Articles by peter_d_sherman
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SPhotonix – 360TB into 5-inch glass disc with femtosecond laser (tomshardware.com)

2

KiTTY Terminal Graphics Protocol (kovidgoyal.net)

2

Free-for-dev – A curated list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS that have free tiers (github.com/ripienaar)

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Awesome-distributed-ML – A curated list for distributed [faster] LLM training (github.com/shenggan)

3

Virtual ARchaeological Computer EMulator – cycle exact old x86 PC emulator (github.com/varcem)

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Compact (8KB) embedded x86 BIOS for FPGA/emulators/386EX (github.com/b-dmitry1)

2

Negative Differential Conductance in triangular molecular assemblies (arxiv.org)

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Grammars Written for Antlr v4 (github.com/antlr)

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Growing Cosine Unit (GCU): A Novel Oscillatory Activation Function (2023) (arxiv.org)

2

Brian Kernighan – Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language (1981) (virginia.edu)

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Maverick-2 Technology Launch (CPU, GPU,? Is this the next hardware evolution?) [video] (youtube.com)

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Jacqueline – A minimal i386 kernel written in Pascal (2019) (github.com/danirod)

1

AI's Circular Economy [video] (youtube.com)

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Torsion Field (Pseudoscience) (wikipedia.org)

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Pyscripter – Open-source Python IDE written in Delphi (github.com/pyscripter)

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ao486 port for MiSTer (486SX FPGA core in Verilog) (github.com/mister-devel)

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EasyOS – An experimental Linux distribution (2025) (easyos.org)

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Don't sell shovels, sell treasure maps (platforms.substack.com)

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OpenSERDES – Open Hardware Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) in Verilog (2020) (github.com/sparclab)

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Awesome-Foundation-Models – A curated list of foundation models (github.com/uncbiag)

1

No instruction set computing (wikipedia.org)

3

BREAD: BIOS Reverse Engineering and Advanced Debugger (github.com/theldus)

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TinyALSA – Tiny library to interface with ALSA in the Linux kernel (github.com/tinyalsa)

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TinyWM – The tiniest (X11) window manager (github.com/mackstann)

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Barrelfish OS Architecture Overview (2013) [pdf] (barrelfish.org)

3

BuildPad – A platform that helps founders go from idea to successful product (buildpad.io)

1

Hacksaw: Hardware-Centric Kernel Debloating (2023) [pdf] (microsoft.com)

3

Minimum x86-64 Machine Code (in Hex) for SmithForth core (2022) (dacvs.neocities.org)

2

Nix Package Manager Install on Alpine Linux (gist.github.com)

2

Quantum Random Access Memory (QRAM) for Dummies (2023) (arxiv.org)

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OpenPOWER Foundation – Open-Source / Open Hardware PowerPC CPU ISA (openpowerfoundation.org)

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NixNG – A lightweight "minimal by default" Linux distribution based on NixOS (github.com/nix-community)

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awesome-gpgpu – A curated list of GPGPU (CUDA/OpenCL/Vulkan) resources (github.com/jslee02)

2

ESP – Open-source SoC platform (columbia.edu)

2

HSS-8324 PXI Express High Speed Optical FPGA Board (conduant.com)

4

DIY Open Source Single Photon Generator and Detector (gaudi.ch)

3

Laser optical pickup unit (OPU) hacking (2020) (hackteria.org)

2

Resonant Inductive Coupling (wikipedia.org)

2

i3 Window Manager explainer videos and screenshots (i3wm.org)

1

The Electret (2023) (circuitcellar.com)

2

What is data oriented design? (2023) (stackoverflow.com)

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Bolt.new – Prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web apps online

3

Jonesforth – A sometimes minimal FORTH compiler and tutorial for Linux / i386 (github.com/nornagon)

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Delivering 15TB of 4K video with Cloudflare R2 for $2.18 (screencasting.com)

2

Intuitive vs. Intentional productivity – the foundations of the new Spark (2022) (sparkmailapp.com)

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MdBook – a command line tool to create books with Markdown (rust-lang.github.io)

2

DirectStorage Overview (2023) (microsoft.com)

2

Angular Resolution (wikipedia.org)

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Ham Radio 101: What is WSPR? (onallbands.com)

2

Task Vectors [in Vision and Language Models (VLM's)] Are Cross-Modal (task-vectors-are-cross-modal.github.io)

2

About Those Gaussian Envelopes (2014) (marty-green.blogspot.com)

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The Shape That Could Replace Space-Time –- Maybe [Amplituhedron] [video] (youtube.com)

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Release Schedule for NixOS 24.11 (github.com/nixos)

2

The Usenet Oracle (wikipedia.org)

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LibNSFB – Framebuffer (bitmap on screen) abstraction library, written in C (netsurf-browser.org)

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Automata_theory.svg (wikimedia.org)

2

Polynomial Activation Functions (2020) (openreview.net)

2

Where does this esoteric Pascal operator come from? (2017) (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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Benchmark: Trimming Whitespace in Bash (2022) (forret.com)

3

Gotee – An Implementation of Tee in Go (github.com/imarsman)

3

AI-Powered Electronic Component Sorter (github.com/vanguard-s)

3

3Blue1Brown – How are holograms possible? [video] (youtube.com)

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Trellis – AI-powered workflow for unstructured data (runtrellis.com)

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Turn your Uno into a VGA output device (2012) (arduino.cc)

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Archronix Speedster7T FPGA with NoC with 20 Tbps Bandwidth, PCIe, SerDes, GDDR6 (achronix.com)

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Frequency Selective Surfaces and Metasurfaces (2020) [pdf] (empossible.net)

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Sxsphil's Telephone Switch Restoration and Early Telephony Channel on YouTube (youtube.com)

3

Usenix Security '16 – The Unfalsifiability of Security Claims (2016) [video] (youtube.com)

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Please stop putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022) (olivergrimsley.com)

3

Super Simple Breadboard-SDR Receiver from 50 kHz to 30 MHz (2023) [video] (youtube.com)

2

awesome-css-frameworks – GitHub curated list of CSS frameworks (github.com/troxler)

3

Gearless Magnetic Transmission – You Can't Break These Gears (2023) [video] (youtube.com)

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AMD's x86 CPU and FPGA Tango on Sapphire Technology's Embedded+ PC Motherboard (eejournal.com)

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The key to exploring space might just be diamonds (2023) (3ds.com)

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What Is Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS)? (2023) (biologic.net)

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r/ThisIsWhyRedditSucks (reddit.com)

2

Fundamentals of Laser-Material Interaction and Application to Multiscale (2010) [pdf] (princeton.edu)

2

Why is PostmarketOS based on Alpine Linux? (postmarketos.org)

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Brans–Dicke Theory (wikipedia.org)

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A Connection between the Numbers Phi and Pi (2008) [pdf] (hascmathart.weebly.com)

3

Where People Go When They Want to Hack You [video] (youtube.com)

2

The Physicist Who Split Light Using an Electric Field [video] (youtube.com)

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UCIe 2.0 for 3D Chip Structures Offers up to 75 Times More Bandwidth (hpcwire.com)

3

The First Internet Country is Coming (Here's what to expect) [video] (youtube.com)

3

Nightfall (Classic Computer) Crew – About Us (1998) (nightfallcrew.com)

2

A Tool to Visualize 4D Rotations [video] (youtube.com)

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GitHub: Automatic-Differentiation (github.com/topics)

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Adbfs-rootless – Mount Android phones on Linux with adb. No root required (github.com/spion)

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FreePascal for Web Development (freepascal.org)

2

Online Domain Registar Price Comparison Website (tldes.com)

3

SERV – The SErial RISC-V CPU (github.com/olofk)

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Con­ser­va­tion Laws and Sym­me­tries (fsu.edu)

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Canadian Tire Money (wikipedia.org)

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Magnetic Refrigeration (wikipedia.org)

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D3D12 (GPU) Work Graphs (microsoft.com)

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Cosmic muons: Angular dependence of flux (hackaday.io)