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Guns (Game of Life)
A 'gun' (in the world of Cellular Automata) is a stationary pattern that emits moving patterns (i.e. spaceships). Note that a gun is a pattern which grows without limit. The first gun to be discovered was the Gosper Glider Gun. It is also the simplest known gun in Conway's Game…
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Hyperapophenia
Nonsense is nonsense. But the study of nonsense? That is a science. —Saul Lieberman - Apophenia is when the human mind finds meaning in the meaningless. A specific well-known special case of apophenia is “pareidolia”: the seeing of human faces in things which do not contain huma…
Kathleen Riethmuller is Missing
If you have a loved one missing, I just want to wish you the best. Research shows how ambiguous loss is so devastating and the grief so unrelenting. The disappearance of this young software developer, from Queensland, is to me a particularly puzzling event. I didn't know Kathlee…
Dylan's About Face
27 May 1963 - Dylan released "the Free wheelin' Bob Dylan" featuring these absolutely hard-hitting protest folk songs: - Blowin' in the Wind - Masters of War - Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall Aug-Oct 1963 - Dylan records "The Times They Are a-Changin'" album featuring these even more h…
Classic Articles of Computer Science
- A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (James Iry) - Always Bet On Text (graydon2) - Cool Uris Don't Change (Tim Berners-Lee) - Dongly Things (Douglas Adams) - Go To Statement Considered Harmful (Edsger W. Dijkstra) - How To Be A Programmer: A Sh…
A Simple Puzzle
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A group of Explorers are traversing a system of Caves when they find a Treasure. In accordance with an agreement that they signed before entering the cave, the Treasure must be divided fairly between them, in such a way that they are each satisfied that they will derive equivalen…
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