Randart

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[professional hog groomer @bidetmarxman]

There is a curious phenomenon that results from the relatively brief window of time a single human lifetime provides: we perceive the current state of the natural world as “normal”.

This is known as the Shifting Baseline Syndrome. 🧵

[Randart @randartist]

"just want to take the entire cryptocurrency space and throw it into the sun [...] to make sure some alien doesn’t find this mental virus" - thoughtful read along my line of thinking → https://t.co/BgyHObCv9b

[Randart @randartist]

"just want to take the entire cryptocurrency space and throw it into the sun [...] to make sure some alien doesn’t find this mental virus" - thoughtful read along my line of thinking → https://t.co/BgyHObCv9b

[Randart @randartist]

@LiquidTextCorp Learning a language. prof hands out a massive PDF for the entire semester including both grammar and exercises, would be handy if I could extract only those pages that have relevant week’s exercises with my answers filled in so that I can send back those page(s) only…

[Randart @randartist]

Hi there @LiquidTextCorp, new LiquidText user here. Impressed thus far, however couldn't find how one can export a *single* page from the document as a PDF (on an iPad that is). Any hints?

[Randart @randartist]

interesting read from stephen wolfram (of mathematica fame) on trying to replace the current centralised blockchain consensus with a distributed one using cellular automaton (spoiler - he is unable but hints that it should be doable) → https://t.co/dShw8R39XM

[Vili Lehdonvirta @ViliLe]

"Blockchain-as-a-service" was always a confused idea. If the point was to build a distributed system with no single point of failure, Microsoft hosting it defeats the purpose. If the point was innovation theatre, that's fine; hype is over, service closes. https://t.co/NVH7PalMoX

[Tom Kerkhove ☁️🤖 @TomKerkhove]

Looks like Azure Blockchain Service is no longer a thing

https://t.co/HX0aFYkU3I

Kudos to @TechMike2kX for finding out.

[Jacek Пу́тін иди нахуй! @Jacek85281417]

@stevenstrogatz Show her this one :)

[@[email protected] @monoskop]

If it's not a bug but a feature, this is big. MIT Press has now granted full access to all its journals https://t.co/YibsAPqA5e

[Canadian Space Agency @csa_asc]

What do you get when you cross two gas giants? A cosmic kiss!

Jupiter and Saturn will meet in the southwestern sky after sunset on December 21. The two planets haven’t appeared to be this close since 1623.

Photo: Pete Lawrence

[Daniel Lemire @lemire]

Knuth did it: The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 5 is out!!! (Was supposed to come out in 1960.) https://t.co/JCVCtGWyXF

[The Japan Times @japantimes]

Kawasaki Halloween, which attracted 2,200 participants and 120,000 spectators this weekend, conjured up the stuff of nightmares while celebrating creativity at the highest level.
#halloween #kawasakihalloween #川崎ハロウィーン https://t.co/7m4LMrkaov https://t.co/SAZu8t5d44

[Trinity Library @TrinCollLibCam]

#ExTRINordinary people: Srinivasa Ramanujan, aka The Man Who Knew Infinity, as he was described in the 2016 film starring Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons. Ramanujan's papers have all been digitised and are now part of the #wrendigitallibrary: https://t.co/Mb5VS574Lb

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

Mathematicians Caucher Birkar, Alessio Figalli, Peter Scholze and Akshay Venkatesh have just been awarded the Fields Medal. Computer scientist Constantinos Daskalakis won the Nevanlinna Prize. Read our exclusive, in-depth profiles of all five winners. https://t.co/PKS9xu5SPj

[David Neal 🥓🥑 @reverentgeek]

Remember, only you can prevent OOP. #fp #erlang #elixir #clojure #elm #fsharp #haskell #clojurescript #scheme #ocaml

[Quantitative Finance Papers @QFinancePapers]

Modeling the price of Bitcoin with fractional Brownian motion: a Monte Carlo approach. https://t.co/BiOdAjINnI

[Dylan Beattie @dylanbeattie]

The 11 in C++11 refers to the number of legs that have now been nailed onto the dog whilst attempting to build a better octopus.

[Functor Fact @FunctorFact]

"Lisp's core occupies some sort of optimum in the space of programming languages." -- John McCarthy

[Rich Rogers @RichRogers_]

A language that doesn't change the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. - Alan Perlis