Ocularity
06 June 2025
This post is about an online experiment I'm doing. The purpose of the experiment is to measure what colours humans can distinguish. This post explains my experimental design, and compares it to previous work.
Alistair's Blog on Computing and Dance
This blog is about anything I find interesting. Here are representative posts about:
Latest posts
Shared NAND Mutable
31 May 2025
This post is about computer science. Specifically, it discusses a way of designing programming languages to make them safer and easier for people and the computer to understand.
A compact gearbox
16 May 2025
This post is about a design for a compact gearbox with a high ratio and low friction.
Design for a local branch predictor
19 April 2025
This post is about computer science, and in particular about branch prediction. It describes a local branch predictor with just eight bits of state, that exhibits some sophisticated behaviour.
Follow Voice
28 March 2025
This post is about swing dancing: one of my main hobbies. The pertinent swing dance is Lindy Hop, but I'm sure the ideas generalise to other partner dances. The subject is "follow voice", which we can define to include all aspects of the dance which are decided by the follow, as opposed to the lead.
Last updated 2025/06/05