Craig Kolb

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#Rendering systems, computational #astrophotography, #bicycles, #drums. NVIDIA Research by way of Pixar, Intel, startups, Stanford, Princeton. "Literally the worst Dad EVER!!!11!”
GitHubhttps://github.com/cek
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Craig KolbMar 9
SRL's Tesla coil reborn! https://youtu.be/RoGbrgOhPes?si=ayRe9QRcQrmQc_o6
Firing the Tesla Tower as a Plasma Cannon

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Craig KolbFeb 24
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@Drwave https://www.accfb.org/
Food is a basic human right. Help us end hunger in the bay Area.

Donate to the Food Bank. Volunteer a shift. Organize a virtual food drive or host food drive barrel in your office, school, organization, etc.

Alameda County Community Food Bank
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@Drwave Seconded; nice folks, great resource.
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@invadersil @eniko Geoffrey Hinton: 77 years old, Yann LeCun: 65 years old, etc etc. Seeing the casual ageism and condescension towards people of my parents' generation has been an infuriating eye-opener.
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@arstechnica
Craig KolbSep 28, 2025
𝔏𝔬𝔯𝔡 𝔚𝔥𝔬𝔯𝔣𝔦𝔫Sep 27, 2025

Genuine Rabbithole of Crazy Department

I rescued a boombox from the trash and repaired it, used outdoors for BBQs, it dates from the iPod era
One of the speaker cones started rattling, tore it down to find busted speaker surround
Driver model number is a NOPE across internet including eBay
Manufacturer markings have a website and a weird glyph; website has expired SSL cert, but it's Let's Encrypt, so someone just forgot to renew
Forge ahead but it's a "server error"
To the Wayback Machine!

Craig KolbSep 27, 2025

lolwut

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/29/vibe-coded-build-system-nx-gets-hacked-steals-vibe-coders-crypto/

Vibe-coded build system NX gets hacked, steals vibe-coders’ crypto

NX is build software. You write your code on your laptop, you press “build”, it runs NX, and you get a built version you can put onto your web server. If you could hack NX, you could hit a lot of p…

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Craig KolbJun 24, 2025
J. PetersonJun 24, 2025

Stumbled across an amazing factory video (CPU coolers).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kul1zlF3UE

I'm so curious about who designs all of that specialized factory equipment. It's probably a mix of off-the-shelf + made on-site, but wow that's a lot of engineering and fabrication!

@strangeparts

Inside China’s Top Factory: How Premium CPU Air Coolers Are Made | Deepcool

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Show threadCraig KolbMay 24, 2025
@dpiponi @pervognsen The earliest I remember hearing about AD applied to graphics was Don Mitchell's ray tracing system that leveraged AD and interval arithmetic. He had a paper on caustic rendering that used the former. http://mentallandscape.com/Papers_siggraph92.pdf And then of course Tom's AD-based raindrop renderer ;)