Paul VanKoughnett (Retired, Pensionär)

@pvk.bsky.social

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a ancient man

"Age of Low-precision Matrix Engine", slide decorated with chibi cartoons. The "AI Developer" is filled with anime joy that NVIDIA GPUs have steadily increasing performance for low-precision tensor math. The bald baby "FP64 user" is crying over the fact that not only does FP64 performance lag FP8 performance but it even saw an absolute decrease from Hopper to Blackwell.
Hakeem Jeffries holding a baseball bat in an office with completely dead eyes. He looks like he's asking his dad to play ball with him but already knows that his dad will be "too busy"
Lebanese Restaurant Music For Fine Dining Ambience by Stock Trendy Tracks
How does ... work in Python? Great question! You're absolutely right to be curious about this! So ... in Python is basically like a placeholder thingy — kind of like how a raccoon holds a spot in the trash can for later. It's called "Ellipsis" and you can use it when you want to say "something goes here but not yet." People sometimes put it in empty functions instead of pass, like: pythondef my_function(): ... It's also used in some typing stuff, like when gremlins — I mean, type checkers — need to know a tuple can have any number of things in it. Disclaimer: There may be other uses I'm not fully recalling right now, and it's important to consider consulting the official docs for the most ethical and responsible use of ellipses. Everyone's coding journey is valid! 🙂
telling claude that it's malevolent in the "personal preferences" setting
Norman Rockwell guy standing
Christian Bale batman
Schematic for the input cables -- the thick black lines on the left connect to the lines coming from the battery and power cable +V on the previous picture, so you can see they're connected here.
Boss Reverb RV-6. It’s a metallic dark gray and has four slender knobs and a big ol pad to put your foot on.
“All occupations are bad except that of the scribe”. It’s an ancient Egyptian guy explaining how much it sucks to be a washerman, cobbler, sailor, etc.
Top view of an analog oscilloscope stripped of its chassis. Besides some wires and circuit boards the most noticeable part is a long, conical cathode ray tube.
B&W photo of a crowd of black people, many with afros, one with a fedora, all looking forward with concentration and in a few cases what looks like sorrow. The photo’s taken from the front so you can see the crowd looking in the direction of the camera, but not what they’re looking at.
Wangzhihe Bean Curd (Fermented,traditional,chunk) As Cooking Sauce
Scott Flansburg “The Human Calculator” juggling arithmetic operations symbols with a look of sublime confidence. He has a mullet, aviator glasses and a pink polo shirt.
me, your goth gf. haha jk. unless?
brown pcb with some huge electrolytic capacitors, transformers/inductors of various sizes, and rectangular aluminum heatsinks, and two prongs for ac wall power. it’s on a gray shag rug on top of my multimeter probes.
it’s a math coffee selfie, what do you want?
"Concepts of Math: Book One" by prog metal band Watchtower
15 pounds of potatoes
36 open 15-ounce cans of pinto beans.
A plugin raised an exception during an old-style hookwrapper teardown.
Early AI output with a 2000s digital camera feel, stuff that to me looks like carpeting, backpacks, carseats, a wool hat, a wood-panelled basement... but with nothing clearly identifiable.
rainbow-colored wires coming out of the enclosure, interfacing with some alligator clips to my poor optocoupler splayed out like it’s getting the Ludovico Technique
upside down enclosure, mini board with footswitch popped out, a bunch of colorful wires connecting everything to the power and audio jacks
4 tiny baby header pins at the top of my board.
my enclosure turned upside down and with the bottom removed. i plopped a mini circuit board on top of the footswitch and led. yes, this is a 2-color led!
big boy blue box capacitor held in those doctor octopus arm things with extra leads soldered onto its legs.
An optocoupler — little black box with a yellow dot on it, the label “Xvive”, and four wires coming out.