Entries tagged with simulation

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Interesting Links for 14-12-2022

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Interesting Links for 13-01-2022

Covid loses almost all its ability to infect after 20 minutes.: (tags:pandemic virus )
Lorries stuck at checkpoints for four days due to terrible new Brexit red tape: (tags:uk europe trade )
Having just finished re-reading Sandman I enjoyed this person documenting their re-read.: (tags:sandman comics neilgaiman )
Using American spellings is cheating, Wordle told: (tags:language words spelling usa uk satire )
Atomic mushroom clouds are big. Really big. You might think it's a long way up Mount Everest, but that's peanuts compared to an atomic mushroom cloud: (tags:size nuclearweapons visualisation viaSwampers )
Firefox bug is causing it to hang. Here's the solution: (tags:Firefox bug viaSwampers )
How a livestreamed roleplaying game's bid to make an animated version became the biggest kickstarter campaign ever, and got a Prime deal out of it.: (tags:tv animation roleplaying amazon streaming )
Satisfying simulations of bouncing balls obeying physical laws; for a fleeting moment during the simulation, the balls pass through a beautiful regular pattern: (tags:physics simulation maths video )

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Interesting Links for 11-03-2021

Shellfish Businesses Say Government Plan To Build Purification Centres Won't Help Most Exports: (tags:trade UK Europe fish Doom )
New opening date for Edinburgh's children's hospital: (tags:Edinburgh children hospital )
97% of young women in the UK have been sexually harassed, 52% of them have been harassed at work: (tags:abuse harassment women UK )
Israel blocks shipment of Russian vaccine to Gaza: (tags:Israel vaccine Palestine OhForFucksSake )
Could 'The Simpsons' Replace Its Voice Actors With AI?: (tags:TV voices AI simulation )
Millions of websites offline after fire at French cloud services firm: (tags:Web France fire )
Five Things The COVID-19 Bill Revealed About How Washington Will Work In The Biden Era: (tags:USA politics viaDanielDWilliam )
The end of the PLC - how private equity is taking over from public corporations: (tags:business economics history viaDanielDWilliam )
Trader gets painted stones instead of $36m of copper: (tags:fraud wtf metal shipping )
Why "but we tell people to lock their cars because of thieves" can't be applied to assault on women: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1369930542649647104.html
(tags:Assault crime abuse women society )
Government accused of 'fuelling culture wars and harming trans people', as two more LGBT advisers quit: (tags:LGBT transgender UK conservatives )

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Interesting Links for 10-03-2021

Another Covid surge inevitable, Chris Whitty warns MPs: (tags:pandemic doom uk )
Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free: (tags:sweden shopping automation )
Here's why "to be" is frequently missing in Scottish sentences.: (tags:language scotland usa )
This article on Harry and Meghan is just perfect (and hilarious): (tags:viaJennieRigg royalty celebrity UK racism media )
Banks in Germany Tell Customers to Take Deposits Elsewhere: (tags:Germany Europe banking )
Russia turns away from NASA, says it will work with China on a Moon base: (tags:USA Russia China space moon )
Kate Winslet hasn't weighed herself in twelve years. Neither should you.: (tags:weight health )
Zoom Assault Hearing Goes Off the Rails After Court Discovers Alleged Abuser in the Same Apartment as Alleged Victim: (tags:law USA video )
Stop Calling Women Nags — How Emotional Labor is Dragging Down Gender Equality: (tags:women men work homes family )
Vegans get worse scars: (tags:bodies vegan health )
Humans throw away TOO MUCH CRAP IT HAS TO STOP: (tags:Europe technology rights obsolescence )
When we ask our simulation creator how the universe works we are going to be disappointed: (tags:simulation comic funny )

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Interesting Links for 19-07-2020

This is a lovely story of a guy who kept pushing himself, even when he thought he wasn't good enough.: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1284184707110809600.html
(tags:food inspiration cooking )
Richard Feynman Explains how fire works: (tags:fire sun explanations RichardFeynman video )
Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside: (tags:hacking twitter )
What Accounts For High Coronavirus Positivity Rates Among Florida Kids?: (tags:children virus pandemic viaEatSoylentGreen )
When physics simulations go wrong: (tags:physics simulation video )
How The Guardian helped transphobes. (Which is why they're getting no money from me): (tags:guardian bigotry LGBT transgender )
How Newton came to publish his laws of gravity: (tags:history mathematics physics space gravity )
24 Warrior Women Of Different Body Types: (tags:women art )
'No DSS' letting bans ruled unlawful: (tags:welfare housing law GoodNews )

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Interesting Links for 16-06-2020

U.S. Supreme Court bars discrimination against LGBT workers: (tags:LGBT discrimination USA GoodNews )
Doctors are having their insurance deferred because of COVID 19.: (tags:virus insurance doctors pandemic )
What People Really Look Like: (tags:Humans bodies )
There is no perfect diet that works for every metabolism or body type: (tags:diet humans health )
Beijing reinstated lockdown after 79 people infected: (tags:pandemic china )
The surface area of the solar system, stitched together into one huge map: (tags:solarsystem map xkcd viaPatrickHadfield )
Couples who spend more on weddings more likely to get divorced: (tags:marriage wedding money viaFJM )
How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses: (tags:hacking security Nintendo consoles )
40% of school pupils are not in regular contact with teachers: (tags:teaching doom pandemic )
Five SFF Works Inspired by RPGs: (tags:scifi fantasy roleplaying )
Running the Imperial College simulation code for COVID-19: (tags:pandemic simulation computers )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3844780.html

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Interesting Links for 29-11-2019

Dear (Cis) People Who Put Your Pronouns On Your "Hello My Name Is" Name Tags: (tags:gender lgbt )
Why we should all be playing games: (tags:games )
Can't face a social engagement? Why not send your dad? Like the British prime minister. FFS: (tags:WTF Father BorisJohnson politics UK )
UK police explain decision on Prince Andrew case: (tags:royalty rape uk police OhForFucksSake )
Really Cool Fluid Simulation (touch sensitive on your phone too): (tags:simulation fluid )
12 EU states reject move to expose companies' tax avoidance: (tags:Europe tax transparency OhForFucksSake )
Lib Dems and Labour are mostly not in direct competition.: (tags:Labour libdem politics UK )
Labour to change strategy with two weeks to go: (tags:Labour UK Europe politics )
There is widespread Islamophobia among Conservative Party members: (tags:conservatives Islam bigotry racism )
18,000-year old puppy found perfectly intact in Siberian permafrost: (tags:dogs wolves prehistory )
Lying liar Boris Johnson lies over his record of lying: (tags:lying BorisJohnson )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3819017.html

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Interesting Links for 30-08-2019

Why the UK's "constitution" is unfit for purpose, & how British public complacency & exceptionalism has led to tyranny.â€¦: (tags:UK Constitution history )
I'm a medical student, and I'm gay. Work would be simpler if I were heterosexual: (tags:LGBT work NHS healthcare )
Boris Johnson Is Planning A Series Of Extreme Measures To Force Through Brexit: (tags:uk europe doom OhForFucksSake )
Northern Ireland's lost moment: how the peaceful protests of '68 escalated into years of bloody conflict: I hadn't realised how corrupt the voting system was until then.
(tags:voting rights NorthernIreland history protests violence uk )
Dominic Cummings is playing chicken with an oncoming train: (tags:UK Europe politics Doom )
Large-scale GWAS reveals insights into the genetic architecture of same-sex sexual behavior: (tags:genetics sexuality lgbt )
I tried to glitch the simulation and all I got was a bottle of pee: (tags:random simulation )
Protect and survive: Official advice on how to withstand a no deal Brexit: (tags:UK Europe Doom satire )
Details of the court case on proroguing parliament: (tags:parliament government democracy law uk scotland )
Humans first reached Americas by sea a thousand years earlier than thought: (tags:usa prehistory )
A very deep dive into iOS Exploit chains found in the wild (and which can attack an iPhone if it visits a compromised website): (tags:security iphone apple )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3731484.html

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Interesting Links for 12-10-2018

Theresa May will ask Cabinet for a customs union Brexit as DUP warns it could bring down her Government: (tags: uk europe )
UK legalises cannabis products under prescription within weeks: (tags: uk marijuana medicine )
UN Says Climate Genocide Coming. But It’s Worse Than That.: (tags: globalwarming doom )
Police still not investigating Leave campaigns, citing political sensitivities: (tags: politics UK police Europe OhForFucksSake )
Scottish brewery sector sees explosive growth: (tags: alcohol scotland )
Meet the snake-firing archers and other wonders of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator: (tags: simulation games funny )
How Punk Rock Can Revitalize Human Resources (I feel nauseous): (tags: business organisation OhForFucksSake )
There is nowhere to hide from our robot overlords now that they can do parkour: (tags: robots video )
Retailer Carrefour adopts blockchain to track fresh produce: (tags: Technology shopping )
Tory-DUP tensions erupt over call for Theresa May to be dumped as Prime Minister: (tags: politics DUP Conservatives )
Nice people finish last when it comes to money: (tags: money personality psychology )
Genetics of brain structure and description of largest human genetic study: (tags: genetics brain research )
The British government continues to kill its sick people: (tags: UK welfare murder diabetes OhForFucksSake )
Schizophrenia is a huge number of different issues: (tags: schizophrenia brain )
Spotify: Albums are alive and kicking in the streaming age: (tags: streaming spotify albums music )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3723805.html

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Interesting Links for 16-09-2018

Labour MP Wants to Ban Your Private Facebook Groups Because She Worries You're Using Hate Speech: (tags: freespeech privacy OhForFucksSake Labour uk )
Edinburgh comedian claims his routine on Netflix has split up 2,500 couples: (tags: Relationships comedy )
Need a £250 loan? What are the options now Wonga has gone?: (tags: money loans uk )
A lunar-lander type game with complex fluid dynamics: (tags: mathematics games simulation web )
We tend to encounter the worst of outgroups, which makes us hate them all the more: (tags: communication fail groups politics )
Chile approves new gender identity law in great victory for trans people: (tags: chile transgender lgbt )
'Broken' rail franchise system to be reviewed: (tags: uk trains government )
Time for hard headed realism on immigration: (tags: immigration libdem )
No, 90% of D&D's rules are not about combat.: (tags: dungeonsanddragons rules )
Ruth Davidson rules out ever becoming Tory leader as she reveals mental health battle: (tags: conservatives Scotland mentalhealth )
"Why is Mexico spelled 'México' in Spanish, especially if in Nahuatl Mēxihco was pronounced [me: SHIʔ ko]?" (vulgar Latin and vowel shift): (tags: language spain Mexico latin )

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Interesting Links for 23-08-2018

Saudi Arabia seeks death penalty for woman activist: (tags: saudiarabia death_penalty )
How do you like it, Elon Musk? ‘Impressive’ Russian inventions to rival Tesla’s space launch: (tags: Russia Spacex meme funny ViaDrCross )
Mum’s a Neanderthal, Dad’s a Denisovan: discovery of an ancient-human hybrid: (tags: humans prehistory genetics )
Napoleon’s defeat partly caused by massive volcano ‘short circuiting’ electrical current in atmosphere: (tags: volcano war France history )
Carbon Dioxide can have large effects on sleep and concentration - and can rise sharply at night: Shame meters are so expensive. Do five other Edinburgh people want to throw on £20 each?
(tags: co2 intelligence sleep )
Europe to ban halogen lightbulbs (in a week's time): (tags: europe globalwarming led lighting )
Aeolus: Britain's wind mapping satellite lifts off (over a decade late, but hopefully the data will be worth the wait): (tags: wind weather uk space )
Amazon tribe which has never had contact with the outside world seen for the first time in amazing drone footage: (tags: amazon brazil drone )
The war over supercooled water (and why researchers need to release their code): (tags: software physics simulation fail research )

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Interesting Links for 21-12-2017

Islamic instant divorce not legal under EU law: (tags: law Europe divorce islam )
BBC to air more religious programming: (tags: bbc religion )
Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15: (tags: google chrome adblock advertising )
Who's work is entering the public domain in 2018?: (tags: copyright )
EU takes first step towards sanctions against Poland to stop drift towards authoritarianism: (tags: poland europe )
Lightwear: Introducing Magic Leap's Mixed Reality Goggles: (tags: augmentedreality Technology thefuture )
The Russian Embassy asked Channel 4 to FactCheck William Hague. Here’s what we found: (tags: russia facts )
Game of Thrones: Scientists use model to explain Westeros’s strange climate and extended seasons: (tags: gameofthrones climate simulation )
Britain is, and was, deluded about its negotiating power with the EU: (tags: UK europe )
BBC criticised for labelling England games as ‘Scottish productions’: (tags: Scotland BBC OhForFucksSake )
Scientists finally establish why there is no life on Mars: (tags: mars space )
Higher class is directly associated with a lower propensity to reason wisely in interpersonal situations.: (tags: class conflict society )
Struggling to get your kids to eat healthy? 'Don't give up!' researchers say: (tags: children food )
Scotland investigates how to modernise elections (online voting is still a terrible idea): (tags: voting Scotland )
Donald Trump threatens to cut aid to countries over UN Jerusalem vote: (tags: usa aid Israel OhForFucksSake )
Berlin's Plan to Become a City for Cyclists: (tags: germany cities cycling )
Guy Gavriel Kay’s The Fionavar Tapestry Set for TV Treatment: (tags: tv books fantasy )
Police made appalling errors in using internet data to target suspects: (tags: police uk OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 23-03-2017

Hungarian secret agent reveals in detail how serious the Russian threat is: (tags: russia spying viaFanf )
Your yearly dose of is-the-universe-a-simulation: (tags: simulation philosophy computing )
Parliament shooting: Police officer and another man shot outside House of Commons: (tags: guns violence uk government )
Edinburgh transformed ahead of filming The Avengers: (tags: edinburgh marvel movies )
Chilling 4chan post written day before London attack appears to predict terror incident: (tags: terrorism 4chan london )
Programming: What can and can't be automated?: (tags: programming automation )
Help Save Samhuinn: our event is at risk: (tags: edinburgh beltane )
What it's like going to the Lib-Dem party conference: (tags: libdem )
So, You Want To Test A Nuclear Weapon?: (tags: nuclearweapons testing history )
Why do so many male journalists think female stars are flirting with them?: (tags: journalism men sex )
UK-based airlines told to move to Europe after Brexit or lose major routes: (tags: airplanes business europe )
DWP’s fit-to-work tests cause permanent damage to mental health: (tags: disability mentalhealth OhForFucksSake )
‘Game of Thrones’ Script Reveals New Details About Stannis Baratheon’s Fate: (tags: gameofthrones )
48 terrible, terrible jokes: (tags: jokes funny )

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