Categorie: Links
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Links van 25 februari tot 4 maart 2026
LLM Skirmish LLM Skirmish is a benchmark where LLMs play 1v1 RTS (real-time strategy) games against each other LLMs write their battle strategies in code, which is then executed in the game environment LLM Skirmish tests in-context learning, as each tournament lasts five rounds and LLMs are able to alter strategies between rounds AI, llm…
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Links van 19 tot 25 februari 2026
Modern CSS Code Snippets | modern.css Modern CSS code snippets, side by side with the old hacks they replace. Every technique you still Google has a clean, native replacement now. css Rounding Corners in SDFs Inigo Quilez heeft iets nieuws, ik klik en kijk. Procedureel ronde hoeken en verwering in 3D SDF's — ayup. 3D,…
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Links van 10 tot 19 februari 2026
Why is the sky blue? The internet’s default answer to “why is the sky blue?” is “Rayleigh scattering”. And that’s not wrong, but it’s also not very useful. Simply knowing the name of something is very different from understanding it. But if names don’t constitute understanding… what does? My answer: having a model that allows…
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Links van 31 januari tot 9 februari 2026
5,500-Year-Old Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of a Massive Asteroid – Archaeology Worlds With modern computer programs that can simulate trajectories and reconstruct the night sky thousands of years ago the researchers have established what the Planisphere tablet refers to. It is a copy of the night notebook of a Sumerian astronomer as he…
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Links van 22 tot 27 januari 2026
Isometric NYC isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC 3D, map Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Season One (part 2) – re:View Best friends Rick and Morn talk about the remaining episodes of season 1 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. As of this writing, the new show Star Trek: Starfleet Academy…
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Links van 16 tot 21 januari 2026
John Oliver: Why Everything is a Scam: FIFA, Mergers, & Information Literacy – Trevor Noah 't Is John Oliver en Trevor Noah, en John Oliver is op zijn best als hij informeel is en ik wil *nu* nog eens een Bugle podcast, John Oliver LaTeX Coffee Stains This package provides an essential feature to LATEX…
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Links van 10 tot 16 januari 2026
Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO: "I often hear Americans & rich …" – EUpolicy.social – A Mastodon server for the EU bubble I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce,…
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Links van 8 tot 10 januari 2026
The Napoleon Technique: Postponing Things to Increase Productivity – Effectiviology The Napoleon technique is a productivity technique that involves postponing dealing with something if it’s likely to get resolved without your immediate input. For example, based on the Napoleon technique, you could decide to wait a day before replying to emails that ask for your…
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Links van 5 tot 7 januari 2026
Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes In 2007, a small team at Yahoo! briefly changed how we program the internet. This is their story. Ik weet nog precies hoe ik ernaar keek en de toekomst zag. Fantastisch ding. yahoo, pipes The great shift of English prose I propose a different story. The…
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Links van 4 tot 5 januari 2026
Adventure 751 (1980) | Renga in Blue Adventure 751 has been, by my reckoning, the most sought-after variation of Crowther/Woods Adventure. It was generally available on the online portal CompuServe from nearly the beginning of the service and it disappeared when they shut down their games in the 90s. Arthur O’Dwyer started a web page…
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Links van 1 tot 4 januari 2026
Turning 20 while the world turns upside-down | Parv Mahajan I turn 20 in January, and the world looks very strange. Probably, lots of jobs will be gone soon. Probably, the smartest thing alive will no longer be human. Probably, things will change very quickly. Maybe, one of those things is whether or not we’re…
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Links van 25 december 2025 tot 1 januari 2026
Knuth: Knight's Tours in Olin Hall Knuth is a national treasure — Knight's tours are one of humankind's earliest known combinatorial patterns. They originated in Kashmir and Persia, about 1200 years ago, and they've had a substantial, continuous history ever since then — first in Asia, then eventually in Europe, and finally in the Americas,…
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Links van 25 december 2025
Exploring Mathematics with Python The heart of this book is Arthur Engel’s 1993 textbook Exploring Mathematics with your Computer which utilizes Turbo Pascal for its exploratory work, and is still available for purchase. The first six chapters (and Appendix A) are essentially that book, but with the programming language changed to Python, some rewording, reformatting…
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Links van 18 tot 24 december 2025
Open Access We are pleased to share an important milestone for our field. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, more discoverable, and more…
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Links van 14 tot 18 december 2025
The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure – Creatures of Thought Author’s note: I originally intended for this post to cover adventure games, computer role-playing games, wargames and other simulations, a brief look at the home video game market, and finally the rise of hybrids that fused home video game systems with personal computers.…