No one can force me to have a secure website!!!
Video | 6 months ago
In this pre-paid self-own, I study security vulnerability through the lens of self-flagellation. I go through a lot of trouble to make life worse for me and my antediluvian website's users (AS USUAL). Get it or try it: https://tom7.org/httpv/ Or read the 25...
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Mathematically extra-complicated Secretest Santa 2025
Video | 9 months ago
Hmm, I wonder how long a light-hearted educational winter treat can get without invalidating its premise? Surely I can sneak in a couple group theory lectures and incorporate contributions from 12 other mathematicians (interpreted loosely. math is everywher...
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Rupert's Snub Cube and other Math Holes
Podcast | 1 years ago
In this cross-over episode between the Main Sequence and Tom Academy, we see what it would take to prove that you can't do what you already thought you couldn't do, and learn about Tom's prurient interest in Platonic horrors. Yes, the whole 80 minutes is ab...
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Badness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version)
Video | 2 years ago
Never before seen pilot episode. Keywords: Types If you see any errors, please post about them in the comment section! Source code, papers, etc.: http://tom7.org/bovex
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GradIEEEnt half decent: The hidden power of imprecise lines
Video | 3 years ago
Before the invention of YouTube comments, most people could make remarks that were slightly technically incorrect without fear of immediate public rebuke. The one exception was professors, especially if the classroom included an annoying student such as “To...
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How I ran the length of every street in Pittsburgh: PAC TOM
Video | 3 years ago
This video elaborates my project to run the length of every street in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It's called "Pac Tom" because it's like Pac Man eating dots, except with Tom (me) instead of Man. Like Pac Man, there's no time limit, which is good ...
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Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need
Video | 4 years ago
In this video we make and evaluate several hard drives that we didn't want. Drawing some inspiration from vexing current events, we find that creative, structured thought on adjacent (but frivolous) problems is a sort of digestive act, and one that is ultim...
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Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning]
Guide | 5 years ago
I perform an exhaustive case analysis using advanced "derp learning" techniques to discover what's even upperercase than an uppercase A. AND I DON'T STOP THERE. For SIGBOVIK 2021. Fonts, paper with details, etc.: http://tom7.org/lowercase/
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30 Weird Chess Algorithms: Elo World
Video | 7 years ago
An intricate and lengthy account of several different computer chess topics from my SIGBOVIK 2019 papers. We conduct a tournament of fools with a pile of different weird chess algorithms, ostensibly to quantify how well my other weird program to play color-...
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NaN Gates and Flip FLOPS
Video | 7 years ago
A new kind of computer architecture that's more elegant than 1s and 0s, being based directly on Mathematics. Note: Everything in here is real (IEEE-754), but the target is computer scientists and the troll level is set to ULTRA. Source code and stuff: http:...
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Making of "Reverse emulating the NES..."
Video | 8 years ago
An explanation of the process and tech behind my last video, Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!". You should watch that video first, of course: https://youtu.be/ar9WRwCiSr0
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Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!
Video | 8 years ago
The video begins in a strange way and gets stranger, but then, ideally, you understand why. See the "making of" video for more technical information: https://youtu.be/hTlNVUmBA28
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