@peterfalkingham.com
Professor of Palaeobiology, specialising in locomotion in the fossil record, #dinosaur footprints, #photogrammetry and #simulation. Liverpool/Wales UK
@peterfalkingham.comI deeply, deeply wish people wouldn't hit reply-all when saying congratulations to some news or other.
@peterfalkingham.comDitching Bluefin for CachyOS
I was previously using Bluefin fairly extensively. And I was mostly happy — aside from a few niggles, I was able to mostly stay in Linux and only boot into Windows occasionally. Some of the niggles were just Microsoft clashing with Linux — Outlook required for work,…
@peterfalkingham.com[Academic Tech] Gigabyte AI Top (Nvidia DGX Spark) review I've had Gigabyte's version of Nvidia's DGX Spark, the AI TOP ATOM, on my desk since July, and the two numbers that actually matter about it are 128 and 50: 128GB of unified memory, and roughly fifty watts at the wall while it processes.…
@peterfalkingham.com[Academic Tech] – The M5 MacBook Air review Ugh. It pains me to say it, but this is probably the best laptop in the world. And it's not even close. Shame about macOS, though. I've been lucky enough to be generously provided with a MacBook Air (thanks Beth!) primarily so XMALab gets compiled and…
@peterfalkingham.comThis week part of my team and I were at Cryassac tracksite, France. It was _phenomenal_ - some of the best tracks I've ever seen! You should definitely go if you get the chance.
@peterfalkingham.comThere's also a Nat Geo article about it with _superb_ photos: www.nationalgeographic.com
@peterfalkingham.comIt's big, it's tridactyl, and it's Hell Creek, so we reckon this is an adult Tyrannosaurus rex trackway.
Paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@peterfalkingham.comWatched the cartoon Spider-man from 1994 with my three year old. He loved it, but the end spider-verse took some explaining, and the finale where 'our' spider-man goes to a universe where spider-man is a fictional character, and has a heart-to-heart with Stan Lee took some explaining...
