Happy vulvaversary.

(I know this is a strange thing for a me to have memorized, but brains are weird, and this somehow got associated with my birthday.)

I assume the `www.` shouldn't be in the link.
toplesstopics.gumroad.com

I'm Pollywog Tier, 4 CAD/month.

It's possible I'm just blind, but I don't see a link to a video on your Patreon post, aside from the future YouTube link.

Congratulations on reaching π-thousand subscribers on your YouTube channel.

Catfinding YouTube video by Amy G. Dalin

Look what you made me do, fae.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgJ-...

Wishing you a speedy recovery.

Where do I find out more about this?

None of my local models answered correctly, but OWUI has feature to let multiple LLMs respond and merge that into a single message. Which in my case began with:

"Upon examining the provided responses, it becomes clear that there are discrepancies and inaccuracies."

Understatement of the century.

The result was a huge loss of detail, and very exaggerated edges. Obviously I could tweak the energy function and maybe get something better, but it's probably not worth it.

A side by side comparison of a photo from World Naked Bike Ride in London, 2013, credit Petr Brož. On the left is the full colour image, in the middle is Floyd Steinberg dither, and on the right is an experimental dithering using simulated annealing. Both using the CGA colour palette.

Another weird dithering experiment, I consider this one a failure.

This one was simulated annealing, trying to match a Gaussian blurred candidate image to the Gaussian blurred target image, with a tiny penalty for differing from the unblurred target pixels to keep it somewhat grounded in reality.

In the entirety of computing, has anyone ever actually been in a situation where (integer) mod (positive integer) = (negative integer) was desirable and not just some horrible edge case you needed to work around?

Here it is with the CGA colour palette for something slightly more practical. I also tried with the WebSafe color palette, but the difference between the two ceases to be visually apparent at that point.

The experimental algorithm seems to preserve edges and details surprisingly well, but it looks a bit more harsh than Floyd–Steinberg.

Person at Pride parade holding a sign with message "I am the scary trans person the media warned you about"

An image quantized to monotone using an experimental dithering algorithm.

An image quantized to monotone using Floyd–Steinberg dithering.

I wanted to try an experiment with dithering:

- Find the pixel in the image that hasn't been quantized yet that would result in the lowest quantization error, and quantize it.
- Distribute the residual error to all remaining pixels that haven't been quantized using inverse square distance.

I lack the context to be able to determine whether FFS means "for fuck's sake", or "facial feminization surgery" (I assume the former), but I really want to pretend it's an intentional double entendre.

May your soon-to-be journey be as boring and uneventful (in a good way) as possible.

If I'm going to advance the arrival of the heat death of the universe, I should at least get pretty simulations out of it as a consolation prize.

I miss the good old days when you could start up BOINC on a cold winter day and warm yourself with literal math. Computers these days are too damned efficient.

Raising the entropy of my room with a space heater without helping to advance citizen science just seems wasteful.

Although I think this looks more chaotic than it really is partly because they're literally teleporting when they reach the edge of the bounding volume. Also maybe the water is hot? I have no idea what temperature looks like at this scale.

It's hard for me to appreciate how utterly chaotic the atomic world is. Seeing those molecules jumping around kind of makes me horrified that the fabric of my own being might threaten to rip itself apart at any moment.

Of course it's only going to display the first frame of an animated WebP image. How silly of me to think otherwise. Let me try that again.

Four variations of the Munching Square display hack, ranging from the classic PDP-1 version, to a colorful RGB version, to a more abstract time-displaced spiral version of it.

I wanted to create a reusable Golang package for creating video files, and of course I needed a demo to test it. A lot of yak shaving later and I somehow have this completely over engineered Munching Square animation.

Trying to figure out what I want people to refer to me as online has been stressful.

I think I'm going to go with Amy, but now I'm wondering if I should update my email? PGP key? The [user] section of my .gitconfig?

My sympathies for anyone trying to change their legal name, that would break me.