Using AMD GPUs on Raspberry Pi without recompiling Linux I’m working on a more in-depth test of some newer AMD GPUs on the Raspberry Pi, now that the 15 line kernel patch is (IMO) nearly ready for upstreaming. But this blog post shows how to quickly get almost any modern AMD GPU running on a Raspberry Pi 5, CM5, or

Quantum computing too much to handle Tomorrow I’m headed to Berkeley for the Inkhaven blogging residency, whose participants need to write one blog post per day or get kicked out. I’ll be there to share my “wisdom” as a distinguished elder blogger (note that Shtetl-Optimized is now in its twentieth year). I’m acutely aware of the

Not a hobby Reflections on life habit experiment 2 The first time I met Evan was on move-in day at UCLA. I was quietly unpacking in my third-floor dorm room when he burst through the doorway, waved his hands, and loudly enquired of me and my other roommates: “Do you guys play StarCraft?” The year was 1999, and we

What happens if AI labs train for pelicans riding bicycles

All Intel GPUs run on Raspberry Pi and RISC-V We finally have Intel Arc GPUs working on the Pi somewhat stably—it required overcoming many small hurdles, but it looks like support could land in Raspberry Pi OS if we can get a simple patch upstreamed1. If that happens, all you’d need to do to use an Intel card on

Scaling HNSWs I’m taking a few weeks of pause on my HNSWs developments (now working on some other data structure, news soon). At this point, the new type I added to Redis is stable and complete enough, it’s the perfect moment to reason about what I learned about HNSWs, and turn it

Minisforum stuffs an entire Arm Homelab in the MS-R1 The Minisforum MS-R1 uses the same Cix CD8180 Arm SoC as the Orion O6 I reviewed earlier this year. But everything else about this thing is different. What this thing should be, is a box that runs Linux and can compete with at least an Apple M1 Mac mini, or a

Reverse engineering Codex CLI to get GPT-5-Codex-Mini to draw me a pelican

Converting hot dog plasma video to sound with OpenCV When you ground a hot dog to an AM radio tower, it generates plasma. Your browser does not support the video tag. While the hot dog’s flesh is getting vaporized, a tiny plasma arc moves the air around it back and forth. And because this tower is an AM tower,

Video notes on upgrading a Datasette plugin for the latest 10 alpha with help from uv and OpenAI Codex CLI