🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@qoto.org

I hadn't appreciated how much good speaking skills (e.g., not constantly interrupting yourself, gathering your thoughts before speaking), good editing, and production make a difference in the podcasts I like listening to until I heard a couple podcasts that lack those things. It's so painful because there's a solid core in the ones that are lacking, they just need some competent audio production help.

Quite an archive over here: https://www.youtube.com/@weyrdmusicman/about
#filk #music

I'm told the drummer is Nao from MTH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC-wDpwzEt4
#metal #music #video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UYgORr5Qhg
#music #funny #video

I still like this track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvJk-AzhkSI
#music

http://www.realmonstrosities.com/2012/03/crab-like-spiny-orbweaver.html
I didn't know there were orb weavers like this!
#spider #arthropods

I got this puzzle from my neighbor. It was really easy to solve. Each of the smaller cubes is connected to the next one by an elastic string--kind of like a hair tie--on two sides except for the ends which are only attached on one side. The goal is to arrange the smaller cubes into the larger cube shape.

It's easy because you can proceed with a more-or-less greedy algorithm to get the solution. What I want to do though is to figure out how to represent the problem generically (4x4x4, different target configurations, different initial configurations, different component shapes, etc.), describe the state spaces for different configurations, and describe a generic algorithm for reaching the target configurations, and things like that.

it's such an odd but really great feeling when you're learning the lyrics to a song you want to sing and you get to a part that, cognitively, you don't have access to the words yet but then your body just starts producing the right sounds