Matthew Scroggs

Matthew Scroggs

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Matthew Scroggs
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This weekend, @segacrew.bsky.social are running SMS Mania to celebrate 40 years since the Master System was released in North America. I'll be attempting 10/10 gold medals in Winter Olympics from 17:15 (UK time) tomorrow. Watch at www.twitch.tv/segacrew to find out which event I fail at.

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Matthew Scroggs
@mscroggs.co.uk

This weekend, @segacrew.bsky.social are running SMS Mania to celebrate 40 years since the Master System was released in North America. I'll be attempting 10/10 gold medals in Winter Olympics from 17:15 (UK time) tomorrow. Watch at www.twitch.tv/segacrew to find out which event I fail at.

twitch.tvSegaCrew - Twitch"It's only after we've played SEGA that we're free to do anything." — SegaCrew streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to chat, and join their community.
Matthew Scroggs
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Have enjoyed (and am still enjoying) the three afternoons of #SciCompInRust26 this week. Very impressed by the huge range of application areas that people are using #RustLang in!

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Wall chart #17: The Observer £4.50 (with newspaper) Pros: 👍 Roads the the final showing England's and Scotland's likely opponents is nice Cons: 👎 No space to write results 👎 Why did they decide to make a wall calendar not a wall chart?! Overall: 10/197

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Wall chart #18: The Sunday Times £4.50 (with newspaper) Pros: 👍 Creative arrangement of knock out matches 👍 Big final in centre 👍 Handy calendar that you can cut off the side Cons: 👎 Doesn't say which weekdays matches are on 👎 No space to write teams in third place play off Overall: 10/15

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Wall chart #15: The Sun (Saturday) £1.60 (with newspaper) Pros: 👍 Shows which channel matches are on Cons: 👎 Calls Netherlands "Holland" 👎 Match times above the results confused me for a minute 👎 I had to buy The Sun Overall: 10/22

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Wall chart #16: The Sunday Post £3.20 (with newspaper) Pros: 👍 Stadium photos 👍 Big space to write the winner 👍 Picture of the trophy Cons: 👎 No space to write group standings Overall: 10/15

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Wall chart #13: Daily Mail (Saturday) £1.70 (with newspaper) Pros: 👍 Shows which channel matches are on 👍 Space for full W/D/L/Pts in groups Cons: 👎 Double-sided 👎 I had to buy a Daily Mail Overall: 10/25

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Wall chart #14: The Telegraph (Saturday) £4.50 (with newspaper) Pros: 👍 Shows which channel matches are on 👍 Nice calendar schedule along bottom 👍 Stadium pictures 👍 Harry Kane punching the final Cons: 👎 Knockout matches a little small Overall: 10/14

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Wall chart #11: Match of the Day £7.99 (with magazine) Pros: 👍 It's big 👍 Big space for the final 👍 The flag of Switzerland is a big plus Cons: 👎 Space for group results a bit small, with no columns for points 👎 The USA flag banner in the background has been stretched to oblivion Overall: 10/15

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Wall chart #12: Turbo Island (www.turbo-island.co.uk/product/worl...) £10 + £5 postage Pros: 👍 Beautifully chaotic 👍 Another drawing on the back (but have to wait for mine to arrive to find out what) Cons: 👎 You have to wait for the postie to deliver it 👎 More expensive than some Overall: 10/13

turbo-island.co.ukTHE WORLD'S WEIRDEST WORLD CUP WALLCHART 2026It's here! 420mm x 594mm (slightly smaller than the one in the photo) On tough recycled paper. Good for scribbling the scores on. Will send yours out in a colourful tube, roughly a week before the fir...
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Wall chart #9: WSC £7.95 (with magazine) Pros: 👍 Map of North America with Gulf of Mexico correctly named 👍 Gentle reminder that USA is hostile to visitors 👍 Magazine has article about Coventry City Cons: 👎 Final a bit small and low down Overall: 10/12

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Wall chart #10: Strike-it £8.99 (with magazine) Pros: 👍 Photos of stadiums 👍 Comes with 3 packs of Panini stickers and an album (and other Panini stuff I don't want) Cons: 👎 Copying team to last 32 matches on the back is going to be a pain (why has double-sided become a thing?) Overall: 10/19

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Wall chart #7: Elliot Quince (www.quinkyart.com/p/world-cup-...) £10 + £5.50 postage Pros: 👍 Pics of flags + players 👍 Proceeds to great charity 👍 Map of North America Cons: 👎 You have to wait for the postie to bring it to you 👎 More expensive than many 👎 Missing 3rd place play-off Overall: 10/11

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Wall chart #8: Match! £5.99 (with magazine) Pros: 👍 Excellent group matches and tables layout 👍 Comes with 2 packs of Panini stickers Cons: 👎 Knock-out section a bit cramped Overall: 10/15

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Ayliean
@ayliean.bsky.social

Can we pair up the wall charts and bid them against each other in a tournament - which we keep a track of on the mega wall chart of wall charts

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#FIFAWC26 is coming up so it's time to rate all the wall charts (thread)

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Wall chart #5: A Fan Guide to World Football 2026 £9.99 (with magazine) Pros: 👍 No staple holes 👍 Pictures of flags + players Cons: 👎 Printed pre play-offs: some teams still one of 3/4 countries 👎 Copying team to last 32 matches on the back is going to be a pain 👎 No match times Overall: 10/19

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Wall chart #6: No score draws £10 + £5 postage Pros: 👍 Pictures of flags 👍 Pictures of players 👍 Space for winning captain and you 👍 Buying one supports a talented artist Cons: 👎 You have to wait for the postie to bring it to you 👎 More expensive than many Overall: 10/11 bsky.app/profile/nosc...

No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽@noscoredraws.com

Hooray, our World Cup 2026 Wall Chart is FINISHED 🥳 It's our biggest wall chart ever, an A1-sized shambles sullied by SIXTY wonky doodles. Dunno if competitions fly on Bluesky, but if you share this we'll send a couple of freebies out to some (un)lucky RTers x 🛒 noscoredraws.com/products/wor...

noscoredraws.comWorld Cup 2026 Wall Chart - No Score Draws A1 WC2026 Poster Print - ExOur biggest ever wonky World Cup Wall Chart for the biggest ever World Cup! Yes it's the 2026 World Cup, so to keep track of all the ins and outs, the kick-of times, scores and tables, here's a HUGE A...
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Matthew Scroggs
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Wall chart #3: TV & Streaming Week £4.50 (with magazine) Pros: 👍 Picture of trophy Cons: 👎 Gives times in BST but days in EDT (eg AUT vs JOR is "Tue 16 June ⋅ 5am (early Wed)" 👎 Slightly tore while detaching staples 👎 Same layout as #1 but smaller (and noisier background) Overall: 10/23

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Wall chart #4: Daily Mirror World Cup £4.49 (with newspaper special issue) Pros: 👍 Pictures of flags 👍 Texture of a proper old fashioned newspaper wall chart Cons: 👎 Nowhere to write group points 👎 Spaces for knockout teams and scores are tiny 👎 Small holes where it was stapled Overall: 10/19

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Wall chart #1: FourFourTwo £7.99 (with magazine) Pros: 👍 It's big 👍 Picture of World Cup 👍 Huge space for the final 👍 Not stapled so no holes Cons: 👎 Nowhere to write the points in each group 👎 Abbreviated country names hard to read at a glance Overall: 10/17

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Wall chart #2: Radio Times £5.99 (with magazine) Pros: 👍 Says channel matches are on 👍 England + Scotland highlighted in red + blue 👍 Widescreen format 👍 Calendar along bottom Cons: 👎 Slightly tore while detaching staples 👎 Radio Times now coverless 👎 Nowhere to write group points Overall: 10/14

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Happy new paper day to me! doi.org/10.1007/s442...

doi.orgDefElement: an encyclopedia of finite element definitions - Computational Science and EngineeringDefElement is an online encyclopedia of finite element definitions that was created and is maintained by the authors of this paper. DefElement aims to make information about elements defined in the literature easily available in a standard format. There are a number of open-source finite element libraries available, and it can be difficult to check that an implementation of an element in a library matches the element’s definition in the literature or implementation in another library, especially when many libraries include variants of elements whose basis functions do not match exactly. In this paper, we carefully derive conditions under which elements can be considered equivalent and describe an algorithm that uses these conditions to verify that two implementations of a finite element are indeed variants of the same element. The results of scheduled runs of our implementation of this verification algorithm are included in the information available on the DefElement website.

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Chalkdust
@chalkdustmag.bsky.social

Happy new Chalkdust! Issue 23, featuring sleep, coffee and cheating at Tetris feature in our SS26 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns. Read it for free RIGHT NOW at chalkdustmagazine.com/.

chalkdustmagazine.comChalkdust: Read Issue 22 nowA magazine for the mathematically curious. Issue 22 now available: DNA origami, tracks and an interview with El Nombre feature in our AW25 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
Matthew Scroggs
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Short answer: They're the pieces for a new puzzle-a-day style calendar that I found on which it isn't possible to display fake days like 31 September. Long answer at chalkdustmagazine.com/regulars/on-....

chalkdustmagazine.comOn the cover: A new puzzle every day - ChalkdustMatthew Scroggs puts polyominoes inside polygons
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Issue 23 of @chalkdustmag.bsky.social comes out on Monday. I did the maths for what's on the cover and I'm very excited about it being released. Without the back cover, it's not obvious what the pieces on the front are for. Any guesses?

Matthew Scroggs
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If a description of the ship of Theseus has had every reference to the ship of Theseus replaced with a reference to Trigger's broom, is it still a description of the ship of Theseus?

Matthew Scroggs
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The world record speedrun for Pokémon Red/Blue is 1 hour, 43 minutes and 40 seconds. In that run, they picked their started after 1 minute and 23 seconds. I picked my starter after 18 days, which I reckon gives me a lower bound of 3.7 years to complete simultaneous Pokémon Blue and Wordle...

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Wordle Tetris bot
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