Joseph Bernstein
347 posts
A tribute to the TI-83 games that got me through trigonometry, and got me a C+ in trigonometry
The news that Texas Instruments is adding color to its ubiquitous graphing calculators brought streaming back a torrent of gaming memories. What Dan Rubinstein never realized as he struggled to communicate to me the principles of trigonometry was that I was engaged in the management of a large-scale
Science figures out human-rodent multiplayer
Well, this story just about made my day. Scientists have figured out a way for humans and rats to interact at scale, meaning, the human’s movements control a rat-sized robot in a pen with the rat, and the rat’s movements control a human-sized “beamed” avatar. Professor Mandayam Srinivasan, author o
"In big-time Big Buck hunting, with five figures on the line, the ultimate prey isn’t the virtual deer; it’s the dude at the other end of the plastic gun."
From Ben Robinson’s terrific piece in Deadspin today about the Big Buck World Championsihp.
Navy SEALS punished for participating in Medal of Honor
I doubt this is what EA had in mind when they touted Warfighter as the most versimilar military shooter ever made: Seven members of the secretive Navy SEAL Team 6, including one involved in the mission to get Osama bin Laden, have been punished for disclosing classified information, senior Navy offi
GTA V is going to be twice as big as Manhattan. Actual Manhattan
News of Grand Theft Auto V‘s enormous size has set the internet atwitter today. So, just how big is “bigger than RDR, San Andreas, and GTA IV“? According to highly scientific internet forums, Red Dead Redemption is 28 square miles, San Andreas is 13.6 square miles, and GTA IV is 6.8 square miles. Th
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