“The future ain’t what it used to be.”

-Yogi Berra

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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • Well if you’ve ever check out her yt channel and grad work: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGvPinTJU s, the suspicion might begin to reveal itself.

    Her grad work involved inferometrics and corner cameras. Then there was a series of papers using lidar to image around corners that also drew on her work.

    When I read about her work on the CHIRP algorithm, it occured to me there was quite a range of interesting practical applications around it (at the time I was very interested in full waveform lidar). Many lidar systems allow for multiple return counts. If you have multiple shots into a single physical space, you can think of the shot vector as being in frequency space. Build up enough shots into a single space and while it’s not traditional inferometry, you can think of the result as an interference mire typical from something like infsar




  • I think we’re going to need to see a generational shift in compute before we see steam deck two. I have the original deck, and the OLED. Kicked down the original to a friend. Both are great pieces of kit. I’ve basically survived without a gaming machine for almost 4 years because of these devices. I’ve experienced almost 0 desegregation on either. Just phenomenal devices.

    I’ve finally bit the bullet on a more serious machine (for both work and pleasure). I’ve got a Asus ROG Flow Z13 on back order, the 128gb variant. I think this is the direction things are going to go. We just can’t make CPU’s/ Video cards faster/ more efficient if we keep them separated.

    My speculation: the next steam deck is going to take on this design, so long as the stryx halo generation proves itself. It might not be a “full force” variant like I’ve bought into, but the rub is the temperatures and power to performance relationship. The stryx halo design is the only thing I’ve seen that would warrant a generation refresh.








  • I dont like that they designed around the pebble, which doesn’t have onboard rechargable batteries.

    The mxmini would have been a better design choice and is about the same size. Dead ass if they had something like this built with the USB C hub as part of the design, I’d be buying it right now. The biggest criticism I have of the steam deck is the case. It seems like they could have designed it to be a stand fairly easily.