Code and words and stuff
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Works by Henrique Oliveira. A few more here instagram.com/p/CqXp1C2qPkO/…
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Imagine this. You are an OSS maintainer. Someone opens an issue on your library... and they are the lead singer of Weezer.
🎸 Brings a whole new meaning to "Rockstar Developer"
github.com/grahamearley/Fire…
ALT A screenshot of a GitHub issue linked in the tweet.
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Game research, design, #gamestudies peers: I haven't been as intellectually excited about anything like this in a decade (maybe since SDT). In this paper, we propose a new theory for why we enjoy uncertainty in games, drawing on predictive processing. A 🧵
frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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#DailyDigitalArtHistory 📚
In 1965, Nam June Paik applied a large magnet to a TV, morphing its signal into an abstract composition, giving the monitor a sculptural character, disrupting its stardadized form and function.
#digitalart #newmediaart #art #sculpture
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Visualizing the Biomass of Life 🦊🦀🐬🦎🦃🐓🦩🦆🌳☘️🍄🌼🌍 #biomass #infographic #dataviz #datavisualization #EarthDay22 #earthday #sciart #life #illustration #art #science #data
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It's not that bad, we just have to count things and apply some business logic to some metrics, on a massively distributed system, and it has to work every single hour of every day, forever, without ever breaking, and the entire system has to be completely deterministic, and repla
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Westworld S3 is worth watching for the production design & architecture alone. One set--the base of a shadowy tech billionaire played by Vincent Cassel--is Ricardo Bofill's "La Fábrica", an abandoned cement factory that he spent 40 years re-designing into an office/home.
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HOW TO GIVE A CONFERENCE TALK IN FIVE EASY STEPS
1. Write the outline! It'll help you collect your thoughts and make a good talk!!!
2. Write a first draft! Doesn't need to be that good, just get your thoughts down!!!
3. Rehearse! Read the draft aloud and see if it sounds good!
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After 7 years Manifold Garden releases tomorrow October 18 for @AppleArcade & @EpicGames. You can preorder now on Epic: epicgames.com/store/en-US/pr…
Trailer: youtu.be/jZ_yxZwAoCg
To celebrate, I'm giving away 10 signed MG architecture pop up cards + Epic keys. RT to win. US only
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After 7 years, I am excited to announce that Manifold Garden will launch this Friday, October 18th on @AppleArcade and the Epic Games Store. youtu.be/jZ_yxZwAoCg
Speaking at @APIWorld next week, and am thus legally obligated to present the illusion of an active Twitter profile.
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I saw a tweet asking why sometimes when you unsubscribe from an email list it says it can ‘take a few days’. Buckle up, as I have a RIDICULOUS story about this happening in The Enterprise™️...
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Holy crap: Algorithm analyzes relationships among words in 3.3. million materials-science abstracts; uncovers structure of periodic table, predicts discoveries of new thermoelectric materials years in advance, and suggests as-yet unknown materials. 😮 nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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1/ BIG news today for London: TfL is announcing that it is rolling out technology to track passengers using wifi full time from July 8th.
I’ve written about this story for some time, so if you’ll forgive me, a little thread on why this is cool but also… controversial!