fatlimey

fatlimey, 1 day ago to random

This guy unwrapped the "2001: A Space Odyssey" slit-scan graphics to find the original images used. One was a fish and coral.
https://www.seriss.com/people/erco/2001/

fatlimey, 6 days ago to random

A new number coding contender enters the ring. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.18603

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aras, 8 days ago to random

So, Unity’s new CEO is from Zynga and EA (and more recently, Fitbit). Mkay, mkay.😢 https://investors.unity.com/news/news-details/2024/Unity-Appoints-Matthew-Bromberg-as-New-CEO/default.aspx

demofox, 13 days ago to random

Waiting for praga

danluu, 15 days ago to random

How long before formal methods are widely use in software engineering?

https://www.patreon.com/posts/102809124

demofox, 17 days ago to random

They say real estate is a good investment, but that's only really true if you don't have to live in it. If you sell your price increased house, you still need a different price increased place to live.
If you have a second investment property, you can sell it and keep the money.
I'm starting to think that rising house prices mainly benefit the people giving out housing loans, by making them larger.

demofox, 1 month ago to random

Oh boy. I can now say there is a new family of noise textures dropping at i3d in a month that is higher quality than spatiotemporal blue noise, generalizes to arbitrary spatial and temporal filters, and we show significant benefit under motion/disoclusion with temporal filtering/reprojection for real time.
It was a collaborative effort between the 4 of us, but William Donnelly really knocked it out of the park, deriving a well motivated loss function, making it possible.
More details to come!

fatlimey, 1 month ago to random

Available now, Application Specific Arithmetic, the "ASA" book. If you do arithmetic on FPGA this book perfectly complements the ASIC-focused "Digital Arithmetic" by Ercegovac, describing methods and hacks that work well for FPGA. Sometimes all you need are a series of lookup tables.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/3031428072/

pluralistic, 2 months ago to random

Garbage day at the old Duchamp house.

TomF, 2 months ago to random

@aras Getting a shitload of identical spam postings in Japanese (I think?) from random alphanumeric address at m.mxin.moe

fatlimey, 3 months ago to random

fatlimey, 4 months ago to random

After the Allies cracked Enigma, what did they use for their own codes? The SIGABA machine, a 15-rotor device that was only declassified in 2001.
https://media.defense.gov/2021/Jul/13/2002762038/-1/-1/0/THE_SIGABA_ECM_CIPHER_MACHINE_A_BEAUTIFUL_IDEA3.PDF

toxi, 4 months ago to generative

Been debugging boids & behavior combinations all evening! Happy to say, I think all force contributions are fixed now (classic off-by-one error was leading to an initially subtle but increasingly obvious directional bias), and I can focus again on experimenting with some new amazing emergent behaviors... Aside from that, maybe this also qualifies for #Genuary2024 (Day 1: Particles)?!

Btw. This is just a variation of this #ThingUmbrella example project:

https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/boid-basics/

...which was created as part of last year's #HowToThing series:

https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111308439597090930

#Agents #Boids #Behaviors #Emergence #Generative #GenerativeArt

fatlimey, 5 months ago to random

Just received my second payment from the "High Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation" case, a hefty $3.11 out of the $415m raised from Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe, Lucasfilm and Pixar in order to settle the case and publicly demonstrate that they did nothing wrong under the law while colluding not to hire each others employees. Just so we are clear, nothing illegal happened.
http://www.hightechemployeelawsuit.com/

mbr, 5 months ago to random

Music: I'd never heard of Gunship before (think retro synthwave) until a HS friend hit me up with a track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE2UM7dzZlw

Crazy list of collaborators
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunship_(band)

aras, 6 months ago to random

Also, I've spent way too much time than necessary (again) figuring out correct axis signs, while rotating Spherical Harmonikas.

mbr, 6 months ago to random

Does anybody know what the current usable state-of-the-art method of converting an unsigned integer multiply by constant is? I'd imagine it's not still a variant Bernstein.

demofox, 6 months ago to random

So we invented mugs such that handle has surface area away from the hot body of the mug, to stay cool.
Why oh God why does the microwave thing that the handle is a resonating antenna and the handle is by far the hottest part of the mug?
Time for a redesign!

glassbottommeg, 6 months ago to random

I struggle to articulate it, but something I really dig about post-Twitter-world is: I just do not know about every single game that comes out, or books/movies/etc.

I still have channels that float up some good lil stuffs, but I can be surprised by media again! I can appreciate mid games because I didn't watch influencers rag on them for 3 weeks.

I feel like I'm forming my own opinions again. Which makes me double take all, um, wait how long had Twitter been feeding me my opinions. Shit. Well that's not good.

b0rk, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

what git jargon do you find confusing? thinking of writing a blog post that explains some of git's weirder terminology: "detached HEAD state”, "fast-forward", "index/staging area/staged", “ahead of 'origin/main' by 1 commit”, etc

(really only looking for terms that you personally find confusing, not terms that you think someone else might be confused about)

lritter, 6 months ago to random

a while ago i devised a sort of embryonic datatype comprised of blobs (vector of bytes) and cells (tuple of blobs and/or cells).

but yesterday, just as i was going to sleep i realized: i can even remove that last duality and merge both types into one "ordered struct": a bunch of bytes followed by a vector of pointers. this datatype can represent any other specialized storage type that we know.

fatlimey, 6 months ago to random

Looking for something like Posit but goes harder in the "golden zone"? Morris Tapered Floating Point may be for you.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.09797.pdf