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History of the Paper Clip (2016)
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- fscaramuzza 2y agoThank you very much, now I want to play Universal Paperclips so bad. https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
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- cpach 2y agoYeah, IMHO that’s one of the funniest and best computer games ever. For those who haven’t played it, I can warmly recommend it.
- mlyle 2y agoI assign it as homework in my microeconomics class.
- ben_bai 2y agoit's like 6h when you know what you are doing :-)
- cpach 2y agoCool! How do the students react? :)
- mlyle 2y agoGenerally the whole senior class gets addicted to it; other faculty wonder about what's up with this paperclip game... maybe about a third of students take it not just through "monopoly" (the assignment) but to the very end. So much of what we talk about in micro is in there; price and profit maximization; market power and monopoly; game theory; production possibilities increasing through technology; etc.
- CobrastanJorji 2y agoThere must be some point before the game ends where it must surely transition to macroeconomics homework.
- tomcam 2y agoDeep cut
- contingencies 2y agoFirst clip's free: An historical drama new to Netflix exploring a parallel historical reality in which all socialist revolutions are pre-empted with funding and covert support by agents of a shady dynasty of paperclip industrialists.
- tomcam 2y agoWell I'm sold!
- b112 2y agoThis is what the internet is for! This! A view into the hobbies, the lives of your fellow humans, not for profit, not with dancing stuff on the page, not with endless ads, this!
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- Bluestein 2y agoYes. It harkens back, indeed, to what we could call the "Age of Clippy". He might have been annoying. He might have been near-useless, but gosh bang it, he was ours - like the internet of the time - and we want him back.-
- TechPlasma 2y agohttps://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
- alt227 2y agoIts like Beetlejuice. Say paperclips 3 times and someone will link to Universal paperclips.....Or clippy will appear and murder you.
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- ben_bai 2y agoLove it, play this once in a while. 6 hours of fun.
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- ASalazarMX 2y agoNow I understand how it can use paperclips to make technology; technically any bent metal can be considered a paperclip.
- divbzero 2y agoa.k.a. “Future of the Paper Clip”
- AlexDragusin 2y agoAfter 30.0 septendecillion, feels like there are still not enough paper clips!
- Bluestein 2y agoGoodness gracious. I am (sort of) back.- There went my week :) Thanks. I guess ... PS. A Yomi calculator, if anyone needs it: - https://www.extratricky.com/yomi https://www.extratricky.com/yomi
- Groxx 2y agoI've seen a surprising number of these (a dozen? maybe more?), given the years they were introduced... the "Ideal Paper Clip" in particular keeps popping up somewhere every few years.
- ranie93 2y ago>Vaaler Paper Clip >Patented 1900 (Germany), 1901 (US) >Vaaler, who was Norwegian, is commonly but incorrectly given credit for invention of the paper clip. His designs were neither first nor important. There is a large Gem paper clip statue in Norway. Norway might consider giving it to the U.S.
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- jessetemp 2y agoIt’s wild how many patents were granted for basically the same thing. Add a little wiggle on the end? New patent!
- jhbadger 2y agoAlso works for drug design! Add a methyl group here or there, and presto, a new drug that probably has the same target and yet is new intellectual property!
- pnw 2y agoNo mention of those clips which require a tool to take them on and off. They are basically like a binder clip without the arms. IIRC they are a Japanese design, I've never seen them for sale in the US but I'd love to know what they are called.
- cheschire 2y agoPaper clam clip
- contingencies 2y agoTrust the Japanese to introduce a seafood reference.
- pnw 2y agoThat's the one. Thanks!
- contingencies 2y agoRecently I have been fascinated by the awesomeness of wire bending machines. Has anyone done any really funky stuff purely with wire bending? I am thinking furniture scale creations, green walls, giant sculpture, etc. Haven't quite got the timespace to build one but should be straightforward assuming small guage wire. There are some open source ones published: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=open+source+wire+bending https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=open+source+wire+bending
- szvsw 2y agoTook a class a few years ago which was on developing optimization pipelines for engineering design. Was fun, fairly mixed bag of students from all over the institute, both undergrad and grad. Anyways, one student from aero/astro did a project on wire-bending for assembly of truss-like structures… in space! I believe his project was on trying to improve the bending sequence to arrive at an arbitrary desired structure. Not sure if he ended up publishing his work.
- contingencies 2y agoCool. Space would be a great place for it - less opposing forces, plenty of 'space', so simpler processes become more scalable. On folding, there's some interesting similar work from origami academics and noodle nerds looking at things like how you can pre-score or pre-plan to auto-achieve a selected geometry by constricting limited lines of tension across partly rigid planes, or achieve arbitrary geometries on flatpack noodles when rehydration occurs. In general, the flatpack/IKEA notion gets really hard really quickly once you take tooling, protected workspace and dextrous free labor out of the equation.
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- RetroTechie 2y agoAka "nice bendable piece of wire with more uses than McGyver himself could come up with".