http://mewo2.com/notes/terrain/ fantasy maps écriture
Learning European Languages (Michel Thomas)
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2020 wrap-up redux, a Wardley Map for Mu: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105476276652369571
Alternative names for ‘rationalism’: map-making, cartography
2020 Election Map ⌘ https://xkcd.com/2399/
I want a ‘Map≠Territory’ T-shirt.
The best map is still the territory.
not to mention there’s lots of interesting transformations one can apply to the linear ramp of a phasor signal. movable midpoint as seen in phase distortion synthesis and !phasewarp. exponential and @!(sndkitref “bezier”)!@ mappings. Not to mention all the trig functions and waveshaping synthesis techniques. All these things would warp tempo in interesting periodic ways. #halfbakedideas
Go2: Ordered maps (using generics) ⌘ https://medium.com/@rocketlaunchr.cloud/ordered-maps-for-go-using-generics-875ef3816c71
Storing and retrieving map values in go ⌘ https://bitfieldconsulting.com/golang/storing-retrieving-map-values
Decided to spend the day messing around with Leaflet.js maps and…easy enough that I got what I wanted in about an hour!
or consider a fantasy kingdom with a holy tree, except it’s planted inside the kingdom’s map, carefully trimmed to its dimensions, and makes all the financial decisions
What would a floating sheep map? http://manifesto.floatingsheep.org/
GitHub - pcyin/tranX: A general-purpose neural semantic parser for mapping natural language queries into machine executable code https://github.com/pcyin/tranX
Cisco Trash Map https://placesjournal.org/article/cisco-trash-map/
📚 Finished reading Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality by Bill Kilday
📚 Finished reading Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality – The Essential Application’s Creation Story from Keyhole by Bill Kilday
Current map of the plot of MfoM:
A Map of the World Where the Sizes of Countries Are Determined by Population https://kottke.org/18/09/a-map-of-the-world-where-the-sizes-of-countries-are-determined-by-population
you pretend to sleep and not to notice your guests while they climb into your bowl and greedily drink from it, its light pulsing through their veins and painting maps onto their skins
My attempt at mapping the flow of influence in UI development thus far:
Bad idea of the day: a database of maps of conceptual spaces that are drawn like maps of physical spaces (ex., xkcd’s map of the internet & Knuppe’s map of the fields of mathematics)
“Mapping Imaginary Cities” by Mouse Reeve - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic_5gRVTQ_k
@metamurls I love “map ,pt ma:1,$!perltidy^M’az.” to tidy up my code and jump back to my old line
Another way to talk about Maybe Logic re: map-territory confusion: a lot of people don’t put error bars on their imagination. So, they make a prediction, the universe says ‘nope’, and they’ve got no idea where to start debugging bc every inference looks equally strong
📚 Finished reading Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
📚 Finished reading Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
Band name of the day: burnt maps emanating from a dead moon
Band name of the day: burnt maps
mapping the cartography of the nickland-scape
Hot take: almost all ACTUAL statements encountered in daily life are untestable except in an ad-hoc & ambiguous way, because their referents don’t map well to physical reality.
Making maps with noise functions https://www.redblobgames.com/maps/terrain-from-noise/
with enough samples, it shouldn’t be hard to extract a content filter’s opinions, for example you could use your botnet to map what twitter really considers bannable and then generate maximally bannable tweets
Reminder that I have 2 essays on escaping path-dependence: https://medium.com/@/the-manufacture-of-steam-engine-time-9f83cd24a9b0 & https://medium.com/@/the-wtf-awards-sketching-a-map-to-an-escape-from-steam-engine-time-1bc4bd29c2e4
Thread by @ptychomancer: “I love maps & their promise of fractal discovery. I love procedural generation and the aesthetics of the unauthored. Where do these two [â¦]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/980968298002006016.html
and if you take someone out with a headbutt, the map plays a cheering football stadium sound and you get the Zidane achievement
More Than 750 American Communities Have Built Their Own Int… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3np4a/new-municipal-broadband-map
Did you know that maps are voodoo dolls? When you draw a line on one, people will often try not to cross it in real life
the game map is all of wikipedia and you move around by following links, also the main page is full of campers, avoid
Deep in the royal archives is a dorian map. The kingdom’s long been existing outside of time, history advances only on this parchment
You leave the atlas on your bed and as you return, the map has spilled, unknown continents and seas now adorn your bedsheet
Interspecies translation is a delicate task, requiring not only intimate knowledge of both cultures but also an accurate qualia mapping
LRE Map http://lremap.elra.info/
These Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cyoa-choose-your-own-adventure-maps
minecraft, but instead of a huge map you have a fractal map and escape into ever more precise coordinates
“To complete the ritual, we need a really bloody book. Fortunately, I brought a map of Europe
Ever looked at a map and thought about how many million deaths drew some of those lines↵The Necronomicon is child’s play compared to this
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