Transcendental Programming in Ruby

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Claims concrete hacks: a gem that encodes Ruby programs to a natural number and decodes them back, a generator that emits a QR code containing an executable Ruby quine, several self-reconstructing quines combining terminal animation and a sound-wave synthesizer that actually plays “Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring,” and a resilient “twine” program that continues to run when any one character is removed. Demos and contest-winning examples run live and mostly work as shown.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:37A Ruby program
3. 5:38Internal: Double-helix decoding
4. 6:55How to install
5. 24:39Conclusion

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