Max Mammel

@mjmtools

Software developer, astronomy enthusiast, puzzle enjoyer. Some hobby code: and my playground site: The purple icon thing was created with the "Number Spirals" page, the dinosaur is my drawing.

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Max Mammel@mjmtools· 20d

Cover art for Steven Seagal's "Mojo Priest" album. Yes, it's real (and there are more) - no, I have not listened to any of it

Max Mammel@mjmtools· 27d

Still shot of one of the freaky monsters from the movie Arcadian. It has a false "face" on the top of its head that it uses to mesmerize its victims before flipping its chin up to reveal a hideously gaping, chattering maw

Max Mammel@mjmtools· Jul 13

I was pretty enthralled with this one in Auckland on the volcano trail (can't remember the real name) in front of (I think) the military museum. It was like nothing I'd ever seen

Giant sparsely-leaved tree in Auckland, NZ that I encountered on a walk along a path up an ancient, dormant volcano. It has a gnarly trunk with massive above-ground roots and spreads out widely from only a few feet up its massively wide "trunk", though it does not have much of a trunk to speak of.

Close-up of the "trunk" of the crazy Auckland tree

Close-up of some of the sprawling above-ground roots of the tree

Max Mammel@mjmtools· Jul 1

Bought based on your cover alone :) I went deep on number spirals a while back and it's become a fun pastime.

The Ulam spiral as generated by my hobby "Number Spirals" app at https://www.mjmtools.com/primeSpiral/primeSpiralCanv.html

Zoomed out Ulam spiral containing all primes not greater than 800,000, as generated by my app

The Ulam spiral, but turning by 45º instead of 90º, again generated by my app

An Ulam triangle generated by turning at an angle of 240º instead of 90º

Max Mammel@mjmtools· Jun 22

Another wild number spiral output

Max Mammel@mjmtools· Jun 17

Name a tv show you're positive no one remembers but you Manimal

DVD Box set cover for the ancient, short-lived show called "Manimal", in which the main character could change into a small number of different animals, but frustratingly rarely did

Max Mammel@mjmtools· Jun 9

Got the correct answer twice then changed the query to “who sang the national anthem at the nba finals game tonight” and got the bad answer. Just insane that we just shrug our collective shoulders at this shit

Google “AI mode” claiming Erika Kirk sang the national anthem on Monday June 8

Max Mammel@mjmtools· Jun 8

Another mesmerizing one, you get endless subtly different effect just by changing the starting theta and phi angles - I think this one was originally 67 and 76. We are seeing the shape looking straight down onto the XY plane, when rotated you find that it is a hockey-puck shaped disk.

Max Mammel@mjmtools· Jun 3

Animated it looks very biological

Max Mammel@mjmtools· Jun 3

A particularly beautiful spiral a new "checker" came up with

An organic looking spiral made by drawing points and turning in the plane based on a simple numerical algortithm

Max Mammel@mjmtools· Jun 2

I think my mental scars from this are worse than internet brain poisoning - I can't go back

Picture of a kink in an old-school coiled land-line cord

Max Mammel@mjmtools· May 28

Re: 15 (streaming services)

Paused the show Paradise at an unfortunate moment for the lead actor where he is lying on a couch recovering from an injury with his eyes rolled back into his head with the CC on and showing “[groaning]” and all at the same time an add for Corona beer in on the screen with the caption “every good pause comes with a lime”

Max Mammel@mjmtools· May 27

Oh hey it got it righ... ah. wtf are we doing

Googles AI mode making another yet-unreported-in-this-thread mistkae, stating correctly that there are no p's in google, but there is one in the parent company "Alphabet".... the sixth letter. WTF are we doing

Max Mammel@mjmtools· May 27

I've become re-obsessed with my "number spirals" app (no AI! Just simple math), check out this one, link to explore yourself in alt text:

Max Mammel@mjmtools· May 19

Awesome! I used to have a light fixture that produced some neat ones

$Light reflecting/refracting off of and through a glass light fixture onto the wall making weird patterns$

Max Mammel@mjmtools· May 14

Name your fav 7/10 game.

Cover of the Sega Genesis gam “M-1 Abram’s Battle Tank” simulator game. Good fun for a while but in the long run boring and repetitive, solid 7/10

Max Mammel@mjmtools· May 5

Big Burger Tiny Table with the capital Greek pi character underneath

Max Mammel@mjmtools· Apr 16

Check out my ballroom

View from the rear of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier in flight from the Marvel Avengers movies.

Max Mammel@mjmtools· Apr 16

post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it):

A small furry black dog who just had her head out the window of a moving car looking extremely poofy

Max Mammel@mjmtools· Mar 19

Fake Dune poster showing Paul holding up his knife, which is slightly bent, with the label "DOES MY KNIFE look bent to you?"

Max Mammel@mjmtools· Mar 15

I found Smooth Coke's little cousin a few years ago

A mini plastic bottle of caffeine free diet coke that has been opened, but for some reason has bulged out to near perfect smoothness, the label stretched out and hanging on for dear life against the pressure

Max Mammel@mjmtools· Mar 12

If you see this post an eye 👁️

Pencil sketch of the bust of the Roman Emperor Caracalla

Max Mammel@mjmtools· Feb 27

Malla

Little black dog resting her chin on a person’s thigh, likely with the intention of getting a bite of food by looking cute

Front on view of the same little black dog - she has a shaggy face, big ears, and a white beard

Max Mammel@mjmtools· Feb 11

Just yesterday, with the latest greatest ChatGPT model, was steaming along on a complex bit of threading code when it dawned on me that the damn thing made a bad inference, and the process of proving it negated all of my time savings. The tech is fundamentally prone to error, and always will be.