Imagine you are the maintainer of an open source FPGA toolchain such as Apicula and you want to make sure your code works. The industry standard for making sure software works is to set up continuous integration that tests your code for every change you make.
It seems that people on my part of Twitter, in particular the rationalists, are very into Newcomb’s problem, probably because their guru wrote about it, so they all believe you should pick one box.
I have recently become a dad, which is sometimes amazing, and sometimes suffering, such as when the baby is in a fussy mood and refusing to sleep. Some friends were very enthusiastic about a $1.5k smart crib that makes white noise and rocks your baby to sleep. You know what also makes noise, rocks your baby to sleep, and doesn’t cost $1.5k? That’s right, this Lego model. This is already by far my…
Last month I subscribed to Claude Pro, but was dismayed to learn it doesn’t give you API access to use it in VS Code or Home Assistant or whatever. So I didn’t renew my subscription and instead bought API access, thinking I’d just use some chat app. Turns out it’s not that easy to find a good chat app where you can just plug in your API token.
So quantization is kinda bad lossy compression right? JPEG is good lossy compression. This may sound stupid, and maybe it is, but hear me out.
I got a litlte bit nerd sniped by the following video and decided to implement game of life in clojure.core.logic, because any logic program can be evaluated forwards and backwards.
This is a theoretical counterpart to an experimental collaboration between KnowArt and Proper Printing to see if a diagonal guillotine blade cuts better than a horizontal one.
My dad likes to argue with flat earthers on Facebook, so I decided to steel man a consistent flat earth theory. The premise is simple: you just take a 3D azimuthal equidistant projection of the spherical world and rewrite physics in the new coordinate system. This is what it looks like:
I’m making a clay tablet library with media from around the 20th century, to preserve our culture for the ages and answer the question: What do we want the distant future to know about us?
I built my own electro-mechanical music instrument by combining ideas from some of the coolest instruments I know of: