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From https://gist.github.com/chrisbodhi/15210705414f1b4afcf2 to file_info[:control_info].map {|arr| arr[1] } to file_info[:control_info].map(&:last)

https://gist.github.com/1395926

Rather than writing object.map{ |o| o.action }, I just found out that I could write object.map(&:action). I’m currently attempting to suppress a very strong urge to refactor everything in my current project. No curly braces, no pipes? Sign me up! src & in the Ruby docs

As the bot goes on, its algorithm degrades as elements of randomness are introduced.

“A Ruby library for generating plain text x,y cartesian plots and histograms that can be displayed in a terminal session.” on GitHub

XML is like violence - if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it. Nokogiri project page Starting a new project today that will heavily involve, you guessed it, XML.

The key point is that there was no programming or learning involved to create the behaviors. The connectome of the worm was mapped and implemented as a software system and the behaviors emerge. “A Worm’s Mind In A Lego Body” http://i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/7985-a-worms-mind-in-a-lego-body.html via http://interconnected.org/home/

New Chrome extension in the works: Glitch Vision - replace .jpgs across the web with glitched-out versions of themselves. Makes heavy use of this project: https://github.com/snorpey/glitch-canvas

unquietpirate: unquietpirate: When you start looking for examples of nonconsensual culture in technology, you find them absolutely everywhere. - Deb Chachra, Age of Non-Consent About a month ago, someone sent me this lovely rant and asked me to publish it anonymously. I’ve been sitting on it mostly because I got… [goto](http://unquietpirate.tumblr.com/post/97550017813/your-consent-is-not-being-violated-by-accident)