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«Jeff Dean's PIN is the last 4 digits of pi.» I had not read this before, but told many students the same about my PIN code and I a quiz about the last digits. Love it.

«Keep the web weird and interesting.» This made me smile and I agree.

Songs too.

With four kids, I think I have grown more patient with people in general. Also one who got more sentimental.

I would not so much, perhaps look for spelling errors. For me writing the sermon is the goal, diving into the deep and exploring the topic, passage and such. If I preach it, it is …

I could, but I would most likely print out a copy from the pdf export or bring a tablet. ;-)

I have made a TUI tool for organizing and authoring sermons written by myself. It also has a third mode for reading one or two bible versions in parallel. I love the interface and …

«That feedback loop is breaking. If the visible scoreboard is dominated by teams using AI, a beginner is pushed toward using AI before they have built the instincts the AI is repla…

Perhaps the doctor meant for these to be lost and not found, or that the daleks was afraid of them?

This is what the internet is about, finding blogs and stumbling over pages like this with such content. Thanks!

Sounds like something I would do too. Awesomeness

https://blog.hoyd.net

Voynich manuscript next :-)

Interesting to read this article again now, after the raise of LLMs. The bot vs. bot then could perhaps be read as llm vs. llm today? "The paradox is that this bot glut could event…

In the distribution of the number of steps needed to reach Kaprekar's constant (6174), I observe an unexpected distribution pattern, with three steps being the most common number o…

Sure, here is a translated post: Title: Distribution of the Number of Steps to Kaprekar's Constant We are trying Kaprekar's routine. I choose a four-digit number with at least two …

Sorry about that. The post itself isn't relevant, it's just the plot from it I refer to.

In the distribution of the number of steps needed to reach Kaprekar's constant (6174), I observe an unexpected distribution pattern, with three steps being the most common number o…

On the side, from the title I was picturing actual knitted parachutes, which isn't the first time. At work, we had a student cansat team who did just that. To everyone's surprise, …

Same

Reminded me of that too.

Do you happen to have a link for that comic?