I find this segment to be particularly insightful:
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I think this is relevant: https://news.cs.washington.edu/2013/08/14/chicken-chicken-chicken-chicken-chicken/
That's the one I was gonna post! I think the text file containing ASCII 0s and 1s for an image of the Mona Lisa comes second.
In my mailbox...My arrest warrant from the Dutch police.
Ok, this is definitely the winning comment. I'm crossing my fingers for you bro
What are the charges?
Eating a meal, a Succulent Chinese Meal
Get your hands off my penis!
Ah so you send me that .pdf, tuff luck
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Hmm, it probably depends what you think is weird, but I have one in their on the feasibility of extracting ammonia from biomass. There's also one on early steam turbines by a fellow named Geoff Horseman, which is a fun name.
Edit: Oh, I also have a professional critique of my dating profile photos. That's weird in a different way, since I actually got that done, and it unexpectedly came as a PDF.
Ok, the second one is definitely a wierd(ly specific) PDF and I dig it!
It's a beast too - 202 pages. From the part I read, I could probably make one that kinda works, but that's it. Unfortunately the author didn't go into the details I was hoping for, like why exactly steam turbine airfoils are hook-shaped. One neat thing is that they have a nice little formula for comparing totally different turbines over time to show how they gradually do more with less.
The ammonia paper is weird because it's a super impractical and difficult idea - normally you fix nitrogen in a big Haber-Bosch plant and turn it into biomass. Both came up because they're applicable to primitive tech stuff.
I have more and probably weirder, but the things I care about tend to be moved out of the download folder.
I can definitely relate. I have several PDFs of advanced textbooks from when I wanted to learn some very niche skill. The latest one is an economics textbook from when I wanted to learn about different types of auctions and the maths/game theory behind each.
Oh hell yeah. As originally a maths person, the Vickrey-GSP-VCG auction continuum is great; very satisfying. Have you looked into fair cake cutting algorithms as well?
You got your dating photos critiqued? And it exists as a paid service?? You fascinate me Sir.
Yeah, it came with ghostwriting for the text section.
Man, I have no idea what people are looking for from dating profiles, and what I got back from the seasoned pros just reinforces that. Left to my own devices, I went terse and impartial. What they wrote seems cheesy and boastful to me, but I guess comes across as confidence to others. Which just means it's money well spent, I suppose, because I haven't gotten any complaints since.
My mom's death certificate. That's weird.
RIP. This is up there with the arrest warrant
I found the Cunt Coloring Book from the 1970's. Yes, scanned in as PDF. Yes, a few pages were already colored in, mostly psychedelic colors though.
And yes, it's exactly what it sounds like, a bunch of hand drawn lady parts to be colored in.
Ah I didn't think to look into that part of my downloads for PDFs
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I have a key to tree identification in winter. It's surprisingly useful
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A copy of Man after Man:
This is such a weird book. It has leech people, underwater people, blind psychic baby people, meat mountain people, etc.
Kenshi mentioned!
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"Countries where suicide is outlawed.pdf"
What the fuck, Bahamas? Life imprisonment?
Well, if they went for the death penalty it'd be obviously ironic.
Historically, I have a vague memory of knowing the fact that some places did actually do that, although I should check.
Germanic-sphere countries historically liked to kill people for stealing bread, so I guess it's not too disproportional. You have to think the person going "yes please" would make the whole lynchmob atmosphere hard to keep going, though.
Do share if you find it, I've mostly turned up works by critics with a quick search.
Usually itβs a placeholder punishment so that the police can break in and stop you committing a crime
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The technical plans for the Death Star.
Are there any vulnerabilities? Asking for a friend
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This feels pretty niche...
Pdf version of doom from hackernews not so long ago.
The Death report for Kurt Cobain. Mostly from morbid curiosity and a love for Nirvana. I donβt do that for everyone or anything like that. Thatβs the weirdest one. π
I think if i dig through my records I can find a federal subpoena from 2016. A LEO had to formally come to my door to confirm I received it but the prosecutor sent it to me via email.
Let's see, The CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual, some paper on MKultra, some paper about The Hum, Some scientific paper on the longevity of recordable optical media, and a paper about crows.
I have the working draft of this year's List of Items for the Official University of Chicago Official Scavenger Hunt, the world's largest -and probably weirdest- annual scavenger hunt.
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Depends on your weird.
I write, so there's a ton of stuff on decomposition, forensics, and related subject matter that are weird by some standards.
I've got stuff on niche mythology too, for the same reason. Along with that is stuff on modern paganism, syncretic religions, and related subjects. Again, weird by some standards.
But I tend to think the morbid stuff is what would catch most people by surprise.
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Boringly, the only thing in there currently is the guide from the dmv (mvc, sorry) for nj to review cause I'm feeling old and need a refresher.
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