Flying Spaghetti Code Monster

Holy shit

My other blog, learn-a-little.tumblr.com, is trending in #science right now.

Holy shit holy shit holy shit

Neil Gaiman speaks on being an artist in this day and age. I’d say it’s relevant to many more than that.

“I don’t remember typing that backtick.”

Let me delete that… It won’t highlight! What the hell? Is this some sort of IO error? Maybe a problem with memory? Oh man, my computer is breaking to SHIT.

Oh wait, it’s a speck of dirt.

"G: Every time I see you, I’m amazed by how tiny you are!
J: Right. Really, now.
G: And pretty!
J: …….."

all but shambles:  

Pssh’aw. You are TOTALLY tiny. That doesn’t stop you from being a total firecracker, though :D

leonsbuddydave:

In Iron Man 2, how is it that EVERYBODY, including politicians of all people, were able to recognize that Whiplash’s suit was powered by the same style of reactor as Tony’s and get all upset over other countries having that tech

Most real people can’t fathom the commonalities between internally…

Not even close to my biggest issue with that film. There’s the scene where Stark synthesizes an element directly after his robot tells him he can’t. Oh, and how does he create it?

Lasers.

That curve.

And get shot into prisms.

SCIENCE!

mohandasgandhi:

Journalism at its very finest.

As if I needed more reasons to hate the news…

leonsbuddydave:

thedistanceinsidious:

hackedy:

script kiddies

web developers

taco doritos

social media specialists

theforgottensemicolon:

knowyourapi:

jtotheizzoe:

Recursive Drawing

Drawing programs don’t always have a “point”, even if they are fun. Recursive Drawing, however, aims to use a simple and addictive user-interface to explore how drawings could be translated into programming. 

On the surface, it’s a purely fun tool (which you can, and should, play with!) to draw crazy-awesome things like Fibonacci trees (like in the video). But deep down, it’s an experiment in translating visual objects into programming commands. That’s called a spatial or visual programming environment, and it’s a way to disconnect the syntax of programming from the logic and math.

Environments like these also let non-English speakers and young people get introduced to programming skills without having to master the language itself. But if you don’t want to pay attention to all that, it’s just really FUN!

Previously: A dangerously addictive online fluid dynamics simulator and a particle/gravity simulator that really looks more like fireworks.

This is awesome. It’s a great visualization of what sometimes seems to be crazy voodoo-magic while you’re programming it.

Reminding myself to try this when I get home :}

musicspeakswhenwordscannot:

kadielizabeth:

Excuse the terrible drawing and bad quality camera, but I was bored in Math today so I drew some stereotypical computer science people.

1. Fashion conscious Business major for whom an IT/CoSc paper is a prereq. Doesn’t worry about much but their social life and is perpetually attached to their Apple product. Averages a C.
    
2. The old guy who you DON’T talk to, tells stories about his children or his experience in some job he used to have which apparently holds relevance to the topic. Answers all the questions and gets a boner from telling the lecturer they’re wrong. Averages a B, but tells you he got them all right.
    
3. The computer science kid/engineer. Frightfully competitive, serious lack of social skills, refers to himself as “from the internet”. May quote memes at you. Also may have any of the following: sneans, cargo pants, flannel shirt, “funny” t shirts and scraggly hair/beard. Averages an A because he does this at home.
    
4. The middle aged woman (rare), who hates all 17-25 year olds and scowls at everything. Can’t handle getting a B-.
    
5. The teenage girl. Utterly sick of sexist jokes, and being looked at weird for being in a Computer Science lecture. Averages anywhere from a C to a B+.
    
6. The guy who plays games on his laptop. Thinks he’s amazingly computer literate because he can do more than his Mum can. Also known as the beanie wearing, longboarding type. Lives by the motto “C’s get degrees!”. C- average.

Hello, my name is #5. Except I get good grades in CompSci. Just not everything else. 

Look at all these people I’m not.

(Source: green-cosmos)