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Living Room / RIP Bozo the Clown (AKA Frank Avruch)
« on: March 23, 2018, 12:23 AM »
I know the current bandwagon is to be scared of clowns, but some people genuinely enjoy clowns and this news is probably a very sad day for them.  Clowns, I can take 'em or leave 'em, but Bozo was the king of them all.

Frank Avruch, the Boston-based performer who starred in the first nationally syndicated "Bozo the Clown," died Tuesday at age 89.

According to Boston's WCVB, where he worked for more than four decades as an on-air personality on a variety of shows, he died after a long battle with heart disease.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/frank-avruch-star-of-%E2%80%98bozo-the-clown%E2%80%99-dies-at-89/ar-BBKyt88?ocid=spartandhp

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from another forum I happened to be browsing

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Non-Windows Software / Ultibo, an embedded development environment for Raspberry Pi
« on: December 09, 2017, 04:02 PM »
What is Ultibo?
Imagine if you could have the simplicity and freedom of Arduino with the power and features of a Raspberry Pi. With the ease of a microcontroller and the flexibility of a real computer, Ultibo gives you a platform for creating anything without the limitations of a traditional operating system.

https://ultibo.org

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The development language for this is Pascal (specifically the Object Pascal variant using the FreePascal compiler), which might put some people off, but it's is actually a very powerful and easy to learn language which has been around as long as C.
The 'Make' page https://ultibo.org/make/ has some cool stuff that's been done with and for Ultibo, some good tutorial videos, and links to other 'bare metal' environments based on C++, Assembler, and C (if that's more to your liking) but from what I can see, Ultibo is the most advanced of them so far.
Check it out!

from rummaging around the Lazarus/FreePascal forums

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Living Room / Can you hear this silent GIF?
« on: December 05, 2017, 11:00 PM »
Look at this GIF. There’s no sound, but most people who see it hear a “thudding” in their head each time the bouncing structure hits the ground. Why?
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This illusion is an example of synesthesia, or when the senses — like hearing and sight — get crossed in the brain, he explained in an email to The Verge.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/4/16733778/noisy-gif-hearing-movement-auditory-neuroscience-synesthesia

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from CodeProject News

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Living Room / When is a raven like a writing desk?
« on: November 05, 2017, 04:02 AM »
Or more succinclty, when is a turtle like a rifle?

Researcher: ‘We Should Be Worried’ This Computer Thought a Turtle Was a Gun
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By manipulating a few pixels in an image, you can trick a neural network—even one that's great at recognizing cats, and is trained on hundreds or thousands of images of felines—into thinking that it's looking at something completely different.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa339b/how-to-fool-artificial-intelligence-one-pixel




from CodeProject News

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DC Gamer Club / PCGamer's Free Games of the Week page
« on: October 02, 2017, 11:03 AM »
Hopefully this is new to some folks, and I'm not repeating something someone has already mentioned, but just... WOW!  113 pages (and counting; each page is from a previous week) of free games, most I've never heard of, and a bunch even run on Linux.

The best freebies from the last seven days.

http://www.pcgamer.com/free-games-of-the-week/

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from PCGamer.com

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