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Ted Herman

@tedherman@mastodon.social

mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06

Computer Scientist, mineral collector, gardener, bike enthusiast; un peu de français; nederlands maar erg roestig.

8 Followers

67 Following

7 Posts

Joined February 18, 2024

Ted Herman @tedherman@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

@regehr@mastodon.social Social Beamforming.

"Officials will flush 50,000 toilets to flood a Utah lake in order to generate electricity"

Ted Herman @tedherman@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

@regehr@mastodon.social $\Rightarrow$\textit{awesome} https://blog.mathieuacher.com/TeXCCChessEngine/

blog.mathieuacher.com

TeXCCChess: How Coding Agents Wrote a Chess Engine in Pure TeX

What happens when you ask a 2026 coding agent like Claude Code to build a chess engine from scratch (with no plan, no architecture document, no step-by-step guidance) in a language that was never designed for this purpose? Building a chess engine is a non-trivial software engineering challenge: it involves board representation, move generation with dozens of special rules (castling, en passant, promotion), recursive tree search with pruning, evaluation heuristics, as well as a way to assess engi

Ted Herman @tedherman@mastodon.social

· 9mo ago

Replying to

@teajaygrey I recommend the David Graeber book "Debt: The First 5000 Years" for its explanation of slavery.

Ted Herman @tedherman@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@asymco See the MKBHD review - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBX5WH9b4M4

Macbook Neo Impressions: Reincarnated!

Ted Herman @tedherman@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

@asymco@mastodon.social https://restofworld.org/2026/micro-ev-sales-slump/

Why won’t people buy these tiny electric cars?

Rest of World

Why won’t people buy these tiny electric cars?

Despite seeming ideal for crowded cities, these compact cars captured just $11 billion of the $800 billion global EV market.

Ted Herman @tedherman@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

Tales of drunken Brits misbehaving on planes are legion. One group going on a golfing break in Turkey drank a SunExpress airplane’s entire stock of booze within 25 minutes. Flights to Spain’s party spot Ibiza regularly turn into onboard discos. A drunk EasyJet passenger once tried to storm the cockpit, saying he could fly better. Another tried to open the plane door midair.

Ted Herman @tedherman@mastodon.social

· 9mo ago

Replying to

@mattblaze@federate.social "The home of the brave"