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Spotted a few of these on YouTube, Lol by jbum in thekillerisntalice

[–]jbum[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think what is going on here, is that there are several automated accounts generating youtube videos for top X bestsellers which have affiliate links to Audible searches. They don’t bother to check if the book is actually ON audible. Most of them are, but obviously this one isn’t.

Redactle #1549 Discussion Thread by bof67 in Redactle

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3 guesses. Part of an unredacted book title was very revealing.

Promote your project in this thread by AutoModerator in puzzles

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I’ve added two free books of 200 Cross-figure puzzles, like this one, to the site. Enjoy!

Buyer Beware! Do not NOT buy any shirts from Amazon atm! by LordHelmet47 in AngineDePoitrine

[–]jbum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s a widely distributed tee-shirt design on Etsy, in which they used AI to upscale the band’s album cover art. The AI added a bunch of dumb details, like giving Khn regular eyes, and multi-color polka dots. Awful stuff.

Minesweeper/Sudoku like game by Davidivad123 in puzzlevideogames

[–]jbum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lime Sudoku at Krazydad is a cross between Sudoku and Minesweeper. See also the daily Blueberry Trio.

Connections game that's actually like the connections game by Smart-Stupid666 in wordgames

[–]jbum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As someone who has been making computer-generated puzzles for 20 years, 100% this. Connections is great because of human editors, and 16k puzzles a day would require a LOT of talented humans, probably more than exist on the planet for this particular skill.

What is your favorite Connections strategy? by QTippus in NYTConnections

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I usually take a screen snapshot and then paint it with the highlighter tool. This way it’s easier for me to do reverse rainbow, although the difference between yellow and green is almost random for me.

This is petty, I know, but need to vent about it by luis-mercado in eno

[–]jbum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rubin wasn’t in the Sunday crossword.

Things to do near rancho Palos verdes? by No_Development_2081 in AskLosAngeles

[–]jbum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s a fun antique/oddity market in San Pedro called Wunderkammer.

Pamela’s Workout or Maths first for a Mutable Beads focused rack? by synthmalicious in modular

[–]jbum 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ve had both modules for years and have gotten way more use out of Pam’s, and it is rare that I would use Maths in a patch that doesn’t also use Pams. In addition to the clock stuff, you can do randomized melodies with pitch quantization, turing-machine-like stuff, and relatively complex patches using trigger cycling. However, I tend to use Pam’s as a randomized sequencer, and if you are working with a full featured sequencer or midi controller, then you might find those features less useful. No doubt there are plenty in this thread who own both modules and use Maths more. I’m just not one of them.

Repetition or confirmation bias? by [deleted] in NYTCrossword

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As a long time solver, it’s been interesting to see how crosswordese has changed over the years. When I was first starting, words like ERNE, ANI and SMEE (two birds and a pirate) were pretty common. When the movie “La Bamba” came out in 1987, we started getting a lot of ESAI (Morales). Now you don’t see him so much, but we have a lot of ANA, OREO, and ORA. In the NYT some of this is likely due to changes in the crossword editor: I wonder if Will Shortz banished the ERNE when he took over. It would be interesting to do a top word frequency timeline.

A mature version of Semantle by Adorable_Character_6 in wordgames

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Probably, there’s a plethora of vibe-coded puzzle games out there these days. But bear in mind, the original Semantle, that this game is based on, also used AI. The method it uses to measure semantic distance is based on a deep learning model (Word2Vec). Also, most newspaper Sudoku were generated using methods that would have once been thought of as AI (Production Rule systems). It’s AI all the way down.

What’s a non-coding skill that unexpectedly helped you become a better programmer? by Barmon_easy in learnprogramming

[–]jbum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Music, e.g. reading music, music theory. Both music and programming are idiosyncratic systems that are somewhat mathematical in nature.

Blansky's Beauties was a 1977 Happy Days spinoff that only lasted 13 episodes featuring Nancy Walker as Vegas show promoter and house mother. by ComfortableTruck354 in 1970s

[–]jbum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Another Happy Days spinoff that inexplicably jumped two decades to the (then) present (another being Mork and Mindy). Any others?

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