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New Manuscript Leaves and the Printing of Principia Mathematica

mulpress.mcmaster.ca
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Skateboard Tricks and Topological Flips

arxiv.org
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Finally, someone put a Greggs in Far Cry 5

pcgamer.com
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Peter Zinovieff, British composer and synth pioneer, dies aged 88

theguardian.com
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user2994cb
·2 lata temu·discuss
Interesting date on that Max Newman paper - 2nd September 1942. Newman started working at Bletchley Park on 31st August, where he was deeply involved in the decryption of the Lorenz cipher and the development of Colossus.
user2994cb
·3 lata temu·discuss
I like this Python3 quine, which doesn't use repr printing:

  (lambda s,q,b,k,c,e:print(b+s+k+b+q+s+q+c+q+e+q+q+c+q+b+q+c+q+k+q+c+q+c+q+c+q+e+e+q+k))("lambda s,q,b,k,c,e:print(b+s+k+b+q+s+q+c+q+e+q+q+c+q+b+q+c+q+k+q+c+q+c+q+c+q+e+e+q+k)","\"","(",")",",","\\")
user2994cb
·5 lat temu·discuss
If you don't like those hard-coded character constants, lack of newlines, and compiler warnings, here's a C quine on similar lines:

  #include<stdio.h>
  int main(){
    char q='"',n='\n',b='\\';
    char*f="#include<stdio.h>%cint main(){%c  char q='%c',n='%cn',b='%c%c';%c  char*f=%c%s%c;%c  printf(f,n,n,q,b,b,b,n,q,f,q,n,n,n);%c}%c";
    printf(f,n,n,q,b,b,b,n,q,f,q,n,n,n);
  }
user2994cb
·5 lat temu·discuss
Interesting paper here: https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/russelljournal/article/view/208...
user2994cb
·5 lat temu·discuss
VRML is still used as an input format for colour 3d printing, eg. https://www.stratasysdirect.com/resources/design-guidelines/...
user2994cb
·5 lat temu·discuss
I'm sure there are some creative uses in C-style comments for U+2215, Division Slash: ∕
user2994cb
·5 lat temu·discuss
Lots of interesting details here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/cpl2bcpl.pdf
user2994cb
·5 lat temu·discuss
And BCPL was a cut down version of CPL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPL_(programming_language)
user2994cb
·5 lat temu·discuss
A nice run through of the recent Met production here: https://vimeo.com/39374902