David Mayerich
supox.net
David Mayerich
@supox.net
optics, microscopy, high performance computing
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video games, TTRPG, fencing, woodworking

STIM Lab
https://stim.ee.uh.edu/
(views are my own and do not represent the University of Houston)
Can anybody explain why this UI element exists? I’m not a conspiracy-minded guy, but it really feels like every UI developer is deliberately trying to slow me down while pissing me off.

I think I’m a competent programmer but not a UI expert. Feels like I’ve GOT to be missing something.
September 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Literally reading this during the intermission at 90’s Mixtape concert in Houston rn

Never thought I’d feel nostalgic listening to Backstreet Boys…
August 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I felt a bit seen in Houston
June 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
🔥
June 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Over 20 years I've seen people I know post crazy stuff on Facebook, but it'll be this crap that finally gets me to pull the plug.
May 21, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I’ve been looking for a good mobile game and Dark Omens is kind of my jam.
May 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
May 1, 2025 at 2:25 AM
It’s the media’s fault Kennedy did it.

The thing that kind of rattled me was the implication at the end that anyone would be mad at a kid. I’m trying to put myself in their position, and don’t see how that isn’t deliberate deflection.
April 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Douglas Adams prepared me for this moment.
April 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Don’t be naive, this guy is ABSOLUTELY scamming American consumers.
April 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Government appointees chatting with a honey trap on Signal
March 28, 2025 at 4:12 AM
This video caused some major stock shifts in the two companies and I just don’t get it.

How can these results surprise any investor? The camera-only system failed under the exact conditions I’d expect. I thought every regulator on the planet classified Tesla’s automation as mid.
March 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The 1994 edition of TSR’s Encyclopedia Magicka made the same mistake I make renaming variables in source code.
March 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I’ve lived in Texas for a couple of decades but just now learned about crawfish towers.
March 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
My daughter just tried to pull a Justin Trudeau…
February 4, 2025 at 11:58 PM
TEXAS: $2,634,516,414 😥
January 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I saw a thing on this and basically that EO isn’t how anything works.

I’m more curious about the one that seems to require that we all put “female” on our passports and other federal documentation.
January 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
So I just replicated this for fun and asked a follow-up.

It’s like a self-fulfilling prophecy: it knows the answer to my question because so many people have had to explain why it doesn’t know the answer to theirs.
January 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Helia and Omar did a bunch of calculus to design a fast GPU-based tensor voting algorithm to repair noisy tensor fields derived from large images.

"Closed-Form GPU-Accelerated Tensor Voting with Refinement", Goharbavang, et. al
January 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Meher's work uses OpenVDB, a data structure designed to represent complex surfaces in digital effects, to store and segment vascular networks from gigavoxel-scale 3D images.

"Segmentation of Microvascular Networks Embedded in Gigavoxel 3D Images Using RSF Level Sets with OpenVDB", Niger, et. al
January 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The STIM Lab just got two papers accepted at IEEE ISBI - the first two publications for the lead authors (Meher Niger, Helia Goharbavang, and Omar Baig)!

It's also the first time ISBI will be held down the street from me...
January 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I wasn't sure what my first post should be here so I'll start with my first game of 2025: Indiana Jones and The Great Circle is WAAAAY better than I expected. Not sure how Bethesda pulled this off but <slow clap>
January 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM