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Landauer machine

Lifting 150μg by 2fm has never felt so exciting.

√Flatland³

"It is clear that the line BC cannot curve simultaneously left and right"

Poor man's git

Git is "free as in freedom", mine is "poor as in you-poor-thing."

Gezira: a deep dive

Looking at a piece of historical software.

Astronomical algorithm test vectors

Just some numbers.

Death clock

An electronics art project.

Rack, REPL, and registers

More lisp machine work

The first couple boards

Don't forget to hang your blinkenlights from the eaves this christmas!

Lisp machine interlude

If this was a prusa printer build, I'd have eaten my weight in gummy bears already

Aliasing

A closer look at box filters

Peacock gradient overlay

Just a code snippet

Lambert conformal projection derivation

Why would I write something like this? It'd be so much more useful and discoverable as an edit to the wikipedia page.

Lisp machine simulator

A learning project or NIH? I can't even tell anymore.

Abstractions are logarithms

But often lead to larger codebases. Go figure.

Making up facts about history

I've recently been working with CD/CI systems, can you tell?

A self-exploration of image compression

A random walk through idea-space will reach enlightenment at a rate of sqrt(2 * n * log log n).

The china bit

Hopefully this is the last time we have to do this; we don't have many bits to spare.

Using FFmpeg in C

avformat_load_blogpost();

Nopelepsy update July 2022

Comparing different Nopelepsy versions from the past several years

Monte carlo confidence intervals

A technique for generating arbitrary confidence intervals in a cheap way.

The world's shittiest PS/2 emulation

Seriously. It's real real bad.

Chaos engine

The revolution will return after these short messages.

X11 NASM

Just a code snippet

The stack

Thinking about why the stack works well

Obligatory "new website" post

The hows and the whys

JVM bytecode sucks

I get mad at people who think that JVMs and the .class file format are good ideas

Nopelepsy Update: OpenCV and OpenCL

Updating Nopelepsy to use image and GPGPU libraries and the algorithm changes involved.

Nopelepsy technical introduction

Talking about a way detect possible epilepsy-sensitive flashes in videos.

Microfacet Importance Sampling: For Dummies

Quick rundown of the important equations for doing BRDF microfacet importance sampling for path tracing.