Published on: 2025-06-14 20:01:41
What if you could make your dice any shape at all—not just boxes and polyhedra, but dragons or other game-relevant shapes? Most people are familiar with conventional cubical six-sided dice, but there are also polyhedral versions like the 20-sided dice used in ancient Rome and to play Dungeons and Dragons. Researchers have figured out how to design dice with even more exotic shapes, like a kitten, a dragon, or an armadillo. And they are "fair" dice: Experiments with 3D-printed versions produced
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 15:49:48
In a previous post about ractors, I explained why I think it’s really unlikely you’d ever be able to run an entire application inside a ractor, but that they could still be situationally very useful to move CPU-bound work out of the main thread, and to unlock some parallel algorithm. But as I mentioned, this is unfortunately not yet viable because there are many known implementation bugs that can lead to interpreter crashes, and that while they are supposed to execute in parallel, the Ruby VM s
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What I want from an array language is: Don’t make me think. Run fast on GPUs. Really, do not make me think. Do not. I say NumPy misses on three of these. So I’d like to propose a “fix” that—I claim—eliminates 90% of unnecessary thinking, with no loss of power. It would also fix all the things based on NumPy, for example every machine learning library. I know that sounds grandiose. Quite possibly you’re thinking that good-old dynomight has finally lost it. So I warn you now: My solution is utt
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Practicing graphical debugging using too many visualizations of the Hilbert curve “ ..you don't understand things, you just get used to them.” — John von Neumann For a while now I've been advocating for a particular style of programming: Use tools that don't change too often. Use tools that don't keep historical accidents around indefinitely. Minimize moving parts. Avoid additional third-party libraries, and forswear native libraries entirely. Lua and LÖVE have been one nice way to get the
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Other Ergonomic Mice to Consider Photograph: Henri Robbins Keychron M6 for $50: If you like the design of the MX Master line, but would prefer a more gaming-oriented mouse, the Keychron M6 is a nice alternative. While the M6 doesn’t have Logitech’s advanced gesture controls or soft-touch exterior, it maintains the dual-mode scroll wheel, horizontal wheel, and general ergonomics while adding a 4,000-Hz refresh rate and shaving off almost half the weight of the 3S at only 78 grams. However, some
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TL;DR Chrome’s latest update incorporates a new text embedding model that is 57% smaller (35.14MB vs 81.91MB) than its predecessor while maintaining virtually identical performance in semantic search tasks. The size reduction was achieved primarily through quantization of the embedding matrix from float32 to int8 precision, with no measurable degradation in embedding quality or search ranking. Discovery and Extraction During routine analysis of Chrome’s binary components, I discovered a new
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I’ve never been a vertical mouse person. These mice have a vertical shape that puts your palm in a more neutral posture, reducing strain on the wrist. But every time I've used one in the past, it felt awkward, unnatural, or like I was making a trade-off in exchange for better ergonomics. They just never worked for me—until the Hansker Productivity Mouse came across my desk. It takes the standard vertical mouse formula, but sculpts the angles and curves for an incredibly natural feel. All that w
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If you took high school biology, you probably learned about cell division: a crucial process in all life forms officially called mitosis. For over one hundred years, students have learned that during mitosis, a parent cell becomes spherical before dividing into two daughter cells of the same size and shape. A new study, however, might rewrite many, many biology textbooks. Researchers revealed that mitosis doesn’t always feature cell rounding (when a parent cell becomes spherical), meaning that
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In colloids as in biofilms, these interactions are governed by two opposing forces. One is repulsive: Two particles or two cells can’t physically occupy the same space at the same time. The other force is attractive. Cells are covered with sticky proteins that can fasten two cells together, much like the medium binding a colloid. If the repulsive force is stronger, cells don’t aggregate. But if the attractive force is stronger, it can spark the initial formation of a biofilm. What differentiate
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Here’s a weird one. My son and I were discussing shapes on the drive to school earlier this week. His question for me was, “What is the name of the shape that looks like a square with uneven sides?” I’m now in the habit of saying “ask ChatGPT” before any Siri request that isn’t taking an action like creating a reminder or sending a message. In this instance, though, I picked up my iPhone and pressed the Action button to open Advanced Voice Mode on ChatGPT. The results satisfied his curiosity.
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR The Pixel Launcher is adding an icon shape customization feature in a future Android release. The feature isn’t live yet in Android 16 Beta 3, but we managed to enable it to show what the feature’s like. There will be six total shapes to choose from, including the default circle. While many third-party Android launchers offer extensive customization options, the stock launcher on Google Pixel phones is more limited. To its credit, the Pixel Launcher d
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When mechanical and structural engineers design machines, bridges, and buildings, they calculate loads, stresses, and deformation of metal, steel, concrete, glass, wood, and plastic to find the optimal geometry that bears loads with the minimum cost of material. Designing for relatively hard materials that do not deform too much is commonly handled by software that calculates and optimizes structures using mathematical models that are well understood and easily applied. But there is an expandi
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The T-1000 in Terminator 2 could change shape at will, morph its hands into blades or turn parts of its body into a fluid to move through metal bars. “I saw this movie when I was a child—it was like, 'Wow, can you imagine,' I thought, 'being able to do this?'” says Otger Campàs, a professor at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany. “Now I work on embryos. And what we saw in The Terminator actually happens in an embryo. This kind of shape shifting is what an e
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