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floehopper | 2 years ago | on: Phonetic change in an Antarctic winter (2019)

I spent 2 winters in Antarctica with people with strong accents, e.g. Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, Scouse, Geordie, Cumbrian, and Devonian. On my return to the UK a lot of people said I'd developed a Brummie accent, although none of my fellow winterers were from Birmingham. My theory was that I'd developed an accent averaged across all the strong ones! It's interesting to see a scientific study showing how accents changed over an Antarctic winter!

floehopper | 2 years ago | on: Orca rams into yacht near Scotland, suggesting the behavior may be spreading

> In June 1972, the 43-foor schooner Lucette was attacked by killer whales and sank in 60 seconds. What happened next is almost incredible...

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/167105

floehopper | 2 years ago | on: WeWork has frittered away $46.7B in value as the stock sinks below ¢50

> the Venture Predator constructs a pile of shit so large and impressive that investors are convinced that there must be a pony under there somewhere

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/19/fake-it-till-you-make-it/

floehopper | 2 years ago | on: Better World Books

I use https://www.ethicalbooksearch.com/ to find books sold by responsible booksellers including BWB.

floehopper | 3 years ago | on: Differentiable programming from scratch

You may also enjoy https://tomstu.art/automatic-differentiation-in-ruby and the accompanying video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI7mtWB4WiA.

floehopper | 3 years ago | on: Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf]

I first heard this as a radio play on BBC Radio4 back in 1991!

* Metadata: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/05b414af4bfa4923b9c9c3bc2257d5ef * Audio: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=602882533671599

floehopper | 3 years ago | on: The fragmented nature of modern-day railways

Jon Worth's [1] CrossBorderRail project [2] aims to highlight missing cross-border rail links in Europe. He's recently embarked on a huge rail and bike journey that crosses every internal border inside the European Union (and EFTA countries) that you can cross by train. En route he's stopping off to organise a meeting in the political capital of each country to discuss the missing rail links with local activists.

[1]: https://twitter.com/jonworth [2]: https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/

floehopper | 4 years ago | on: Resources to encourage children to learn to code

The Raspberry Pi Foundation's Code Club World [1] is designed for young people aged 9-13. It provides a fun and more gradual introduction to block-based programming leading on to projects using Scratch and Python.

[1]: https://codeclubworld.org/

floehopper | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Examples of tech worker cooperatives?

Go Free Range - http://gofreerange.com

floehopper | 14 years ago | on: Programming With Nothing: FizzBuzz in the lambda calculus in Ruby

I agree. This is presentation was brilliant and I'd really encourage people to watch it.