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Was anyone saying it was dead? I guess it took a hit when What went down, but I don't think people are going to stop listening to music...

This is a good reminder I should get back on soulseek, though; I used to use it and it was pretty great.

I don't know if it's a canon connection to Star Trek in particular, but I loved the nod to the trope of using Toronto for NYC/Chicago/wherever.

I'd definitely be down to participate if this gets going! Was the other sub daily? weekly?

I went through these challenges a while back; they were super fun! I remember at the end there was something about "notify me if there are more challenges" but I don't believe I ever heard anything.

I'm a sucker for puzzles, and the write-ups for the challenges were the right level of silliness.

Even just clicking the link above the subscribe button did it for me.

Amazing!

I did some work with thermotropic liquid crystals back in school and sat for hours capturing images of LCs changing phase. Nothing as beautiful as here, but they really are mesmerizing.

Seconding the recommendation for thunder; it's the first one I've found with a proper compact mode. Everything is simple and fast without any frills.

Super interesting read! Thanks for sharing.

I'd be interested to see how impactful a sparse representation would be. It's an optimization I know to have been useful from trying it on AoC and similar cellular automata problems, but I have no clue how it would mesh with the other optimizations made here. I would guess its effectiveness would also rely heavily on the particular ruleset you were simulating, as well as your starting state.

Amazing as always!

As for regulations around personal logs, Star Trek has a long and confusing history with how it deals with privacy. I swear we've seen personal logs pulled up numerous times before (that one episode in TNG with Geordi and that woman's dog?), including "Crisis Point" as mentioned.

Given that, I'd take it that Starfleet's rules regarding personal logs are primarily focused on their admissibility in court, rather than general accessibility.

Thanks for sharing this! Very cool to see the work that goes into a proposal, especially knowing that it has paid off.

From my uninformed perspective, this seems like an easy approval (no doubt due to your convincing proposal), but I'm curious if you were confident it would be accepted when you proposed it? I have no idea how stringent the acceptance process might be.

Not to be a jerk, but the image used there is a pretty bad example of the Cool S. It shouldn't have horizontal ends, and should instead use diagonal lines to connect back to the middle.

Not that there's exactly one Cool S, but this does not look like the most common or recognizable variant.

Honestly, the sets and costumes for SNW are setting the bar for TV shows in general, let alone star trek. Just as much as the new plots, I've been looking forward each week just to the visuals.