Upturned

I'm just a physics student who likes (not)funny puns and video games.

[Interfacing Linux @intlinux]

GameBoy emulator from the International Obfuscated C Code contest.

[memes futebolisticos. - vito @Mfutebolisticos]

Aí é só patentear e botar pra vender.

Inventou a sauna elétrica

[DROID @droidbuilds]

MrBeast plans to trap 1000 vibe coders in a room without Claude

first person to center a div manually wins $1 million

[v̆̈itȏ̈ não fará nada (无为) @VitoPauMolenga]

passeio escolar na casa branca

[Old Internet @OldInternetFeel]

Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi (2004)

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

Accidently photographing a frog at the exact moment it activates its hyperspace drive...

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

This is from an IBM presentation

In 1979

[mnux :3 🌸 @mnux5]

who forgot their switch on the bus😭😭

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

«When a person has something precious they want to protect, that’s when they can become truly strong»

— Naruto

[Arun @hiarun02]

POV : It worked in production exactly like localhost.

[Ashley Ha @ashleybchae]

good claude..😇

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The research behind this is wild. If you played Pokémon as a kid, you have a tiny region in your brain that exists only because of Pokémon. Not a metaphor. Stanford put people in brain scanners and found it.

The study was published in Nature Human Behavior in 2019. They scanned 11 adults who grew up glued to their Game Boys and 11 who never played. When they showed both groups images of the original 151, the players' brains lit up in one specific spot every time. Same spot across all 11 people. The non-players showed zero response.

That spot is a little fold in the back of your brain that normally processes things like animal shapes and cartoon faces. In the Pokémon players, a chunk of it had been permanently reassigned. Their brains carved out a Pokémon department sometime around age 6 or 7 and just never took it down.

And the reason it ended up in the same place in everyone's brain comes down to the Game Boy itself. The screen was 2.6 inches. Every kid held it at roughly the same distance. So those 151 characters hit the exact same patch of each kid's retina, thousands of times, during the years when the brain is still soft enough to reorganize itself. Where an image hits your retina in childhood is what tells your brain where to build the wiring.

Reading works the same way. Humans invented writing about 5,000 years ago. There's zero evolutionary reason for a brain region dedicated to recognizing words. But every person who learns to read grows one, roughly the size of a dime, in the same part of the brain.

Brain-imaging research from 2018 actually watched it appear in children's heads as they learned their letters. It grew by quietly taking over nearby tissue that wasn't doing much yet. Stanford published a follow-up this year showing this region is way smaller or missing entirely in kids with dyslexia, and that 8 weeks of intense reading practice physically grew it back.

London taxi drivers show the same thing in a completely different part of the brain. Brain scans from a 2000 study found the region that stores mental maps had physically expanded, and the longer they'd been driving, the bigger it got. These drivers spend 3 to 4 years memorizing 25,000 streets before they get licensed. About half wash out.

The common thread is childhood. Harvard researchers trained young monkeys to recognize new shapes and they developed brand-new brain regions in predictable locations. Adult monkeys trained on the same shapes never got those structural changes. The young brain wires itself in a way the adult brain cannot replicate.

If you're wondering whether a Pokémon patch in your brain means you lost something else, no. The region sits alongside your normal visual processing areas, not on top of them. Your brain has hundreds of millions of neurons in that zone alone. The lead author noted that every participant in the study had gone on to earn a PhD.

[SovCorp CEO🇱🇮🐍 @So2Speak23]

“She’d be so much hotter without a collarbone” is not a sentence a single man has ever uttered since the dawn of humanity.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Capcom just revealed the Resident Evil 4 merchant is now broke

Over the past three years, players sold items worth 43.25 trillion pesetas but only bought 39.91 trillion back.

He's now down 3.34 trillion pesetas and facing foreclosure.

[Upturned @felipexpex55]

High and dry

[Klara @klara_sjo]

The creator of ChatGPT is named "Altman," as in "alternative to human" and he leads OpenAI, which is completely closed.

His main opponent is the company Anthropic, meaning "human-centered" is led by "Amodei," as in "loves gods".

Then there's "Gemini," meaning "two-faced," from a company that said that it will do no evil.

Brilliant work as always Kojima!