Yeah 
it’s completely bonkers
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OMG! A 26x26 go board! 
Actually, it’s a 25x25 if you don’t mind playing INSIDE THE SQUARES!!! 
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I had read that QR codes were inspired by Go, but I never really looked into how they are generated. It was interesting to see the similarities.
| Go | QR codes | |
|---|---|---|
| playing area | comes in different grid sizes: 9x9, 13x13, 19x19, etc. | also comes in different sizes: 21x21, …, 177x177 |
| opening | corners first | position and alignment patterns in the corners |
| middle game | players begin to play towards the center | message gets encoded and occupies space on one side (expands towards the center) |
| endgame | fill in dame | fill in error correction squares |
| post-game | rearrange stones to make the score easier to count | flip some of the squares to make the QR code easier to scan |
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This suggests the idea of using fake go games as an espionage means of transmitting information or instructions via QR codes.
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Charts, data and marketing for a different game that is rising in popularity. Quite a lot of things to think about:
Yeah, the thumbnail is trolling the nay-sayers.
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Good, because I never could get into watching WNBA until the first time I saw CC play. She’s a huge draw!
(and after watching the video I see I’m not alone) 
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That isn’t relaxing, is it?
But I guess it could be thought provoking.
I’m asking myself right now what went wrong with social entertainment.
Some days ago I was looking at this one.
(*)
Except for the presence of some interesting parts for my job, my question was the same: social entertainment is f###d up!
Oh, well, that’s not a question.
But that’s a thought anyway.
(*) It seems I can’t get to have a preview thumbnail
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If I was in the same room as them it would not be relaxing, but I found the video light hearted. A nice combination of slap stick and informative that I found relaxing. Maybe not calming or soothing or tranquil… but relaxing seems fitting enough.
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Can’t say I understand holograms, but this video demystified a lot about them for me!
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Just found this channel. Honestly it’s better than some Netflix shows
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Oh no! Another minecraft gamer! 
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I think this is one of the best videos Veritasium made so far (although I readily admit that I’m biased, being more into physics than into maths or engineering):
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It is a tantalising video. I wish it went deeper into the topic, but I suppose more research needs to be done first.
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Dr Geoff Lindsey: my latest discovery in the youtube ocean. Only once mentioned before in this forum: I’m astonished! 
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Immediately followed by another discovery from the same day. Last Sunday I had a mildly annoying back ache and spent some hours on the bed.
This instrument combines my interest for smart gadgets and for microtonality. It’s mind blowing.
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3Blue1Brown videos are pretty much great by default, but this is definitely one of those (especially if you’re a regular in nerdy cocktail parties, supposedly).
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Thanks for the delightful video. The instrument sounds beautiful. As MB said, it sounds more like a guitar than a piano. I think this is because of the electronic rendering of the tone; there is no percusive quality that come from hammers hitting strings. I thought its use was much more effective in the blues tunes highlighted in the first half than in the more pop-like material of the second half. This may be because it better fits the note bending that we expect from blues. The pop melodies seemed a bit more uniform and bland.
I explored microtonality as a listener in college and after, mainly through Harry Partch, Ives, and the electronic music laboratory at my school, which gave recitals of original compositions (however, I pretty thoroughly disliked that electronic music, which was much more crude in nature). I did notice that in Partch, who used a 43-tone scale based on just intonation, there is a certain harmonic uniformity that can get boring. This is probably due to the problem of modulation using instruments with fixed tones (even though Partch built his own unique instruments).
I knew someone once who was literally tone deaf. He could not distinguish a semitone, which meant that music was little more than an incomprehensible blur of sound to him. Many more people cannot hear a quarter-tone, which makes microtonality similarly unhearable.
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