Christopher Swenson (Cupcake)
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Christopher Swenson (Cupcake)
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I like cats, sorting, cryptography, math, and programming. Software engineer usually. Wrote a cryptography book and a sorting library. he/him
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The last several days I spent building a demo of Caliptra on an FPGA board and then demoing it at the booth. I think people were more fascinated by the mini rack I put the FPGAs in though 😂
Mini rack with FPGA boards and blinking lights that says “Caliptra” on the side. A TV with a slideshow that says “Caliptra FPGA Demo”. A monitor that has a terminal scrolling a bunch of text that is hard to read but looks technical.
October 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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This FPGA dev board *just* about fits in a 10-inch mini rack, which is dangerous because it justifies me getting the 10-inch rack and populating it with more stuff.
An FPGA development board just barely sticking out the back of a 10-inch mini rack.
October 3, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Watching Inside the Factory and I think this machine would fix me.
September 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Huh. Some random video I made a few years ago has been slowly getting a decent number of views considering I have no subscribers? youtu.be/Nidwz3BzFCM
A defrag video got 10,000 views.
August 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Are… the ducks in DuckTales humans???

This opens up so many questions.
The three nephew ducks in DuckTales saying “quick, a human ladder” when climbing on each others’ shoulders.
July 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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ChatGPT is really bad at making ASCII art
ChatGPT failing to render the letters MCU
June 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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The AI generated review summary for "No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators" says users had mixed reviews of the *sex* scenes. 🫠
Customers find the book well-written for the average reader and extremely interesting, with one review specifically highlighting the eye-opening insights into NecroSearch. They appreciate the forensic science content, with one customer noting how the author makes the process palpable. The book receives positive feedback for its case histories, with one review mentioning detailed breakdowns of crime scenes. The sex scenes receive mixed reactions from customers. AI-generated from the text of customer reviews. 6 customers mention "Sex scenes" 3 positive 3 negative Customers have mixed opinions about the book's content, with one finding the team members and volunteers interesting, while another finds the investigations tedious and draining. "...The backgrounds of some of the team members are also interesting. They come from many professions with different skills and interests...." "...Investigations are tedious and draining, and crimes can take years, even decades, to solve, not 45 minutes as on "CSI."" "...What kept me coming back was the human side of the researchers and the closure for the families." "...What I didn't like was that too much space was giving to long, boring explanations of some of the techniques and how they were developed...."
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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He found a fits, so he sits.
A large brown tabby cat sitting in a shoe box, adorably.
March 2, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #556,623!
September 17, 2024 at 4:31 AM