Nerds Amalgamated
Nerds Amalgamated
That's Not Canon Productions
Visual Number Sense, Death of Flash, Rap Lyrics & Apple's Newest Idea
1 hour 9 minutes Posted Jan 11, 2021 at 11:00 pm.
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This week we bring you the terrifying story of an AI that knows too much. It taught itself to count, which is pretty cool.
Flash is dead, long live Flash. Now it's all gone, it's time to find out more from the people behind some of the big games on Flash Game History
Should art be valid as evidence in court? Some courts think so. The nerds have a debate about art as criminal evidence.
Apple leaks indicate a folding phone. Never to beat anyone to the punch, Apple must think they have some special sauce.
This week DJ examined biohacking and esports, Professor marathoned the weirdest Bowie projects and Dev-i played the eternal GTAV
Visual Number Sense & A.I.
- https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/1/eabd6127
The Death of Flash
- https://www.heypoorplayer.com/2020/12/31/flash-games-2020/
Rap lyrics now admissible in courts as evidence
- https://variety.com/2021/music/opinion/rap-lyrics-admissible-evidence-dangerous-precedent-1234878315/
Apple’s newest idea : The folding phone
- https://www.macworld.com/article/3602628/apple-is-reportedly-testing-two-folding-iphones.html
Nerdful things
DJ
– Meta Runner - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Runner
Rating: 4/5
Professor
- Lazarus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_(musical)
Rating: 5/5
Dev-i-boy
- GTA 5 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_V
Rating: 5/5
Other topics discussed
Multi-time Classic Tetris World Champion Jonas Neubauer passes away
- https://gonintendo.com/stories/375128-multi-time-classic-tetris-world-champion-jonas-neubauer-passes-aw
Jonas Neubauer - Tetris 99: Jonas and Heather Hot Pass Win Streak!
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_wjY9RRvE8
Two Minute Papers - OpenAI Plays Hide and Seek…and Breaks The Game!
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu56xVlZ40M&t=198s
Number Sense (In mathematics education, number sense can refer to "an intuitive understanding of numbers, their magnitude, relationships, and how they are affected by operations".)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sense
Three Laws of Robotics (a set of rules devised by science fiction author Isaac Asimov.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
The new laws of robotics — building on Asimov's science fiction legacy in the age of AI
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-10/new-laws-of-robotics-what-they-mean-for-ai/12947424
WALL-E (2008 American computer-animated science-fiction romance film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WALL-E
The IT Crowd : Moss’s letter to the fire department
- https://www.quotes.net/mquote/901845
INTERCAL (The Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym (INTERCAL) is an esoteric programming language that was created as a parody by Don Woods and James M. Lyon, two Princeton University students, in 1972. It satirizes aspects of the various programming languages at the time, as well as the proliferation of proposed language constructs and notations in the 1960s.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL
Hackers Exploit Adobe Flash Flaw To Install Infamous Spyware
- https://au.pcmag.com/security/50107/hackers-exploit-adobe-flash-flaw-to-install-infamous-spyware
How FLASHGAMES shaped the video game industry
- https://www.flashgamehistory.com/
BlueMaxima's Flashpoint (a webgame preservation project.)
- https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/
MINECRAFT: flash game
- https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/573102
Johnny Rocketfingers
- https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/78995
Adobe Flash (a discontinued multimedia software platform used for production of animations, Rich web applications, desktop applications, mobile apps, mobile games, and embedded web browser video players.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash
Adobe Dreamweaver (a proprietary web development tool from Adobe Inc. It was created by Macromedia in 1997 and developed by them until Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005.)
- https://...