it was interesting to learn that most mammals are fat enough to float on water without much effort; with the notable exception of hippos, which decided to go for the tungsten cube approach and became so dense they can run on the riverbed.
Massive respect to #PokemonShowdown for not only making their code open-source, but also providing an easy to understand ToC and docs.
MarkovJunior is a probabilistic programming language where programs are combinations of rewrite rules and inference is performed via constraint propagation.
This is your periodic reminder that personalized advertising, which is a gigantic invasion of all our privacy and makes the entire web significantly slower and shittier to use, is often less effective then simple situational advertising (on a blog about ponies, advertise pony stuff).
We are losing so much of our privacy for what is essentially a scam all the way around. The best sales pitch made by advertisers is the one they made for themselves. They fuck us, and the people that buy the ads.
Software developer, open-source enthusiast, wannabe software architect. I like learning and comparing different technologies. Also general STEM nerd.