The zoology and biochemistry of xenomorphs from the Alien franchise(jgeekstudies.org)

105 points by zdw 1 year ago | 64 comments

The Influence of Japanese Archaeology on the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild(jgeekstudies.org)

228 points by zdw 2 years ago | 46 comments

Molluscs of the Multiverse: molluscan diversity in Magic: The Gathering(jgeekstudies.org)

28 points by zdw 1 year ago | 11 comments

Scarlet Rot: a biological exploration of Elden Ring's decaying disease(jgeekstudies.org)

22 points by zdw 2 years ago | 4 comments

Predicting Competitive Pokémon VGC Leads Using Latent Semantic Analysis(jgeekstudies.org)

13 points by zdw 1 year ago | 3 comments

Visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä(jgeekstudies.org)

244 points by zdw 1 year ago | 65 comments

Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)(arxiv.org)

165 points by teleforce 28 days ago | 68 comments

An arXiv paper proposing a multi-agent AI architecture inspired by Kahneman's fast and slow thinking, with a metacognitive module choosing between system 1 and system 2 agents.

Fuck it, make it anyway(joelotter.com)

504 points by JayOtter 1 month ago | 495 comments

A personal blog essay by indie game developer Joel Auterson encouraging people to make their creative projects anyway despite doubts.

VVVVVV Source Code(github.com)

385 points by radeeyate 1 year ago | 72 comments

GitHub repository by Terry Cavanagh hosting the source code of the indie platformer game VVVVVV, with desktop and mobile versions.

Cold-blooded software(dubroy.com)

499 points by arbesman 2 years ago | 198 comments

Patrick Dubroy's blog essay using cold-blooded animals as a metaphor for software that can sit untouched for long periods and still work when revived.

The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition(routledge.com)

343 points by zzxcvb 3 years ago | 153 comments

Routledge product page for the 2nd edition of The Garbage Collection Handbook by Jones, Hosking, and Moss, a book on automatic memory management.

Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it(science.org)

598 points by nabla9 1 year ago | 370 comments

A Science Advances research article on how cognitive skills change with age and whether using them prevents decline; the page showed a Cloudflare verification check.