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The Memory Palace ep 129: Uplift

¶ ↫ 2018-07-30 podcast

The Guinness Book of Records no longer accepts balloon release records.

1986 Cleveland, Ohio Balloon Launch

¶ ↫ 2018-07-30 bookmarks video

1.5 million helium balloons - and quite a few unintended (but in hindsight kind of obvious) consequences...

via The Memory Palace ep 129: Uplift

http://www.viralforest.com/never-release-1-million-balloons/

rockstar - The Rockstar programming language specification

¶ ↫ 2018-07-23 bookmarks

FizzBuzz in idiomatic Rockstar is truly crazy!

TED: James Bridle - The nightmare videos of childrens' YouTube

¶ ↫ 2018-07-21 bookmarks video parenting

This is bizarre stuff (and I see you there Jacinta!) and the implications are pretty concerning...

Steal This Show s04e01 - Building Botnets For Fun & Profit, with Abhishta

¶ ↫ 2018-07-20 podcast security

Very interesting and rather scary...

Solving Pokemon Blue With a Single, Huge Regular Expression

¶ ↫ 2018-07-14 bookmarks video

Quite an amusing presentation on a neat hack (and a lucky escape from a large AWS bill...)

Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful — njs blog

¶ ↫ 2018-07-11 bookmarks python

I like this - seems like he's hit the nail on the head.

via Talk Python #167

TED: Enric Sala - Let's turn the high seas into the world's largest nature reserve

¶ ↫ 2018-07-03 bookmarks video

Yes. Yes, we should.

Potato, potato. Toma6to, I'm going to kill you... How a typo can turn an AI translator against us

¶ ↫ 2018-07-02 bookmarks machine-learning

You say either and I say either. You say ne1th1er and I crash