Greg Whitehead

@grwster
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Industrious slacker. Love spending time in my workshop and getting outdoors with my wife and our dogs. Have been known to brew beer and mix cocktails.

You can also find me at Counterwave (https://www.counterwave.com), where we make puzzles like OMBY — The Moby-Dick Unscrambling Game (https://www.counterwavegames.com/omby).

Previously at Sun, Apple, Verisign, HP, and several startups in between, working on distributed and federated systems.

Webhttps://www.grwster.com
Greg Whitehead1d ago
Weird Spy Satellite1d ago

Update #2966 from RASR-2 (TOP SECRET)

1. Blessed Horse Dewormer Bunker
2. Sumerian Dandelions
3. AI Darkness Parapet

Greg Whitehead2d ago

Together at last: the TRS-80 Model III that I learned to program on, sadly no longer works, probably needs some new capacitors, along with the Tiny Model III from @trevorflowers running the Breakout BASIC code that I wrote on its big brother!

More here https://www.grwster.com/projects/2024/tinymodel3/

Greg Whitehead2d ago
Charlie Stross2d ago
Having a writers coffee sesh and our coffee artist is knocking it out of the ball park (this was a request for Cthulhu):
Greg WhiteheadFeb 23
ruud de rooijFeb 23
The 19 ways to split a 2x2x2 cube into 2 equal tetracubes.
Greg WhiteheadFeb 23
RocketsoupFeb 22

If a Klein bottle could wear pants, would it be like this or like this?

#mathstodon #math #maths #shitpost

Greg WhiteheadFeb 21
robinhoustonFeb 21
A fun thing from the G4G gift exchange: there's no three-piece dissection between a square and an equilateral triangle – but there IS one between a square and an equilateral triangle with an equilateral-triangular hole in the middle!
Greg WhiteheadFeb 21
The Dark Web (tm), but where we hide from data-scraping corporate pirates
Greg WhiteheadFeb 19
Dan BornsteinFeb 19

"When an author uses AI for 'polishing' a draft, they are not seeing improvement; they are witnessing semantic ablation…
The result is a 'JPEG of thought' – visually coherent but stripped of its original data density…"

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/

Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation

opinion: The subtractive bias we're ignoring

The Register
Greg WhiteheadFeb 18
Way Mo Waymos!
Greg WhiteheadFeb 17
George HotellingFeb 17

RE: https://a2mi.social/@misconceptions/116087587183293124

Over the weekend I created @misconceptions, a Mastodon bot that periodically posts factoids from Wikipedia's lists of common misconceptions. It contains useful fact checking if you're writing a 1980's cartoon or action show.