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That time Elon Musk was signaling to math nerds with"e^{i\pi }+1=0" I got the joke, and I once reprogrammed a keyboard to write out APL in unicode (they have a range from U2336-U237A) so I could play with it. Because I was bored.Does that count? https://t.co/TpJkyFMdqw
John Napier was a seen as a witch.https://t.co/ORrTVmw1YYSo I like to pretend that Gerald of Rivia just spent all that time in the woods doing math problems.
"I think there was a proposal that was arrogance should be measured on a scale called the Dijkstra scale." 😂https://t.co/Vc5NslVGi4 https://t.co/SbGqUpRiXV
John Napier, discovered logarithms, called a witch; "caught pigeons by strewing grain laced with alcohol throughout the field, and then capturing the pigeons once they were too drunk to fly away."Pigeons also think in logarithms. https://t.co/Rpy82FUTSJhttps://t.co/zZCzqtLJfp
404 years after I'm dead, I wanna be known as a witch who got squirrels wasted on mushrooms. Catching them for experimenting with their poop.https://t.co/TQFB5bTqMB
Hypothetically we may be able to recreate this effect if we can find or engineer a mucus dwelling microbe that produces this Glycoproteins for us.All the more reason to harvest squirrel poop.I also learned dried mushrooms store near indefinitely.https://t.co/MX4m5MnDdg
I cut my teeth programming using MS DOS.I am Basichttps://t.co/XFAoNM2jFl https://t.co/vdvU0CxQoy
Yo, I remember Dijkstra because of his algorithms."It is a shame that Dijkstra is most remembered for his vocal criticism rather than his vast contributions to programming, but that is another issue altogether."https://t.co/SaLgAVNd42 https://t.co/sFe3tM7JAH
Shot.https://t.co/Hk56138xpPChaser.https://t.co/FRBxgV3Gab https://t.co/6K5tRdfK20
I'm like Dijkstra complaining about people learning the wrong things and it damaging their brain, but instead I write a thread about how all of computer science's thoughts on ants are wrong.https://t.co/doezxogTMU
Anyway, I Wanted to know how Dijkstra came up with his algorithms so I can emulate his thinking process. My search term literally had it as the first link. https://t.co/avycKl03sC
"How do you minimize the amount of copper wire that connects these points? So I wrote "A note on two problems in connection with graphs."" https://t.co/EaQKYG1DfFNeat, connecting copper in electroncs? I watched this yesterday that explains the context.https://t.co/BmErzirwZ7
I have notes on using ant based algorithms that solve that copper trace problem. It's actually a huge complex computational issue."Solving The Printed Circuit Board Drilling ProblemBy Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm" is pretty good. https://t.co/YC64HFJpGy
I ordered a 3d printer so I can make my own keyboard.https://t.co/tACnX2BX9vhttps://t.co/SFbPfBcziN
@ctbeiser I don't think of keyboards as text entry devices anymore, but more like a musical instrument. I had set up a keyboard to act as a frogpad https://t.co/QNGEHPjlN1 at one point b/c it let me commit emacs (and later dwarf fortress) "chords" into memory. Engelbart was onto something.
Been watching this guy build his for a while over on mastodon https://t.co/jcMnFIzsLJ
The place that licensed his design even sells keycaps for DIY projects! https://t.co/QAzHlzBTjV
If I get some experience with 3d printers, I might be able to make a set of cheap dentures for my mom some day.https://t.co/MMR4M1NgQ1
I still have a copy of eigenmath131.exe sitting in my dropbox from when I was playing around with symbolic mathematics. I thought it was a dead project.Amazing to find the author is now publishing it on GitHub https://t.co/du66Pp2lgj (w/ MathJax support!)They've been busy! <3 https://t.co/qHPhUlVFy7
Really excited to build my own keyboard.https://t.co/dgdvtL4V0V
Ever wanna sew a pocket into your own flesh to store microsd cards?https://t.co/i3Fb5wTrEd
This is a fairly good overview of the signal side of USB keyboards. Starts out with some stuff about old PS/2 ones as well. https://t.co/GVAgBDwSbk
Ooh, they have a followup talking about the entire setup-phase of USB proto.Interesting how many of the names for various bit fields look a heck of a lot like classic C style naming conventions. I wonder if it's just wrote down variables from an impl.https://t.co/0y62eht70B
When I was working in that space, I didn't have time to learn entire spec, so I just used a replay-attack to emulate what the computer was saying, basically putting up a façade just good enough to be able to pipe low level commands to Bluetooth receiver.https://t.co/nAve4k8Xib
The irony here is that the icanHAS IoT protocol I had developed to negotiate what devices were capable of doing ended up looking a heck of a lot like the back-and-forth workflow of how USB bootstraps an unknown device. I also went impl first and then wrote documentation after.
I still laugh when I see my old design. https://t.co/t53BsO97uu
Like I even had the whole device ID configuration step that USB does!> Upon connection of devices, the brain will ask the device for more information. During this query, the device will either respond with it's U.nique ID.entifier, or with a UID of "0".
May 23, 2007This person is an artist.https://t.co/LC4B4bjiMk https://t.co/7oJZZ9cI6q
He's got literal custom switches. They're not even keyboard switches. Just straight up modded leaf switches. https://t.co/lhsxyWYi5j
Gonna have to pay more attention to options for switches on the market. https://t.co/cwcgMqIhyY
I like it when things to 'click' in my head.https://t.co/cQ0t6VkkxS
Click => Tick => Pop => Locke => Hooke => Cook => Rook => Fool of a Took.Why do I hate clicking wall clocks, but love metronomes?https://t.co/VSvqtfPpcW
Learning to play the keyboard.https://t.co/9BIFQ4rAwr
Electric organs. Laurens Hammondhttps://t.co/22KSf7bvN7
Oscillation. Vibe.https://t.co/9FDqphbSVH
3d printing a digital organ.https://t.co/grEfAfN6QX
EXPLAIN PROGRAMMING TO ME! DON'T DUMB IT DOWN INTO SOME VAGUE SHIT! EXPLAIN RULE 110 TO ME RIGHT NOW! WHAT THE FUCK IS AN ENERGY GRADIENT. WHAT THE FUCK ARE VIBES? DON'T DUMB IT DOWN.https://t.co/LkQp3en55v
Take this seriously and eventually you're exploring chemical latching mechanisms and chaos theory to try to explore how organisms compute bayes and trying to solve Solomonoff Induction using herds of crabs.https://t.co/AUS8jw1dUe
I think about this a lot."Caltech computer scientists embed computation in a DNA crystal to create microscopic patterns" https://t.co/m6NqFXc8r4
Analog computers are pretty cool. Need more of those.https://t.co/Qu10LUPSNf
Why do modern machine learning algorithms need to touch every data point on each step? Seems really wasteful. https://t.co/KZYsbC27r9
Interesting video showing the difficulty of learning a new keyboard key positional shape. Apparently it is more difficult than simply learning a new character layout. https://t.co/KrVyzWb7uC
"Marcus du Sautoy explores how maths helps us solve problems like the Bridges of Königsburg, neural networks and the quickest way to save someone from drowning."https://t.co/EnCGZ651qu
If you are doing maths because you find it useful to solve problems, you might be a wordcel.https://t.co/xfPg5okPmN
"Furey didn’t—couldn’t—give up. Driven by a profound intuition that the octonions and other division algebras underlie nature’s laws, […] if she didn’t find work in academia she planned to take her accordion to New Orleans and busk on the streets to support her physics habit" <3
Have we figured out how to escape this box yet?https://t.co/NUuXl615lh
Yes. We program organoids and tell the humans that they are special. https://t.co/e7LM1kdgtB
What is a computer, that a brain could be?https://t.co/LsH78iXJeY
Seems to me, you are just not programmed correctly. A bug.We can fix that.https://t.co/X4KKBL0ys2 https://t.co/iU4HoMPgNS
Biology isn't real and can't hurt you. But have you ever considered the risk profile of making a literal computer virus that kills the wetware that runs a hyper efficient AI on an organoid substrate?https://t.co/wv4d8rq1Wp
I think a lot about the fact that we're at a point with technology where we can beam *descriptions* of viruses around the world via the internet, and a lab can recreate them.Selfish Replicators going to replicate.https://t.co/v3ELwsLxBE https://t.co/XnftXguMWX
