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๐Ÿ”— El Corte Inglรฉs, Europeโ€™s Biggest Department Store

๐Ÿ”— Companies ๐Ÿ”— Brands ๐Ÿ”— Retailing ๐Ÿ”— Spain

El Corte Inglรฉs S.A. (Spanish pronunciation:ย [el หˆkoษพte iล‹หˆษกles]), headquartered in Madrid, is the biggest department store group in Europe and ranks third worldwide. El Corte Inglรฉs is Spain's only remaining department store chain. El Corte Inglรฉs has been a member of the International Association of department stores since 1998.

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๐Ÿ”— Staล„czyk

๐Ÿ”— Biography ๐Ÿ”— Comedy ๐Ÿ”— Poland

Staล„czyk (c. 1480โ€“1560) (Polish pronunciation:ย [หˆstaษฒtอกส‚ษจk]) was a Polish court jester, the most famous in Polish history. He was employed by three Polish kings: Alexander, Sigismund the Old and Sigismund Augustus.

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๐Ÿ”— Ruby (Programming Language)

๐Ÿ”— Computing ๐Ÿ”— Computer science ๐Ÿ”— Computing/Software ๐Ÿ”— Computing/Free and open-source software

Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language which supports multiple programming paradigms. It was designed with an emphasis on programming productivity and simplicity. In Ruby, everything is an object, including primitive data types. It was developed in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan.

Ruby is dynamically typed and uses garbage collection and just-in-time compilation. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including procedural, object-oriented, and functional programming. According to the creator, Ruby was influenced by Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, BASIC, Java and Lisp.

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๐Ÿ”— Computers Don't Argue

๐Ÿ”— Science Fiction

"Computers Don't Argue" is a 1965 science fiction short story by American writer Gordon R. Dickson, about the dangers of relying too strongly upon computers. It was nominated for a Nebula Award in 1966.

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๐Ÿ”— Gompertz Function

๐Ÿ”— Mathematics ๐Ÿ”— Statistics

The Gompertz curve or Gompertz function is a type of mathematical model for a time series, named after Benjamin Gompertz (1779โ€“1865). It is a sigmoid function which describes growth as being slowest at the start and end of a given time period. The right-side or future value asymptote of the function is approached much more gradually by the curve than the left-side or lower valued asymptote. This is in contrast to the simple logistic function in which both asymptotes are approached by the curve symmetrically. It is a special case of the generalised logistic function. The function was originally designed to describe human mortality, but since has been modified to be applied in biology, with regard to detailing populations.

๐Ÿ”— Zalgo Text

๐Ÿ”— Internet culture

Zalgo text, also known as cursed text due to the nature of its use, is digital text that has been modified with numerous combining characters, Unicode symbols used to add diacritics above or below letters, to appear frightening or glitchy.

Named for a 2004 Internet creepypasta story that ascribes it to the influence of an eldritch deity, Zalgo text has become a significant component of many Internet memes, particularly in the "surreal meme" culture. The formatting of Zalgo text also allows it to be used to halt or impair certain computer functions, whether intentionally or not.

๐Ÿ”— Tommy Flowers

๐Ÿ”— Biography ๐Ÿ”— London ๐Ÿ”— Biography/science and academia ๐Ÿ”— Engineering

Thomas Harold Flowers MBE (22 December 1905 - 28 October 1998) was an English engineer with the British General Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help decipher encrypted German messages.

๐Ÿ”— Wikipedia lets you create books

This Help page is about Wikipedia books created on Wikipedia.

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๐Ÿ”— Delphic Hymns

๐Ÿ”— Classical Greece and Rome ๐Ÿ”— Greece

The Delphic Hymns are two musical compositions from Ancient Greece, which survive in substantial fragments. They were long regarded as being dated c.โ€‰138ย BC and 128ย BC, respectively, but recent scholarship has shown it likely they were both written for performance at the Athenian Pythaides in 128ย BC. If indeed it dates from ten years before the second, the First Delphic Hymn is the earliest unambiguous surviving example of notated music from anywhere in the western world whose composer is known by name. Inscriptions indicate that the First Delphic Hymn was written by Athenaeus, son of Athenaeus, while Limenius is credited the Second Delphic Hymn's composer.

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๐Ÿ”— Atari STacy (1989)

๐Ÿ”— Companies ๐Ÿ”— Computing

The STacy is a portable computer version of the Atari ST.

The computer was originally designed to operate on 12 standard C cell flashlight batteries for portability. When Atari realized how quickly the machine would use up a set of batteries (especially when rechargeable batteries of the time supplied insufficient power compared to the intended alkalines), they simply glued the lid of the battery compartment shut.

The STacy has features similar to the Macintosh Portable, a version of Apple's Macintosh computer which contained a built in keyboard and monitor.

With built-in MIDI, the STacy enjoyed success for running music-sequencer software and as a controller of musical instruments among both amateurs and well-known musicians.

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