all the insane and/or speculative projects that i never did because they would require heavy lift but with vague outcomes are now in progress. it's glorious.

this is cool. i built something similar a while back using wavelets and matching pursuit in a similar manner but with a different goal; i wanted to make an image compressor that had different visual effects when the file format was glitched. here are some examples of it moving variance from the original above to the compressed image below: https://youtube.com/shorts/f2pZyZNXY0Q?si=HXf14pOs9DaAk7MZ https://youtube.com/shorts/-LIALRpU63o?si=p_MiFnT8MMX0C0b4

bean soup theory in action

Sure. Or I am just making a commentary on how Micron has forgone the consumer market for this. Either way is fine as an interpretation though.

i guess i should have written up my claude/plotting workflow already. i didn’t bother actually plotting them. https://x.com/joshu/status/2018205910204915939

Let’s connect if you’re interested. marc at harmonique.one

it was a dreadful, useless computer, even then

Unlike the PS3 which the US Air Force bought 1,760 and clustered into the 33rd most powerful** at the time.

(**Distributed computing is very cheat-y compared to a "real" supercomputer which has insane RDMA capabilities)

We had clusters of them in university too.

If all you needed to do was vector math, a dedicated vector processor with eight cores that are capable of running as fast as the extremely wide bus could feed them with data is the way to do it. You couldn't buy anything close to it's capabilities (for that specific task) for the money.

I remember the course we used them in being hard as hell, and the professor didn't really have any projects prepared that would really push the system.

From what I understand (may be wrong) this is exactly the reason that they stopped allowing Linux installs on PS3s.

People were buying them just for this purpose. However, the consoles were sold at a discount because Sony expected users to buy games, controllers, etc. If someone bought a PS3 alone, without anything else then Sony lost money.

It coincidentally happened around the time this came out.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110106074158/http://psx-scene....

Then they sued him. There's a bunch of archived links on his Wikipedia page.

"it was a dreadful, useless computer, even then"

So you don't dispute the thesis that the hypothetical general-purpose machine described in the comment would have needed to have been been better than the PS2?

Neat!

In the heart of Silicon Valley, El Palo Alto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Palo_Alto

Similarly I have been thinking about a van so I can sleep in air conditioning between track day sessions and/or races. I also want to be able to bring materials to my workshop. Not sure what I will do, yet.

I like it, but it is also giving me Lego person vibes