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Allahumma inni a‘ūdhu bika min jahdi al-bala’, wa-daraki al-shaqā’, wa-sū’i al-qaḍā’, wa-shamātati al-a‘dā’. O Allah! I seek refuge with You from severe calamity, a bad end, a bad fate, and gloating of enemies.

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🎄💾🗓️ Day 1: Retrocomputing Advent Calendar - Apple II 🎄💾🗓️

We kick things off with the legendary Apple II! Released in 1977, it was one of the first highly successful personal computers, known for its revolutionary design, colorful graphics, and expandability. Created by Steve Wozniak, the Apple II sparked the personal computing revolution.

This was Ladyada's first computer, used at school to learn touch-typing, write essays, LOGO, and make calendars with print shop

The games are now memes - Number Munchers, Oregon Trail, and Odell Lake. Almost 40 years later, we can still hear the teacher telling us to "Kill the Corvus"

and carefully placing our 5.25" diskette in the hard case after class to take it home.

noosphe-re

In 1931, the Austrian logician Kurt Gödel pulled off arguably one of the most stunning intellectual achievements in history. Mathematicians of the era sought a solid foundation for mathematics: a set of basic mathematical facts, or axioms, that was both consistent — never leading to contradictions — and complete, serving as the building blocks of all mathematical truths. But Gödel’s shocking incompleteness theorems, published when he was just 25, crushed that dream. He proved that any set of axioms you could posit as a possible foundation for math will inevitably be incomplete; there will always be true facts about numbers that cannot be proved by those axioms. He also showed that no candidate set of axioms can ever prove its own consistency. His incompleteness theorems meant there can be no mathematical theory of everything, no unification of what’s provable and what’s true. What mathematicians can prove depends on their starting assumptions, not on any fundamental ground truth from which all answers spring.

Natalie Wolchover, How Gödel’s Proof Works, Quanta Magazine, July 14, 2020

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jamabushi

a 20-second sajdah showed a significant change in the brain activity of the prefrontal region

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skitterchomp

have you ever wished for an interactive phase plot of polynomials in the complex plane?

one that you could use even from your phone?

then good news!

[neocities]

yewstronaut

@vacuously-true

greetings-inferiors

Pweddy

brightgreendandelions

wow this is all rendered with a webGL shader! unfortunately it’s all obfuscated, but i’ve managed to extract its code.

it also makes cool moire patterns!!

this person also has two cool websites!

and they’re a real mathematician!!

skitterchomp

Thank you for the kind words – as for the code, it isn’t intentionally obfuscated, it’s just compressed into a smaller form so your browser doesn’t have to download as big of a file. The full Javascript and shader code is posted at https://bitbucket.org/ur_faec/faec-me/src/main/ (shader fragments are under src/core/shaders), feel free to take a look :-) There are build instructions in the readme but not many people besides me have ever attempted them, feel free to ask questions if you run into any trouble.