Notes on rarely-seen game mechanics(blog.plover.com)

171 points by luu 3 years ago | 96 comments

I found the best anagram in English (2017)(blog.plover.com)

274 points by Amorymeltzer 3 years ago | 127 comments

More notes about pain as a game mechanic(blog.plover.com)

27 points by luu 3 years ago | 15 comments

It’s an age of marvels(blog.plover.com)

408 points by pavel_lishin 2 years ago | 389 comments

Blog post by Mark Dominus imagining which modern inventions would or would not astonish Benjamin Franklin, from streetlights and the internet to Wikipedia and Moon landings.

Egyptian Fractions (2006)(blog.plover.com)

103 points by luu 4 months ago | 17 comments

I liked this simple calculus exercise(blog.plover.com)

420 points by kamaraju 3 years ago | 134 comments

Mark Dominus blog post discussing a Math StackExchange calculus exercise integrating e^(x/2 - floor(x/2)) from 0 to 2000 and why it is a good problem.