Weekly Shaarli

All links of one week in a single page.

Week 48 (November 27, 2023)

Visual Anagrams

Anagram: a word constructed from the same set of letters of a different word. Here by "visual anagram" it means the type of visual illusion that one picture can be rearranged to another picture with a different interpretation. This work demonstrates a method for generating visual anagrams automatically using a pixel-based diffusion model.

Animotion — Visual CSS Animation Maker

A web-based CSS animation editor.

Rust std fs slower than Python!? No, it's hardware!

A nice article on the exploration of a performance issue, which ultimately leads to the discovery of a bug in AMD CPU.

Complex and R^2 Graph Plotter

A function graph plotter to explore complex functions by drawing on one complex plane and see the output on the other.

Sqids (formerly Hashids) · Generate Short IDs from Numbers

An encoding scheme for encoding a sequence of numbers into a short URI-safe string, like a mix of nanoid and base64

No Fap: A Cultural History of Anti-Masturbation | Los Angeles Review of Books

An essay on people's view of masturbation and asceticism through history. It was a fun read filled with absurd though useless knowledge on the futile efforts people made for this purpose.

(e.g. the “Electric Alarum” (1887) was a surveillance tool that set off an alarm for parents if their sleeping boy’s penis changed size during the night.)