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It turns out the storyline surrounding Alum mining in the #Medici series on Netflix is related to actual historical events:

https://reason.com/archives/2019/03/23/not-even-the-pope-can-maintain

Not Even the Pope Can Maintain a Monopoly

Religiously traumatic and militarily ominous, the fall of Constantinople in 1453 also created a crisis for the European textile industry.

Some neural net generated boat names, for your boat or perhaps your self aware starship http://dragon-in-a-fez.tumblr.com/post/183612178576/sky-shark-sun-princess-windsprite-sandy
back from the grave for more shitpost adventures

lewisandquark: “H.M.S. Neural NetOne of my favorite things to do with machine learning algorithms is to get them to name things. Give a neural network (a type of machine learning algorithm) enough...

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I just learned about the "Block Stacking Problem"

https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1119/1.1933957

https://www.pbs.org/video/building-an-infinite-bridge-xwh5bz/

What a great way to introduce the harmonic series!

I always seem to make the same mistake when returning to C++ after a hiatus writing in higher-level languages: forgetting to convert an int before using it in a mathematical expression with doubles. Even worse, it always takes me 30 minutes to figure out that this is why I'm getting crazy results. So note to future self: be careful with types!
ASCII a stupid question, get a stupid ANSI.
It's so sad how almost no one alive today can remember seeing the galactic rainbow, the insanity nebula, or the skull and glowing eyes of the Destroyer of Sagittarius.
https://xkcd.com/2121/
The Anglish Moot

Methods for studying coincidences
Book by Diaconis, P and Mosteller, Frederick
In collections: Easily explained, Probability and statistics
This article illustrates basic statistical techniques for studying coincidences. These include data-gathering methods (informal anecdotes, case studies, observational studies, and experiments) and methods of analysis...
URL: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-0-387-44956-2_39
Entry: http://read.somethingorotherwhatever.com/entry/Diaconis2006
Methods for Studying Coincidences

This article illustrates basic statistical techniques for studying coincidences. These include data-gathering methods (informal anecdotes, case studies, observational studies, and experiments) and...

A project to resurrect and promote English words unfairly consigned to the historical dustbin:

https://wordwarriors.wayne.edu/

#WordWarriors

Word Warriors - Wayne State University