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October 24th, 2018

Foone So Taito's 1987 game Darius is interesting for a few reasons, but one of them is the unique aspect ratio it uses: It's a 12:3 (or 4:1) display!
The native resolution of the game is 864x224.
But the part I'm interested in and isn't really talked about much is how they did that pic.twitter.com/9Y3DyAKyHV

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 10:31 PM, Oct 24th, 2018 via Twitter for Android)

boell_intpol Merkel und Nahles betreiben eine Politik der extremistischen Normalität. Wir brauchen stattdessen eine Politik der transformativen Mitte @berndulrich @RobertHabeck causa.tagesspiegel.de/kolumnen/causa…

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Urthor @adversariel @_delta_zero Realistically we cite papers to acknowledge authorship and source, the idea that sources have to be from academic journals to lend prestige is entirely cultural. If the source is not that prestigious it's your job to argue they're right and lend weight.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 4:56 PM, Oct 24th, 2018 via Twitter Web Client)

robinhouston A curious situation. The best known lower bound for the minimal length of superpermutations was proved by an anonymous user of a wiki mainly devoted to anime. mathsci.wikia.com/wiki/The_Haruh…

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 4:55 PM, Oct 24th, 2018 via Twitter Web Client)

Habe mein Handy bei der Arbeit fast immer am Bürorechner angeschlossen. Vorteile:
1) habe es griffbereit
2) muss es zu Hause nicht laden
3) habe schnell Zugriff auf Handy-Dateisystem, wenn ich das mal brauche
4) kann Eduroam tethern, wenn Uni-Ethernet mal wieder nicht geht

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tschfflr @kathrinpassig @ojahnn Ich sehe, das wird genial! Ich übe schonmal "Das ist meine letzte Folie", "Kommen wir nun zu Experiment zwei", usw.

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asayeed Baroni: Humans have a mutual exclusivity tendency in the creation of lexical items. (ie, we first assume a new word has a new meaning). Artificial NNs have the *opposite* tendency.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 3:53 PM, Oct 24th, 2018 via Twitter Web Client)

JrgZimmermann10 Mein Mini-Beitrag zum Film :

1. Schreien lassen
Ich wurde schreien gelassen. Heute bin ich ein Mensch, der seine Bedürfnisse nicht äußert. Das belastet u.a. meine Beziehung und führt zu einem konstanten Hungergefühl. Ich kenne seelisch praktisch nur Hunger.

via Twitter Lite (retweeted on 10:22 AM, Oct 24th, 2018 via Twitter Web Client)

ObscureGent Ruined my day by realizing that the song Monster Mash is about a song called the Monster Mash and we’ve never actually heard that song.

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Megatronic13 Me: So Christ’s body is the bread?

Priest: yes

Me: and he rose from the grave

Priest: yes...

Me: because of the yeast?

Priest: no

Me: okay, none of this makes sense

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