Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org
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CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
Wait, what? I thought the research said lecturing is terrible and active learning is the way to go. Did the pendulum swing or am I missing a subtlety? https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/232557-direct-instruction-is-better-than-discovery-but-what-should-we-be-directly-instructing/fulltext @guzdial@twitter.com
Python is eating the world: How one developer's side project became the hottest programming language on the planet https://tek.io/2LnCPjx via @TechRepublic@twitter.com
Crows can build tools out of multiple parts. https://www.sciencealert.com/crows-are-so-smart-they-can-make-compound-tools-out-of-multiple-parts
The twist in Top Gun 2 is when Rey jumps on top of Tom Cruise's plane with a lightsaber.
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Sigourney Weaver test-firing the flamethrower from Alien (1979)
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An American engineer has made a cat-flap that locks when its camera spots his cat is approaching holding dead prey.
Ed Sheeran writes Ghostbusters fan fiction:
🎵 I'm in love with the Stay Puft dude. 🎵
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Pervert At Pool Whistling At People In Swimsuits All Day https://trib.al/leHiQyf
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This '30-50 #feralhogs' meme just reminded me of the greatest newspaper correction ever.
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A Mathematician's Way* of Converting Miles to Kilometers
• 1 mi ≈ 1.609 km
• The ratio of consecutive Fibonacci numbers Fₙ₊₁/Fₙ tends to the golden ratio φ ≈ 1.618 as n increases
So Fₙ mi ≈ Fₙ₊₁ km
*This is how I do it 😅
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I just found out that harvest mice love pollen so much that they often fall asleep inside flowers eating it and idk i just feel like everyone should know this information
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my main advice to tabletop designers is to set playtest dates before you think you're ready to, because it forces you to just make decisions and then test them. you know if you don't you're just gonna spend another month tweaking things that may or may not even fundamentally work
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Study Finds Average Squirrel Lives Through Human Equivalent Of 7 Action Films Every Day https://trib.al/lQYvBWj
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This arrow by mathematician and sculptor Kokichi Sugihara can't point left. Here's how it works: It's 3D-printed with a bunch of curves our brains don't register.
Why does everyone say Tower (singular) of Hanoi when there are clearly three of them?
Maybe only the completed tower of disks counts, not the two empty spikes.
Captain: Scan for the reptiloid queen's eggs!
Science officer: I'm afraid we can't detect them, ma'am.
C: Why not?
SO: Well, um.
C: Yes?
SO: They're protected by, um.
C: Out with it, man!
SO: *sigh* A cloacing device.
... and away we go! [description: ceramic Jack-o-lanterns, on sale August 4]
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William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806) was so thin that he was nicknamed 'The Bottomless Pitt’.
I have several students who have taken up lockpicking as a hobby. How much of that is due to Skyrim?
- Siva Afi
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- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
