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wordle: my wife of many, many years. simple, but reliable. knows that no matter what, i always come back to her.
connections: my mistress, exciting and unforgettable. a definite thrill, but puzzling, keeps playing with my head.
mini crossword: the woman i see on the train every day, our eyes meeting before she disembarks. alluring and promising, but fleeting.
strands: coworker i fuck in the storeroom, only to regret it later. weird, probably drunk. very flexible.
The New York Times' "Strands" game is Trek-themed for Star Trek Day!
Answer under the cut:
one good thing 2026
I got the Wordle, the Strands, and most impressive of all, the Connections right on the first try today
Strands has no sense of humor
Guys is this a sign!!! (Please I really see them everywhere it has taken over my life)
We moved on too fast from this.
January 26, the Strands puzzle was Nic and Luke coded. Literally. On the first line was “Nic” and the second line “Luke.”
I would have moved on faster from this, but let’s face it, Nic has mentioned the NYT Wordle at least twice and the NYT Crosswords at least once. She likes the Times’ puzzle section.
So why not include their names in the Strands puzzle? It’s as plain as day!
(I’m not saying they had anything to do with this. But if they didn’t, the puzzle creators are Lukola fans.
During the past week I finally got visualization working for hair simulations. Here's a screenshot I captured today, from a real-time simulation of 9,999 strands, each containing 25 points, at 360 iterations per second. Most of the computation was offloaded to my laptop's GPU.
Now as I study it closely, I'm dissatisfied with the flat-shaded meshes use to visualize the colliders. Always something to improve!
Software used: Linux Mint v22.3, jdk-17.0.15+6, Vulkan SDK v1.4.341.1, LWJGL v3.4.1, Jolt JNI v4.1.0, Sport-Jolt v1.3.0, and Jolt Physics v5.5.0+ (custom-built using clang)
Cem Yuksel created the hair model: https://www.cemyuksel.com/research/hairmodels/
Murat Afshar provided the collider meshes. GIMP v2.10.36 was used to crop the captured image.
A shout out to Jorrit Rouwe @jrouwe.bsky.social for publishing Jolt Physics (on which Jolt JNI is based) and the "HairTest.cpp" sample code from which my (Java) app is derived.
No AI was involved.
