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Automatic 3d extrusion

Amazing ui

Spätzle

Cross cultural understandings

Ants as a fluid

Fire ants use their claws to grip diverse surfaces, including each other. As a result of their mutual adhesion and large numbers, ant colonies flow like inanimate fluids. By emulating the flow of fluids, ant colonies can remain united under stressful conditions

2500fps vision

i’d be fun to have 2500fps vision #throughglass

The Bayes Rule

not as widely known as it deserves to be.

Existence

I hope someone optioned this. Brin is a very strong scifi author.

2015-05-15: I finally read this. I’d give it 3.5 stars. The story is compelling, the thing that grates (a lot) are the constant sermons from Brin. He’s not wrong, i just find the way he makes his arguments to be really tedious (you can get a sample from his website), it is full of “I told you so” and “I wrote about this x years ago”. The constant self-slapping on the back really detracts.

Israel and Iran alliance

this is an interesting lesson in geopolitics. the conflict between iran and israel is of political origin after the end of the cold war, and can therefore be resolved politically. this is a short period in a relationship spanning 2.5 ka to date.