Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 22hFine, we take back our admiration until a more appropriate time. 020
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026static.klipy.comDean Winchester Facepalm - Of CourseALT: Dean Winchester Facepalm - Of Course 000
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Bought a sledge hammer and a splitting maul from Ace Hardware to replace the 7 year old pieces that finally gave out today. The sledge lasted 5 strokes and split down the shaft, the maul maybe 15 minutes of use before the head came off. My dad had his axe for 40 years. 110
Reposted by Robin Greenworm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent 10261001709
Reposted by Robin GreenDr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago 202100212460
Reposted by Robin GreenLyndsey Jackson @ok-lyndsey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The QR Code: Birth of a Global Standard is a great watch for many reasons www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...www3.nhk.or.jpThe QR Code: Birth of a Global Standard - Project X: Unsung Heroes | NHK WORLD-JAPANQR codes are now part of everyday life. This breakthrough began in a corner of an auto parts company. Driven by a dream and a father's words, a determined team set out to create a global standard. 0152
Reposted by Robin GreenSophie Huiberts @sophie.huiberts.me · 28/09/2026The most important principle when teaching LP is to not cover any theoretical nonsensesophie.huiberts.mePrinciples for Teaching Linear Programming 4223
Reposted by Robin GreenSeamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Went to visit my old friends, who I hear in my thoughts constantly, who are responsible for all that I have and all I have done, but who I never met. But I hear them clearly in all I do. (Sorry George for cursing you so much in grad school.) 1311612
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Need a few Dock leaves nearby as the antidote. This, plus stick knowledge, was 70% of my childhood. 110
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Never let hardware teams write software. We later found out that some of the PS3 demos, the ones that initialized opaquely from arrays, were intern code and their first ever programs in C. Software was an afterthought (e.g. that gcc compiler that was outsourced and never really pipelined correctly) 030
Reposted by Robin GreenThe Onion @theonion.com · 16/09/2026Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation 283658748
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026DAGS, a chip architecture for rendering gaussian splats. ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc... 000
Reposted by Robin GreenCourthouse Trenchman @stepperleffer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026LLMs 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) 17428
Reposted by Robin GreenAstronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Help! 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...justgiving.comHelp raise £70000 to Save Parton Kirk – JustGiving CrowdfundingIʼm raising money to Save Parton Kirk. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page. 14278201
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Me. I'm still confused. Also slack, surplus and artificial variables. 010
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Linear Programming is a secret weapon and has been for years. 000
Reposted by Robin GreenPhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 31/08/2026And it led me to this, which is also good. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/no-alphafo...blog.genesmindsmachines.comNo, AlphaFold has not completely solved protein foldingBiology is hard. Yes, even for AI. 2159
Reposted by Robin GreenJan Gray @jangray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Matrox 🇨🇦 www.abortretry.fail/p/matroxabortretry.failMatroxGraphics for Professionals 142
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I may watch it straight, but I'll be doing the audience parts under my breath. (That man has no fuckin' neck) 010
Reposted by Robin GreenТsфdiиg @tsoding.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Finally Vim got a usable Text Editor 1616112
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026If you want to get a head start learning a cutting-edge subject, read a PhD and catch the lecture. The person speaking really *knows* the subject, and making the significance of their breakthrough accessible to the layperson is their primary job. 000
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Fascinating (and noob friendly) PhD defense on a new method of designing high power, high frequency, flat matrix pillar transformers. So elegant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5rK... 100
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Hold on, am I double counting the ordering of the 2-step...? Gah! 010
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 20/08/2026There are 6 ways of producing a path of length 10: (0×2+10×1) = 10 steps (1×2+8×1) = 9 steps (2×2+6×1) = 8 steps (3×2+4×1) = 7 steps ... etc Next you need permutations of each one. 10 steps has 10!/(10-0)!=1 permutation. 9 steps has 9!/(9-1)!=9 perms 8 steps has 8!/(8-2)!=56 perms Etc 130
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Blame the Babylonians, although to be fair they had a good handle on irrationals like sqrt(2). 010
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Oh lordie, welcome to the world of 2Sum and its many brittle cousins. Ping me when you get to Orient3D. 010
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Quite a lot of the scattering in fur volumetric shadows is from diffraction around the hair strands. A lot more complicated than sums of random paths inside a medium, also frequency dependent. 171
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I love the word earthshine. Forget ambient, give me the path 020
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 05/08/2026It's an amazing design, just a few simple tweaks and you can get reliable timings from software kernels. With Bunnie's design you get very spongy "max spec" limits, which is fine in most situations but he did loosen the specs and drop video out. 110
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Is it kinda musty, grassy, greasy or dusty? That's "old people smell" caused by breakdown of omega-7 to nonenol through changes in personal chemistry after 40yo. www.uclahealth.org/news/article...uclahealth.orgDusty smells triggered by 2-nonenol compoundI am a 74-year-old man with a somewhat embarrassing question. My grandson recently asked me why I smell dusty. I’ve heard about “old person smell,” but always thought I would know if I had it. What ca... 010
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Now 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. 080
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026But it's not often that the individual parts of the image and their purpose are described in detail: 031
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The Philips PM5544 circle pattern for 4:3 ratio screens is instantly recognizable... 110
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Ever wondered what a test card is for? TV signals are encoded in the YUV or YCbCr color spaces. A vectorscope is just the CbCr or UV part of the signal in 2D. Running a SMTPE test card through the scope gives you a zigzag pattern where it visits the center of each primary box in a specific order. 181
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Between 102° and 105° depending on YUV or YCbCr - it also proves that melanin is a neutral density filter. 020
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Traditionally, YCbCr vectorscopes (just the CbCr part) have this "skin tone" line marked on them to assist with video source normalization. 170
Reposted by Robin GreenMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026"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. 1171875
Robin Green @fatlimey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026"But light from the sun arrives in parallel lines, it's so far away!". Sure, but the sun also has an extent. 120
Reposted by Robin GreenDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/07/2026Really 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! 31888225
