Caffeine and Lasers
Caffeine and Lasers
Cam
I run a poruidly niche-less blog, where I talk about Science, Culture, Economics, Beer, Coffee, Technology and whatever else I feel like.
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I was reccomended a couple of white papers by a collegue (Thanks Ben Pope!) and I wanted to share them here. Being opinion white-papers they are both quite readable. Is machine learning good or bad for the natural sciences? Hogg and...
Image Credit: The Daily Texan LINK: The Conversation
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I've been thinking about how we find meaning in life after reading "The Happiness Of Dogs" by Mark Rowlands. I also finally played Disco Elysium, and I think I have thoughts on applying Rowlands' thoughts to the game. A note on spoilers:...
Things with age verification and privacy invasion is getting pretty hairy here in Australia. I am not totally sure if my implementations of blog comments or a guestbook are in violation of Australia's rules. Who could of guessed these...
Introduction Earlier this month, I found myself on a side quest to build a Shack-Hartmann Wavefront Sensor (SH-WFS) to act as a scoring WFS for my experimental WFS. While conceptually simple to construct, I never saw any concrete...
An Antibubble appearing in soapy water An Antibubble appearing in soapy water (Credit Science News). This is a sphere of liquid, inside a skin of air, inside a liquid again. Back in 2003 Scientists discovered these can be formed within...
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🍫 Jump to Recipe The Intro I recently got my hands on a melanger and have been trying my hand at chocolate making. Only after starting this hobby, I found out that there are very few sources on the internet for home-scale chocolate...
Rating: 🟧 Type: Non-Fiction The book promises a lot, the concept is an investigation to how biology has shaped human society and history. For a while it manages to hold up to that promise, the first few chapters are genuinely really...