Stochastic computing | Locklin on science
I’ve wanted to write about this topic since I started this blerg, but various things have kept me from it. Stochastic computing is a subject I’ve been somewhat aware of since I went thr…| Locklin on science
I’ve wanted to write about this topic since I started this blerg, but various things have kept me from it. Stochastic computing is a subject I’ve been somewhat aware of since I went thr…| Locklin on science
1 post published by Scott Locklin during October 2025| Locklin on science
Continuing my fascination with transitional designs, I’ve been looking at Pre-Dreadnought battleships. Battleships are ridiculous, but also awesome. The things that came before the classical …| Locklin on science
First set of examples here: Examples of group madness in technology Many of these taken from the comments on the last one; thanks bros. Again, one of the worst arguments I hear is that “thing X is inevitable because the smart people are doing it.” There are tons of examples of smart people doing and working […]| Locklin on science
Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog by Peter Gutmann and Stephan Neuhaus Supposedly AI investors are poised to fuel this horse shit…| Locklin on science
1 post published by Scott Locklin during September 2025| Locklin on science
The Urban Astronomer’s Guide: A Walking Tour of the Cosmos for City Sky Watchers by Rod Mollise. Uncle Rod gives a seasonal guide to Urban sky watching. I’ll eventually find the time to buy a dark …| Locklin on science
1 post published by Scott Locklin during August 2025| Locklin on science
The North American Aviation company was pretty much wiped out by the Apollo-1 accident; a political sacrifice, as the all-oxygen atmosphere which caused the disaster was called out by …. Nort…| Locklin on science
Part 1: Other anomalies: Unusual birb hunting strategies (Corliss BBB16): many kind of birb do things like drop bugs or turds into water to attract fish. Also wiggle their bills into the water to a…| Locklin on science
Neither is computer science, political science, economics, nutritional science or anything else with the word “science” in the name. I tire of internet weight lifting dorks talking abou…| Locklin on science
Trigger warning: PDF link heavy shitpoast. One of the weird and potentially breakthrough things in physics is variable beta decay. Beta decay, essentially is free neutrons turning into a proton, el…| Locklin on science
Believe in Yourself: the Lee Priest Story by Lee Priest. For various reasons not entirely clear to me I am a big fan of Lee Priest youtube videos. Listening to him rattle on about lifting, eating m…| Locklin on science
Sleeping Beauties in Theoretical Physics by Thanu Padmanabhan. I ran across this looking for some alternatives or updates to Moore’s “Building Scientific Apparatus.” Major long ta…| Locklin on science
