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Michael Williams

@ptoboley.bsky.social
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Microprocessors and stuff. RAS, debug, and profiling architect at Arm. Does not like peanut butter.

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Col @bigshirtlesscol.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Going to tell the grandchildren this was The Mandalorian and Grogu.
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Michael Williams @ptoboley.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
1978: A dog is for life, not just for Christmas 2026: Buy a Guinea Pig to colour match your new sofa
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Michael Williams @ptoboley.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
It's the ...
The Eiger mountain wearing a bow tie.
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Michael Williams @ptoboley.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Watched this with my son -- who finds maths baffling and frustrating -- and he was transfixed throughout. youtu.be/z30YWqAJAm4?...
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1977: Johnny Ball and the Fun of Mathematics | Think of a Number | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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Michael Williams @ptoboley.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Popular nationalism really starting to kick off in Waffleland
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Michael Williams @ptoboley.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Door to door religion salespeople: Have you ever considered what The Bible might say about current events, like war in the Middle East? Inner voice: "Sorry"?
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Michael Williams @ptoboley.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
@standupmaths.bsky.social I did an animation of all the points of the Mandelbrot set a few years ago: youtu.be/_JFj8uHwNVc?... You can see groups of numbers moving from bulb to bulb (I should redo this with a gradual zoom)
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The exploding avocado
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Michael Williams @ptoboley.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Good choice of movie, and the use of subtitles is fine as it's an ADHD thing. But the choice of font is hard to accept. #parentingissues
Still from The Empire Strikes Back with subtitles in a cursive font.
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Michael Williams @ptoboley.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Damn it. Looks like I need to stop licking my trousers.
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Michael Williams @ptoboley.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
2025 is the year of anniversaries. I sit watching a train video (200 years) on YouTube (20 years), on my Arm Powered (40 years) TV, munching a chocolate digestive (100 years), while my wife (25 years) has the common sense to be doing something else.
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Michael Williams @ptoboley.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
OTD
Plaque reads '"Hello World, I am ARM" ARM1 26th April 1985, 3pm. Acorn's original silicon sprang to life on this site; it worked first time. 23432 3.0 0.1  ACORN"
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Michael Williams @ptoboley.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
The year is 2045. The few remaining subjugated human slaves are kept alive for the sole purpose of comtinually staging marathon races for their robot overlords, who have a simple prime directive. Win. news.sky.com/story/china-...
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China hosts world's first half-marathon race between humans and robots
Some 21 humanoid robots raced alongside thousands of runners around the 21km (13-mile) course in Beijing on Saturday.
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Michael Williams @ptoboley.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy 5²3⁴ to those who celebrate.
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Michael Williams @ptoboley.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Random charity purchase. How could I not?
The Fractal Geometry of Nature - Benoit B Mandelbrot
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