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how does pac-man's skin work

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@zygoon It's an interesting theory but I couldn't make the mouth a narrow straight wedge within the constraints. Can it be done?

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#javascript truly is the world's most beautiful language null >= 0 → true null > 0 → false null == 0 → false

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The YouTube comment experience

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NaN is the only number that received the “30 under 30” and the “30 over 30” award in the same year

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The data structures were not initialized even though the call to init was RIGHT THERE: /////// Initialize data structures \\\\\\\ Init();

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What's the most most mysterious bug you've ever encountered that later turned out to have a trivial explanation?

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@bigevilboss With this image, finally, I will be able to get some sleep

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One time 20 years ago a computer science professor said something wrong (a technicality) in class, so I spent quite a lot of time proving them wrong in this video, and then just kept going, as if I don't have any self-control over my approach to projects:

GradIEEEnt half decent: The hidden power of imprecise lines

Before the invention of YouTube comments, most people could make remarks that were slightly technically incorrect without fear of immediate public rebuke. Th...

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4 years

What if we had access to additional shift keys, allowing us to argue on the internet with letters that are EVEN MORE uppercase? An exhaustive case analysis in my latest weirdo video: “Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning]”

Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning]

I perform an exhaustive case analysis using advanced "derp learning" techniques to discover what's even upperercase than an uppercase A. AND I DON'T STOP THE...

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5 years

It was cold in my office this weekend so I turned on PimeGrid as a sort of less-wasteful space heater. And then discovered the world’s 3461st largest known prime number! 2609 * 2^1549069 + 1 is prime. 466,320 digits.

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3 years

Get ready to FORMAT C: because in my new video, I made several new hard drives that we didn't want or need.

Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need

In this video we make and evaluate several hard drives that we didn't want. Drawing some inspiration from vexing current events, we find that creative, struc...

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I finally uploaded my new video, ”Badness 0", which Premieres at 9:15 EST tonight, if you wanna watch with me! (However apparently this will mean you can’t see it in 4k60Hz, so if that’s your thing, my condolences.)

Badness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version)

Never before seen pilot episode.Keywords: TypesIf you see any errors, please post about them in the comment section!Source code, papers, etc.: http://tom7.or...

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6 years

Just uploaded a new project: Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!

Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!

The video begins in a strange way and gets stranger, but then, ideally, you understand why.See the "making of" video for more technical information: https://...

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7 years

Redaction pro-tip: Most short words will have distinct lengths in a proportional font like Times New Roman. I think it's pretty clear, but decide for yourself... (This is the Democratic "rebuttal" #memo unclassified today, page 3.)

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A self-mockumentary on how I ran the length of every street in Pittsburgh; thousands of miles over 16 years. PAC TOM! The topic choice may not make sense if you're used to my programming videos, but then, I think it will:

How I ran the length of every street in Pittsburgh: PAC TOM

This video elaborates my project to run the length of every street in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It's called "Pac Tom" because it's like Pac Man e...

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8 years

How to name dirts

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If you find my intricate 42min video about 30 weird chess algorithms competing in a tournament of fools in order to assess my program that plays chess without knowing what pieces are on the board to be boring, then it is because you do not understand art:

30 Weird Chess Algorithms: Elo World

An intricate and lengthy account of several different computer chess topics from my SIGBOVIK 2019 papers. We conduct a tournament of fools with a pile of dif...

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3 years

@GabeMoralesVR I like it but then how do the dots get in

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7 years

This antique is perfect for those US venues where you aren’t allowed to bring a camera!

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It is my opinion that this Zelda game is hostile to people who immediately go the wrong way on purpose (me)

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5 years

One of my brain’s weird background processes is “hostile reading”, here deliberately misinterpreting the second headline as continuing the story. Implication is that BG just murdered the world’s richest person in some weird Highlander-style billionaire battle royale

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In one week (π + 1 day) I will go to NYC to present my cursed software at An Evening of “Unnecessary” Detail with @standupmaths and @3blue1brown and other purportedly cool peoples!

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Excuse me, does this "all-inclusive" vacation package include vacation packages that don't include themselves?

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My crazy #SIGBOVIK project this year is a C89 compiler that produces EXEs that only contain printable ASCII. Video:

Compiling C to printable x86, to make an executable research paper

In this oddly paced "educational" video, I explain how I created a paper for SIGBOVIK 2017 that consists of only printable ASCII bytes, but is also a valid D...

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4 years

So happy to have an object called Island need a method called IsLand. May I some day finally need a function that tells me if the mouse's y coordinate is indeed feeling "mousey"!

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6 years

Reinvigorating computing with the beauty of IEEE-754 Real Numbers: “NaN gates and Flip FLOPS”

NaN Gates and Flip FLOPS

A new kind of computer architecture that's more elegant than 1s and 0s, being based directly on Mathematics.Note: Everything in here is real (IEEE-754), but ...

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2 years

Personally I prefer for the hotel shower faucet puzzle to be a full-ass escape room

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Accidentally saw a spaceship launch, which tried to upstage the sunset, but the sunset fought back.

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When you make the winning move in checkers it is called chessmate

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@kaajeewee Resolution is too low to make out the details :(

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It’s SIGBOVIK today! I enjoyed @dwrensha ’s short video about (also one of my recent favorite “games”)

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For SIGBOVIK 2023, I made a 3-minute explainer of my recent forays into computer-aided acronym optimization:

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3 years

Regions where a line segment connecting to the point is predicted to intersect the illustrated line segment, with the error vector for the predicted intersection at that point. This was how the Northern Lights were invented. #screenshotsaturday

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If you have a zero-day exploit and bring it on a plane and fly it across the international date line

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We () released new 64-bit versions of all our audio plugins (Win VST, Mac AU, intel/apple chips) today! Free as in freedom AND as in beer. Originally from the late 90s or early 2000s, but we've made a lot of improvements since then. A tour 🧵...

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I was horrified to discover that I muted one of the audio tracks at a critical moment in the final upload. Please manually play "Street (Trap Remix)" at 11:58 to rectify.

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A self-mockumentary on how I ran the length of every street in Pittsburgh; thousands of miles over 16 years. PAC TOM! The topic choice may not make sense if you're used to my programming videos, but then, I think it will:

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My #SIGBOVIK 2016 project: Automatic 3Dification of NES games. aka "The glEnd() of Zelda"

Automatic 3Dification of Nintendo games: The glEnd() of Zelda

In this project for SIGBOVIK 2016, I try to make an emulator that can play classic NES games in three dimensional first-person view. I pretend it's because I...

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64 bit driver? ON IT

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Found another prime number, this one the 70th largest known! (My answer finished second so I am technically the “double-checker”.) 118568*5^3112069+1. It’s the largest known “base 5” prime (here base means the base of the exponent, of course it is prime in any representation.)

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There's something so amazing about being able to page through the complete genome sequence (29903 bp is about 7.4kb) of the 2019 Coronavirus. Mid-outbreak! Like looking at the source code of a 0-day exploit for your own body:

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WTF is the point of an epic heat wave if it’s not even going to touch 100 °F. That’s like driving the DeLorean 87 mph

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@VerdaAnimo Yes, I like to remain laser-focused on the most important questions of our time

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The portmantout: A portmanteau of every word in English! vid: http://t.co/JVenidkGxv page: http://t.co/DgNYCffNkv

Portmantout: A portmanteau of every English word

For SIGBOVIK 2015 I did this little hack to produce a portmanteau (that's a jammin' together of two words, like caviar + armpit = caviarmpit) of all 100,000+...

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3 years

Twitter polls have very good security against 0-days

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#screenshotsunday

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@Rainmaker1973 First mistake was taking his eyeball out

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6 years

This shooting is blocks from my house and on one of my regular running routes. Very likely I know someone who is panicking or grieving for a loved one right now. Rhetoric of hate is a problem. Guns are a problem.

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Found this cursed familiar on my run today! Now it lives with me

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3 years

The heroes behind the world’s most prestigious computer science conference cannot be stopped by Weltschmerz—and you can be not stopped too, by submitting a paper! Since it’s slightly later this year, it looks like I’ll have 7 additional days to work on my “SIGBOVIK Beach Bod”

Special Interest Group on Harry Q. Bovik

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Please join us for the sixteenth annual SIGBOVIK conference on Friday, April 8, 2022! After a prolonged consideration period, we've decided to hold the conference @CarnegieMellon this year.

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10 years

Once you learn the "hammer / nail" analogy, every situation starts to look like a hammer / nail

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7 months

High quality SIGBOVIK live stream is active!

sigbovik - Twitch

sigbovik streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to chat, and join their community.

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3 years

@CraigGidney Are you telling me he un-rots every time he chomps his maw? That suggests he has access to futuristic anti-aging technology, which, maybe

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6 years

Perhaps it was too ambitious to try to write three SIGBOVIK papers on the night of the deadline

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6 years

Crossing Gourd

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1 year

Finally made my submission for my friend @aleffert 's !

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4 years

Today's precious life force was lost to: Cross-platform font rendering

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@Rainmaker1973 This video can’t be real because ice is blue, not red.

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Engineer’s log, day 26. If I can just whack one more weed with this multi-hundred dollar repair to a $49 weed-wacker, it will have all been worth it

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Best smiley face to format

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Also this 40+ minute supplement with technical and process info, which I spent way too long on:

Making of "Reverse emulating the NES..."

An explanation of the process and tech behind my last video, Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!". You should watch that video first, of cours...

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5 years

I like to think that the sinkhole bus is now fixed to that angle for the rest of its days

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Hats off to the rigging crew in #PGH today - amazing work! Today we elevated transit. Now #Congress - about that nfrastructure Bill you promised...

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Executive Producer Dick Wolf

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I finally 100%ed Spelunky 2! It’s really a masterpiece, Celeste-like in its ability to show you daunting challenges you think you’ll never accomplish, but then teaches you how. All the more impressive for being randomly generated. Thanks for the 181 hours, @mossmouth @strotchy +!

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Today’s precious life force was lost to: Tried rebooting the server. Support eventually determined it was “just too old” to come online

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SIGBOVIK 2021 is happening online this year to secure our ACE2 receptors! The fact that anyone can participate makes it no less prestigious. 6PM EDT –

sigbovik - Twitch

sigbovik streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to chat, and join their community.

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we’ll played, apostrophe. we’ll played.

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Manually routing circuit boards is my favorite video game

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@b0rk I wanted to know how strace works so I ran “strace strace /bin/true” !

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7 years

New heights in pedantry: Just caught myself spell-correcting another person’s “lorem ipsum” text

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7 years

Just posted my new movie about anagrams, but where you can break letters apart, aka #anagraphs :

Anagrams, but where you can break apart letters: "Anagraphs"

In this video I explore several generalizations of anagrams.Addendum containing more technical explanations: https://youtu.be/8_npHZbe3qM

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10 years

I alphabetized Star Wars and here is the video evidence, ARST ARSW: http://t.co/AQL9fsJHYd

ARST ARSW: Star Wars sorted alphabetically

All of the English dialogue in "Star Wars", split into words, and sorted alphabetically.Fun facts:The word "lightsaber" only appears once in this film.There ...

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7 years

Off-by-one errors are the second worst!!

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6 years

My idea of a good vacation day is running 16 miles to see the spot where Oceanic 815 crashed in LOST. Also the Dharma Initiative barracks!

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4 years

Behold the trollishly-bad desktop publishing work on the album cover for Queensrÿche's "Empire" (1990). First day on the job with only a 96x96 BMP of the band's logo clearly anti-aliased for a white matte, the designer just flood-filled the background black and called it done.

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@hbmmaster Thanks! I was already satisfied when I passed π^10 followers (ten fingers) but I guess I’ll pause to smell these minor milestones as well

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Did the new Wolverine movie start with someone changing the tire on a limo specifically so that I could get my “huge jack, man” pun out of the way immediately? Thanks!

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10 years

My weird #LD48 superfast #LDJAM "Entire Screen of One Game" submitted on-time via free airport wifi! http://t.co/7oDOV19Xhj #BOS ✈️ #ZRH

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My favorite kind of compilation album is one where I can’t even figure out whether the songs are “Artist name – Song title” or “Song title – Artist name”

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Schrödinger’s map

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Getting pumped to talk today at #DeconstructConf ! This morning I did my daily affirmations, which consist only of the Konami Code

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@TheSmarmyBum Fatally flawed, needless technology

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I finally beat Celeste chapter 9! The whole time I was worried about the last level due to Word on the Street but it was not even the hardest one IMO. High score 5527 deaths, 14h44m 😂

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"I'll make a game. Those are easy" —me #screenshotsaturday

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Stairs Temporarily Wall

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3 years

Perhaps more to come soon, but for now download those bad boys from , or if you prefer, I guess you can read the source code at , compile it with your mind's g++, and imagine what it would sound like. That's the power of open source!

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Trespassing before this point O.K.

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The sequel was called: II, Robot

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6 years

I coincidentally packed my talk equipment in a telescope bag for this trip to Seattle, making possible the pun....... SEATAC ASTRONOMY

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6 years

Everything is coming along perfectly in my 48-hour game!!! #screenshotsaturday #ld48

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There is atrophy in every glass

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"Vanilla ICE: The Interactive Connectivity Establishment protocol as defined in [RFC5245]. Through the rest of the text, the terms vanilla ICE and 'RFC5245' are used interchangeably."

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This is what Thursday beer with Tom's grad school friends is like BTW

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