Most people just don’t care about preservation, and I occasionally run across people that are actually hostile to it, but I have always been aligned with the Internet Archive’s motto: Save Everything.

I have a box of computer science lectures on VHS tapes from thirty years ago that I was wondering if I should get digitized, but they are all already here: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

I always wanted to get Apple AirPlay support on Meta Quest, but it was said that Apple wouldn’t cooperate. I’m sure there were “screw Meta” factions, but surely there are also factions that want AirPlay to be a ubiquitous standard on every display, and would see the value of

What's really going on in machine learning? Just finished a deep dive using (new) minimal models. Seems like ML is basically about fitting together lumps of computational irreducibility ... with important potential implications for science of ML, and future tech...

A scientist saying “That’s funny…” while looking at surprising data leads to many advances. Unfortunately, it is usually just a mistake/bug.

The well we had dug needed to go down over 400’ to hit water. That is a significant head, and the pump draws a lot of power. What would be the fundamental challenges reversing that and using a pond on the surface for pumped hydro energy storage? Batteries are cheap, and you might

That raises an interesting question — why aren’t there WiFi/RF targeting drone destroyers? They are shining a beacon! No AI needed.

Compared to the mechanical complexity of helicopter swash plates, quad rotor drones are elegantly simple. I wonder if it would be possible to get attitude control out of a fixed two rotor (counter rotating) system by having the motor push or break in different parts of the

Interesting failure mode. VS Code’s debugger would lock up whenever I stepped past a line like: S=tensor.untyped_storage() It turns out that the print function for this class doesn’t do any kind of elision, so the debugger window that automatically displays local variables

I wonder if, instead of being a Steam Game, there could be more potential in web games of this type (and others!), where people are playing the game before they even realize it. Running all of Unreal inside a browser is impressive, but lightweight bespoke web game solutions

Mention of AnandTech still brings back memories of the early GPU days for me.

I see people looking at game art and mistakenly comparing it to how other games look as if thinking the tech must be the same. Folks, I am sorry to tell you, you are likely wrong because artists/devs are very good at fooling us 😉! Here a thread to help distinguish (expand! 🧵👇)

Sometimes I consider the question of what could benefit if older generation chip fabs somehow get dramatically cheaper. It is hard to make a case for any logic or memory use on several generations old process even if it was free, due to power and capabilities. One possible use

I've been thinking about writing this thread for a long time, because I think most people - including a lot of game devs, especially more junior ones - don't understand something important about the AAA games industry. Let's talk about home run swings. (thred)

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