Author: insecure_automaton

Little bit of this, little bit of that.

Collatz conjecture insanity

They say working on the Collatz conjecture will drive a mathematician mad. Paul Erdős, in speaking of the Collatz conjecture, once said, “Mathematics is not ready for such problems.” Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture

 

Collatz conjecture step frequency from 1 to 1e6.
 Collatz conjecture step frequency from 1 to 1e6.

Procedural generation of Pitfall! worlds on the Atari 2600

Evidently, each unique room was generated w/ only 1 byte(!) of data: https://evoniuk.github.io/posts/pitfall.html

Fuzzing the Github API

Been futzing around with fuzzing lately, came across this to read for later: https://ludovicianul.github.io/2020/10/05/github-api-testing/

Basic PyGame template

One of my goals for 2023 is to write one game per month to keep my programming skills from getting too rusty. I created a baseline PyGame template to help w/ some of the repetitive tasks that come w/ that goal.

Clone it from my Github here.

Various sites, re: sci-fi depictions of UIs

Sci-fi Interfaces: https://scifiinterfaces.com/

HUDs + GUIs: https://www.hudsandguis.com/

saji8k: https://www.saji8k.com/blog/

Speculative Identities: https://speculativeidentities.com/info

Interface Love: https://ilikeinterfaces.com/

A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.

A conversation with the mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson on quantum electrodynamics, climate change and his latest pet project: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-math-puzzle-worthy-of-freeman-dyson-20140326/

The Ransomware Superhero of Normal, Illinois

Thanks to Michael Gillespie, an obscure programmer at a Nerds on Call repair store…: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-ransomware-superhero-of-normal-illinois#169844?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email