That mysterious J : “in e-mail from Microsoft employees, you may find a stray J […] The J started out its life as a smiley-face. The WingDings font puts a smiley face where the letter J goes. […] As the message travels from machine to machine, the font formatting may get lost or mangled, resulting in the letter J appearing when a smiley face was intended.” aha! mystery solved. Amazon is full of mysterious “J”s in emails, and now I know why
(tags: amazon j letters wingdings microsoft spoor fonts noise)Using genetic algorithms to find Starcraft 2 build orders : discovered a previously-unknown optimal build strategy for the Zerg race — how cool is that
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