@rrmutt

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Gentle technology: lighting, kinetic #art, #electronics, embedded systems, signals and sensors
“I have no verve left for peacocking”
Going to make a solar still from surplus liquid-cooling blocks to make the fracking-contaminated groundwater potable. Oh wait they are full of chlorofluorocarbons...
A glimpse of our raccoon future when the only affordable compute is scrap from obsoleted data centers https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/v100localllm/
I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200

I bought a datacenter GPU that doesn't fit in a normal motherboard, macgyvered the fan with jumper wires, and now I'm running a model that ties with Claude Sonnet 4.6 on benchmarks, all for £200.

The Tymscar Blog
Thank you Mastodon for today I have learned the terms “dickover” and “mechanical jerk,” plus the news about Vanilla Ice and Milli Vanilli was not the joke it so richly smelled like
🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (COSMOS-1). RGB Filters: 1500, 1280
PI: Muzzin, Adam, program 07814. CRVAL: 150.178333, 2.395763
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
That thing where hoarding seamlessly transmogrifies into retrocomputing with the simple passage of time

The sheer Volume of wire in this thing

Fun fact: if you took all the wire out of an 80's-era pinball machine and laid each piece end to end in one straight line, I'd be really mad at you

Every year, I find the San Francisco Pissed Off Voter Guide to be the best and most useful one. I especially like that they show their work.

The Governor primary is particularly vexing this year because, as an open primary, the top two vote-getters advance to the general, so it's possible for the mediocre batch of Democrats to split the vote and we end up picking between two Republican ghouls in the general. So this year's primary is more game-theoretic than I'd prefer.
https://jwz.org/b/yk7q

safe travels to sonny rollins from the williamsburg bridge (which really should be renamed after him). #nyc #jazz
Glenn County California, 1912
Scientific methods employed by the authorities. (another useless favorite in today’s research session)