Tag: Games
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Links van 12 tot 26 oktober 2026
Secret of Orange Cats Finally Revealed After 60-Year Search : ScienceAlert If you've ever lived with an orange cat, you already know they're built different. It turns out, genetically speaking, they really are. Orange fur is one of the most recognizable traits in the feline world, and one of the most stubborn mysteries in cat…
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Links van 17 maart tot 9 oktober 2026
Reinvention and revolution: Pierre Alexandre Wille | British Museum Explore the works of this talented draughtsman, offering a fascinating insight into French society before, during and after the Revolution. ugentbe, design inspiration British Museum Welcome to the British Museum – discover two million years of human history and culture. ugentbe, design inspiration Enigma — The…
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Links van 26 augustus tot 29 september 2026
The Man Who Saw Humanity From Two Billion Years Away | The MIT Press Reader Olaf Stapledon published his first epic cosmic novel, “Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future,” in 1930. It is a speculative history of humanity’s evolution told from the vantage point of one of the Last…
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Links van 8 tot 18 juni 2026
The Absurdly Optimized Pancake: Leavening Chemistry, Acid-Base Stoichiometry, and an Interactive Calculator | Absurdly Optimized A systematic investigation of acid-base neutralization, CO2 production kinetics, gluten inhibition, and the Maillard reaction as applied to a 125-gram flour batter, with an interactive stoichiometric calculator that adapts to whatever is in your refrigerator recipe, food Public Domain Image…
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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
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 7 tot 13 december 2025
rePalm – Dmitry.GR Pixter was quite popular, as far as kids' toys go, in USA in the early 2000s. A friend brought it to my attention a year ago as a potential rePalm target. The screen resolution was right and looking inside a "Pixter Color" showed an ARM SoC – a Sharp LH75411. The device…
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Links van 7 december 2025
What is Generative UI? | tambo blog Generative UI is an interface that adapts in real-time to the user’s context. Their natural language input, their past interactions, system data. Instead of a fixed experience everyone must learn, the software learns to fit what each user needs in the moment. ui, ux, generative UI (4218) Ivan…
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Links van 1 tot 6 december 2025
A vector graphics workstation from the 70s – jaeblog jaeblog In my mind, Tektronix is a brand that makes electronics lab equipment like oscilloscopes and logic analyzers. Turns out, they made quite a few terminals and a couple of computers! A good friend saw this one for sale local to him, and I poked him…
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Links van 28 november tot 1 december 2025
20 Years of ZBrush… And I'm Blown Away by Nomad Er zijn geen zekerheden meer — "After almost 20 years of using ZBrush, we are giving Nomad a try! This is our first impressions of Nomad after using it for a few weeks. We're covering both the ipad and desktop version of Nomad" 3D, sculpture,…
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Links van 23 tot 28 november 2025
First-ever recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks — School of Medicine University of Louisville <p>Imagine reliving your entire life in the space of seconds. Like a flash of lightning, you are outside of your body, watching memorable moments you lived through. This process, known as “life recall,” can be…
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Links van 18 tot 22 november 2025
State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions · Articles This is a follow-up to my previous article, Terminal Emulators Battle Royale – Unicode Edition! from 2023, in which I documented Unicode support across terminal emulators. Since then, the ucs-detect tool and its supporting blessed library have been extended to automatically detect support of…
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Links van 30 oktober tot 3 november 2024
How the U.S. military lost a $250 million war game in minutes – The Washington Post As a U.S. Navy carrier battle group entered the Persian Gulf, it came under surprise attack by adversaries launching missiles from commercial ships and radio-silent aircraft that quickly overwhelmed its missile defense systems. Nineteen U.S. ships, including the aircraft…
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Links van 27 tot 30 oktober 2024
Why ghosts wear clothes or white sheets instead of appearing in the nude Why aren’t ghosts naked? This was a key philosophical question for Cruikshank and many others in Victorian Britain. Indeed, stories of naked or clothesless ghosts, especially outside folklore, are exceedingly rare. Sceptics and ghost-seers alike have delighted in thinking about how exactly…