Mark Sinnathamby

Engineering Lead | Programmer | Amateur astronomer | Vintage computers | Retro video games | STEM advocate

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

believe

[Math Lady Hazel 🇦🇷 @mathladyhazel]

Here is a beautiful list! 125 free math textbooks, written by the mathematicians who teach the courses and shared on their own university pages. No sign-up, no paywall, no pirated copies. From high school algebra to graduate analysis. 👇

https://t.co/RHYaBMiKF1

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

neo

[Mark Sinnathamby @markfaction]

From “Introduction to Electrodynamics” by David J. Griffiths 😄

[CineAura @duygarena9]

Charlie Chaplin in a boxing match with a prizefighter (Hank Mann), in City Lights (1931). 😂

[Mir Titles @MirTitles]

Introductory Mathematics for #Engineers: Lectures in Higher Mathematics by A. D. Myškis
a comprehensive coverage of topics of higher mathematics of use to readers of various professions dealing with applications of #mathematics in their work
#soviet #mir
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[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

Vivaldi's “Winter,” visualized in a fascinating way, so that the auditory experience is even more intense; one can literally “see” the music, so to speak

[Mark Sinnathamby @markfaction]

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[maK 🔻 @TheyThemItalian]

you read this on a terminal in fallout

[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

Some melodies aren’t just meant to be heard, they can be experienced visually, too. Pachelbel’s “Canon in D” offers a captivating blend of music and visual beauty.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

dali

[Dan Romik @DanRomik]

Thoughts on math and AI. Are human mathematicians redundant in a world in which AIs are better than humans at proving theorems? The answer may surprise you.

https://t.co/HMDjffWGv0

[James Anthony 💎 @JamesMartirq7p]

“Cats have it all — admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.” ~Rod McKuen 🐈‍⬛

[S@{I-I{00 @Sachcoo_thearty]

Functional

[Gregorio Naçu @gregnacu]

Guys! I'm excited to show that C64 OS is booted and running from the SoftIEC (built in native storage) of Ultimate64. This is pre-release development build of the firmware. It's had a lot of work put into making SoftIEC "CMD HD" compatible. Still has some bugs, but progress. #C64

[haruka no yume【はるかのゆめ】 @haruka_no_yume]

🇯🇵 Wim Wenders' did an amazing job of showing what Tokyo looked like in the middle of the 1980s.

Sometimes, it almost looks like a dream or like AI but it's actually completely real.

[Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz]

Marvelously instructive, for anyone who wants a visual, physical understanding of the recent Navier-Stokes (Millennium) singular solution.

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I recently went through a translation of Musashi’s Book of Five Rings.

The introduction chronicled the evolution of swordsmanship and martial arts in general from pragmatic battlefield necessities to sports, historical curiosities, and hobbies. It was interesting to hear how in the post-WW2 occupation when martial arts were banned, Judo was represented as equivalent to western wrestling, and Kendo later to western fencing.

The poignant undercurrent for me is that I can see many programming skills following that path.

There are probably dozens of people reading this that remember hand assembling opcodes to hex and still have some magic numbers burned into their memory, but even the small group of people still programming in assembly today (hey, @FFmpeg !) don’t work at that primitive level now.

AI is making many other programming skills much less critical. We aren’t there yet, but carefully writing code completely by hand is moving from a -jitsu to a -do. Code-do? Codo?

That’s ok! The retro computing scene is delightful, full of people building and exercising old skills for the love of it.

But don’t be the out of touch Kung Fu master, heir to lifetimes of tradition, that gets mauled by an amateur MMA fighter.

Musashi would probably have been pretty enthusiastic about assault rifles.

[James Anthony 💎 @JamesMartirq7p]

“I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats.” ~Eckhart Tolle

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Something I told 14 yo: The most powerful kind of imagination is the kind that comes from seeing the shapes of ideas. For example, that two ideas fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces, or that if you change one in some way it has exactly the same shape as another.