Retired computer graphics researcher Grandparent Musical Tinkerer Pen plotter enthusiast #plottertwitter @TomDuff@mastodon.social @tomduff.bsky.social
Berkeley, CA
Joined April 2007
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Tom Duff, deipnosophist retweeted
Physicists: We spend billions on colliders to discover the origins of matter.
Biologists: We spend billions to map the human genome.
Astronomers: We spend billions to send a telescope into space.
Mathematicians: We spend $50 to buy a box of Hagoromo chalk.
Tom Duff, deipnosophist retweeted
Doug McIlroy — Unix pipes, diff, spell (the Unix spellchecker), macro pioneer whose work fed into Hart's impementation of Lisp macros, &c — on driving to MIT from NJ to hear McCarthy give a talk on Lisp in 1959.
Tom Duff, deipnosophist retweeted
i don't know why i felt compelled to make these but once i started i couldn't stop
ALT The word "cubs" in the style of the CTA circle logo
ALT The words "Oakland A's" in the style of the BART logo
ALT The word "Mets" in the style of the NYC MTA logo
ALT The word "Braves" sort of in the style of the MARTA logo, although this one has had some liberties taken with it. The logotype and device are stacked, which doesn't happen in official MARTA branding.
Tom Duff, deipnosophist retweeted
Out of character. I don’t care. Will leave this up and let it slide down the feed amid tweets about Kim defeating giant walruses in hand to tusk combat. youtu.be/lB0I6uxRglY
Tom Duff, deipnosophist retweeted
バーコードリーダーをスケートボードに取りつけ、スキャンした電気信号で音を鳴らす。
巨大バーコードを滑り鳴らしました🛹┃┃┃┃
#barcodeboarding #北九州未来創造芸術祭
#electronicosfantasticos
Tom Duff, deipnosophist retweeted
Main electrical had been upgraded, but unbeknownst PG&E hadn’t upgraded the street transformer. Don Knuth wanted to play the pipe organ so we turned the organ blower on and blew the street transformer. I don’t recommend cohousing your servers and your pipe organ.
Tom Duff, deipnosophist retweeted
Tonight 6/10: Pixar Pioneers: The Foundations of Digital Cinema
Tom Duff, Loren Carpenter, and Rob Cook
7pm PDT
meetup.com/SV-SIGGRAPH/event…
#Pixar #Lucasfilm #VFX #CGI #Renderman #LiveStream
@SIGGRAPH @Pixar @Lucasfilm @TomDuff
Tom Duff, deipnosophist retweeted
So pleased to announce that my paper, "If I Fits I Sits: A Citizen Science Investigation into Illusory Contour Susceptibility in Domestic Cats (Felis silvestris catus) has just been published in AABS! #IfIFitsISits #CatSquare #CitizenScience #CommunityScience
Tom Duff, deipnosophist retweeted
So you know how they said that Thanksgiving gatherings would lead to Christmas funerals? I just heard about a Thanksgiving travel related COVID-19 death in my extended family. Please, please, please cancel any holiday gathering plans you have. Please stay home.
Tom Duff, deipnosophist retweeted
Following engineering assessments concluding damage to Arecibo Observatory cannot be addressed without endangering the lives and safety of crew and staff, NSF plans to decommission the 305-meter telescope: bit.ly/2IU6ctZ
Tom Duff, deipnosophist retweeted
Remember tomorrow: Even the most well-run elections suffer mishaps, glitches, and technical failures, and it's easy to exaggerate small problems into rumors of malicious hacking.
Be patient, and please be kind to the poll workers and your other neighbors waiting in line.
Tom Duff, deipnosophist retweeted
matt, it may be time for you to get the band back together. @mattblaze justice.gov/opa/pr/internati…
Tom Duff, deipnosophist retweeted
Initial conditions:
Pendulum 1: position: (0.27, 1.94), mass: 1.25
Pendulum 2: position: (0.48, 4.05), mass: 5.49
Tom Duff, deipnosophist retweeted
We're always adding to our CAD library, but we moved this one up the list for you.
