Tag Archives: Factorio
Games and life
Running through the games on my phone and what I like about them Continue reading
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Tagged 1010, Factorio, Idle Slayer, Kingdom Rush, Loop, Lost in Play, Monument Valley, Rytmos, smartphone games
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Games grimy and green
Every day, I spend an hour or three playing a game called Factorio, in which you mine and process natural resources with which to build and automate ever-larger factories that manufacture materials for research, transport, power, and weapons. Once your … Continue reading
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Tagged Dyson Sphere Program, Factorio, Oxygen Not Included, Terra Nil, videogames
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The thing about π
Consider the following setup, from the game ‘Factorio’, the game about factory management and automation: There are two factories visible in this image – the two rectangular, green-walled buildings. Take the one on the left: it’s manufacturing electric furnaces, with … Continue reading
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Tagged ∞, asymptotic, Factorio, factory floor, industrial management, infinity, irrational numbers, Neptune-Pluto resonance, orbital resonance, planetary resonance, resource pressure, π
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A future obscured by exponential growth
A couple months into the COVID-19 pandemic, I think most of us realised how hard it is to comprehend the phenomenon of exponential growth. Mathematically, it’s trivial – a geometric progression – but more physically, the difference between linear and … Continue reading
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Tagged COVID-19 epidemic, COVID-19 pandemic, exponential growth, Factorio, Homo sapiens, logistics, MachinePix, predicting the future, quality control, rotary screen printer, supply chain management, technology, wheat and chessboard problem
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