a #Forth that includes a #Lisp interpreter: a Lisp-2 with 2-bit fixnum tags, a recursive-descent S-expression parser, shallow binding, and a Cheney collector. Too bad it uses dynamic scoping
#PDF #paper on the gendered experience of the Socratic method in #USA law school #education; basically the author supports it
#PDF #ebook entitled “Competitive Programmer’s Handbook”, about how to win programming contests, mostly focused on C++.
@nickpsecurity’s notes on available hardware platform diversity for #security against (Karger-)Thompson attacks.
Gallery of Jared Tarbell’s #generative #art.
Lillian Schwartz’s 1980s #generative #art. Kind of the grandmother of the #demoscene, though I think a lot of this stuff was rendered noninteractively. #animation
Algorists: creators of #generative #art.
Discussion thread on #generative #art, linking to Anders Hoff’s series of articles.
#Generative #art #animation in looping GIFs using mostly sinusoids and circles.
Discussion thread on what exemplary open source code to read.
the #Clarendon-Dry-Pile has been ringing its bell since 1840, powered by probably a Zamboni battery, which yields nanoamps at 0.8V per cell.
#PDF #paper about the "Clarendon Dry Pile", aka the Oxford Electric Bell. It runs on 1 nA, 2000 V.
#video of a Zamboni-pile-driven torsion pendulum.
#video of the #Clarendon-Dry-Pile, whose battery appears to be about 30mm in diameter.