Robin Green

In 1967, commercial simplex method codes cost $200k-$500k to develop

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

DOOM... on a Vectrex.

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

The QR Code: Birth of a Global Standard is a great watch for many reasons www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

The most important principle when teaching LP is to not cover any theoretical nonsense

Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

DAGS, a chip architecture for rendering gaussian splats. ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...

LLMs only draw inferences and cannot create new premises. Humans learn & then AI applies, not otherwise. This is the first Hugging Face hack explanation I've read that explains the data from which AI agents drew references: Years of public, flag-capture hacking contests (incl. hacker shit-talking)

Help! Parton Community Council has 60 days to raise £70k to buy Parton Kirk (resting place of James Clerk Maxwell). They plan to turn it into a visitor centre celebrating our great hero! The other buyers could turn it into long-term storage 😬 Even £5 would help 🙏🧪⚛️ www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

This is the information I'm here for.

Linear Programming is a secret weapon and has been for years.

And it led me to this, which is also good. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/no-alphafo...

Finally Vim got a usable Text Editor

Now that's how you properly comment numeric code with magic constants - scare the living bejeezus out of anyone even thinking about rewriting it by using FACTS YOU HAVEN'T EVEN CONSIDERED.

"Some harm reduction advocates are annoying" isn't a serious policy analysis or prescription. Everyone wants to get homeless people off the streets. Harm reduction advocates want to get them into shelters and treatment, which works. Their opponents want incarceration, which doesn't.

Really interesting story here. You know how the hyperscaler cowboys are powering their data centers with gas turbines? It turns out the demands of AI are not very friendly to those turbines. They're supposed to last 5+ years & instead they're wearing out in under 12 months!

The guy who taught me A* on how to improve your A* implementations. Also, respect for tutorials that take a decade to write.

A Scottish audio company, famous for their turntables, once invented a CPU architecture.

 Their internal software kind of sucked. Somehow along the way, the company became convinced that the problem was that all Von Neumann-style computers were WRONG.

Been really enjoying Pig & Dan's downtempo album "Destination Unknown III", a couple of cracking tracks on there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=asQ3...

I love this movie, it's a healing nerd-movie without requiring cowboy wisdom.

28 yo son: There's this song I heard that is SO good. It's from your time but I'm not sure you've heard it before. He then played Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads.

Replaced a single cat5e cable with a cat6e and got a 4x bandwidth increase to that port. Lesson learned, looks like I'm going shopping and replace me some patch cables and bin the old ones.

So Brian McClendon is selling Niantic Spatial data collected from Pokemon Go and Ingress players, and are selling it to military contractor Vanator for GPS free navigation. And people wondered why there are ethics sections in their Software Engineering degrees. It didn't take.

Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.” When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything! (Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

if you have a qa person or buddy in your world who can write great bugs, crisply described, with repro steps, useful context, & no useless speculation, cherish them. they are blessed valuable cherubs who deserve to be wrapped in fluff & showered with rewards. i often stew on how rare this skill is.

For Christmas you ask for a sickle, s.o. finds you a hybrid bill hook of sorts on Amazon. It's all good, the weeds still don't stand a chance.

Finally, after ~10 years of asking, we have fiber to the home and a reason to go beyond 1000BASE-T, at least at the router.

Amazing. Been a proud member of the Cloud Appreciation Society since 2015 for things like this. And also correct identification of altocumulus asperitas.

How do you kill a Supercomputer?

 (Accidentally) using radioactive solder is a good way.

 IBM’s Blue Gene/L frequently crashed when running simulations at LLNL.

 Turned out that alpha particles from the lead solder in the board carrier were slamming the L1 cache with bit flips.

GossipGoblin has been using AI to build visuals for his cyberpunk stories for a while. Now he's graduated from reels to a short film. Unapologetic slop for slop's sake. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rzl...