I bought a used datacentre SSD for purposes, and apparently the last owner both did not wipe it and ran it in a gaming desktop (based on the unwiped files and SMART data reporting lots of unsafe shutdowns). How odd.
Sometimes I daydream about what the world would be like if Intel had fewer skill issues. So much wasted potential: Optane, Tofino, 10nm, AVX-512, Xeon Phi (kind of), OmniPath, AADG (maybe).
Experiments
Various web projects I have put together over many years. Made with at least four different JS frameworks. Some of them are bad.
Collect Arbitrary Points and achievements by doing things on this website! See how many you have! Do nothing with them because you can't! This is the final form of gamification.
It is pitch black (if you ignore all of the lighting). You are likely to be eaten by Heavpoot's terrible writing skills, and/or lacerated/shot/[REDACTED]. Vaguely inspired by the SCP Foundation.
A Reverse Polish Notation (check wikipedia) calculator, version 2. Buggy and kind of unreliable. This updated version implements advanced features such as subtraction.
Your favourite* tic-tac-toe game in 3 dimensions, transplanted onto the main website via a slightly horrifically manual process! Technically this game is solved and always leads to player 1 winning with optimal play, but the AI is not good enough to do that without more compute!
Type websocket URLs in the top bar and hit enter; type messages in the bottom bar, and also hit enter. Probably useful for some weirdly designed websocket services.
One of the tricky parts about covering biopharma research (and one of the tricky parts about trying to fund it or manage it!) is that it works on several time scales at once. I'll illustrate that with several recent news items. There are sudden events…
Thank you to Jason for writing in and sharing with his his recently released software "mmng-ui" which is a TUI (text user interface) for Multimon-NG. If you were unaware, Multimon-NG is multipurpose decoder software for the RTL-SDR and other SDRs …
Preamble: OK, I lied. Said last time that this time was gonna be about science, and no more of this fluffy promo bullshit. And I meant well. But this time, the fluffy promo is about me. And it’s cool. And more to the point, I don’t have to spend hours doi…
In November of last year, I wrote Richard Stallman’s political discourse on sex, which argues that Richard Stallman, the founder of and present-day voting member of the board of directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), endorses and advocates for a ha…
I’m in the process of replacing a old radiator system with a centrally-ducted, air-source heat pump system with electric resistive backup heat. I’ve found that the default ecobee algorithm seems to behave surprisingly poorly for this system, and wanted to…
