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An education platform created by Gustavo Pezzi to teach the fundamentals of #ComputerScience, #Programming, and #Mathematics.

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Stiquito is a small six-legged robot that uses nitinol wires to move. The application of heat causes a crystalline structure change in the wire. Nitinol contracts when heated and returns to its original size and shape when cooled, roughly emulating the behavior of a muscle.

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The Hobby Computer Culture: "From 1975 through early 1977, the use of personal computers remained almost exclusively the province of hobbyists who loved to play with computers and found them inherently fascinating." technicshistory.com/2025/05/24/the…

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Fun fact: the pyramids are just a cheap LOD low-poly version of a more complex object that only appears if we move closer to them.

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If it wasn't for that MATLAB project during my last semester of math I'd still be living in the jungle with my pet monkey.

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Suppose we have a triangle being clipped against a cube. The final clipped vertex count will vary according to the shape and position of the triangle in the cube. Can we find the maximum number of vertices that this polygon *could* have for any possible triangle configuration?

Suppose we have a triangle being clipped against a cube. The final clipped vertex count will vary according to the shape and position of the triangle in the cube. Can we find the maximum number of vertices that this polygon *could* have for any possible triangle configuration?
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DOOM for Atari ST has come a long way. Thanks to m68k assembly, countless hours of optimization and a lot of help by some of the most superbly skilled people I've ever met, the framerate has steadily increased and more than doubled since the baseline version of two weeks ago!

DOOM for Atari ST has come a long way. Thanks to m68k assembly, countless hours of optimization and a lot of help by some of the most superbly skilled people I've ever met, the framerate has steadily increased and more than doubled since the baseline version of two weeks ago!
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Q: What was the most "boring" module you took in college? I'll start. For me, it was a tie between Software Engineering and Databases.

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For me, learning a new concept always required a lot of focus time plus a healthy amount of suffering by trying things myself. I always felt bad for being slow, but I eventually understood that it was okay to take longer than others to learn something new. It's all good.