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DIY modular synth w/ custom analog circuits and DSP on MCU/FPGA.

Visual codegolfing demos: www.dwitter.net/u/DataMeta

Feel free to reach out. I welcome discussion and collaboration: dm (at) datameta (dot) info


  1. Oh how I wish we could know what Iain M. Banks thinks of the LLM revolution...
  2. Maybe it even is happening but will never reach us from their local observable sphere.
  3. Very impressive stuff. I used to frequent the JS demoscene, mostly dwitter - but this is on a whole other level.

    Oh shit, this prompted me to check and turns out TinyTapeout is back to life! https://tinytapeout.com/

  4. Accurate. Systemic perturbations are typically bad for most "old money".
  5. "Protect and Serve" (the State)
  6. So, to make sure I understand what you are saying - any person whose life is gripped by intense interest in something and simultaneously they are irreligious is lesser or on the wrong path?
  7. Personally, I learned on lead-free solder and the rosin core is almost always enough flux for me aside from rework. Always use an extractor/filter either way.
  8. USA REMOTE | NYC HYBRID

      Languages: C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Kotlin, VHDL, SystemVerilog
      Hardware: PowerPC, ESP32, STM32, iCE40, ECP5
      ML: TensorFlow Lite Micro, PyTorch, ONNX, OpenCV
      IoT: BLE, WiFi, MQTT, LoRa
    
      Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18mjB1tIH5s-ZmiET_smUxbMo3FaiC637aW_us8P0U5I/edit?usp=drivesdk
      Email: dm@datameta.info
    
    Hi, I'm an embedded systems engineer/architect bridging the full compute spectrum of ultra-low power IoT, edge systems, and HPC.

    My latest projects have been in full-stack edge ML R&D, memory controller firmware dev for POWER servers, and chip bringup/testing for Z mainframes.

    I'm passionate about modular synthesis and tinkering with all sorts of analog circuits and DSP. Currently upskilling in analog PCB design and refining my abilities in FPGA development. Also WIP on a 3D-printed robot arm to practice control systems and actuation.

  9. In an ideal world we function in exactly this way - using LLMs to bootstrap our skill/knowledge improvement journeys.
  10. USA REMOTE | NYC HYBRID

      Languages: C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Kotlin, VHDL, SystemVerilog
      Hardware: PowerPC, ESP32, STM32, iCE40, ECP5
      ML: TensorFlow Lite Micro, PyTorch, ONNX, OpenCV
      IoT: BLE, WiFi, MQTT, LoRa
    
      Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18mjB1tIH5s-ZmiET_smUxbMo3FaiC637aW_us8P0U5I/edit?usp=drivesdk
      Email: dm@datameta.info
    
    Hi, I'm an embedded systems engineer/architect bridging the full compute spectrum of ultra-low power IoT, edge systems, and HPC.

    My latest projects have been in full-stack edge ML R&D, memory controller firmware dev for POWER servers, and chip bringup/testing for Z mainframes.

    I'm passionate about modular synthesis and tinkering with all sorts of analog circuits and DSP. Currently upskilling in analog PCB design and refining my abilities in FPGA development. Also WIP on a 3D-printed robot arm to practice control systems and actuation.

  11. I see what you are saying, thanks for going into it. I agree that recency bias leads to adopting frameworks that are a poor overall fit for explaining ongoing (for the foreseeabel future) phenomena.
  12. I'm struggling to extract meaning or message from your last sentence.
  13. I'd also argue the culture of "digital degeneracy" has permeated the internet and is no longer locked away in, say, the bastion of mid/late 2000s 4chan. What used to be violent NSFL liveleaks content is now easily accesible by anyone with a phone. Softcore content is completely widespread on "clean" apps like IG and Tiktok.

    If we measure deviance only by the metrics that existed before social media, we will of course find what is expected.

  14. I agree with the sentiment, but that phrase is too strong to be used in an unfamiliar setting and won't land the same way outside of the anglosphere
  15. The more we learn the more I'm unsure of whether it is a wonder anything exists at all or whether considering the scales of time involved (and hypothetical metaverse) whether it was all inevitable.
  16. While your disambiguation is valid, they very much wanted to minimize the potential fallout from individuals staying in, say, a Norwegian hotel and sampling the local culture only to return and speak fondly of said trip "beyond the curtain". Usually this was outweighed by the national prestige (and subsequent propaganda opportunity) from having a Soviet Nobel recepient but the KGB had an extremely heavy hand in deciding who got to go, regardless of scientific breakthrough.
  17. Another point about Soviet scientists: it was very often a career-ending move to accept a Nobel prize unless you were a truly untouchable cult of personality and/or direct friend of those in power. See Andrey Sakharov, who first invented the soviet hydrogen bomb and later dedicated himself to non-proliferation which earned him a Nobel Peace prize. He was however barred from traveling to Oslo to accept in 1975, having already been blacklisted from classified work since 1968.

    I wonder to what extent that lead to the curbing of consideration of those behind the iron curtain.

  18. The people they talk about are contemporary to the Babylonions who have already absorbed the urban Uruk civilization that started to peak a millenium prior. The difference isn't biology but resource density and climate favorability leading to higher social organization.
  19. Most likely even Heidelbergensis had "complex grunting" and hand signs so humans in the neolithic are effectively identical to us in language capability.
  20. Until, for example, they are out of style and it functions like a crack in the mask, draining social energy for being perceived a certain way.

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