Interesting Links for 22-01-2022

[andrewducker]

Fed up of playing Wordle with your brain? Let a picture play it for you!

(tags:words games viaSwampers )

France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes two lab workers

(tags:brain france disease )

15km lorry queues at Dover as port bosses call for talks on EU checks

(tags:uk europe trade doom )

When the Wehrmacht and the US army fought on the same side

(tags:wwii history war unlikely )

I can't decide if the real life etymology of "gun" is any sillier than the fantasy one

(tags:language games guns fantasy )

I want this on billboards in every town before the next UK election

(tags:conservatives Pandemic OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[mountainkiss]

I think the best thing that has happened to my life in the last two years is figuring out that I can block the term Wordle on Twitter.

[andrewducker]

Is there anything left?

[mountainkiss]

Yes, all the stuff that was there before Wordle.

[danieldwilliam]

I was trying to work out if Wordle was a solved problem yesterday anf therefore likely to not last long.

[andrewducker]

In the same way that computers can play chess and that's why people don't any more?

[danieldwilliam]

No, in the sense that once you work out which word to start with it becomes trivially easy to solve each puzzle in a few moves and statistically impossible to do better.

[andrewducker]

I think you overestimate my skill at these games...
The chances of it ever becoming trivial for me is near zero.

[slemslempike]

OH I hadn't thought to do that! That would make me much less grumpy.