Some great entries this year – the Trojan Bunny from Monty Python’s Quest for the Holy Grail, a great corn on the cob entry, an expansion of the Cars animated series including Toe-mater, and a wonderful hunk of cheese driven by some mice, and a nice corn dog.
Here’s a nice walk through the pits
polýMATHY tries to speak Latin to a bunch of random religious at the Vatican. He said that out of 12 people he talked with, only 3 were able to speak it.
I think that’s correct. As someone that went to Catholic seminary, he is correct in saying Latin was not required. I took it as an elective since it’s such a good idea to be able to read the original documents in their original language. Latin is such a beautifully poetic and nuanced language, you lose a lot in translation to more simplistic languages like English.
The connection between technology and cognitive decline is not limited to attention span issues. Research has shown that the digital age may be rewiring the brain in ways that make it more difficult to perform tasks that require deep thinking and sustained focus.
Troubling trends are suggesting that human cognitive abilities are in decline. Across age groups, attention spans are shortening, problem-solving skills are weakening, and reasoning abilities are deteriorating. Only 37.6 percent of Americans read a novel or short story in the past year, a noticeable drop from 41.5 percent in 2017 and 45.2 percent in 2012. Younger people are reporting a marked increase in an inability to think, concentrate and learn new things.
Studies suggest that excessive screen time, particularly on social media, can negatively impact both verbal and cognitive skills.
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“There’s nothing more dangerous than yesterday’s success”
Do not linger long on the victories, or failures, of the past if you want to move from success to success.
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You don’t just need to worry about who is collecting your data today – but who might have that data at ANY time in the future. Just because you trust your government today doesn’t mean it won’t be overthrown and that data used against you. People have used collected data to round up kill opponents and ethnic groups by rival governments when they get control. Today, this is true for all data corporations have on you. Medical data, credit data, purchase history, reading and watching history, biometric data such as face capture/finger prints, etc. Data breaches and digital hijacking means almost any entity in the world can soon have all your personal information to use as they wish from discrimination to blackmail.
23andMe was a noble idea that has, in fact, turned into the very nightmare every security and medical records expert predicted. A commercial company that promised to keep people’s sensitive genetic data safe finds itself facing bankruptcy and is now going to sell all your data for pennies on the dollar to the highest bidder.
Once your data is recorded and out of your hands – it pretty much exists forever. Even with the best intentions – companies go bankrupt, governments see major shift in who controls them, copies are found on discarded hardware, workers have laptops with your data stolen, hackers break in and steal data to be posted and sold on the dark web.
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A great little video on ECC/Hamming error correcting codes by 3Blue1Brown
Plastic 195/95 is a 20mb demo made by a demo team on their picoEngine v2.1b in 2009
Not to be outdone, RGBA 195/95 is the same demo – done in 64k
These were shared in a presentation on lessons learned from Demo Scene coding:
A wonderful example of comparing how Hollywood portrays things and the way real life people who lived through the actual events tell the story.
Tillamook is known for it’s cheese factory and dairy industry – but the Tillamook County Fair also has quirky local fun: pig n’ ford races.