Here we go again

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Mechanical computer

First of a series.

Seeing functions presented as beautiful little clockwork objects is completely riveting. Per the youtube comments, this would be a fantastically powerful way to teach math, at least to kids like me. :)

Aside: as a language designer, applying this same mindset to conditional flow, looping and state is super-useful, because it makes concrete just how much more fundamentally complicated and tricky those behaviors are.

A missionary might argue that our fallen world of if-trees, loops, mutable variables, etc. is partly due to working languages that deny you the feel that would make these profound differences in complexity evident.

H/T Better Explained, so excellent.

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All be seeing you

You know when you mistakenly type a word that sounds roughly like the word you meant? That means that you’re typing what your’re hearing in your head–not typing what you’re thinking in any abstract sense.

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Murmuration

Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

By coincidence I’ve just been digging back into A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History, which is the perfect thing to take a hit of before watching.

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Quantum locking

Industrial-grade science fiction awesomeness.

And it’s a YouTube video from a trade show, which means we’re definitely in the actual future, not say watching Logan’s Run. The tone of this is about as anti-retro-future as it’s possible to be, including the music, which is exactly the opposite of portentous and synthy.

Aside: ah-startup-days trade show booth duty memory triggers:
* cheesy blue carpet, always the blue carpet
* white separator curtains on tippy metal poles
* the acoustics of the huge, concrete halls–live way up at the ceiling, but dead down on the ground, from the carpet

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Chaotic Brushstrokes Signify Movement

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Ha

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Bigheaded Martians mixtape up

Uploaded a couple of Martians mixtapes to soundcloud.

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MUST

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Return to Battleship Island

HASHIMA, Japan, 2002 documentary version from Thomas Nordanstad on Vimeo.

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