This is probably old news to some people on here, but I just discovered this today and itâs pretty awesome:
âThe âbest statistical drawings ever created.â
âMinardâs graphic is quite clever because of its ability to combine all of dimensions: loss of life at a time and location, temperature, geography, historical context, into one single graphic. He shows these various details without distracting text or labels as well. For example, he displays the points where Napoleonâs troops divide into subgroups by breaking out the main bar into branches. He adds thin lines to represent river crossings on the return trip that further decimated Napoleonâs diminishing troops. And he is able to show the drastic loss in life from Napoleonâs decision in just a single corner of the diagram.â
They deleted all of the original Best Friends videos! FUCK. Itâs bad enough that the Super Best Friends broke up but now you canât even watch some of their earliest and funniest stuff.
Much excitement on my flight from Shanghai to Detroit. A few hours in, they asked on the PA if there was a doctor onboard. The guy across the aisle from me shot up and had a gleam in his eyes like he was thinking, âthis is my moment!â Turns out that someone fairly young had had a stroke (and not his first, either), but hadnât been to see a doctor. He was alright, except for getting an earful from the older flight attendants about how his health is important and he needs to get checked out.
So apparently, the x86 MOV assembly instruction by itself is Turing complete: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/papers/mov.pdf
I feel like I read this somewhere years agoâŠ
Itâs possible it was posted a while back⊠but I came across it again today and couldnât remember if it was or wasnât.