Nigel Timothy Barber

Humble scholar of Euclid

[VectorGL @Vector_GL]

This was posted on Monday and went nowhere. Today it is on the front page. Thank you HN gods ;-)

[VectorGL @Vector_GL]

Hacker News thread for Rasterizer: https://t.co/8hc6DxQ2t5

Upvotes much appreciated.

[VectorGL @Vector_GL]

Rasterizer, the 3rd iteration of my 2D GPU-accelerated vector graphics engine, is now available.

• Around 30x faster than Core Graphics
• Less than 4,000 lines of code
• CPU stages use efficient batch parallelism
• Quadratic Béziers solved on GPU

https://t.co/2OyKRCB4ki

[VectorGL @Vector_GL]

Rasterizer, the 3rd iteration of my 2D vector GPU engine, will be released on Monday.

[Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown]

If you took 1 year a stopped reading the news or going on social media, and spent that same time reading books instead, do you think you'd be more happy or less happy?

[Sebastian Steinig @sebsteinig]

First version of https://t.co/ySisOBCdZd is now online! The app allows interactive access to more than 100 model simulations covering the climate history of the last 540 million years! It uses a WebGL renderer (@threejs) to visualize climate data in 3D in your browser.

[Nigel Timothy Barber @mindbrix]

Two class-leading machines and a lemon to clear out the inventory.

[Jordan Fraade @schadenfraade]

SUVs have caused an extra 1100 pedestrian deaths between 2000 and 2019 with no corresponding increase in motorist safety, according to this new paper

[Mike Lemur @bmf]

My @360iDev talk has been unveiled. From the description you might think it's going to be one of those talks, and maybe you're right, but there's so much more to it. so much more going on, and so much more possible once we start: Seeing Higher Dimensions. https://t.co/SZFT0ZOAlg

[sigfig @sigfig]

not sure how to publish my notes, but some people have requested i explain what's interesting and weird about mathematica, let me give that a shot

[Nigel Timothy Barber @mindbrix]

@krzyzanowskim @hyperjeff Best cure for jet lag ;-)

[Nigel Timothy Barber @mindbrix]

@steipete My graph looks very similar. We’re coding smarter these days ;-)

[Nigel Timothy Barber @mindbrix]

@tapbot_paul If only Texas had an abundant source of natural energy.

[Jessica Paquette @barrelshifter]

RANDOM LIFE TIP:

1) get a pull up bar
2) just kinda hang off of it and let it just entirely unfuck your dumb nerd back

[David Pogue @Pogue]

This is the COOLEST. A Google Earth-type representation of the planet. Every green dot is a radio station. Click any dot to listen in. It’s like cultural teleportation. You could spend hours with this thing… https://t.co/rdEHUUfgvk

[Paul Sweeney MSP @PaulJSweeney]

According to a study by the London School of Economics, 50 years worth of tax cuts contributed absolutely nothing to GDP growth and employment rates across 18 nations that tried 'trickle down economics', since the wealthiest hoard far more than they spend.
https://t.co/6GcB9nt5Ae

[Astrid 💕 E4L 💙💛 @CyclingAstrid]

This just made my day 😂😂

[Nigel Timothy Barber @mindbrix]

@jckarter I don’t enjoy the lldb window experience. Lots of errors, whereas C++ can resolve expressions without a hitch.

[Nigel Timothy Barber @mindbrix]

Being able to read your Swift variables in the debugger reliably would be even wilder.