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Software behaviour
This article's top highlight has had me thinking:
Software is simply the encoding of human thought, and as such has an almost unbounded design space.
I disagree with "simply", if it means "merely/just/straightforwardly/plainly".
Yes, software behaviour tends to be predetermined by humans. But look at AlphaGo: It's behaviour was not predetermined. Move 37 was in nobody’s mind before it happened and changed how human Go masters think about Go.
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How to add a "Read more" link to a Jekyll blog
We want to add a "read more" link, when the post excerpt differs from the content. Then we link to the post using the handy
post.url.Easily done by adding this within your post loop (mine was part of
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Things I do for coffee (A.K.A., fun with thermodynamics)
I needed hot water at around 80-85 Celsius to use with AeroPress. At the time, I didn't have a thermometer that goes higher than 50C. I know the room temperature and the temperature of near-boiling water (close to 100C ). The result: a calculator, for a cool (pun intended), practical use of thermodynamics.
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