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APRIL 3, 2024

Alexander Miller wrote a “fable of emergence” that combines Conway’s Game of Life with Pandora’s Box. Conway’s game grew on Pandora the more she played. Although the rules of the game were relatively straightforward, it was surprisingly difficult to predict the next generation from the previous.

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MAY 30, 2023

Add another geolocation guessing game that I am terrible at. Tags: game , guess TimeGuessr shows you a photograph , and you guess when and where it was taken.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

When watching basketball, one of the best things is when a player has an unexpectedly great game, so Samora looked for the greatest and most unexpected game based on data. Tags: basketball , Pudding The video is also a nice example of how distributions and outliers can be applied in an analysis.

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

Conway’s Game of Life is a zero-person game where cells in a grid live or die based on a simple set of rules. Life Universe by saharan is an infinite game of life where you can zoom in and out recursively. Tags: Game of Life , infinite , saharan. You set the initial state and the cells change accordingly.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

I enjoyed the pixel view and game metaphor. Tags: game , New York Times , reservation , seating For The New York Times, Priya Krishna, Umi Syam and Aliza Aufrichtig frame strategies in the context of getting a reservation at Semma , a restaurant in New York City. All it needed was some 8-bit music.

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MAY 4, 2022

Matt Dray is developing a package in R that runs a text-based game. Part of that game requires procedural dungeons that are different each time you play. Tags: game , Matt Dray , R.

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MAY 19, 2023

But what if you simplified the task to a bunch of yes-no answers and made it into a Tinder-style swiping game? Tags: debt , game , Washington Post Cutting the national debt is a complex process that involves a lot more than personal preferences of an individual.

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MAY 30, 2023

Baseball games grew longer over the decades, with the average length well over three hours in recent years. Ben Blatt and Francesca Paris, for NYT’s The Upshot, show how a few rule changes this season keep the ball moving for shorter games. Tags: baseball , time , Upshot

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Data Science Dojo

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It is widely used in numerous fields, from data science and machine learning to web development and game development. Game Development Game development is a fun and challenging way to learn about programming and Python is a great language for building games. It is a widely used programming language in computer science.

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FlowingData

MAY 15, 2023

With a cross between the games Wordle and GeoGuessr, Russell Samora for The Pudding made a daily game that challenges you to geolocate a place based on images of the place from Wikimedia Commons. Tags: game , geolocation , Pudding , Russell Samora , Wordle

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MAY 25, 2023

With a cross between the games Wordle and GeoGuessr, Russell Samora for The Pudding made a daily game that challenges you to geolocate a place based on images of the place from Wikimedia Commons. Tags: game , geolocation , Pudding , Russell Samora , Wordle

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MARCH 11, 2022

I don’t know if you’ve heard of it, but there’s this game called Wordle. Anyway, check out this Wordle game. Tags: Robert Lesser , Twitter , Wordle. You get a certain number of guesses to figure out a five-letter word each day. Then he analyzed the popularity and difficulty levels of all the daily words. .

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NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Slow Roads by anslo is a procedurally generated game that lets you do that. Tags: driving , game , procedural. Sometimes you need to slow down and go on a drive with no destination. Choose the scene, the road complexity, the weather, the time of day, planet, and vehicle. Then just drive.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

is a multiplayer game where people control cells in a Petri dish-type environment. Tags: animation , Europe , war. The animation above used the same visual metaphor to show power and war in Europe, from 1500 to 2022. Circles represent countries, and they split and collide with time.

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JUNE 27, 2023

Tags: game , Neal Agarwal , passwords Neal Agarwal takes it to a ridiculous level , as Neal Agarwal likes to do. Enter a password that fits the rules, and another rule pops up until you find yourself with a password with a thousand wingdings.

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MAY 22, 2023

You’ve probably heard of esports, where people compete against each other in multiplayer video games. via kottke ] Tags: esports , Excel Financial Modeling World Cup runs esports for Microsoft Excel. The two-hour all-star battle last year even had running commentary and post-competition interviews. It is so gloriously nerdy.

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MAY 1, 2023

Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors scored 50 points in game 7 against the Sacramento Kings. Tags: basketball , shot chart , Stephen Curry , Todd Whitehead He made 20 shots. Instead of the standard shot chart with dots on a simplified court, Todd Whitehead overlaid video frames of every made shot for a single image.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

Dylan Moriarty and Joe Fox for The Washington Post made a miniature golf game to teach what’s currently at stake. The shapes grow more complex as you progress, and the game keeps score for you, so that you can compare your score to par or how other readers performed. Well, fret no more.

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JUNE 16, 2022

Tonight is game six of the NBA Finals. Luckily, NYT’s The Upshot got it done with cumulative three-pointers in career playoff games. Tags: basketball , Upshot , Warriors. If the Golden State Warriors beat the Boston Celtics, the Warriors win it all and the season is done. That was close. That was close.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

They also provide breakdowns of how James scored his points, which show an all-around game rather than a hard skew towards a single type of shot. Tags: basketball , LeBron James , New York Times

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JANUARY 31, 2022

Ella Koeze, Denise Lu, and Charlie Smart for The New York Times made a game to help you understand gerrymandering better. See also the miniature golf game from The Washington Post. Tags: game , gerrymandering , New York Times. Understand. Gerrymandering.

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APRIL 20, 2022

Zack Capozzi, for USA Lacrosse Magazine, explains how he calculates win probabilities pre-game and during games. And this is frustrating for some people, but that 61 percent should be interpreted as: “if these teams played 100 times, we would expect Marquette to win 61 of those games.”

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

In the quick view, you see it was either a draw or a Carlsen win over 11 games. Tags: chess , FiveThirtyEight , Magnus Carlsen. FiveThirtyEight broke down Carlsen’s dominance in the final match with Ian Nepomniachtchi with a series of difference charts.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

Surf is a data-based game by Andy Bergmann that lets you move across a thirty-seven-year time series from NOAA. Tags: Andy Bergmann , NOAA. The data forms the waves, and you’re a dog on a surf board jumping over sharks. It’s kind of like a stripped down version of Alto’s Adventure but with data.

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This campaign is designed to galvanize the Twitch community into channeling their collective passion for gaming and live streaming to support charitable causes. Whether it’s auctioning away retro games, dancing for twelve hours straight, or just staring at a wall, when it comes to charity our community always shows up.”

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Quick take: Aldo Comi, CEO of Soccerment, suggests that AI could not only replace linesmen but possibly human referees altogether in football within a few decades, all while serving as high-quality support for coaching and game strategy. And you will have the referee connected to the virtual assistant, guiding them to make better decisions.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

If you’re still not sure, see also the game District by Christopher Walke r which walks you through what gerrymandering is and how it works. Tags: gerrymandering , Guardian , redistricting. The Guardian provides a visual guide to explain how creative redistricting can lead to favorable votes.

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JUNE 2, 2021

You can grab the data from Lichess , which provides data for millions of chess games. Tags: chess. Although I’m surprised that the queen, despite having the most freedom of movement, is often captured in the same place. But like I said, I’m no chess player.

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Dataconomy

AUGUST 17, 2023

Also, you can find the followings in Dataconomy about Janitor AI: How to fix Janitor AI not working How to use Janitor AI API Janitor AI alternatives AI Dungeon Play some games, will we? Freemium text adventure game AI Dungeon has AI-generated single-player and multiplayer content. One of the best C.AI alternatives is AI Dungeon.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

The simplified style of the animations gave me Sega Game Gear flashbacks. Tags: history , New York Times , Olympics. With the 2020 Olympics wrapped up, The New York Times raced this year’s medal winners against previous medalists to provide context for the new records set in Tokyo.

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JANUARY 27, 2022

David Epstein provides some guidance : If you’ve watched a lot of NFL games, you’ve probably heard a commentator at some point trot out a stat like: “The Chicago Bears are undefeated in division games following a bye week when they wear their alternate jerseys.”. Tags: causation , correlation , health.

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FlowingData

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Studios have of course learned how to game the system, not to mention most of the site is now owned by movie ticket seller Fandango. Tags: bias , movies , ratings , Rotten Tomatoes , Vulture To me, that’s a good review, but it would count as negative on Rotten Tomatoes.”

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JANUARY 25, 2022

In case you’re not so good with the words, but feel the social pressure to play Wordle bearing down on you, Jonathan Olson made an optimized solver : The game Wordle has a lot of speculation online about what is the “best” first word. Tags: game , Jonathan Olson , optimization , Wordle.

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Data Science Dojo

JUNE 22, 2023

With these techniques, you ensure that your meta descriptions, meta titles, header tags, and image alt tags are optimized with relevant keywords and clearly describe your content. Moreover, using header and image alt tags makes your site more accessible and user-friendly.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Ebsynth AI is here to change the game, offering an intuitive and powerful solution for creating artistic video transformations. However, the folks at Secret Weapons are diligently working on a premium professional version, which will come with a license and a price tag. Let’s take a closer look at its core features!

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FlowingData

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Vox shows how the 3-point line is “breaking” the game. Tags: basketball , Vox. The basic math says a 3-point shot is more efficient for scoring points than a 2-point shot if the team can make a high enough percentage of attempts. It’s why the mid-range shot has fallen out of favor.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Beijing’s Betavolt New Energy Technology has unveiled a game-changer: a miniature atomic battery ( Image credit ) Betavoltaic nuclear battery Beijing’s Betavolt New Energy Technology has unveiled a game-changer: a miniature atomic battery.

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