- Michael Bay - What is Bayhem? (YouTube)
There are filmmakers we love and then there’s Michael Bay. Even if you dislike him (as I do), Bay has something valuable to teach us about visual perception. This is an exploration of “Bayhem” — his style of camera movement, composition and editing that creates something overblown, dynamic and distinct.
- Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode (righto.com)
What happens if you give the Intel 8086 processor an instruction that doesn’t exist? A modern microprocessor (80186 and later) will generate an exception, indicating that an illegal instruction was executed. However, early microprocessors didn’t include the circuitry to detect illegal instructions, since the chips didn’t have transistors to spare. Instead these processors would do something, but the results weren’t specified.