Musical hardware

Interesting Radiohead song cover on computer and other devices.

Text mode ZX Spectrum mini demo

Some folks I know spent long summer days on recovering a ZX Spectrum program hidden as a bonus track of OK Computer 2017 OKNOTOK Radiohead Album. It was recorded on compact cassette, so probably it was ready to run on original Speccy with good cassette reader.

It's kind of bleeping text mode demo that reminds me fiddling with such things in past.

So, I've tried to make mini with similar look and feel, but with nowadays technology like HTML and Javascript stack.

https://cdn.rawgit.com/uones/oknotok-jsdemo/master/index.html

Initial part need key press to continue. Closing window will end show. Enjoy! ;)

Statistical testing

On the tidal wave of Big Data there are more and more people trying to get the clue behind that buzzword. Here is one slide that describes situation:

The picture is coming from nice Baron Schwartz's blog about databases, distributed systems performance and monitoring, and something beyond that.

New Java themed TV series parodies

Three Java themed TV series parodies trailers! I can see it how it goes further ...

http://2014.javazone.no/

It looks that I will be Writing Bad fan. But "welcome to Oracle" sounds so familiar ...

Somewhat ridiculous ways to calculate PI number

I've found description of experiment to calculate PI number as a result of physical Monte Carlo simulation by shooting shotgun pellets over quarter of circle marked inside square. At least it is great visual explanation how to calculate PI.

I remember that I saw other technique using pins tossed over parallel lines. I've searched that and found something much more ridiculous: Calculating Pi by Throwing Frozen Hot Dogs

I don't dare for searching any more of that today...