Thoughtful take on the effects of modern technology on workers and competition: https://creativegood.com/blog/23/luddites-warned-us-about-google.html
Category: Interesting
Dwarf Fortress earnings
The Adams brothers have been killing it numbers-wise w/ Dwarf Fortress the last few years. Good on them, it’s nice seeing folks succeed in this manner.
Tuttle Y-DNA matches
My paternal line is Tuttle. There was some confusion over which Tuttle line my branch belonged to so I recently took an FTDNA Y-DNA test to confirm it genetically. We descend from this gent, William Tuttle, b. 1607 in Ringstead, Northamptonshire, England, and d. June 1673 in New Haven, Connecticut, and his wife Elizabeth, b. ~1609, also in England, and d. 31 Dec 1684, also in New Haven. They immigrated to the New World about 1635.
Some concise interesting reading on these Tuttles from the New England Historical Society.
Much more in-depth genealogy (two volumes) on William and Elizabeth’s descendants.
30th anniversary interview with Galaga creator/designer Shigeru Yokoyama
Neat background info on everything Galaga, from the programming to the cabinet design: https://web.archive.org/web/20150803002342/http://shmuplations.com/galaga
Jeff Minter (Yak) of Llamasoft
Previously shared a trailer for an upcoming Atari game Akka Arrh. Forgot to link to the Wikipedia entry, but its developer, Jeff Minter, is a hoot. You may also recognize him as the actor whom murderous author Jerome Davies from the Black Mirror film Bandersnatch.
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
The second 100,000 primes and their reciprocals (1/x) to 500 significant digits
As with the first 100K primes, this is a large CSV file (~50MB) tarred to ~25MB. Column 1 contains the primes, adjacent cells in column 2 contain the reciprocals.
Download from my GitHub here.
The first 100,000 primes and their reciprocals (1/x) to 500 significant digits
Beware, this is a large CSV file (~50MB) tarred to ~25MB. Column 1 contains the primes, adjacent cells in column 2 contain the reciprocals.
Download here.