Michael Williams
@ptoboley.bsky.social
Microprocessors and stuff. RAS, debug, and profiling architect at Arm. Does not like peanut butter.
1978: A dog is for life, not just for Christmas
2026: Buy a Guinea Pig to colour match your new sofa
2026: Buy a Guinea Pig to colour match your new sofa
November 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
1978: A dog is for life, not just for Christmas
2026: Buy a Guinea Pig to colour match your new sofa
2026: Buy a Guinea Pig to colour match your new sofa
Watched this with my son -- who finds maths baffling and frustrating -- and he was transfixed throughout. youtu.be/z30YWqAJAm4?...
1977: Johnny Ball and the Fun of Mathematics | Think of a Number | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
youtu.be
October 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Watched this with my son -- who finds maths baffling and frustrating -- and he was transfixed throughout. youtu.be/z30YWqAJAm4?...
Popular nationalism really starting to kick off in Waffleland
September 16, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Popular nationalism really starting to kick off in Waffleland
Door to door religion salespeople: Have you ever considered what The Bible might say about current events, like war in the Middle East?
Inner voice: "Sorry"?
Inner voice: "Sorry"?
June 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Door to door religion salespeople: Have you ever considered what The Bible might say about current events, like war in the Middle East?
Inner voice: "Sorry"?
Inner voice: "Sorry"?
@standupmaths.bsky.social I did an animation of all the points of the Mandelbrot set a few years ago: youtu.be/_JFj8uHwNVc?... You can see groups of numbers moving from bulb to bulb (I should redo this with a gradual zoom)
The exploding avocado
YouTube video by Michael Williams
youtu.be
June 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
@standupmaths.bsky.social I did an animation of all the points of the Mandelbrot set a few years ago: youtu.be/_JFj8uHwNVc?... You can see groups of numbers moving from bulb to bulb (I should redo this with a gradual zoom)
Good choice of movie, and the use of subtitles is fine as it's an ADHD thing. But the choice of font is hard to accept. #parentingissues
June 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Good choice of movie, and the use of subtitles is fine as it's an ADHD thing. But the choice of font is hard to accept. #parentingissues
Damn it. Looks like I need to stop licking my trousers.
Just how clean does your washing machine get your clothes? It turns out that even high temperature cycles may not be effective at killing off potentially harmful bacteria.
Your washing machine may not actually rid clothes of harmful bacteria
Washing your clothing on high temperature cycles may not completely disinfect it, researchers have found, because washing machines don't necessarily sustain high enough temperatures
www.newscientist.com
May 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Damn it. Looks like I need to stop licking my trousers.
2025 is the year of anniversaries.
I sit watching a train video (200 years) on YouTube (20 years), on my Arm Powered (40 years) TV, munching a chocolate digestive (100 years), while my wife (25 years) has the common sense to be doing something else.
I sit watching a train video (200 years) on YouTube (20 years), on my Arm Powered (40 years) TV, munching a chocolate digestive (100 years), while my wife (25 years) has the common sense to be doing something else.
April 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
2025 is the year of anniversaries.
I sit watching a train video (200 years) on YouTube (20 years), on my Arm Powered (40 years) TV, munching a chocolate digestive (100 years), while my wife (25 years) has the common sense to be doing something else.
I sit watching a train video (200 years) on YouTube (20 years), on my Arm Powered (40 years) TV, munching a chocolate digestive (100 years), while my wife (25 years) has the common sense to be doing something else.
The year is 2045. The few remaining subjugated human slaves are kept alive for the sole purpose of comtinually staging marathon races for their robot overlords, who have a simple prime directive. Win.
news.sky.com/story/china-...
news.sky.com/story/china-...
China hosts world's first half-marathon race between humans and robots
Some 21 humanoid robots raced alongside thousands of runners around the 21km (13-mile) course in Beijing on Saturday.
news.sky.com
April 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The year is 2045. The few remaining subjugated human slaves are kept alive for the sole purpose of comtinually staging marathon races for their robot overlords, who have a simple prime directive. Win.
news.sky.com/story/china-...
news.sky.com/story/china-...
Happy 5²3⁴ to those who celebrate.
January 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Happy 5²3⁴ to those who celebrate.
Random charity purchase. How could I not?
November 22, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Random charity purchase. How could I not?