n i accidentally typed n into google the other day. i meant to type n into my address bar to bring up news.google.ie but i typed it into the search box instead and found myself staring at the first entry on the results page before i realised my mistake. it had the enigmatic title n puzzleplatformer with physics and style so i had to click. n turned out to be a nifty little game written in actions...
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i was reading about the recent black hole mergers simulations performed by the people at goddard more thoroughly described here and in this forthcoming article. these are undoubtedly beautiful results and a testament to the complexity of einsteins equations when it comes to obtain realistic results according to the reports above thousands of lines of code plus an impressive array of supercomputers...
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i was swimming around in the unicode 4.0 specification yesterday.it reminded of the amazing changes of abstractioninvolved inrepresenting humanreadable characters in computers. and that had me think about the difficulties we create for ourselves too. heres a peculiarpractice around computational abstractions that began withearly programming languages on binary computers and continues to this day50...
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