Two real fortunes, in fortune cookies from the local strip mall Thai and Chinese restaurant.

I got a set of non-transitive Grime dice from UK enterprise Maths Gear.

I have verified Grime dice with a monte carlo simulation, but it’s not that hard to calculate the actual probabilities.

I’m a long-term user of members of the vi family of text editors. I believe I discovered it in maybe 1988, when SGI loaned my employers an IRIX graphics workstation.

Dobby, my pet iRobot Roomba i3+ ingested a short micro-USB cable.

What kind of latch or flip-flop is the best analog to my pair of night lights?

The Great Geppy
William Pène du Bois
© 1940, by the author
The Viking Press, Inc

Cheap, sensor controlled night lights are available to happy US consumers.

The Wikipedia article on voltage doublers says that a Greinacher circuit works by “following a Villard cell stage with what is in essence a peak detector or envelope detector stage”.

What if you put the peak detector or envelope detector stage after a full wave bridge rectifier? What wave form would result?

If the Allies Had Fallen: Sixty Alternate Scenarios of World War II
Dennis E. Showalter, Harold C. Deutsch, William R. Forstchen
Skyhorse, 2012, ISBN 978-1616085469

A Little Implementation Language
P. J. Plauger
ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages 135-137

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