The journey that started a long time ago as sparse compilation, enriched with new ideas by so many others along the way, continues with the introduction of the Universal Sparse Tensor (UST) type.
developer.nvidia.com/blog/establi...
Supreme T2 Electronic Chessboard
The Millennium Supreme T2 electronic chessboard arrived. Beautiful tournament size and weighted piece set. I plan to post a review on YouTube soon!
Congratulations, Dr. Dr. Bik!
Moon through Meade ETX90EC
The moon tonight, through a Meade ETX-90EC.
#astrophotography
Are you just as excited as I am about deep learning, sparse matrices and tensors, sparse computations, structured and unstructured sparsity, sparse compilers, NVIDIA, and GPUs? If so, please note that my team at NVIDIA is hiring!
nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/NVIDIAExtern...
Composite photo of the moon through Meade LX600 telescope
Beautiful moon this night. Composite photo.
#astrophotography
You should be very proud! Finest automobile ever!
Ferrari 328 GTS
Now I know what puts a smile on my face...
Two American flags
Happy Fourth of July!
Of course, my PhD thesis was already available as PDF.
Compiler Support for Sparse Matrix Computations. PhD Thesis, Leiden University, 1996.
aartbik.com/MISC/bik-96....
In my time, university documents were only available in printed form. However, I found the LaTex sources of my MSc thesis, and was able to generate a PDF form!
A Prototype Restructuring Compiler, MSc Thesis, no. INF/SCR-92-11, Utrecht University, 1992.
aartbik.com/MISC/bikms.pdf
Messier 53 through the Meade LX600
Not the greatest capture, but it is Messier 53 nevertheless. Through the Meade LX600, taken with the ZWO CCD.
#astrophotography
Lagoon Nebula (M8)
Lagoon Nebula (M8) through the Meade LX600
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moon through Meade LX600
#astrophotography #moon
Moon, waxing crescent, through a telescope
Moon, waxing crescent, through the Meade ETX90EC
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Micro moon through the Meade ETX90EC
The micro moon through my Meade ETX90EC. Noticeably smaller than usual in the camera display.
#astrophotography
Composite image of the moon through Meade LX600 telescope
Composite image of the moon, through the Meade LX600.
#astrophotography
House of Staunton Sensory Boards and Zmartfun Chess Clock
I very kindly received an updated Zmartfun/HouseOfStaunton Sensory Board that now also features LEDs. You see a side-by-side comparison in the picture. I can't wait to add support for these LEDs to Chess for Android!
It uses recursive backtracking. The implementation maintains its own stack, because the very small 6510 stack itself would overflow for deeper paths ;-)
Maze solving on the Commodore 64 with 6510 assembly. An elegant computer for a more civilized age :-)
www.aartbik.com/retro.php
One of Aart's demos on the KIM-1: wave
Another demo by Aart: control brightness
Always fun to relive the joys of my youth: programming assembler. Check out my 6502-assembler and KIM-1 tutorial.
www.aartbik.com/retro.php
An AI rendering of Aart
Did you go to NVIDIA GTC 25?
#GTCdevwall #NVIDIA
Canon EOS Rebel T3i digital camera attached prime focus to Meade ETX90EC, 1/15s exposure, ISO-100. Minor post processing by SiriL software.
www.aartbik.com/astronomy.php
Moon through Meade ETX90EC
I missed the lunar eclipse due to clouds, but today conditions are a bit better.
#astrophotography
The sparse work continues with the introduction of the Universal Sparse Tensor (UST) type to the MatX GPU-accelerated numerical computing C++ library.
github.com/NVIDIA/MatX/...
Pixel 8 Pro
Orion Constellation from driveway, taken with Pixel 8 Pro
No telescope tonight, just my plain phone to get a better overview of the Orion constellation.
#astrophotography
Chess for Android connect to eboard menu
iChessOne connected to Chess for Android
The iChessOne board had a firmware upgrade to support board sounds, now also supported in Chess for Android. Simply enable "clock beep" when connecting to this electronic chessboard, and the board will beep with each move!
Orion Nebula through telescope
An old winter favorite again, the Orion Nebula through the Meade LX600.
#astrophotography
