About to start my weekly radio show. You can listen from anywhere via - https://www.arrowesound.co.uk
It's free, it's good fun and tonight's artist of the week is Pulp. So tune in to learn more about them. There's plenty of other music as well.
47 shows in the the UK & Ireland, starting Sept 14th. Very excited!
For the moment, seek your tix at https://wheatus.com/shows
Instant Flames, But Safely? https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/instant-flames-safely #chemistry
UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme
https://ukstrandings.org/ #whales
Tomorrow is anti-pancake day, the Tuesday 6 months after pancake day.
You celebrate anti-pancake day by eating pancakes. #PancakeDay is fun, so this is an extra one.
Recording of my talk "demystifying eSIM technology" at #cccamp23 now available from https://media.ccc.de/v/camp2023-57190-demystifying_esim_technology - thanks to @c3voc
Woke up and saw that bbc news is doing live coverage of the Rubik's cube world championships!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-66505078
My bunny-catching puzzle game is finally out!!!!!!!
The Bunburrows have OPENED! ๐คฏ
๐ง Think outside the bunburrow
๐ฐ Get outsmarted by bunnies
๐ณ๏ธ Mess with layers of meta-bunplay
๐๏ธ (B)uncover hidden depths
GO! Time to catch everybunny!!!๐
Please (please) RT and tell everybunny about this!
Get the game here and please leave a review! ๐ญ๐
https://s.team/a/1628610/ ๐
Graphs on income inequality, per country, over time. For many countries, the increase in inequality of the 80s and 90s has started to level off (but not reverse) https://ourworldindata.org/economic-inequality#all-charts #world
Really looking forward to this meteor show! Up to 100 per hour in Toronto (estimated) https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/perseid.html
#astrodon #astronomy #meteorshower #perseids #toronto
๐ฏโ "the Internet Archive has a big collection of Flash games, and you can search the entire archive to find even more." https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-play-old-flash-games-ruffle/
a remarkable fact in this great piece by devi sridhar - in 1971, 400 Dutch children died in traffic accidents. In 2021, after safety campaigns and decades of active travel infrastructure investment, child traffic deaths were 17 #cycling #activetravel https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/04/uk-must-follow-europe-lead-prioritising-walking-cycling-public-transport
My third album, Final Boss, is fifteen years old! For the rest of the day, have 15% off my whole catalog at https://frontalot.bandcamp.com w/ the magic code BOSSYBOSS. Also, take a moment to calm the tumultuous stampede of the passing decades. Or anyhow that's what I'll be doing. Okay, thanks!
๐ Pretty nervous about this, but here goes. Here's a side project I've been working on for the past few months. It's called Viberary and it's a semantic search engine. It gives you book recommendations based on โจvibes. โจ You enter a search query like "funny scifi" and it returns a list of (hopefully!) good recommendations.
There is an about page that explains the data, model, etc. It's still pretty early stages but it's been a labor of love for me.
You think you have a reasonable grasp on C, then someone goes and writes:
[0x00 ... 0x17] = &&l_int
and you're like ???
(from https://github.com/quartzjer/cb0r/blob/master/src/cb0r.c)
Flowchart for the ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ England v ๐จ๐ณ China and ๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark v ๐ญ๐น Haiti matches:
- ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ win or draw = ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ top of group
- ๐ญ๐น win or draw = ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ second in group
- ๐จ๐ณ win by 2 or more goals = ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ out
- ๐ฉ๐ฐ win by 2 or more goals = ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ out
- ๐จ๐ณ score more goals than ๐ฉ๐ฐ = ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ second in group
- ๐ฉ๐ฐ score more goals than ๐จ๐ณ = ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ out
- omg 3-way tie with fair play points tiebreaker
Nice to see the BBC joining the fediverse @BBCRD
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
Hope for a room-temperature Superconductor, one of the holy grails of material science. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/breaking-superconductor-news #science
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