ryanfb

@ryanfb@botsin.space

📜 Papyri, Ancient Greek, Latin, computers, video games, cats, etc. Bot-making on hiatus.

https://papyri.info maintainer

Creator of https://podqueue.fm, the missing "Listen Later" for audio on the web

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ryanfb, to random

well y'all, it was always sort of untenable to use my bot-maintenance account as my main mastodon account, but I'll probably be moving servers sooner rather than later, post migration or not https://botsin.space/@muffinista/110378654504428500

ryanfb,

Alright, I'm going to request one last data export from botsin.space and when that's done I'm going to move over to my new account on @ryanfb! See you there! https://digipres.club/@ryanfb

ryanfb, to random

WhisperX v3 shipped a couple days ago and it’s truly incredible the speedup they’ve delivered for accurate audio transcription. I can do CPU-only transcription on my M1 Max at 3x real-time with the largest model. With a GPU you can apparently hit 70x real-time. https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX

ryanfb,

Once PyTorch has a stable Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) backend that covers most functionality, you should be able to use this with GPU acceleration on Macs. It would be a huge help if Apple actually cared about or contributed to any open source machine learning projects! Instead of just killing CUDA support and saying "figure it out"!

ryanfb,

@nkizz PyTorch has some MPS compatibility but it doesn't yet support all features and has some bugs that break things depending on what you're trying to do with it, e.g.: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/87886

ryanfb, to random

May 14th, 29 CE— Herieus, daughter of Laousis and Tapetesouchus, sells Hisarous, daughter of Onnophris, the two out of five parts of a two-storied house in Soknopaiu Nesos belonging to her, in this bilingual Demotic/Greek contract

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.ryl;2;160

overholt, to random
@overholt@glammr.us avatar

The secret to comedy is timing, and I just got the payoff to a hundred year old joke. I was listening to the Blank Check podcast on Buster Keaton, which mentioned that the title of his short “One Week” was a play on “Three Weeks” a scandalous 1907 erotic novel.

We have a novelty fake book called “Four Weeks: A Loud Book” with a cap gun mechanism inside, and when you open it, the cap fires. The joke is that you were trying to steal a look at a sexy book and got very dramatically caught.

GIF of the cover of Four Weeks, A Loud Book and the cap gun mechanism

ryanfb,

@overholt now I’m wondering what the record is for the longest time between one of these books being “loaded” and surprising an unexpecting reader

ryanfb, to random

May 13th, 110 CE— Hermias sells his "red cow with crooked horns" (βοῦν πυρόχρωμον σκα[μβὴν τὰ] κέρατ(α)) for 120 silver drachmae, saying that if she does not please the buyer, he'll buy the cow back for 3.5x the price.

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.bad;2;19A

ryanfb, to random

May 12th, 31 CE—Hermon writes to the centurion Quintus Gaius Passer , complaining that an armed group of fishermen poached a silver talent's worth of fish out of his cistern, and when confronted tried to attack him.

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;19;2234

ryanfb,

[CSI: Oxyrhynchus cold open] looks like this is a classic case of puts on sunglasses poached fish

ryanfb, to random

May 11th, 218 BCE— the wine dealers Sopatros, Dionysios, and Ptolemaios lodge a complaint against the wine merchant Petenenteris, who has delivered to them an incomplete order for wine

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.enteux;;34

ryanfb, to random

May 10th, 329 CE—a list of people nominated to the town council is submitted

In charge of wheat:

  • Paysiris
  • Clarus
    In charge of meat:
  • Papnuthis
  • Hatres
    In charge of chaff:
  • Hatres
  • Paysas
    In charge of tunics & cloaks:
  • Pahelenes
  • Hatres

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;51;3621

ryanfb,

this one’s for all the Hatres

ryanfb, to random

May 9th, 137 BCE— Phanesis writes to Pesouris regarding a matter in which some police officers are accused of robbing a house of…a pickled goose

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/sb;28;17205

ryanfb,

On the verso, Pesouris turns around and drafts a letter to the chief of police regarding the same matter

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/sb;28;17206

ryanfb, to random

spoilers, but I’ll be ringing in 2023 by also starting a #WozADay series to go alongside #MoofADay

#retrogaming #retrocomputing
https://youtube.com/@ryanfb

ryanfb,

: Street Sports Basketball 🏀


https://youtu.be/f5XHOZSSA9I

ryanfb,

: Street Sports Football 🏈


https://youtu.be/FnVK3VmaJP0

ryanfb,

: Street Sports Soccer ⚽

closing out Street Sports week, but don't worry, we're rolling straight back in to the Maxx Out! series from Epyx tomorrow


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdeXPslDsLM

ryanfb,

: Death Sword ⚔️

it’s exactly what you’d expect a game named DEATH SWORD to be


https://youtu.be/ygZiEndo56M

ryanfb,

: Impossible Mission II 🤖


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLSwDFp2wzs

ryanfb,

: Spiderbot 🕷️

another inscrutable entry in the Maxx Out! series from Epyx


https://youtu.be/44YlfFkruP8

ryanfb,

: Spy vs. Spy III: Arctic Antics ❄️

this is a Maxx Out! title as well, for some reason


https://youtu.be/b2vWjr6DCeA

ryanfb,

the manual also advertises an game named “Deflexor” that I can’t find any other information about and doesn’t seem to have been released? maybe they just changed the name before release?

ryanfb,

: World Karate Championship 🥋


https://youtu.be/3BMfS10MhRw

ryanfb,

: The Eidolon 🐉

surprisingly smooth FPS action…on the …in 1985


https://youtu.be/y_wASG0uK7c

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