Nigel Timothy Barber @mindbrix

Humble scholar of Euclid c82.net/euclid/ London Joined September 2009

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VectorGL @Vector_GL

a day ago

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

VectorGL @Vector_GL

5 days ago

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

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VectorGL @Vector_GL

5 days ago

Hacker News thread for Rasterizer: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=450905… Upvotes much appreciated.

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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 github.com/mindbrix/Raste…

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VectorGL @Vector_GL

a week ago

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

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Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown

4 years ago

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?

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Sebastian Steinig @sebsteinig

4 years ago

First version of climatearchive.org 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.

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Nigel Timothy Barber @mindbrix

4 years ago

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

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Jordan Fraade @schadenfraade

4 years ago

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

Justin Tyndall @justin_tyndall

4 years ago

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

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Mike Lemur @bmf

4 years ago

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. 360idev.com/session/seeing…

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sigfig @sigfig

4 years ago

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

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Jessica Paquette @barrelshifter

5 years ago

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

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David Pogue @Pogue

5 years ago

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… radio.garden

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Paul Sweeney @PaulJSweeney

5 years ago

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. cbsnews.com/amp/news/tax-c…

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Astrid 💕 E4L 💙💛 @CyclingAstrid

5 years ago

This just made my day 😂😂

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Nigel Timothy Barber @mindbrix

5 years ago

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

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Dorian Cope @OnThisDeity

5 years ago

Tim Buckley performing Song to the Siren on the last ever episode of The Monkees tv show, 1968. I've posted this before, but it bears repeating because OH WOW ❤️❤️❤️