martin_balsam

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by martin_balsam 2mo ago
If anyone’s interested about this period of time (and the Anabaptist revolution) a great novel: Q by Luther Blisset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(novel)
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by martin_balsam 8mo ago
+1 to Ascension, one of the most fine piece of filmmaking that tries to explain the world of today
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by martin_balsam 10mo ago
I went back to his website [1] and spent almost an hour of a boring zoom call playing Coin Counter [2]. [1] https://jacklance.github.io/games.html [2] https://www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=9ebe1e5ad44ac2
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by martin_balsam 10mo ago
This interplay between different worlds reminded me of Enigmash, by Jack Lance [1] [1] https://jacklance.github.io/PuzzleScript/play.html?p=cfdcc6e...
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by martin_balsam 11mo ago
I agree the ramp up is a bit slow, but I love the concept, and the interface. I am stuck at level 26 edit: found a way to solve it in 6, but not in 4
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by martin_balsam 2y ago
This automatic word censorship reminds me eerily of the short story "The City of Silence" by Ma Boyong. part 1 https://web.archive.org/web/20120118104342/http://worldsf.wo... part 2 https:&#x2
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by martin_balsam 2y ago
Garbage collect module (cfr. Neuköllner for the past 12 years)
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by martin_balsam 2y ago
Chris Nolan famously drives all his production designers insane! No one has made more then one film with him. Apparently he also only shoots 3 or 4 takes per shot, and goes ballistic if somethings goes wrong.
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by martin_balsam 3y ago
I don’t know what language you speak, but GEB it’s been translated into multiple languages during the years. I read it in Italian as a teen, the Italian edition is beautiful, and incredibly well translated (the book includes many puns and l
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by martin_balsam 3y ago
?? Dunkirk is imo the best one of his non-linear narratives, with 3 storylines intertwining: one taking place in the span of one week, one in one day and the last one (the plane) in one hour.
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by martin_balsam 3y ago
Wow. They only agree with “Mongolia “ and the number 80
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by martin_balsam 4y ago
But it is named after its characteristic, albeit in German
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by martin_balsam 5y ago
Not really, yes some interpolation is done automatically, but most character animation, especially for high budget films like Pixar is hyper finely tuned to the frame level, manually adjusting the interpolation curves to get the most expres
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by martin_balsam 5y ago
I remember reading that the end credits of Red Dead Redemption 2 was something like 7000 people
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by martin_balsam 5y ago
And this is the ultimate HN answer. Even in a thread about coffee, it must mention ThinkPads But I also have the same moka. It’s good
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by martin_balsam 5y ago
The number of people who believe that Moore’s Law is dead doubles every 18 months -Jim Keller
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by martin_balsam 5y ago
Thank you! Long Day’s Journey into the Night was the first movie I watch at the cinema after they reopened in 2020. I knew nothing about it. I was very confused by the first part, but when the second part started and I noticed they weren’t
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by martin_balsam 5y ago
Don’t forget vacuum welding https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_welding https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_cementing The first time it happened it must have been puzzling
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by martin_balsam 6y ago
I think Quanta magazine is directly funded by Jim Simons, the billionaire mathematician who founded Renaissance Technology.
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by martin_balsam 6y ago
Super nit-picky comment, but it’s Elo rating, not ELO. It’s not an acronym, it’s named after the physicist Arpad Elo
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by martin_balsam 6y ago
I think Ken Liu is a writer on his own right first, and a translator second. that might be part of the reason https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Liu
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by martin_balsam 6y ago
Ops...my bad. I was wondering this morning why there seams to be a tradition at Apple to hire French engineers and executives.
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by martin_balsam 6y ago
Sadly, he then was at the center of a non competitive fight between Apple and Google. After he left Apple, Google tried to hire him but was forced not to do it by Steve Jobs https://pando.com/2014/03/27/how-st
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by martin_balsam 6y ago
The daily shout is the humor section of the New Yorker. I wouldn’t take it too seriously
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by martin_balsam 6y ago
I studied with Günter Ziegler at FU Berlin and he’s been by far the best lecturer I’ve ever had. Had a great taste in clarity and beauty in presenting rigorous proofs. Just looking at his handwriting in the photos brings back good memories.
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by martin_balsam 7y ago
All universities in Austria are closed
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by martin_balsam 8y ago
Folders are just mandatory tags