Azaran on 14/8/2024 at 17:28
Degenerate online gambler wins 30k. Then proceeds to gamble it all away instead of withdrawing
[video=youtube;buQi4VGAbn4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buQi4VGAbn4[/video]
Marconiex on 17/8/2024 at 21:16
Oof, that's a tough watch. You'd think winning 30k would be a wake-up call to stop gambling, but nope. It's like they're addicted to the rush or something.
Azaran on 17/8/2024 at 21:28
Quote Posted by Marconiex
Oof, that's a tough watch. You'd think winning 30k would be a wake-up call to stop gambling, but nope. It's like they're addicted to the rush or something.
I looked a bit into him after out of curiosity, and he's won nearly 200k in a single night (the site gives him 8k a week to play with because he gives them publicity). He blew every cent of that money that same night. And every night that he plays, he can't help himself.
It's the most insane example of gambling addiction I've ever seen. Imagine winning
life changing money several times, and then blowing it all within the hour
Here's a doc on him
[video=youtube;MUUZ_mO0PD0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUUZ_mO0PD0[/video]
mxleader on 8/9/2024 at 16:29
[video=youtube_share;8w7KJznei7I]https://youtu.be/8w7KJznei7I?si=kSdrMuADQtb9ToKd[/video]
taffernicus on 20/9/2024 at 11:37
After seeing a glimpse of the catalina affair story - what the Soviets did to Sweden's reconnaisance aircraft, I was given this recommendation by youtube and it's quite informative. If this computer was featured in the movie chernobyl (2019) it might be more complete...
[video=youtube_share;kHiCHRB-RlA]https://youtu.be/kHiCHRB-RlA?si=2c2CLfT5ukiyFTzK[/video]
taffernicus on 20/9/2024 at 11:43
the reconaissance aircraft is on display at Flygvapenmuseum in Linköping and as for chernobyl itself, it reminded me of the game s.t.a.l.k.e.r.
I like some Swedish military aircraft/product like the Saab 340 AEW and Saab erieye/globaleye
demagogue on 20/9/2024 at 14:39
That's a cool documentary. Actually the book I've been reading these days, because I'm on a math kick, is Edward Frenkel's "Love and Math", which I recommend if you're curious about academic math in any way. But especially the first 1/3 of it is basically the history of academic math in the USSR, and I think some of the same people are mentioned in the doc because the community is not that big and a few people have a lot of control, which I guess makes sense for an authoritarian society and culture at the time.
But it's always fascinating to read about professional culture in that; since for all the chaos and dysfunction it had, one thing that always struck me about I guess the culture there in that context was the pursuit of total excellence, in chess, ballet, math, physics, etc., and this little corner of the story where even the people pushed out of the central elite (Jews in this case) were still given back doors into the field and support.
It's still messed up--the secrecy, ideology, paranoia, social hierarchy & discrimination, etc., still get in the way at every turn--but if you were a sharp kid and were ambitious to reach the heights of math or science, there were ways to do it and people to help you on the way. That's the really interesting story I got from this book & glimpses of in this documentary about these special computers & their designers that put complex math into service.
DuatDweller on 21/9/2024 at 04:37
Please, no more Chernobyl, I have spent the worse summer ever in 1986, and I can't forget it because of Chernobyl.
taffernicus on 21/9/2024 at 15:54
Quote Posted by demagogue
That's a cool documentary. Actually the book I've been reading these days, because I'm on a math kick, is Edward Frenkel's "Love and Math", which I recommend if you're curious about academic math in any way. But especially the first 1/3 of it is basically the history of academic math in the USSR, and I think some of the same people are mentioned in the doc because the community is not that big and a few people have a lot of control, which I guess makes sense for an authoritarian society and culture at the time.
But it's always fascinating to read about professional culture in that; since for all the chaos and dysfunction it had, one thing that always struck me about I guess the culture there in that context was the pursuit of total excellence, in chess, ballet, math, physics, etc., and this little corner of the story where even the people pushed out of the central elite (Jews in this case) were still given back doors into the field and support.
It's still messed up--the secrecy, ideology, paranoia, social hierarchy & discrimination, etc., still get in the way at every turn--but if you were a sharp kid and were ambitious to reach the heights of math or science, there were ways to do it and people to help you on the way. That's the really interesting story I got from this book & glimpses of in this documentary about these special computers & their designers that put complex math into service.
thanks for the book suggestion, that would be a great reference. The historical side of USSR-era mathematics can be a thing to explore. The USSR mathematician that I am most familiar with is Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov.
Speaking of Soviet's early computer, what still makes me curious to this day is how the hell Soviet came up with the idea & designed their first computer architecture analogous to stored program concepts such as Harvard architecture or Von Neumann along with CMOS chip, magnetic drum memory and so on. Other than that, i've never seen other unique computer architectures like stack based CPU produced by Soviet.
The history also shows how they struggled to catch up with the development of computers in 70s to 80s against the west. Talking about ibm 360/370 clones, PDP-11, zx spectrum and other brands...
Apart from the computer above, i do commend some soviet inventions like Yakovlev VTOL aircraft,their PESA RADAR prior to 1980s , Obninsk reactor, T-34, TU-144, Sputnik-1 satellite.
I appreciate it because they are capable
taffernicus on 21/9/2024 at 16:09
[video=youtube_share;gqRvAjgkti4]https://youtu.be/gqRvAjgkti4?si=CW7sOPVVvCvsA3BN[/video]
