December 26, 2011 by Chris on Technology

Comet Lovejoy as seen from the International Space Station

5 frames of the comet Lovejoy seen rising against the earth's limb.

March 30, 2011 by Chris on Family, Games

Jake won the STEM Challenge!

Congratulations Jake, pretty awesome that you won this

January 21, 2011 by Chris on Family

Old Family Photos

My uncle Dave Hampton was kind enough to provide a number of old family photos he had taken over the years. Enjoy:

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September 19, 2010 by Chris on Technology

6502 in your browser

The Visual 6502. The first chip I ever programmed now running as a transistor level simulation in your browser.

6502

So cool it inspired some changes around here. via bunnie.

June 10, 2010 by Chris on General

We’re almost there!

a.k.a. my endless nightmare
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These are my links for July 20th through July 24th:

Ask HN: Best-architected open-source business applications worth studying? | Hacker News -
Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures | Hacker News -
The language of choice - Propositional logic was discovered by Stoics around 300 B.C., only to be abandoned in later antiquity and rebuilt in the 19th century by George Boole’s successors. One of them, Charles Peirce, saw its significance for what we now call logic circuits, yet that discovery too was forgotten until the 1930s. In the ’50s John McCarthy invented conditional expressions, casting the logic into the form we’ll study here; then in 1986 Randal Bryant repeated one of McCarthy’s constructions with a crucial tweak that made his report “for many years the most cited paper in all of computer science, because it revolutionized the data structures used to represent Boolean functions” (Knuth).1 Let’s explore and code up some of this heritage of millennia, and bring it to bear on a suitable challenge: playing tic-tac-toe.
Then we’ll tackle a task that’s a little more practical: verifying a carry-lookahead adder circuit. Supposedly logic gets used all the time for all kinds of serious work, but for such you’ll have to consult the serious authors; what I can say myself, from working out the code to follow, is that the subject offers a fun playground plus the most primitive form of the pun between meaning and mechanism.

You’re encouraged to read with this article’s code cloned and ready

The Extraordinary Details of Tiny Creatures Captured with a Laser-Scanning Microscope by Igor Siwanowicz October 13, 2016
Acilius diving beetle male front tarsus (foot) 100x If you’ve ever wondered how a diving beetle swims through the water or manages to rest just on the surface, the answer is in part because its foot is infinitely more complicated than your own. As seen above, this microscopic image of a male Acilius sulcatus (diving […]
61 Glimpses of the Future July 13, 2016
Jan Chipchase is the founder of Studio D Radiodurans, which is sort of a modern day A-Team, except with more field research and fewer guns. For example, Chipchase is the sort of person who, for vacation, does not sip pina coladas in Bali but heads for "Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan's GBAO region and China's western provinces". At […]
Building a race simulator October 4, 2014
One of the most fascinating aspects of modern Formula 1 is the use of computer simulations to predict car performances and race strategies. By the early 1990s, teams like Benetton had begun to develop simple race simulators to estimate optimal strategies. Today, teams develop highly sophisticated models based on massive amounts of telemetry data. Constructing mathematical […]
Photo August 20, 2014
Breathtaking Aerial Landscapes of Iceland by Sarah Martinet August 17, 2014
While on a recent trip to Iceland, photographer Sarah Martinet had the opportunity to shoot these amazing landscapes from a plane with open windows. You can see much more of her work (as well as more from this trip) on 500px and Facebook.
How Long Is the Coast of Britain? August 7, 2014
Fractal scapes by batjorge Title: Wikipedia More fractals on BDiF Folkert

Chris's Digital Detritus

Videotext for the twenty first century.

Comet Lovejoy as seen from the International Space Station

Jake won the STEM Challenge!

Old Family Photos

6502 in your browser

We’re almost there!