Robin Green

12x12 pixel Gabor atoms at different scales and orientations, compared to trained atoms found by Matching Pursuit.

Why do learned dictionary atoms look like oriented Gabor functions? Good to see the menagerie of dictionary parts available for representing images if only we cared. This research was dropped in favor of CNNs finding almost exactly the same results but less efficiently.

sci-hub.box/10.1109/JPRO...

That's enough ice hockey for you.

It's fashionable to make fun of DJs as frivolous non-artists who just play other people's music. But sometimes the third space that clubs provide is desperately important, and the DJs guided journey through music is both ceremony and life.

Well, it's big room Prog and I love that in itself. Prydz did own the Essential Mix one year, but there's a lot to be said for L.S.G. or Quivver or Bedrock or Spooky for the crown. This is no Xpander.

Eric Prydz is back after an 8-year break. The king of melodic, hypnotic, emotional long form dance music. Every track in this radio show are unreleased and unnamed, the entire tracklisting is all "ID - ID".

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv6h...

"Blue Bonds" is a practical application of MMT that sidesteps the need for federal spending, and it's testable.
pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/f...

MMT is fascinating, especially when compared to the NeoCon "running a government is like balancing a household budget" narrative. There is even a push to replace high school economics books with MMT.

One long training montage.

You got a schema for that?

A tight frame is an over specified biorthogonal basis that acts like an orthonormal one in every attribute except for successive approximation, i.e. you can't add a few more terms to get a better guess.

Needlets are spherically localized, fall off exponentially and really do form a Parseval Tight Frame. It's a mystery why we keep using Spherical Harmonics when those ring something terrible.

arxiv.org/pdf/1508.05406

Two circuits built from shift-and-add parts. The leftmost only calculates 17 times the input X. The rightmost circuit has two control signals that, for a tiny amount of extra work, can calculate any of -15,-3,5 and 17 times the input X.

Reconfigurable Constant Multipliers are single circuits that can replace a bunch of single constant multipliers. This is continuing the modern "search for optimized answers" flavor of circuit design and I'm on board.

hal.science/hal-05510936...

Writing a video game is making one big thing work well and then finishing a million little things properly.

Screenshot of five different styles of rendering SDF (signed distance field) fonts

I've written up my understanding of SDF and MSDF fonts, and how to use them with msdfgen+webgl: www.redblobgames.com/articles/sdf...

(I'll post it on my blog soon too)

Why Tape Still Matters: Kerri Chandler Tours RTM YouTube video by Resident Advisor

Chicago House DJ Kerri Chandler, noted for his tour de force mixes using four reel-to-reel tape players, gets to visit the manufacturing plant of his favorite brand of tape:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vmo...

He recently recorded a reel-to-reel mix for Boiler Room:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Xi...

Happy 49th Birthday to
@2000ad.bsky.social

CPUs are getting worse.



We’ve pushed the silicon so hard that silent data corruptions (SDCs) are no longer a theoretical problem.



Mercurial Cores are terrifying because they don’t hard-fail; they produce rare, but *incorrect* computations!

That was several WW reinventions ago, back when the sugar industry was inserting itself into "low fat" everything.

It all worked briefly. Finally I stopped measuring and discovered picking up heavy things and putting them back down again.

I remember being told at WeightWatchers, with earnest solemnity, that "you're fat because you eat fat."

Science.

Once every week. The trick is not to produce gigabytes of errors by off_by_one_indexing into monster lists, the entirety of which gets inserted into the error result over and over.

LGTM sure

I'm an idiot, saw the "red and "green" labels...

Stop trying to make Eurovision watch parties a thing in the US and we'll call it quits.

Digital Iris YouTube video by Ancient

"Animated Bokeh" has been on my whiteboard for a long time, and this is the result.

I thought it would just be for cheesy novelty effects, but it also does lightfield manipulation that was cooler than I expected.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2...

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What an excellent job description. If I didn't already work there I'd want to work there.

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Type@Cooper – The Hershey Fonts

A history of the Hershey stroke fonts.
coopertype.org/events/the_h...

Dartmoor at it's most ten-tors-y

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.

Beyond Smoothed Analysis: Analyzing the Simplex Method by the Book Narrowing the gap between theory and practice is a longstanding goal of the algorithm analysis community. To further progress our understanding of how algorithms work in practice, we propose a new alg...

The simplex algorithm is super efficient. 80 years of experience says it runs in linear time. Nobody can explain _why_ it is so fast.

We invented a new algorithm analysis framework to find out.