Folding paper globes and simulated universe

…and this time the post is small-ish (and a week delayed) because I suddenly got sick (well, not suddenly, it was all because I spent a night at that The Comet is Coming concert, probably) and just started to return to the rhythm of things.

Programming

• POS software written in QBasic, used worldwide

Articles

• The Termination Risks of Simulation Science

  TL;DR: a scientist argues that it’s quite unreasanable to expect the beings running our universe’s simulation (if it indeed is one) to stop simulating it just because we’ve found out it is a simulation. They probably have better things to do.

  Also, they probably read articles like this one and would’ve done something already.

Art/Pictures

• London’s Subterranean Victorian Bathrooms Now House Bars and Cafés

• The first trillion-transistor chip

  TL;DR: too big to be called a chip. Massive, thick, heavy, and far too rough. Indeed, it is just a large hunk of silicon.

Music

• Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids - An Angel Fell

  “Cosmic Jazz”, very relaxed and psychedelic.

Projects

• Folding paper globes