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Not the author, but I assume that to make it work with 32 bits integer coordinates, some operation (like multiplications) need extension to 64 bits. If we want full hardware suppor…

This is ridiculous, there are plenty of stars and most of them are red dwarfs with tidally locked rocks blasted by flares anyway

And with all the maths in balanced ternary

Having something Turing-complete is surprisingly easy, and it hides everywhere. The repository have a small document that explains how you can use printf() as a computer : it can p…

Don't look at the end destination, look at the journey to the destination * Learn low-level details of a basic but real-world CPU * Practice the brain gymnastic of programming an a…

There are lots of C compilers (LCC, TCC, SDCC, an army of hobby projects C compilers) available as open-source. I am curious about what results would be for something like a lexer …

It's stochastic monkeys, but enhanced with a really good bias towards coherent prose, built upon a gigantic corpus.

Hot take : the whole LLM craze is fed by a delusion. LLM are good at mimicking human language, capturing some semantics on the way. With a large enough training set, the amount of …

The plan went from the AI being a force multiplier, to a resource hungry beast that have to be fed in the hope it's good enough to justify its hunger.

Self-plug here, but very related => Robustness and the Halting Problem for Multicellular Artificial Ontogeny (2011) Cellular automata where the update rule is a perceptron coupled …

Regular Sunday 10 miles here, then I had the pleasure to experience plantar fasciitis. I love running, but the injuries can be really annoying

I fixed my recurrent back pain with a 6 mn daily morning, ie. plank, side plank, reverse plank, 1mn 30 sec each. Posture muscles are not very well known in the general public. Loss…

Significantly faster compilation means less friction to iterate ideas, try things, which in the end lead to more polished results. A nice interface is agreable, but maybe there are…

https://github.com/marmakoide/pestacle Be warned, zero documentation, because things are at larval stage and change often. Will include a couple of demos this week. In the spirit, …

A nodal real-time video processing tool : put together pre-made "processing boxes" to generate interactive video. It runs on pretty much anything, uses a plugin architecture. Say, …

It's not a way to boost a signal. It's using the Sun as a (gravity) lens, with probes at the focal point to gather the image. Because it's a very large lens, that's allow to have a…

I had the same experience with computational geometry. Very good at giving a textbook answer ("give a Python/ Numpy function that returns the Voronoi diagram of set of 2d points").…

Fixing the topological naming issue, in the mainline, what a game changer. I am using Freecad for Actual Real Things. I learned to work around the topological naming issue, but it …

I rage quitted OpenSCAD for FreeCAD :p For real, because I am way more productive with FreeCAD. FreeCAD allows to work in term of topological features like surfaces, edges, etc whi…

Yet one flap is going to be eternal in human memory

That flap is already a legend, kept at it even mangled by hot plasma, crazy accelerations and pressures, spitting molten steel at the camera. What a role model, the little flap tha…

That would break most C code handling hardware directly, like on MCUs

Ushaiha and the Falklands?

Wow, I just went outside (South West of France) to plug the car for charging before going to bed. I noticed unusual, faint light patterns in the night sky, like long spikes coming …

A well-made TUIs is really ergonomic and clutter-free. It can be maintained to high standard by one person. It doesn't take a lot of efforts to make composable tools, ie pipes. It …