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#ScribesAndMakers 22
Show us something you've created. Tell us the story behind it.
https://cs.wellesley.edu/~pmwh/labyrinfinite/
I was thinking on a dog walk about how most games with procedurally generated content like Minecraft get pretty repetitive at some point if you zoom out far enough, and large-scale structures that have structural constraints like rivers are very hard to generate piecemeal. So I wanted to come up with an algorithm that could generate globally-consistent structures piece-by-piece, with consistency even if pieces were generated out-of-order, while maintaining only a fixed amount of context no matter how far from the origin you went. This demo is *almost* that, except the amount of context scales logarithmically with the distance-from-origin, which I find a very acceptable compromise. In the demo, there's a single infinitely-long path that eventually touches every cell of the infinite 2D grid (okay, computer limitations mean it's not really infinite, but mathematically it could be). You can get different path structures from different random seeds, although the generation trick does constrain things a lot relative to the set of all possible such paths (notice that in each 5x5 region it touches every cell before leaving; that's not in general necessary).

Marcus Mariota Sends Strong Message to Raiders After Commanders Win https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/marcus-mariota-message-commanders-win/?adt_ei=[email]

Hey friends, sorry to be so silent again. Busy life - but nothing bad.
Just wanted to share this photo with you :
THIS was the narrowest passage ahead. It's just this and around the corner, after this it widens up again. And I can promise: it does not just look narrow - it really IS.
I admit that I thought "ohkay, I did NOT expect that and I hope it won't get worse".
(it didn't and it was fun after all)

I made up my first "unhoused care package" and handed it to Emilio and Scott today, two guys I saw on the way to work.
I've seen Emilio before, gave him socks and water, but I wanted to up things a bit so they got socks, water, granola bars, candy, cookies, band-aids, and some cash in a large plastic bag.

The difference between Jeffries’s speech being an empty stunt and the speech being a substantive blow is whether we’ve been using that time to put pressure on R MoC and to bring the deeply unpopular consequences of the bill to public light. I hope we’ve been doing that.
They wanted this to pass quickly and in the middle of the night. The longer it takes, the higher the price of passage for them.

Why does the membrane potential of biological neuron develop and remain stable?
J\'anos V\'egh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11448 https://

Why does the membrane potential of biological neuron develop and remain stable?
The neuronal electric operation can entirely be described by physics provided that we take into account that slow positive ions instead of fast light electrons are the charge carriers that biology uses. Based on the slow ions, we derive the correct physical model that Hodgkin and Huxley wanted. By using laws of electricity and thermodynamics in a non-disciplinary way, we derive the resting potential from the first principles of science, from the biological "construction" (the thickness of the i…

Good Morning #Canada
The Canadian Universal Healthcare system has been under tremendous stress since COVID, and it's easy to have the impression today that it is broken. IMO, I would characterize it as bent or wounded as it continues to provide medical services that save lives. This article points out that several of Canada’s hospitals rank amongst the world's best , particularly in cancer and cardiac treatment. Let's continue to fight to improve our current system and vote out any clown (cough... Ford... cough) that threatens to erode the universal affordability principle through privatization.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Healthcare #FuckCancer
https://www.uhn.ca/corporate/news/pages/uhn-canadas-top-hospital-ranks-third-in-the-world.aspx

The Mock Draft project: 2025's most wanted fantasy football picks https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/45616494/fantasy-football-expert-drafts-mock-draft-average-draft-positions…

Turn of events this evening:
- wanted to try out @…
- v1.3.4 doesn't seem to have a #macOS binary in the release but release notes mention that 1.3.4 includes upstreamed fixes from MacPorts
- look at the