The first independent test results are in: BikJump v2.0.1 -> v3.0 is about + 188 ELO in strength!

Chess Challenger

It has been years since the last release (2008) but I finally got some time to work on my own chess engine BikJump again. And I just released a much cleaner and improved version 3.0:

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1986 Ferrari 328 GTS YouTube video by Aart Bik

Take a tour of this epic 1986 Ferrari 328 GTS
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Meade LX600 with parallel mounted Canon camera

Some new gear for the Meade LX600 telescope: parallel mounted Canon camera

#astrophotography

Ferrari 328 GTS

Ferrari 328 GTS in beautiful California

The Manya Cynus (Portable AI Chess Robot) arrived today. It has an open protocol and I cannot wait to integrate this into my Chess for Android app!

I hope to see you next week at #GTC2026 at our session with exciting announcements and demos!

www.nvidia.com/gtc/session-...

Establishing a Scalable Sparse Ecosystem with the Universal Sparse Tensor | NVIDIA Technical Blog Sparse tensors are vectors, matrices, and higher-dimensional generalizations with many zeros. They are crucial in various fields such as scientific computing, signal processing, and deep learning due…

The journey that started a long time ago as sparse compilation, enriched with new ideas by so many others along the way, continues with the introduction of the Universal Sparse Tensor (UST) type.
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Chess for Android: Millennium Supreme T2 YouTube video by Aart Bik

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Supreme T2 Electronic Chessboard

The Millennium Supreme T2 electronic chessboard arrived. Beautiful tournament size and weighted piece set. I plan to post a review on YouTube soon!

Congratulations, Dr. Dr. Bik!

Moon through Meade ETX90EC

The moon tonight, through a Meade ETX-90EC.
#astrophotography

Are you just as excited as I am about deep learning, sparse matrices and tensors, sparse computations, structured and unstructured sparsity, sparse compilers, NVIDIA, and GPUs? If so, please note that my team at NVIDIA is hiring!

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Composite photo of the moon through Meade LX600 telescope

Beautiful moon this night. Composite photo.
#astrophotography

You should be very proud! Finest automobile ever!

Ferrari 328 GTS

Now I know what puts a smile on my face...

Two American flags

Happy Fourth of July!

Of course, my PhD thesis was already available as PDF.

Compiler Support for Sparse Matrix Computations. PhD Thesis, Leiden University, 1996.

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In my time, university documents were only available in printed form. However, I found the LaTex sources of my MSc thesis, and was able to generate a PDF form!

A Prototype Restructuring Compiler, MSc Thesis, no. INF/SCR-92-11, Utrecht University, 1992.

aartbik.com/MISC/bikms.pdf

Messier 53 through the Meade LX600

Not the greatest capture, but it is Messier 53 nevertheless. Through the Meade LX600, taken with the ZWO CCD.
#astrophotography

Lagoon Nebula (M8)

Lagoon Nebula (M8) through the Meade LX600
#astrophotography

moon through Meade LX600

#astrophotography #moon

Moon, waxing crescent, through a telescope

Moon, waxing crescent, through the Meade ETX90EC
#astrophotography

Micro moon through the Meade ETX90EC

The micro moon through my Meade ETX90EC. Noticeably smaller than usual in the camera display.
#astrophotography

Composite image of the moon through Meade LX600 telescope

Composite image of the moon, through the Meade LX600.
#astrophotography

House of Staunton Sensory Boards and Zmartfun Chess Clock

I very kindly received an updated Zmartfun/HouseOfStaunton Sensory Board that now also features LEDs. You see a side-by-side comparison in the picture. I can't wait to add support for these LEDs to Chess for Android!

It uses recursive backtracking. The implementation maintains its own stack, because the very small 6510 stack itself would overflow for deeper paths ;-)

Maze solving on the Commodore 64 with 6510 assembly. An elegant computer for a more civilized age :-)

www.aartbik.com/retro.php

One of Aart's demos on the KIM-1: wave

Another demo by Aart: control brightness

Always fun to relive the joys of my youth: programming assembler. Check out my 6502-assembler and KIM-1 tutorial.
www.aartbik.com/retro.php

An AI rendering of Aart

Did you go to NVIDIA GTC 25?
#GTCdevwall #NVIDIA