianist is playing the first, then the fourth, and so on until the process has gone full circle, and the two pianists are playing in perfect unison again.