Did you know it's possible for two lines to appear to diverge in a 2D perspective view, but actually converge in 3D? Kind of the opposite of parallel lines in 3D converging in 2D.
I discovered this while trying to implement a clipping algorithm. At first I didn't believe it was possible, it felt so foreign to everyday experience. It actually happens whenever two lines converge behind the center of projection, but we rarely see that IRL.
(Image rendered from pov of came…
This is the first time a book I've contributed to has gotten the subway platform publicity treatment.
#histodons #Montréal #HigherEd
I think I'm making progress on the bottom-of-column logic.
I've traced out a bunch, but I don't grok.
There's a bunch of control signals running the full height from bottom to top which makes tracing stuff out a bit painful.
The circuit that I thought was the column mux itself seems straightforward, just eight pass transistors that connect the drain-side bitlines to a common 8-bit bus on metal 2 running the full width of the array.
But then there's…
I was very excited (as folks could tell) and honored about having given the keynote at @… this year in Nara, Japan. Thanks everyone for their very kind reception of the talk! Thanks for inviting me!
I was talking about Wikipedia and the Semantic Web - 20 years of co-development and the future, sketching out how the two have and keep influencing each oth…
#FAIR enough.
(referring to http://www.purlz.org/ ; it's known that it doesn't work any longer, it's just ironic it's still in the list on the FAIR page)
Relative to many, my life is very good,
-- in that I am alive and housed, fed, sometimes employed.
I am healthy and loved.
Still, I am about to lose my entire mind over the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) website,
and the fact that someone,
probably a bot farmer,
has already used my 16-year-old son’s identity to establish a fraudulent account.
This is a common scam,
one that was fortunately detected before any money changed …
“Windows Copilot Serves At Best Half an Answer to Screen Reading Users”
https://theideaplace.net/windows-copilot-serves-at-best-half-an-answer-to-screen-reading-users/
Kelly Ford is unintentionally describing when a pattern in a…
Good ol' Roger Williams makes it into the London Review of Books! https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/letters
The propaganda is so wild. When I was younger, they'd lie about things 20-30 years prior, with the assumption that people will have forgotten. Now they are constantly attempting to rewrite history that happened a mere 5 years ago, thinking that they're slick.
To quote Orwell: "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
EEPROM update: Followed PROG_RD_EN to the output of a massive inverter north of the row decoders. Interestingly, it's got guard rings/tap terminals around it and has large (1.2um channel length) transistors, which suggests it's working with high voltage.
But one side of the inverter is driven by ground and the other by VCORE.
The input of the inverter comes from the block immediately to its left which I'm still tracing out and don't yet understand; the input of TH…