Nintendo Bled Atari Games to Death(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

108 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 93 comments

How Pac-Man Revolutionized Gaming (2020)(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

5 points by benbreen 1 year ago | 0 comments

An untold story of LSD psychotherapy in communist czechoslovakia(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

109 points by anarbadalov 2 years ago | 59 comments

How Typing Transformed Nietzsche's Consciousness(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

61 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 25 comments

The impact of Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" on Noam Chomsky's path to anarchism(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

62 points by anarbadalov 2 years ago | 150 comments

'The Cheese and the Worms': Carlo Ginzburg Launches Microhistory(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

18 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 3 comments

From Nand to Tetris (2017)(nand2tetris.org)

607 points by mikpanko 2 years ago | 167 comments

Official website of the Nand to Tetris courses and the book The Elements of Computing Systems, teaching how to build a computer from NAND gates up.

Tetris Font (2020)(erikdemaine.org)

693 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 85 comments

Interactive Tetris Font by Erik and Martin Demaine that renders entered text as animated falling Tetris pieces, with GIF and SVG download options.

Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess(dynomight.substack.com)

626 points by crescit_eundo 1 year ago | 424 comments

A Dynomight newsletter post examining how well large language models play chess and why results vary strangely across models.

Show HN: Tetris in a PDF(th0mas.nl)

1193 points by ThomasRinsma 1 year ago | 211 comments

A PDF file that runs a playable Tetris game using JavaScript and form-field annotations supported by browser PDF engines like PDFium and PDF.js.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

With fifth busy beaver, researchers approach computation's limits(quantamagazine.org)

496 points by LegionMammal978 2 years ago | 127 comments

Quanta Magazine article on how a collaborative team of amateur programmers proved the value of the fifth busy beaver number, BB(5).